Nothing happens in this video, but if you’re like me and you love furry cute things, you might enjoy this.
I dig the one with no eyes and no ears.
Ramen
Did you know that somewhere out there (I like to be specific), there is a restaurant serving ice cream ramen?
Pet Dye Jobs
Here’s one kind of panda chow:
Here’s another kind of panda chow:
Earlier this month, the Dahe Mincui pet park in Zhengzhou, China invited some dyed guests of honor to their opening festivities: chow dogs done up like pandas, and a golden retriever in 2010 Year Of The Tiger mode.
Sloths
Meet the sloths from Amphibian Avenger on Vimeo.
I like the guy who falls asleep with his head on his dinner plate.
Shin-kicking
I was hoping to write about the World Cup and the world’s most popular sport, but then I came across this video of a shin-kicking contest.
This is in Gloucestershire, near the home of the famous Cheese-Rolling event (where you compete with a giant round of cheese to see who can run down a steep hill the fastest).
Cat penis
Last week, I went outside for a computer break, and two cats were out there having sex. Surprising! I’ve heard cats getting it on plenty of times, but have never SEEN them. It was like National Geographic Lite.
The sex looked unsatisfying, since the female seemed irritated each time (they were at it all day – everytime I went to the kitchen, which looks out to the yard – there they were), and the male got about 2 seconds of game time each round.
So naturally I went to my laptop and googled “cat sex.” I was wondering why female cats are always yowling, because from what I was seeing, there wasn’t a whole lot to yowl about.
And I found this out: A male cat’s penis is barbed. BARBED!
Rubik’s
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could switch out your brain periodically, to see what it’s like to think differently?
Check out this kid, for example. Solving a Rubik’s cube while blindfolded.
What kind of mad genius sh*t is this? And here are others who can do the same thing.
Smoking 2-year old
It will only be a matter of seconds before everyone in the world has seen this video, but here – behold a 2-year-old smoking and loving a cigarette. man o man.
Ardi Rizal, Indonesian toddler, 40 cigs a day.
Super Sexy CPR
I didn’t realize CPR was so easy to learn; did you?
http://www.vimeo.com/11673844This fabulous ad for Fortnight Lingerie was created by the Toronto branch of ad agency Red Urban, under the direction of creative director Christina Yu. It’s a legit instructional video, shot with a medical expert on set (who probably had a decent time at work that day).
Red Urban quietly slipped this PSA out to see how it would do organically. 15 views the first day, and a week later, the count is 2.5 million.
Their next educational video (coming to you June 1st) will demonstrate “abdominal thrusting,” which I guess is the . . Heimlich. Or scary sit-ups.
Andy Goldsworthy
Several years ago, I showed up in my roommate’s doorway to see what he was up to. I was probably brushing my teeth, since this is when I usually show up in people’s doorways to see what they’re up to.
I found Bryan sitting on his drum throne, paging through a book of photographs: Midsummer Snowballs, by Andy Goldsworthy.
In the summer heat of 2000, Goldsworthy placed 13 gigantic snowballs (weighing 1 ton each) around London’s financial district. Each snowball contained different things – feathers, barbed wire, stones, wool, seeds – that Londoners discovered as the snow melted over the next 6 days.
Vulvae!
I just found out that February is National “National Awareness Month” Awareness Month.
Upon scrolling through the other Months, I see:
January is Radon Action Month
April is National Library Awareness Month (did you know that there are libraries? I just found out too)
May is Garlic Mustard Awareness Month (what the? WHO CARES ABOUT GARLIC MUSTARD?)
And of course, March is Vulval Health Awareness Month.
David Shrigley
Some images by David Shrigley, an artist based in Glasgow.
Beautiful Fat Cat
Feeling lazy?
Don’t feel bad. You probably exercise more than this guy. Or the cat.
A lazy Friday requires a photo of a fat, fat cat.
Bazooka, the Japanese skateboarding bulldog
You see way more of Bazooka’s skateboard cruising in the 1st video, but in the 2nd he is wearing the pimpingest dog jacket I’ve ever seen. And he keeps stopping to gnaw on his board, which I find cute. His owner, Yoshio Ishikawa, designs dog clothing and I presume that includes the pimp jacket. However, a meticulous (80 second) web search turned up no website for Yoshio’s dog clothing. I’ll update this post if I find it sometime.
Swimming pigs
Back in ’07, fifty pigs took part in a “pig sports competition” held in Hefei, the capital of China’s Anhui Province. Events included diving, hurdling and jumping through fire rings.
Jumping through fire rings? How did they get them to do that?
Here are a few of the swimming photos. I wonder if they were aware that they were competing. I wonder all sorts of things about these pigs.
Laugh-O-Meter
Now’s the time to get rid of people in your life who bore you, suck you dry, or bore you while sucking you dry. Hitler wasn’t nice. Why should you be nice? Mao wouldn’t have gone to that baby shower. You think Stalin ever picked anyone up from the airport? If you want a fulfilling life, get rid of the fluff. Fluff = 85% of your friends.
Eliminate unnecessary friends
This is the signage next to Leo Brizzi’s and Rohan Kapur’s 5ZROM-B prototype, built in MIT’s industrious and metallic Design Lab.
In the summer of 2008, Brizzi and Kapur, both graduate students in the Institute’s department of Cognitive Sciences, began work on this device, which Brizzi says is, ”nothing fancy – it records post-synaptic potentials of extracellular ionic currents caused by dendritic electrical activity in the brain.”
beer
For your Friday, a hot sexy Sapporo beer ad. I truly love this photo. How much fun can it be to drink a beer? THIS MUCH FUN!!!
