Blog be Ballin!

You know, the blog's first birthday on Monday, and I am just beaming with maternal pride. It's no longer breastfeeding although its sleep cycle is still erratic, it weighs a healthy 202 posts, and it is growing robustly.

How can a glowing mommy not gaze on her rosy-cheeked cherub and reminisce about how far we've come? And what better proof than the following email, which I received this morning?

Dear blog author:

We recently came across your site, beccatronic.blogspot.com , while searching for bloggers who blog about Lamborghini issues.

A small group of us have started a new site called Lamborghini Bloggers . Our intent is to bring Lamborghini bloggers closer together, and make a positive contribution to the Internet community.

Would you be interested in joining Lamborghini Bloggers ? Please take a few minutes to have a look at what we are trying to do, and if you are interested, there is a sign up page to get the ball rolling. We would greatly appreciate your support in this endeavour.

If you do not feel that your blog would be a good fit for Lamborghini Bloggers , but enjoy this subject area, come visit us and one of our member bloggers. You can also check our FAQ Section to learn more about Lamborghini Bloggers .

We look forward to hearing from you and seeing you on Lamborghini Bloggers.

Their site is down at the moment, but I'm sure it's a compendium of hot wheels.

TRAGIC NEWS UPDATE!!! There is no lamborghini-bloggers.com. I repeat - there is no lamborghini bloggging group! The "site" is live and it is a spam blog used to exploit Google Adsense and gullible Lamborghini afficionados. Won't someone please think about the Lamborghini people for once?!?

Skittles goes to the Weird Side...

Holy crap - amazing and weird! I like it. A lot.


Uh...mazing.


I want one of those singing rabbits daddy! I want it NOOOOOWWWW!!!!


Hee hee! He pulls him out of a bag!

These are all TBWA/Chiat/Day productions. And, like... woah.

Canada is the new Estonia...

So you know how people are always saying that beef is the new chicken, white bras are the new tank tops and yeast infections are the new irritable bowel syndrome?

Yup, it's an annoying little phrasing that is so overused it's pretty much meaningless, but which we're all guilty of using once or twice.

You've got to love Leisure Art's contribution to The Diagram magazine, where they mapped every occurance of the phrase in various sources over the course of 2005. The resulting diagram is funny, nostalgic, and a good illustration of how an idiom reaches critical mass and becomes meaningless (see 'bling' circa 2003).


Check the full diagram here

My personal favourites? Space travel is the new HIV; cheese is the new morphine; and thug shooting is the new lovemaking.

Clearly.

Julie Dermansky: Adventures in Natural History Museums..

One thing that makes photography such an interesting medium is that it documents and captures something real. Whether the subject is found accidentally or constructed artifically (see the amazing Cindy Sherman), it happened.

So how great is it to find a photographer who is not only making beautiful images, but is also documenting something important and fascinating?

Enter Julie Dermansky, an artist across a range of media, but best by far at photography. Some of her photo sets interest me more than others, but just take a moment to enjoy my personal favourite - Natural History Museums around the World.


Clockwise from top left:
Elephant Fetus - Kruger National Park's Elephant Museum In South Africa
Ethiopian Hyena: Natural History Museum in Addis Ababa
Giant Squid: Capetown's natural history museum
Desert Landscape: Former display in Las Vegas' Natural History Museum
Bird with nut in mouth: Pretoria's Transval Museum
Ape: Capetown’s NH Museum


Not impressed? Well how about when she explored the storage rooms at the Everhart Museum of Science and Art in Scranton PA , and found a muthafucking BOX OF WEASELS. Yes, you heard that right - A BOX OF WEASELS PEOPLE. Have mercy.


Holy crap! It's a box of weasels! Insert joke about lawyers at a baseball game here.

Or how about you get ready for your head to blow off, when you see what she found in Pretoria, South Africa. Only maybe the greatest piece of taxidermy ever performed. The creativity! The artist's touch! Manifique!


Leopard, Transval Museum. Eating the... eyes... of a... seriously though, the eyes?!?

She has a lot of great stuff on her site, including a series called Mankind’s Monuments to Barbaric Act and Other Unusual Vacation Destinations, in which she visits and documents places like genocide museums in Rwanda and Apartheid museums in South Africa.

Amazing, amazing stuff.

Only funny to designers...

Hey, it's a cartoon that will be lost on 95% of the general public, and hi-LARIOUS to nerds in the design/advertising/branding world.

Perfect!


Holy crap! It's like Dilbert got a job at DDB!

Lots more similar funny on skydeckcartoons.com, where Tom Fishburne cartoons about branding, business, parenting, and a million other things I'll deny being into if we meet at a party.

Instead, you'll meet my alter-ego Muffy McBeav, a nightclubbing euro-skank with a badger-like love of cocaine, tanning beds and Lamborghini Gallardos.

Circle Circle Dot Dot

Jamie Kennedy and Stu Stone made this. I think Jamie Kennedy is played here by the African Legonian actor.

This is pretty random, but infectious and funny.

Gangsta lego guys? Obviously awesome!

It took me a second to figure out the title. Then I was all 'ohhhhhhhhh, I get it'.