Rules for Art

I stumbled on this from multiple sources, but am giving the plug to Mike's blog for typing up the Immaculate Heart Art Rules from former nun/ arts activist Corita Kent.
Here is an excerpt...

1. Consider everything an experiment.
2. Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them. To be disciplined is to follow in a good way. To be self-disciplined is to follow in a better way.
3. Nothing is a mistake. There is no win and no fail. There is only make.
4. The only rule is work. If you work it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch on to things.
5. Don't try to create and analyse at the same time. They're different processes.
6. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think

You can find the whole list at Mike's blog or Hi + Low.

Dumb but fun campaign music!

This made me laugh for some reason.

I don't care about Barack, but this music amused me.

Rock.

Quite possibly the greatest cat shitting video of all time.

I found this video on the incomparable Mark Maynard's blog


This delights me beyond belief. Do you like it?

Mesmerising Marching Band shit

I don't really know why, but this is strangely compelling to me:

Dr. Zaius is right!

I read this on the John Byrne Forum and thought it was a pretty awesome story.

"On the National Geographic Channel t'other night I caught a few minutes of a program called "The Human Ape". Part of it was about experiments being done at the Max Planck Institute in Germany, testing the cognitive skills of other apes compared to humans.

The test shown was fairly simple. A clear plastic cylinder, about eighteen inches long, was attached to a table. Floating in about three inches of water in the bottom was a peanut. A four year old child was brought in, and told he could use anything in the room to get the peanut. On the table, about three feet away, was a beaker of water.

The kid tried to shove his hand down the tube, but found it too narrow. So he tried again. And again. And after several tries, lost interest.

Then a six year old boy was brought in, and he went thru the same routine, adding an attempt to rip the plastic tube off the table. No success, and he, too, lost interest.

Finally a 12 year old girl was brought in, and after a few moments she had a sudden inspiration (it was a real "lightbulb over the head" moment), took up the beaker of water and, pouring some into the tube, floated the peanut to the top.

Then they took to set-up to the orangutan cage at the zoo. No beaker this time, but there was a tap mounted on the wall, from which the orang routinely got her drinking water. The orang took one look at the tube, and almost immediately went to the tap, filled her mouth with water, and dribbled it into the tube. She repeated this until the peanut floated to the top."

Googie gods preserve a Denny's in Seattle

I loves me some Googie architecture. The Seattle Landmark Preservation
Board voted to declare a Denny's in the Ballard area a landmark due to
it's architectural significance. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004195034_dennys22m.html

Googie is god.

What's happening to Milwaukee!

This news struck me like a bowling ball!
"Bowling Congress to roll out of Milwaukee"
I think that this is simply wrong. On many levels.
The Bowling Congress NEEDS to be in a place like Milwaukee or Buffalo, not Arlington fucking Texas.
I guess like all Congresses, (excepting possibly the first Continental Congress) the Bowling Congress kind of sucks.

Bowling Congress to roll out of Milwaukee

By OnMilwaukee.com Staff Writers

Published March 11, 2008 at 8:46 a.m.

Milwaukee took another step toward shedding its "beer, bowling and bratwurst" image today, but the development can hardly be seen as a positive.

The United States Bowling Congress Board of Directors has given approval for the organization, based in Greendale, to move its headquarters to Arlington, Texas, the home of the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America.

The decision was made during a weekend meeting in Atlanta, where officials from Arlington and Milwaukee presented cases for their cities.

"This is a great day for bowling. Relocating to Arlington would allow for the creation of an international bowling campus. We can set the foundation for tremendous growth and opportunities for decades to come," said USBC President Jeff Bojé.

"Both cities made excellent presentations and either would have been good locations for USBC. The Board decided Arlington would be the best location should the USBC receive approval of investment from the Texas Enterprise Fund."

Contingent upon TEF approval, USBC Headquarters is expected to move to Arlington later this year. In addition to office space for about 200 overall employees, the new complex will include a 12-to-16-lane combined equipment testing and international training center to form a $14 million international bowling campus. BPAA has pledged to pay for half
of the complex while utilizing less than one-fifth of the space.

The property is located at 621 Six Flags Drive, across the street from Six Flags Over Texas in the heart of Arlington's entertainment and sports district. It is about three blocks east of Rangers' Ballpark in Arlington, home of the Texas Rangers baseball team, and about six blocks east of the new Dallas Cowboys stadium set to open in 2009. The creation of an international bowling campus at such a high profile location will provide the opportunity to showcase bowling to the world that doesn't exist at the present location.

An additional factor for the Board's decision was ease of travel. As one of the world's largest airports, Dallas/Fort Worth International makes it much easier for those traveling to and from the international bowling campus, especially those traveling internationally.

Here's a bunch of new articles about it...