Pizzle doesn’t take things for face value. Especially when it comes to culturally relevant cartoons from the New Yorker.
Pizzle the Sage from thacant dotcom on Vimeo.
Lady GaGa
From a Great Website: http://stuffnoonetoldme.blogspot.com/
so stfu
From a Spaniard whose illustrations bring life to his maxims.
Is the concept a non-fiction video game yet to be developed? An interesting quandry, but that is not at the crux of these following paragraphs.
Instead, they aim to explore the realism and roots of characters and concepts that early video games are based upon. Without squandering anymore rhetoric, let’s get in to it.
Sonic, the Sega’s flagship character is, as we know, a hedgehog. This game was sold for two reasons – because Sega was an up-and coming system, so it’s main game would sell like cookies-at-a-bakesale, but also (more importantly) it’s lead character was a blue hedgehog. Sonic had a flying fox as a sidekick, and secondly, he was a blue hedgehog! That is, “a nocturnal insectivore that has both hair and spines which they present outwardly by rolling themselves up (m-w.com). Really!
not so blue
Then there’s Mario, the Italian Plumber who, with his lanky brother, Luigi, overindulges on fungi. Here’s Mario in real life.
Yippee!
And Tetris. Who could forget about Tetris? The game that made your palms sweat, knuckles get white, and your cousin your worst enemy as he beat your high score that Christmas morning. But I digress from more personal circumstances. Tetris was conceived by a computer engineer (and part-time bricklayer) from Russia. But sources claim he came up with the idea after perusing a Soviet Ikea.
Ikea! Eureka!
Finally, there’s Kirby.
whaaaa
In addition to inhaling clouds, he consumes Cadbury Creme Eggs like none other, and hangs out near tall trees.
So, you see, all video game characters and concepts, no matter how unique and far-fetched they are, are based in reality.
Unlike Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, there is no right way to fold a t-shirt. I learned this during the past week when I tackled the body bag full of dirty laundry I had from school. I had a stack of twenty-plus shirts needing to be folded and put away. During college, I don’t think I folded any of my shirts. They either went on hangers or, after laundering them, I’d lay them flat, one on top of the next – that way, I figured, there’d be no lines or wrinkles.
But I had a stack of shirts and I couldn’t just layer them up in my parents house like I had done at school.
Then I found this. They’ve mastered tiny technological devices, petite vehicles, and ornate Sushi rolls, now the Japanese reveal a revolutionary way to fold a t-shirt. It takes some practice, but it saves time, especially when you have a whole semester’s worth of t-shirts in front of you.
There’s a great art museum on campus. Did you know that?
It’s in the basement level of the Library. I admit that until now, I’ve only been there for Open Readings hosted by the Writing Department – which, might I add are very entertaining and worth checking out. But the museum warrants a visit for the purpose of checking out the exhibitions.
Right now, “Voices – Contemporary Ceramic Art from Sweden” is on display. There are a ton of awesome pieces, and their medium is not limited to ceramic; light, glass, paint and glue are also employed in creating magnificent, thought-provoking works of art.
Renata Francescon
This piece, which resembles a glazed honeycomb, is at the rear of the gallery.
marten medbo
This creepy piece was created by Marten Medbo, also a Swede. The artist who sports thick-rimmed glasses and a five-o’clock shadow looks like he belongs in an indie-rock band. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that his piece featured in the Handwerker is reminiscent of the creatures crawling on the cover of Built to Spill’s 2006 album, You in Reverse.
Bottom Right
Am I wrong?
Moving on, there is also this:
fire bad!
In this depiction of an epic volcano, the lava is actually a funky bulb pluming out of the miniature mountain. This was created by Frida Fjellman – you guessed it, a Swede . (Born in 1971… kinda cute in a starving artist kind of way).
The first piece I saw upon entering is a piece that brought me back to my youth. It was the days I would read the back of the cereal box before heading to school. On certain mornings when my mom let me eat sugar cereal, I was enthralled with the back of the box of Apple Jacks. You remember, they had all kinds of mind-tricks and optical illusions, which gave you a headache only to complement the headache that would set in after consuming so much sugar that morning.
This piece, if I could assume, is an homage to those early mornings staring at the box.
Swede
(Eva Hild, “Loops”)
If you’re in the library, or got some time to kill while on campus, drop by the art gallery. For more info, check here – http://www.ithaca.edu/news/release.php?id=287.
No Parking 10am-3pm Mon-Fri
However, invisible people are apparently allowed to stand whenever they want.
Chew on this:*
At a get-together this past weekend, I took notice off a wall. Once barren, it is now covered in dozens of sheets of paper.
Portrait of 149
“Where did this come from?” I asked Rob – who lives there, spilling some Beast foam on his Adidas.
“It’s a site called rasturbation.com” I didn’t hear it right. “Like masturbation, but with an ‘R’,” he tells me.
“Ohh.”
You just upload a picture and choose how big you want it. This one is 10×10 – all you’ve got to do is staple or tape all the pages together and voila – you’ve got your portrait. And it’s cheaper than a poster, that is, if you print it on campus. Just try not to get caught rasturbating in the computer lab.
So of course when I get on to my computer I enter rasturbation.com into my browser, assuming this seemingly new-age artform is hosted by some bohemians creating a website based on some wordplay (who does that anyways?) Turns out, the aforementioned site doesn’t exist, and the correct spelling is rasterbation.com, and the tiled artform has been around for years. (Almost makes me think of the museum scene from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.)
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. . .
This might become pretty popular. It might even replace tapestries as the most common piece of room decor and also as the most flammable textile to be hung from a wall.
Get It?!
There are few things so simple, and so reassuring that there is peace in the world, as pictures of children with animals. Take this for example
cute
or this,
silly
And what’s better when the animal is even more bizarre than a beluga whale? When it’s miniature!
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But sadly, there are those pictures of children with animals that convey loss, desperation, and sadness. This is one of those pictures…
dear god
Just imagine…
Hey Dad! Can we take Mr. Snuggles on the tube with us?
- Oh, I’m not sure if that’s such a good idea, kids.
Ahh, come on Dad! We’ll hold him tight. He’ll be safe.
- You know, if we hit a wake…
Please Daddy!
- Cat’s hate water, kids. You have to understand that…
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!
- ALRIGHT!
Definitely a “told-ya-so” moment.
snow-per hero
I found this guy while I was shoveling snow over break.
lord of the garage
I saw this face as I shuffled into breakfast on New Years Day. Illegal, sure. Artistic? Definitely.
faint and dark
Faint, as it was done solely in ballpoint pen, and dark, as it is in a bathroom stall. Hill Center, first floor.
ere ere
Pink Cat DJ, aka PCDJ, as seen at Urban Outfitters, Downtown Ithaca.
he's sleeping
Lastly, here eess a Mexican. Hee got tired from being a salt shaker, so he took a napp.
