Tuesday, October 28, 2008

EuroPower Pimp 2000

I give you the Euro Power P(i)MP 2000.



More Power, More Features, Less Weight (For today's body conscious pimp.)

Scanner Scan

Sometimes error messages are really useful. In fact, they often help you figure out what went wrong, and how to fix it.

However, what does one do when then get an error message on a PDA?

Why you take your PDA to your scanner and e-mail me the image result, of course!


I guess it works, but it's still freakin' ridiculous.

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Man Ray for Teenagers

I saw this ad on the New York Times Website:

It's animated, so perhaps you can't see it here. But it takes a punny stand. It reads:

When When kids think Man Ray is a poisonous jellyfish, clearly there isn't enough art in our schools.

For those of you who don't know, Man Ray is a photographer with a weird name and, tastes that maybe we'll just call "salacious".


Take a look at the girl in the ad, then take a look at the first few hits on Google's Image results for Man Ray.

OK, actually, don't look at that link. It could get you fired if you're at work, but I wanted to make the point.

Avant-garde?
--Sure.
Art?
--Yeah.
Naked women as the subject of art for teenagers first exposures to the fine arts?
-- Er, uh . . . maybe we should do less exposing of people and introduce from now on . (Or at least until they think that hanging a Marcel Duchamp print is just as cool as a Man Ray.)
Technically Dada, one could still safely call "The Fountain" by Marcel Duchamp Avante-garde.