here's jus another product where the cute lil hello kitty will be on it! seems like hello kitty is tryin to start a propaganda? haha... its like u can c hello kitty in everythin... washing machines, rice cooker, toaster, hair dryer, stationeries, candy, milk... basicalleee almost everythin... n now... rifle?! it's so... hmm... insane!!! --Well, in the "spirit" of the California Assault Weapon Ban I decided to do my best to alleviate the fears of my fellow citizens and gun-banning legislators when I put together a new AR-15 for my wife. Below is the result of my painstaking work to transform an Evil Black Rifle (EBR) into a Cute Pink RIfle (CPR). Introducing the Hello Kitty AR-15! This rifle is 100% legal in California because it is based on an "off-list" lower receiver made by Stag Arms and has no evil features at all, instead featuring a fixed stock instead of the evil collapsible stock, a muzzle brake in place of the vile flash-hider, and a MonsterMan Grip instead of the heinous and malicious plastic pistol grip.-- excerpt fr rifle gear
We're inviting designers to explore the concept of "Greener Gadgets." Designs should seek to minimize the environmental impact of consumer electronic devices at any stage in the product lifecycle. Areas of sustainability to consider include:
1. Energy 2. Materials / Lifecycle / Recycling 3. Social & educational development
Participants are encouraged to consider their designs as part of the entire product ecosystem, and should think as holistically as possible. Designers may choose to focus their entries on a particular area of human enterprise (learning, playing, communicating, etc.), or a particular context (work, home, school, etc.), a particular material, or a specific device. Entries may also seek to create new paradigms for products and services.
Ultimately, we are looking for "great gadgets" of the greener kind.
for more details, visit - http://www.core77.com/competitions/greener_gadgets.asp via core77
Since 1980, the 4 or 5 Floptops known as Negativland have been creating records, fine art, video, books, radio and live performance using appropriated sound, image and text. Mixing original materials and music with things taken from corporately owned mass culture, Negativland re-arranges these bits and pieces to make them say and suggest things that they never intended to. In doing this kind of cultural opposition and "culture jamming" (a term coined by Negativland in 1984), Negativland have been sued twice for copyright infringement.
Okay, but what, you still ask, is Negativland exactly? That's hard to answer. Negativland definitely isn't a "band," though they may look like one when you see their CDs for sale in your local shopping mall. They're more like some sort of goofy yet serious European-style artist/activist collective - an unhealthy mix of John Cage, Lenny Bruce, Pink Floyd, Bruce Connor, Firesign Theatre, Abbie Hoffman, Robert Rauschenberg, 1970's German electronic music, old school punk rock attitude, surrealist performance art, your high school science teacher…and lot's more.
Declared heroic by their peers for refashioning culture into what the group considers to be more honest statements, Negativland suggests that refusing to be original, in the traditional sense, is the only way to make art that has any depth within commodity capitalism... - NEW YORK TIMES
It's an often ignored request, but you may pay more attention to the phrase "Please remember to take all your belongings" after seeing Negativland's eerily mesmerizing new project… - NEWSWEEK
Negativland, longtime advocates of fair use allowances for pop media collage, are perhaps America's most skilled plunderers from the detritus of 20th century commercial culture. Negativland are media addicts who see society suffering under a constant barrage of TV, canned imagery, advertising and corporate culture...the band's latest project is razor sharp, microscopically focused, terribly fun and a bit psychotic. - WIRED MAGAZINE
For more than 20 years, Negativland has earned renown for manipulation of both tape and media. - LOS ANGELES TIMES
Collage pioneers...genre-defying, densely layered, strangely accessible... - WASHINGTON POST
Negativland argues persuasively that creators should be able to appropriate bits and pieces of anything and incorporate then into their work without fear of legal action. - UTNE READER
Negativland isn't just some group of merry pranksters; its art is about tearing apart and reassembling found images to create new ones, in an attempt to make social, political and artistic statements. Hilarious and chilling. - THE ONION
Scathing and entertaining...they believe that the sheer volume of advertising is degrading to the mental and physical environment - BUSINESS WEEK
Twisted genius...compelling...parody and satire as a grass roots weapon of consumer resistance. - ROLLING STONE
Brutally hilarious...a compelling argument for the anti-copyright movement. - VILLAGE VOICE
Better known for media pranks than records. - TIME MAGAZINE
Cut n' paste collage par excellence...always subversive... - MUZIK
Fearless artistes or foolhardy risk-takers.... by constantly haranguing the audience with authentic advertising spiel and highlighting its transparency, they kill the messenger, kill the message and produce highly entertaining art simultaneously. - L.A. WEEKLY
Negativland are at it again...13 tracks fuse jingles, dialogue and music in a parody of soft drink marketing. - ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Negativland: a sense of humor, brilliant collage work (especially on a purely aesthetic level), and great cultural criticism. These qualities have long been the cornerstone of an artistic and activist career which is second to none, in or out of "pop" music. - TUBA FRENZY
The band hilariously juxtapose and layer sound bites and jingles...to help their targets hang themselves. What if the Pepsi execs actually like the album? - SPIN
It's no "Abbey Road", but it's a pretty good listen. - PEPSI SPOKESMEN
excerpt fr negativeland.com
to learn more about negativland, visit www.negativland.com
no kissing sign - found in batu ferringhi, one of the food court there... one of the dvd store there... when uncle joe is paying for the DVDs... hmmm... does anybody gonna obey the sign? probably when they're standing in front of it...~
This is a short film inspired by TV soap operas and the gorgeous women who inhabit them. Featuring Asia Argento, Tori Spelling, Lisa Marie, China Chow, Amber Valletta, Liz Goldwyn & Monet Mazur. The film is written & directed by Jeremy Scott and the costumes, by Jeremy Scott. The film also features a few advertisement breaks where the advert again is... Jeremy Scott Couture.~ well... have fun and feel the excitement of dramatic suspense and expressions of soap operas!!!
what she's actually reading - at this moment, your bum is completely exposed. If it were in a sexy pair of jeans, it would attract attention all the time.
mayb there should b a camera around... n d nex thing make them looks like they're on candid amera or sumthin~
Emergency Games: a manual for extreme physical experiences in the danger of your own home, 2005 A booklet in collaboration with Alice Wolff
Eelko Moorer constructs designs that are theatrically conceptual and exquisitely handmade, yet from which the commercial and mass-produced can be derived. Known for subverting conventional expectations and behavioural patterns through a series of darkly suggestive and often zoomorphic objects, Moorer’s designs include a bearskin rug made of rubber 'fur', shoes with integral hooks for commuters to suspend themselves upside down from the handrails of overcrowded commuter carriages, like meat being transported to market, or a suicide bird perch which attaches to the outer railings of a balcony allowing the person to sit and contemplate their next movement. This interaction between performance and product allows Moorer to navigate the hauntingly fine line between comfort and discomfort – between heightened states of exhilaration and anxiety – through design.
