oblong elliptical

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13753651062521639922012-02-16T07:46:53.190-08:00oblong ellipticalErich Sturmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371388531053246254noreply@blogger.comBlogger241100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375365106252163992.post-75802201027816119272011-10-10T19:12:00.000-07:002011-10-10T19:26:19.346-07:00WWJD

Examples of the "Christ pose" in American movie posters"The Parallax View", 1974"Platoon", 1986"Traffic", 2000

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Creepily prophetic At&t ads from 1993

Erich Sturmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371388531053246254noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375365106252163992.post-5461533834000900882009-06-29T18:18:00.000-07:002009-06-29T18:26:42.037-07:00Goodnight, sweet pitchman

Billy Mays: July 20, 1958 - June 28, 2009

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"50 First Dates" ; Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler"Bridget Jones' Diary"; Renee Zellweger"Scooby Doo"; Freddie Prinze Jr and Matthew Lillard"Freaky Friday"; Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis

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"through the will God, speak in tongues today... and every day..."

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Those perfect teeth, that flawless hair, those juicy chunks of lamb delicately placed atop pita with onions, tomatoes and creamy tzatziki sauce....It's 2009. How old is the face of the Kronos Gyro? She is omnipresent in every street fair I have ever attended, but she must be at least 50 by now. She may be the longest running spokesmodel for a product ever (are gyros even a product? If you think

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"Thank you, dear Stalin, for our happy childhoods"

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Take a look at these amazing photos of the detritus of Detroit, shot by Yves Marchland and Romain Meffre. Its incredible what happens when beautiful things are left to rot.

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a clip from a Czech children's show called Der Fliegende Ferdinand (The Flying Ferdinand)

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Take a look at this terrifying article published in The New York Times today, titled "With Cash to Spend, China Starts Investing Globally": Long spurned in the international market but now flush with cash, China is once again on the hunt for global energy and resources... bringing China's total oil investments this week to $41 billion$41 billion in energy investments, in this economy, in one week

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This is a 3-D representation of Mydoom, a computer virus created in 2004 that became the fastest spreading email worm ever. The image was created by MIT researcher Alex Dragulescu, who put the virus' code through a "computational art" algorithm.

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In the late 19th century, the congenital blood disorder hemophilia became known as "The Royal Disease" because of its pervasiveness in Europe's most powerful bloodlines. The royal strain originated in Great Britain, but within three generations it had infected the bloodlines of the ruling monarchies of Spain, Germany and Russia. A breakdown of hemophilia's virulent spread gives insight into the

Erich Sturmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371388531053246254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375365106252163992.post-10169863134099788242009-02-04T19:14:00.000-08:002009-02-04T19:23:27.105-08:00Visual Vocab

Result #1 from Google Image Search for the word "rapture"

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"Lets eat out!" (1960 - 1965)"Look for the Golden Arches!" (1965 -1967)"The closest thing to home" (1967)"McDonald's is your kind of place" (1967 -1971)"You deserve a break today" (1980 - 1983)"Nobody makes your day like McDonald's can" (1983 -1983)"We cook it all for you at McDonald's" (1982)"McDonald's and you" (1983 - 1984)"It's a good time for the great taste of McDonald's" (1984 - 1988)"It's

Erich Sturmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371388531053246254noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375365106252163992.post-65542635698724313392009-01-16T08:52:00.000-08:002009-02-05T06:44:19.301-08:00Bear Markets & Banker Suicide

By all accounts, in the immediate aftermath of the Black Thursday market crash of 1929, the sidewalks of Wall Street were littered with the bodies of Wall Street bankers. Ruined financiers were jumping to their deaths because of their massive losses in the market they had trusted -- their faith in both capitalism and existence simultaneously squandered. The suicides were framed as a sort of

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via the CIA world factbook

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Adolf Loos (1870 - 1933) was a Viennese modernist architect, and a virulent opponent of ornament in all elements of design. He considered ornament and decoration enemies of modernism, and evidence of a cultural regression into primitivism:The evolution of culture is synonymous with the removal of ornament from objects of daily use.Loos was also a bit of an extremist, and like his Futurist

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Result #1 from Google Image Search for the word "random"

Erich Sturmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371388531053246254noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375365106252163992.post-78839459381283121382008-12-21T09:25:00.000-08:002009-01-07T19:51:12.224-08:00Royal Blood, Part 1: The Devolution of the Habsburg Genealogy (the Habsburg lip)

from left to right-Philip III: King of Spain and Portugal (1598 - 1621)Philip IV: King of Spain and Portugal (1621 - 1665)Charles II: King of Spain and Portugal (1665 - 1700)Much like pedigree selection in the science of animal husbandry, hereditary monarchies around the world adhere to a strict form of selective breeding. This is due to a belief that Royal blood is inherently superior to "

Erich Sturmhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17371388531053246254noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1375365106252163992.post-43356677024593108342008-12-19T16:37:00.000-08:002009-01-14T05:53:57.688-08:00INTERNET EXTREMISM: The Executive Lifestyle

A gem of a blog reminiscent of a bygone era, called "Executive Lifetsyle". Its mission -- to characterize and celebrate the overpaid American executive. With a short life of only four postings (which come to an abrupt end in November 2007), it wastes no time in getting to the heart of what the American executive wants, needs and purchases with credit. And its slogan is almost as prescient as "let

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Result #1 from Google Image Search for the word "stilted"

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Some cryptic poetry from the content of a few of the aforementioned spam emails______________Untitled #1In a trice without warning the face of nature grew sullen Black angry mouths, the clouds swallowed up the sun The air was dense withsuppressed excitement The wind howled through the long corridors and sobbed andwhispered in the secret recessesUntitled #2stem-browed wheel-turning air

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This is a list of email subject headings I collected in 2006 from over 5,500 junk emails. These messages accumulated in the inbox of a work email address that had no junk mail filtration whatsoever. Its the lowest variety of spam that's immediately filtered from one's mailbox with even the most rudimentary junk mail protection. I imagine the phrases are computer generated, and the word combos

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