If you haven’t heard of Swoops, you should check out this site.
This Bird is Pissed.
My brother TJ took the above screengrab from a video of an attack. The dude in the foreground is laughing at another dude that just got dive bombed. Little does he know, he’s next.
Watch the video below.
oh! p.s. in response to Andrew’s last post, I must not be civilized. Someone must have eaten my yogurt yesterday :P
–c.
I think this saying is one of my favorites. I tend to say them to myself quite often. Just today I realized that I said two of them, which prompted this post. They were:
There are two types of people in the world, people who love the unusually long intro to The Cure’s “The Kiss,” and people who don’t. (For the record, I love it.)
There are two types of people in the world, people who completely tear off and throw away the protective tin foil cover under the lid on things such as yogurt and ricotta cheese, and people who simply peel it back and put the plastic lid back over it when they’re done. (For the record, I tear it off and throw it away, like civilized people do.)
–a.
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[Graphics via GOOD Magazine]
If you are like me and a total sucker for info graphics maybe you’ve already checked out GOOD Magazine’s Transparency, “graphical explorations of the data that surrounds us.” Holy fantastic-ness. If you have many minutes to immerse yourself, please do click here.
–c.
[Dragon by Jessica Peffer via Neon Dragon Art]
Andrew and I were asked to make a logo for a disc golf tournament that will be taking place in Medina this summer. The course is Roscoe Ewing and is actually one of the first disc golf courses in the country and the first one in Ohio.
The organizers wanted a dragon to be a main part of the logo. A dragon perched on top of a disc golf basket to be specific, an item of which you may or may not be familiar with. The tournament is called Roscoe’s Revenge and here is the logo we came up with:
In our research we found some pretty crazy dragon art (as you can imagine). One of my favorites was a site we found called Neon Dragon Art that features the work of artist Jessica Peffer. I don’t think anyone can truly appreciate dragons until they’ve actually attempted to draw one. Seriously, try to draw one. I dare you.
–c.
On Sunday we saw the new Disney/Pixar film UP in 3D. I cried. Multiple times. UP was both funny and extremely sad. After the first 15 minutes Andrew whispered to me “This is the worst movie ever,” while I cried big tears behind my 3D faux Ray-Bans. But all in all, it did not disappoint. The story was delightfully strange and the 3D was better than I expected.
Both Andrew and I enjoyed it a lot, but we also agreed that we liked Wall-E better. I hate to even compare the two because they were both so good. But I think the humor in Wall-E was more on point and in general I liked the characters in Wall-E better. But both are definitely worth watching.
–c.
On my drive home from work on yesterday I heard on NPR’s All Things Considered Andrei Codrescu read “Pondering Google, Facebook and Wasting Time.” I listened to it again today with Andrew and my brother. It made us laugh.
“My regular e-mail now tells me I have Facebook messages, forcing me to go to Facebook, which is slow on account of the jillion egos battling for verbal-audio-visual attention.”
Listen to it here. (I would put the soundclip here, but I haven’t figured out a way to embed NPR audio clips. If anyone knows, please share!)
Andrei Codrescu is the founder of Exquisite Corpse.
–c.