Mmmm

beers.

hogs

These were taken at Rudy's @ 44th & 9th. Drink beer and get free hotdogs, Oink!

Icons

In the 1970's well-known American graphic artist, Paul Rand, created the Eye-Bee-M poster for the computer corporation IBM. He used a combination of icons with their logo to show how we associate pictures and their meanings. Saturday in the Men's bathroom at Mo Pitkin's House of Satisfaction, I saw this rendition of a "No Smoking" sign. As you can see this mediocre and unsuccessful tribute to Paul Rand's iconic poster demonstrates an important point, you don't need to be literate to understand a sign. After my moment, I finished my cigarette and let the next guy into the pisser.

Monuments

A monument gives a unique experience to those who encounter it. Therefore I won't go into a lengthy interpretation of what I think this means, but I will give you some background. I saw this on 54th and 8th Ave and the artist remains unknown. That night I shared these photos with some new acquaintances who said, "ummm, we're from Texas..." If you know the artist, please share his or her identity with me.

Graf truck

I think graffiti on trucks have become socially accepted. Usually the standard of graffiti on trucks suck, but that's besides the point. Trucks seem to be more of a sketch pad rather than a real canvas, those being walls, garage doors, etc... Or it could be that wannabe graffitist think that trucks are company owned, so they're not really vandalizing anyone's personal property in theory. But what if someone really did buy one of these trucks for own their personal use and it was their sole means of transportation? Where the hell could you buy a truck like this, i've never seen cargo truck dealerships. Could you imagine a cargo truck dealership salesman? He's probably considered the low of the low amongst fellow salesman. Maybe that's where you start out, first in Cargo-truck sales, then you move to trailers, then used cars, then new cars. Actually there are too many types of cars to fit in the whole scheme of things when mapping out the hierarchy of car salesmen. For instance, where would winnebagos fit in? Anyway getting back on track, if i woke up in the morning to find my personal cargo-truck totally graffitied on, i'd be pissed. Unless of course it was some hip graf-artist from the early 80's.

NextFest

Went to the Wired NextFest this weekend to see all the new technology shit. Some really cool stuff, everything from environmental housing to video games. One of the most popular attractions was a virtual video game, where a player fights enemies on a blue screen using their true physical abilities. See video below.



This is what the player is seeing and fighting. (see below)





There was also virtual Pong which was a combination between table tennis and Pong. A cool concept but I think I would rather play table tennis or Pong by itself, not a combination of the two.


Fog or mist that was used for projection. It was much clearer in person.


This was a light display that had music synchronized. Controlled through a weird metal pole interface.


A Korean team built this robot similar to the Sony bot. Almost life size, they put Albert Einstein's head on the bot's body. His face was made out of some fleshy like material which was capable of making human-esque expressions, i.e. sad, happy, scared... This attracted a lot of attention but really didn't do all that much.


This was a door that opened in the shape of your body. It sort of worked... but because of the space inbetween your legs the bottom slots did not always open, causing people to trip and impale themselves on a sharpened wooden stake placed strategically on the other side of the door.