I decided I am going to give out christmas postcards this year, but only to those who read my blog. These postcards will come in the form of my great digital art that brought you the free nevada campaign. The first one for your viewing pleasure is below:
Feel free to send this on to your friends with a link to the beach blog.
For More on Christmas read Nothing is Sacred
I have been away from home for most of the Christmas season, living in a dirty one bedroom apartment with three other males and am missing the Christmas cheer and so I share with you these three stories to get you in the mood for buying or giving, either or:
Sorry about the Stable
A couple weeks ago a hotel in Britain announced that they will give free stays on Dec 24 to any couple named Mary and Joseph to make up for there being “no room in the inn”. My last name being Inman, derived from the inn man or inn keeper, this brings joy to my family, as our ancestors have felt the shame for hundreds of years for not giving baby Jesus a place to stay. Christmas will once again be a time for rejoicing.
Lawsuits are pending claiming the Hotel is discriminating against other religions by not giving them a holiday, the prosecutors named were: Buddha, Mohammed, Joseph Smith, L. Ron Hubbard and Darth Vader.
This one I had to give you the whole article because I couldn’t do it justice:
Nativity Plays Boosting Tea Towel Sales
LONDON (Reuters) - Sales of tea towels are booming as parents use them as headdresses for their children in primary school Nativity plays, Sainsbury’s supermarket said Monday. So great is the demand — known in the trade as the Bethlehem Boost — that Sainsbury’s has ordered extra supplies.“Our sales figures show that, this year, most Nativity play actors will be wearing multi-striped herringbone tea towels,” said a Sainsbury spokeswoman.
Sales of a more sophisticated tea towel, with yellow, blue brown and white stripes are also going well.“We suspect these are being chosen by Virgin Marys who want to stand out from the crowd and make a fashion statement,” she added.
I’ve always loved to see little Mary portrayed with a herringbone towel, it feels so much classier.
Virgin Mobile Spreads Christmas Joy Without Offending
Virgin Mobile has created a new holiday to combine all “winter” holidays called Christmahanakwnazakah. In an advertisement they teach us the only way to make Christmas not offend people, strip it of all its religious overtones and make it about “Camera phones for $20 dollars less”. I’m glad someone was able to finally find a good solution to the problem that is Christmas. You can watch the flash movie here
(Obviously Virgin is using the beautiful literary convention called satire, as am I during this post)
Update 12/15: I guess this flash movie is based on a commercial, Craig, my boss, from Soul Interactive sent it to me. I must warn it’s virgin mobile and they are not always the most wholesome advertising, but you gotta hear the Santa Claus if only that. Watch the commercial
Brian Wilson was nominated for Pop Vocal Album of the Year. A brightspot for the grammys that inculde 10 nominations for Kanye West, proving that MTV does rule the minds of our children and lusting causes pimples.
Earlier this month Brian was chosen as the MUSICARES Person of the Year for accomplishments in music and humanitarianism(i made that word up). He also continues to reign supreme over the Entertainment Weekly Album of the Year poll. He is beating Kanye West by enough points to ratify the constitution.
SANTA BARBARA, Calif., December 3, 2004-
Well known and loved Kellogg’s Rice Krispies frontmen, Snap, Crackle, and Pop have been caught in a media frenzy ever since they were seen at a halloween party in Santa Barbara in October. Snap, the eldest of the trio was arrested for “littering” rice krispies, while the other two managed to fly under the radar. Snap will plead his innoscence in a landmark case today that will decide how fictional characters will be tried for years to come.
The Santa Barbara Police Department claims that the assailant was not actually Snap but the famed Chico State University student, Nate West. No evidence to this point has been presented to satisfy the claim.
Kellogg’s Cereal would not return calls but released this open letter to the public:
Snap!
The oldest brother, is the leader of the group and has fun managing the cereal careers of his two brothers.Crackle!
The typical middle child — is good-hearted and fun. He loves playing practical jokes on Snap!Pop!
The youngest of the three, Pop!, has a likeable personality. He loves to eat Rice Krispies® and will spend most of his time doing so.
The only other case of this kind was in 1989 when Tony the Tiger was accused of public lewdness for leaving his home wearing nothing but a bandana tied around his neck. The case was dropped when other fictionional characters came out against the suit including Winnie the Pooh and Donald Duck.
I have always loved most fantasy art for the reason that it’s so intriguing to analyze. The way it is overly ornate with spikes, flames, and scantily clad women added to almost every work. Blood or gore (which would be expected of the type of people we attribute to this category: I would propose also lovers of video games and the “low” genres of film including b-horror films) is virtually non-existent. Though these are some observations that I believe generally describe fantasy art, it also has it’s own categories.
I would suggest there are three different “schools”: dragons, elves, or fairies. Everything fits into these three categories. For example, mushrooms, butterflies, rainbows, and unicorns all fit into the fairies category.
Fantasy art, like art in general, reinvents itself every couple years with some new trend. While I was in Jr. High school, the fairy school seemed to reign supreme over other types of fantasy art, especially in the blacklight poster market. Up until the Lord of the Rings trilogy was released, there was a large anime inspired elf trend, where many depictions of elves and other fantasy creatures had an asian feel to them. There are some still holding on to this, but it’s for the most part dead, to the pleasure of fantasy art purists. The most recent trend has been a refocus on tolkien fantasy: hobbits, ents, dwarfs, wood elves, high magic elves, mysterious rangers and some demon beasts. I don’t intend this post to be a history lesson and so I am skipping other trends including roman mythology, narnia, manbeasts, and weaponry for the sake of readibility. I may or may not discuss these at a later time.
I post all of this to intro what I believe is the greatest and most entertaining trend in fantasy art, what I call the celebrity “he would look bad@## as a warrior or “she would be hot as an elf” trend. Below I give a few examples:
Tim Allen, Knight of Round Table
Joe Peschi, The Nordic Conquerer
Steven Spielbierg, The Hobbit
And last, but not least:
Kurt Russell, The Greek God
These images and more can be found at http://www.chez.com/actusf/Celebrites.htm, but i warn some of the celebrity art at this site follows my description of scantily clad women. I only link to it to give credit to the artist, not that you actually visit, though there are a few notables: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Paul Newman, and Robin Williams as Siegfried will give a laugh.
A growing resturant chain is building its buisness off of selling breakfest. Something Dennys has been doing for years now, but new establishment has two distinctions: you don’t get the free curly hairs with your meal and they are only selling cereal.
Think of it as a coldstone for cereal lovers. You can mix cheerios, cornflakes and coconut shavings (my childhood favorite) or any other combination you so chose. With over 30 different toppings and most brands of cereal; there are many different options.
Though I should be offended that someone is making 2.95 for selling what I hated to eat growing up, I am intrigued because this idea is so creative. Reading the article made me think that I should switch to buisness (along with the fact that the film school at UCI is offereing a class called, “Movie Title Sequences” next quarter).
On another note, I apologize for the title of the article. I apoloqize for everyone else who has a blog who tries to be creative with their titles and ends up simply being ridiculous.
