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Medicate Yourself With Style

Posted in Art with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 19, 2009 by Enrique Enfuego

IMG00164-20090918-2336If you are looking to make a statement with your medical accessories, you may want to look into this line of “Help Remedies” by Adam Winski and Richard Fine.  The three varieties available contain acetaminophen tablets for headaches, dramamine for sleep, and bandages for cuts, all of which are packaged in these stylish recyclable materials.

I caught these on display at Moss in the Bazaar at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills. You could go there for the superb tapas and liquid nitrogen caipirinhas or just some headache medicine.

Enfuego.

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Coming Soon To Your Child’s Esophagus…

Posted in Art, News with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on June 16, 2009 by Enrique Enfuego

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We don’t know much about the upcoming line of Lego products.  But by the looks of this Frank Lloyd Wright masterpiece, there is something to be excited about.

I’m just glad I finally found a Father’s Day present for Frank Gehry.

No bad sons here…

Enfuego.

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Beware of Sexually Deviant Geometric Shapes

Posted in Art, Video with tags , , , , , , , , , , on June 11, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

(NSFW!)

Suspects are reportedly of height 0 feet and Dependsonyourscreensize inches, weighing around 400 pixels, colored brightly and slow-moving (unless you press down). They are indecent, on the loose and in heat.

Last seen twisting to Huey Lewis & The News.

-$.

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Yea, so I followed you home. Date me?

Posted in Art, Music Videos with tags , , , , , , , , , on May 19, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

New video directed by Shia Lebeouf for the Cage song “I Never Knew You.”

Two things to say here…

(1) Someone needs to incorporate the art of stalking the opposite sex into a reality show, and this video is proof. I mean how real is this shit? I’m hanging on the edge of my seat waiting to see what his next move is, or if she’ll catch him hiding behind that column. As a guy who falls in love with girls on the subway on a daily basis – and I’m for sure not alone here – I propose someone monetizes this form of creepy voyeur entertainment. No way it could ever get creepier than millions of people tuning in to see what Senator Pratt is gonna do next.

(2) Shia Lebeouf might be onto something with this directing thing. His video for Rumspringa’s “Mind’s Awake” was solid and quirky in its own way, and now we can see what he’s capable of with a real budget and a plan.

Blink, and you might miss cameos by Aesop Rock and El-P…

-$.

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ZOMG, Michael Jackson is Weird??

Posted in Art, Events, Music, News with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 28, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

Ok so you know how when people go broke they make matters  significantly worse by desperately selling off the ridiculous shit they owned super super publically, showing their ass completely to the public, further disgracing their image and humiliating themselves and their loved ones? And then all those criminal accusations that were sorta ambiguous when they surfaced and resurfaced come roaring back like Mufasa when everyone sees what was inside that person’s house? But then they get embarrassed or whatever, and maybe realize there was another way to make their debt back, and so they cancel the auction once a bunch of people have already seen it?

No? You don’t know what I’m talking about?

Oh, right…. there is only one MJ.

And “the real MJ” was again partially exposed recently when the Beverly Hilton hosted the Michael Jackson collection. Just check out some of these pictures.

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“‘If I can only find a white man, with a black man sound, I could make a million dollars’ Sam Phillips, Sun Record.” Ok.

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Two original compositions by MJ (top) and Mccully Culkin. Duhh obviously…

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Now excuse me while I go back to my regularly scheduled life and pretend none of this ever happened.

Via The Stranger.

-$.

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You KNOW You Need A New Hobby When…

Posted in Art with tags , , , , , , , on April 22, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

You find THIS a valid use of your time:

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Google Maps snapshots, all taken within the state of Victoria, Australia. (My best guess is that “2″ is Aussie for “Z” – remember that, fellow Rocksofter 2 TRAIN, if you’re ever down under.)

Via Rhett Dashwood.

-$.

Meet the Microwave Militia

Posted in Art with tags , , , , , , , , , , on April 21, 2009 by Enrique Enfuego

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WE MUST PROTECT THIS MICROWAVE!

Now Shipping.

Enfuego.

Someone Deserves A Raise

Posted in Art with tags , , , , , on April 17, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

Genius.

-$.

Where The Water Flows Like Wine

Posted in Art, Green with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , on March 20, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

Not to be confused with our tasty bevvy segments, today’s triumphant return to Rocksoft premieres the least tasty bevvy of them all: water.  Consider it God’s sense of humor for making humans crave anything but the bland, while making our bodies biologically dependent on just that.

Well Big Guy, this is the humans’ tongue-and-cheek comeback – a new brand of boxed water that both comes from your natural creations, and is designed, quite successfully, to look appealing to us earthlings.

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Creator Benjamin Edgar explains:

[We] started with the simple idea of creating a new bottled water brand that is kinder to the environment and gives back a bit. We found that water shouldn’t be bottled at all, but instead, boxed. So we looked to the past for inspiration in the century old beverage container and decided to keep things simple, sustainable and beautiful.

Can’t argue with that. Your move, God.

-$.

Legobama’s Inauguration

Posted in Art, News with tags , , , , , , on March 17, 2009 by Enrique Enfuego

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“You sure ’bout that?”

This is what’s going down right now at LEGOLAND California. All the little children are begging their parents to go see this piece of history as recreated by everyone’s favorite construction toys.

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Despite the choking hazard, I could be down.

Enfuego.

Gone Too Far, Too Fast

Posted in Art, News, Rated R with tags , , , , , , , , on February 18, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

This political cartoon appears in today’s edition of the New York Post:

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W….. T….. F……

And so new fertilizer is added to the discussion about comedy about/against our first black president. Obviously the line will continue to be negotiated between humorous and offensive, but this doesn’t even come close to that line.

I’ll be really surprised if a huge stir isn’t made about this..

-$.

Update: It appears the cartoonist may have been trying to also reference the story about the woman attacked by her chimp… if so, let me be the first to say, he did a terrible job of it.

The $20 Truth

Posted in Video, Art with tags , , , , , , , , on February 17, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

I came across this video on YouTube’s homepage, and I can pretty confidently say it’s a brilliant piece of filmmaking. The creator claims it was made for $20, making it easily the best use of a twenty dollar bill since 9/11 conspiracy theorists realized millions of people would actually listen to their juvenile thoughts if they just folded one correctly.

Anyway let’s get to it.

The one knock would be that the voice actor sounds like a teenage computer geek, but hey, in all probability, that’s exactly what he is. And besides, it’s twenty bucks we’re talking about. Some people wipe their ass with that type’a dough.

-$.

Hyena Men

Posted in Art with tags , , , , , , on February 11, 2009 by Z TRAIN

Check out this photographer Pieter Hugo’s stuff kinda sick….

“Many myths surround the Hyena Men who haunt the peripheries of Nigeria’s cities, Accompanied by hyenas, rock pythons and baboons, these men earn a living by performing before crowds and selling traditional medicines. Pieter Hugo’s extraordinary portraits of their liminal existence reveal an uncanny world of complex , codependent relationships, where familiar distinctions between dominance and submission, wildness and domesticity,tradition and modernity are constantly subverted.”

The book The Hyena & Other Men can be bought on Amazon for 32 ducks not a bad gift idea…

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Junky Teddy

Posted in Art, Double Dipping with tags , , , , , , on February 11, 2009 by Ev Turn

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You’re a man aren’t you? Well then, act like one you son of a bitch. Now give me my goddamn teddy bear before I lose my shit.

Double Dipping via ComeRoundHere

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Arachnophobia

Posted in Art, News with tags , , , , , on February 10, 2009 by Ash $. Fiscal

Check out this hot photo borrowed from The Big Picture:

From http://www.boston.com/bigpicture; (c) Peter Carr 2008

As part of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture year, the French group La Machine were commissioned to create a large piece of street theatre, on the scale of their earlier work, the Sultan’s Elephant. Many were expecting to see something using the iconic Liverbirds, the symbol of the city but instead we got a spider. The total cost of the event was £1.8 million and caused some complaints about how the funds could better be used. It also attracted protests from arachnophobe groups about how it would terrify some people. Despite these complaints the event drew in over 200,000 people in the few days it was on and produced something wondrous that got everyone in the region talking.

While we damn yankees are nickel-and-diming each other, crying in our frappuccinos about the recession, the Brits are spending millions of dollars to watch a robotic spider crawl through town.

That’s badass.

-$.

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