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Me again. I can’t get over these recent batches of car commercials. Now, I’m fixated on Ford TV commercials. We like Ford, right? Ford kind of squeeked through the auto industry beat-down in one piece. My main complaint is: their spokesman looks like he just stepped out of the Workers Party or Bolshevik Revolution. It’s amazing what the absence of logos on clothing and hats (OMG with that hat! A baseball hat with no log is outright weak!) can do to an outfit.

I would settle for a patterned shirt or a splash of color, but nooooo. The wardrobe team wanted to relate to the working man. I guess.

Long live the proletariat!

Am I five or 10 years too late posting this? C’mon, Seinfeld is still funny, take a look:

www.jerryseinfeld.com

Anyone ever take time to notice the newer freeway “panels” on the interstate? These are the “blockers” that protect the nearby homeowners from having to see and hear the way-too-close traffic. Milwaukee’s panels absolutely blow. My big complaint is the don’t “sit” nicely in place and even though they are brand new, they appear all buckled and crooked and yucky. These new stone ones won’t rust like the older ones, but they look like oversized Triscuits waiting to wilt in the elements.

By comparison, Illinois has really nice, tight, clean panels and I’m not happy at all.

Anyway: freeway panels: who knew!

If you like art and art in the making then you may enjoy this video. My video is the process of a 18x24” charcoal drawing sped up from five hours to five minutes. The illustration is of the musician known as Macklemore. For those of you that don’t know, Macklemore is a Seattle bred underground hip-hop artist who speaks about the universal language between art and music. His edge and political standpoints in such songs as “Bush Song” and “American” show a different more humorous side he is known for. In the end, the north-west rapper was more than flattered to be the subject, and his producer was pleased to throw a huge shout out on Facebook for recognition.

If your interested in more of his music visit the Macklemore MySpace page at, http://www.myspace.com/macklemore

Or to read up on him visit his blog at, http://www.bengalyucky.com/

I have been alerted to threadless.com …

It’s a sweet place where all the t-shirt designs are viewer submitted. And Lordy! Do they pay! $2,500 if your design gets picked. I am going to try it, so look for postings regarding voting on designs.

Prior to this, I had seen $200 as a high price for t-shirt designs. That’s a spicy meatball!

I know we’ve all seen it a million times by now. Enough to even notice the artist mention at the end:

“The artists Christo and Jean-Claude have no direct or indirect affiliation with AT&T…”

I know it sent me straight to the itunes store! That song is sweet. Nothing, nada, no song, no artist named Christo and Jean-Claude.

I’m just now finding out they are the orange-bolts-of-satin-cloth artists! Their big idea with all that cloth. THAT kind of artist. It seems like this kind of thing would only even seem remotely cool in a CG application. Oh well, they have been out there doing it since the ’70’s. Nutz.