Oddly enough, its the woman's eyes that are most creepy
Carissa's Wierd - The Color That Your Eyes Changed With the Color of Your Hair

YA example of awesomeness of Japaneseness

Just think. These crazy geometric bow calculations are pre-programmed into all Japanese people {{1}}. [[1]]It’s all firmware man.[[1]] There was no thinking “Oh I messed up. I should bow… 20º lower.” Homeboy just innately knew…”bow this far… BUT NOT TOO FAR”.

The stereotypical Asian wisdom is true: “Don’t Think. Feel.” {{2}}

Denki Groove – Edisonden

[[2]]Of course it was none other than the Little Dragon who said this. No, he is not Japanese. No, Asians are not all the same, but Yes, I am milking a popular meme for all its worth.

Also: If you haven’t seen these Lee flash animations, you’re hella missing out. They’re old school (I saw em back in HS), and in Korean, but the simplicity of it all truly captures the elegance of Lee’s artwork.[[2]]

I'm Smart.

PS: For added effect, open it in an image editing program and spam on the rotate and flip buttons for added hiilarities. I did this for about 5 minutes in a computer lab & got hella stares cuz I was cracking up so hard. I think I’m gonna have to make a video like the one below:

PPS: Yes, sometimes I even weird myself out.

Weird.

Alice in Vulvaland?
ManKitty Dancers?

???

This is the kinda stuff that gives “Art” a bad name. Let me know what you think it all means in the comments.

[via: Boing]

This was apparently made in the 90’s. I’m really confused about that.

Uh… yeah that’s about it. What do you all think the surprise is?

PS: Maybe you should check this out boo (and anyone else in round LA on the 20th). Make me some kimchi!!!!

“i seriously hope those kids are drugged out of their minds” ~Perdici0n

Called “Hakken“, it looks like Techno-Russian DDR to me. Really though, you have got to be kidding me. Pop. Lock. Drop it SEIZURE.

More after the jump.

More Amateurs:

The kid in front exemplifies how stupid this looks done badly. Note the “Beethoven” classical choir at the end. How… GERMAN.

Professional…?:

Oh… I see what this is supposed to be now. This isn’t an example of white people doing stupid white people stuff, its actually white people doing old white people stuff:

Stealing from colored folks:

Also note that the first vid samples Ice Cube’s “Down For Whatever” (a sample in itself of Eternal’s “Power of a Woman”)

So here’s some more pics, not as pretty, but whatever. Here’s the statement I wrote for it:

When I first found out about this weeks assignment, I already had an idea in mind. I wanted to do something silly along the lines of this: http://www.cockeyed.com/pranks/mall/plazaprank.html. After scouting around La Jolla, I found a few potential targets (I thought about putting eye patches and weird hats on the dolphins at UTC), but quickly came to realize how bad something like this could end up (especially in La Jolla), and decided to do something a little less drastic. I couldn’t come up with anything until last Saturday, when I went up to L.A. to visit a friend. While there, we went to a few malls, stores, etc (Christmas shopping), and I was struck at how many Salvation Army bell ringers there were (though I’m used to seeing them at home, I thought it was a phenomena not as pronounced here in SoCal). There were even a couple dressed up as Santa! (Something I haven’t seen since I was little). That gave me a nice little surprise and I dropped some change off. On the way back home, I had to stop by school. When I got to the corner of La Jolla village dr. and Villa La Jolla, I saw a couple of homeless people looking for money and jobs. Now this wasn’t the first time I’ve encountered the less-fortunate around school, but seeing so many “Salvation Santas” in L.A. put the scene in a different context. It was then that I noticed that I haven’t seen a single bell ringer in La Jolla since I’ve been here. I went around searching for one, but the closest I could find was a small change drop box at Vons. This led me to the idea of making one up to atone for this, and setting it up at my original site, UTC. I also wanted to make some kind of statement with it to help shed light on how lucky Americans really are. I did consider making a real figure instead of a painting, but realized that if I did (and did it a real-life scale), it would be too hard and heavy to get to the mall. I didn’t really want to do anything that I’ve done before (drawing, water colors, pencils, etc), and figured that it would be a good opportunity to pick up and practice some painting skills so I used acrylics. I’ve never really painted before (well, not since I was little at least) with acrylics and wanted to see how I’d manage with them. In my opinion, it turned out very well (which prompted me to do another painting for the extra assignment). At first I had a little bit of difficulty coming out with even brush strokes, but I got the hang of it and had a lot of fun with them I really wished that I would have started using them earlier, as I like them much better than water colors and pastels (mixing colors is easier and more fun for me with paints).

           Going back to Santa, at first I wanted to find one that I could use as a subject, but I didn’t even see any Downtown (maybe they were on break though, I went there 2 days ago and heard quite a few bells). Wanting to get started, I decided just to sketch out the ringer, and turn him into Santa while painting. After doing a couple rough sketches, I became satisfied with one of them and went home. When I got around to painting, I googled up a few popular Santa images (my main source was the Coca-Cola Classic Santa), and referenced them for my own. I chose not to put the traditional Santa hat on him because the one that originally inspired me was quite bald (and proud of it).

           I chose the words, “Are you helping?” solely to instill guilt upon its reader. UTC being such an extravagant and excessive mall, I felt that it was quite an appropriate reminder to others that there are many only less fortunate people. I also didn’t paint the words on, because I felt it could make a nice and friendly Christmas poster without a heavy handed moral getting in the way.           

           I had trouble with 2 main parts with this assignment. First of all, I didn’t know what to do for the eyes. I don’t consider myself to be a great drawer, and didn’t feel like ruining a nice happy face with strange looking eyes. Not wanting to risk it, I borrowed some happy-looking anime style eyes. Secondly, I had a LOT of trouble with the collection bin. First, I didn’t know where to place it (I originally wanted to depict a hanging one, complete with the Salvation Army Sign, but I felt that it would have blocked too much of Santa. After finally figuring out a place for it, I sketched it out and it seemed all right. When It came to painting it though, I could not for the life of me figure out how it was supposed to look, and was very frustrated (I finally felt like I got it right towards the very end of my painting).

I still have a few more things that I wanted to add (like a few concept sketches), but that’ll come tomorrow. I’m sooooooo beat right now… I hit a lotta traffic in SD and LA, and driving I-5 North all the way up during the night is really boring and tiring.

g’night

• Back in SD, me, Ed and Justin have a house. Yes, a house, backyard, garage and all that. Sucks tho, cuz ALL of the $ imma be making this summer is goin straight into furnishing it and bills and all that good stuff.
• School’s out for summer. Haha, like you didn’t know that.

Hmm… I guess that’s it. Oh well. So yeah, I’ll be updating again for all zero of you readers out there. Who knows, maybe I’ll use my 56k of bandwidth to the full extent and start making a real website.

Then again, probly not.

“Laziness conquers all.”
– Jason Tjalsma

Spring Break +’s & -‘s…So yeah… Spring Break was pretty chill. The 1st friday, I just chilled with Adry: we went to the mall I bought Metroid Prime, we came home. I played Prime for a bit, then I got drunk offa SoCo and beer & passed the fuck out.

Next day I went with Adry and her sis to her friend’s b-day party. It was weird seeing how everyone was mexican down there… then Adry goes home, and I do the chill/pack thing.

Mon comes, I fly off back home. There, I just relaxed… bought HELLA clothes (FINALLY!!!) and then played Metroid Prime (beat it for my 1st time yesterday…err…2 days ago now). The 3 mixes I burned earlier were tight too, cuz they hella helped me get busy (especially blasting the music in the explorer!).

It was nice being around family too (my auntie Alexzine and cousins Robert Shelby (haven’t seen in like 6 years!) and Robert (no Red tho, & course no Skinny R.I.P.)). A shame I couldn’t hook up with Tuan or any of the Posse.

ANYway, so I came back by plane (missed my flight by an hour), shuttle then walkin’, chilled, then went to Kaia’s. We chilled together for a nice while; we ate, walked around, browsed, etc. A sis/bro kinda outing or something hahaha… but it was tight, we gotta do it again…

Next till Now… I’ve been unpacking and cleaning. It’s been long but hella fun (you KNOW why) and also talking with Adry and Drunk Friendsâ„¢. Now typing BLOG… over.

Damn… that shit was long & edited… while playing ninTENdo no less!

Ok this past few days have been weird. So 1st up is the cogsci right… at that point I still haven’t slept yet (this is thursday night… the night before…), and we’re starting the project. I do fake calculations, they give me some real ones, then I fucking do the math, and I’m supposed to be done. Oh yeah, I started the whole paper as well (materials, method crap, its a science experiment report). Anyway so one group member i haven’t even met before is doing as much work as I am at first… but then shit gets stupid… etc.

End result: We finish 10 minutes after class starts, no one sleeps.

So… Friday night, I should be ready to just SLEEP right? Naw… we pull another Friday, and hook up on a quad… but end up getting like another 1/8’s worth for free!!! (Ashley’s tight…). Also, Justin’s old school friends showed up, and we had a mad ass party. Me Adry Justin Ed Keven Jen Kaia Mel Ashley Derrick Larry Ryan Andrea Victoria Alma jeff and pole… the list keeps goin…

Vaporized… Gas mask… just about everything cept J’s were hit… good stuff. Oh… there were some stuff to drink for all too…

So I ended up passing out. Saturday, I went to a dance show thing with Adry @ the theatre in Revelle… I GUESS it was alright… hahaha ANYway…

Sunday… chilled with Adry, then chilled with Justin Ashley, Juan Kaia Ivan Ed more swishers and masks…

and now I’m here…

I just went to OVT and grubbed, and am still chillin…

Life is chill.