THE ZOO RACE

Mere words cannot describe how utterly bizarre this clip is. It’s a promo piece for a christian zoo race game. You can shoot horses out of cannons! This thing is so strange it’s a masterpiece. You REALLY need to hear the voice acting on this…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVfV2OzEHwg&eurl=http://www.zoorace.com/

"After laughing and teasing her friend Rueben about believing in the Noah's Ark story, then Hannah the librarian has a dream about it. In her dream, her friends are re-shaped into animals and she herself changes into a racehorse and participates in the race "Games of Celebration" after the world flood. Watch how Hannah's friends are reshaped into animals and then have the funniest and most thrilling times of their lives."

Links:
http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=CougarInteractive
http://www.zoorace.com/

Boomerang

Today, as I was walking down the street to lunch & stopped at an intersection I noticed a small, ratty little sketch pad. A Strathmore 400-1 4”x6” multi use. I know this because I used to work in an art supply store for 7 years in & just out of art school…

When I got back to the office, I flipped around the pad & looked for a contact address so I could return it (an unspoken code among artist) there were half a dozen or so charming little drawings & thumbnail sketches as well as various “to do” list & class notations. The usual filling one would find in an artist sketch book. the information I gleaned from the contents, I was able to deduce the owner was probably a female printmaker. Etching. The very last page had a delightful illustration of a dragon standing on its hind legs with an extremely barbed tail end. I assume this was done by a child-relative of the owner.

Anyway, the most peculiar/wonderful part of this find was the little tags on the front and back. On the front was a price tag & on the back was an anti-theft sticker with the “check-mark” add-on to mute the anti-theft devise.

The kicker is this, the price tag on the front of the pad had the name of the exact art store I worked at with the phone number I still know, the price AND the date: 07/01/89.

When I worked at the store.

Because one of my many task was to price all incoming art papers and pads, its dead on that I put that price sticker on the front and the anti-theft sticker on the back. Heck, I probably even rang it up on the register.

19 YEARS AGO.

I wonder what path this pad went down after it left my hands all those years ago only to find its way back into my hands, today.

(Judas) Hufu

Hufu is a tofu-based product which was marketed as resembling, as realistically as possible, the taste and texture of human flesh.

Hufu was touted as "the healthy human flesh alternative" for "cannibals who want to quit", as well as a product for anthropology students studying cannibalism.

Judas hufu is that same flesh alternative marinated in the sweat of all members of the heavy metal band Judas Priest. Each tin is signed and endorsed by J.P. front man, Rob Halford.

http://web.archive.org/web/20060209025919/http://www.eathufu.com/home.asp

monster drawing contest

The Guardian asked kids to send in monster drawings for a contest.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandhealth/gallery/2008/jan/04/thecomic?picture=331949227