I’ve been collecting little videos for quite a few years now. Now that I have my oh-so-yummy Macbook Pro with all the bells and whistles – I’ve *finally* been able to play with all those old videos. Also, thanks to sites like YouTube and Vimeo – sharing these videos with everyone is much easier than it would have been a few years back.
So here is a video of Iris bowling (a ‘few’ years back, at the SJSU bowling alley) and I just happened to catch an awesome moment.
Read this story about “Molly” and her fight to get her passport. What she had to go through (and what many others experience) was absolutely ridiculous. I’m glad I got my passport a few years ago.
One of the MANY promotions for The Simpsons movie included altering select 7-Elevens around the country and making them into Kwik-E-Mart (the convienence store in the cartoon series, for those few who have no idea what I’m talking about.) Luckily, a store in Mountain View was chosen!
Armed with my camera, Adam, Matt and I went to the store to check out the goodies. The outer decor had been changed to look like the cartoon Kwik-E-Mart. Not just adding the sign, but they added boards over the real exterior with the cartoon yellow color, and spots of bricks.
Not only did they have to scout locations I’m sure, but they had to get the plans for each individual location, make the boards to the specific sizes… man a lot of money went into this campaign for the exteriors alone.
Inside was filled with large plastic ‘cutouts’ of the main characters (Apu, Homer, Marge, Maggie, Comic Book Guy, Chief Wiggums) and plenty of advertising for Simpsons related products — things that exist in the series. A handful of items were available for purchase as well; Krusty O’s cereal, Buzz Cola, Squishees (Slurpees), pink donuts, and Radioactive Man comics.
When we drove up, I was kind of shy to be lugging around my giant camera and attached flash– but then we saw about 6 other people snapping photos, posing, etc and I didn’t feel silly anymore. There were probably 15 people in the store (and coming and going) taking photos, grabbing donuts, and buying Squishees.
Adam, Matt, and I walked around and took photos of the Simpsons cookies, bought some donuts, took s’more pics, got a Squishee and finally moved on.
Never before had going to a 7-Eleven been so much fun.
I fixed my website! For the last few days I was was sure I’d broken it. But now, not only does it let me post again – my rss feed is fixed! If anyone out there still reads this, you’ll have to re-add my feed.
