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.
BTW I’m sick of my website.. archives don’t work.. rss feed hasn’t worked since I switched where I host my site.
Frankly, I haven’t set enough time aside to play with my site. So we’re going minimal for awhile…
Some sites I’ve come across (and most likely posted on other blogs I read – sorry if I lack credits.)
:: The Puppet Agency | It’s an ad agency, puppetized. And hilarious.
:: Monoface | Mix-n-match pieces of faces. Hmm, that sounds disturbing. This is not. It is pure fun and you won’t go to prison for it. It’s something else to do at 3am when you can’t sleep.
(I was writing the above description and was at a loss for the word ‘disturbing’ so I asked Adam – “What would you call someone who cuts up people’s faces and mix and matches the pieces?” and after the silence and look of concern from him, he said “…I’d say that was pretty disturbing and psych–” “Disturbing! Great! Thanks!“)
:: “Can you spare a square?” | The site to go to when you’ve went to every other site on the internet.
Proof that web ads work – I saw a nifty ad running on a site today (one talking about goodies that were announced at E3 this week) for a web game called “Get The Glass”. The art in the ad was that 3d/clay-looking style. So I said what the hell and clicked.
It took me to a game called Get The Glass, “the glass” being a glass of milk. The game is part of the (never ending) “Got Milk?” campaign.
This game is gorgeous!
Concept – you’re the Adachi family on the run from the police, out to Get the Glass from Fort Fridge. You roll the dice and the family truck travels along the board. There are three kinds of spots you can hit on the board; Fortune, Misfortune, and Mastermind.
Fortunes will most likely give you extra spaces to move. Misfortunes will take you to mini-games, if you fail, the cops will take you to Milkatraz. Now the message doesn’t get buried within the game, oh no. Each game will tell you that it will be difficult for some reason because this family is milk-deprived. For example, there was a mini-game that had you quickly choosing questions from the family (from the mother’s pov) that would keep the mother happy. You see, she was suffering from some PMS and apparently if she just had some milk, she wouldn’t be crabby (nor crampy.) If she lost her cool, well, the police were on their tail and surely they would be caught. (They had to stop to fix a tire…)
Anyway, the Mastermind spots are macro-games; fill in the blanks, true/false, etc.
To me, this is a very entertaining component of the Got Milk campaign.
**Doing some searching, this game isn’t “new” as someone blogged about it back in April. Plus apparently during the beginning of the campaign, winners were sent glasses as a prize for winning the game!
