tebow

yes, i've been away from this blog forever. work, work trips, facebook. It all keeps me away from here.

Lately I've been loving playing bags, or cornhole, and this is a funny post from my fav sports blog, deadspin.com regarding said 'sport':

tebow gets cornholed.

Jam band fan or Taliban?

This site is really funny.

Rice paddy art

Wow, check all this rice paddy art. It's amazing how detailed some of it is. Nice work asian rice paddy planters.

Pingwire

Check out pingwire. It's a live stream of images posted to twitter. Kinda addictive to watch, actually. Click images for bigger versions of the images.

Faceblog

Sometimes I wonder if facebook takes away from personal blogging.?

Paranoid Larry

Sweet. Check out Paranoid Larry. Really good b/c it's really bad.

meat dress

Jia Jem made a meat dress. Odd, but cool. Here's what she said: "I chose salami because it's thin, keeps in one piece, and is quite cheap, and bacon because it looks very, um, meaty. I considered somehow vacuum-sealing sheets of meat with those sealers they have on the markets now, but the machines were too expensive for a one-time-only disposeable dress. I ended up using the K.I.S.S. method of construction, which involved a basic shift dress out of thick cotton. I layed the meat on top, then put clear vinyl over it and sewed tracks with clear thread. I used a wide stitch length to avoid perforating the meat to the point it might just... uh, slide down the bottom of the dress. I also blotted it all before sewing to get rid of as much grease as possible to avoid clouding the vinyl. Lastly, I made sure to bind the bottom of the dress with a strip of clear vinyl to catch drips. (I love talking about this; it's so disgusting.) The whole project took about 6 hours, and I kept it refrigerated until the party. Good times."

GA

While I didn't take many pics, except these two w/ my iphone, it was a wonderful Memorial Day weekend back in Atlanta. So fabulous to see the peoples I miss so much. Family, friends... all of ya. And that's corn Fred's holding, if you're wondering. Perverts.

Freshman Obama

Check out these portraits Lisa Jack took of Obama in his freshman year. Sweet 'fro.

Time to enjoy the yard.

Finally, we get a weekend with great weather. And, it just so happens to coincide w/ my birthday. Perfect. Maybe we should cook a lot of pork and eat it in the yard with some PBR and sunshine. What do you think? And maybe some folks will stop over and hang out? Heck yeah.

Thanks to Andy Perri for bringing his DJ gear over to set up in the yard and blast tunes whilst we sat the day away and thanks to everyone else for all the nice things people brought over and thanks for just stoppin in to say hi. And thanks to my neighbors for NOT calling the cops on DJ ADaPt for blaring his tunes. Was really fun and I had a blast. The house has officially been broken in, and the yard is a great spot for hangin.

Bring it, summertime.

Awkward Family Photos

If you haven't checked out Awkward Family Photos yet, you should. It's funny. I swear the one on the home page titled "the Bird" is Tim Tebow. Anyway, quite a few of them are humorous.

Be good for bird banks

I coulda used this when I lived in 5 points to keep whoever stole my grill from stealing my grill. Check out the security camera birdhouse.

MY YARD

My back yard has fake grass in it. I actually love laying in/on it. Apparently dogs do, too.

Sugar

Ever wondered how much sugar, in cubes, was in B&J ice cream? Looks like 22 from the image. If you've got a hankerin' for some other foods' sugar content, measured in cubes, check out sugarstacks.com

swineflu

not sure why, but i found these portraits of mexicans dodging swineflu interesting....

Thinkin of Grandma

Today I'm thinking about my Grandma. She had hip replacement surgery yesterday and after having an invasive surgery, I know how much it helps to have people thinking about you. I'm hoping and praying for a smooth and incident free recovery. I can't wait to see you sportin' around on the new hip. I love ya, G-ma.

Some recent work

I guess I realized I don't put enough of my own work on here. This blog started as a cancer diary and turned into nothing but my espousings on life and design and advertising. So, why not put some of my own work on here occasionally? Anyway, this tv spot is for the Tap Project Denver. It's worldwide, but we got chosen as the Denver mkt agency to do the spots this year. It's pro bono and for a great cause. Every 15 seconds a child dies due to water bourne illness. During world water week (was in march) if you pay $1 for your, usually free, tap water, that dollar gives a kid clean water for 40 days. Yep, 40 days. So, this spot ran locally trying to really show people that we are super lucky to have a choice whether we drink dirty water or not. Millions are not so lucky. The resolution quality here sux on youtube, but it's got lots of funny QVC spoof graphics with funny pricing and shipping and handling and all that sorta stuff. Enjoy it here.

Best commercial ever.

Ok, I prob pay waaaaayyy more attention to advertising than the average guy, seeing as how it's what I do for my job and all. But, seriously, this is truly one of the funniest ads ever. And the best part: I don't think they meant for it to be funny at all. God, I love southerners. Man, I miss your naivety. I love the end "...and hispanics, too".

Thanks to Ash Kerr for heads up on this one. Good find, sis.

Under the Bridge, literally

first, i wish i could embed video in this damn blog. so lame to link. anyway, if you are like me and loved the chili peppers back in the day, watch this literal interpretation of the Under the bridge video- it's really hilarious. My fav part is the 'check out my pecs in slo-mo' part. Classic.
Watch it here.

Meatcard. No, really.

Love this quote from the website: "Business cards made from meat and lasers". I don't think I can do any better than that. Is this real?

new forms of typography.

Gotta give it to type nerds. Always finding new things that form letterforms. The newest are these Google maps letters. Read bout it here.

Hawaii 5-0

Well, Hawaii was a blast. The mansion Will and Chris rented was absolutely fantastic, equipped with multiple pools, private tennis courts and a private beach. And even better were the people. I really loved catching up with some of my favorite people in the world who I never see. Some even live up the street and I see them so little that a week in paradise partying down was much needed. The wedding week proved to be a doozy, with most everyone showing up at our palace and hanging every night, and Will and Chris had all kinds of fun things planned. We had our own private luau at the house with a hula ceremony, we all went and saw HUGE surf at pipeline and we ate and drank the finest of foods and drinks. The ceremony was on a rather large catamaran overlooking honalulu. Amazing. Then we had food on a 32nd floor balcony looking down on Waikiki. Another gold star. Then, we had a dance party at a club below. Good times.

My favorite part of the trip, though, was the surfing. I managed to catch a bunch of waves and man-o-man there is nothing that matches the rush of catching a wave. It's such a buzz. Luckily, our friends Jenna and Travis had extra boards and knew some good rook spots and it was on. Already jonesing for next surfing session, whenever that may be.

Me, Mere and Kanye

My curiosities were piqued as we rolled into the parking lot at Waimea canyon yesterday. There were 4 escalades parked side by side and the dudes sitting on the open backs of them were dressed in a very non-Hawaiian way. Read: neons and Nike hightops from the 80's and odd jackets and such. I then was more interested as we walked to the top lookout and there was a camera set up. Within two minutes the whole crew of stylin' people from the trucks below roll up with Kanye West in tow. Luckily, all other tourists there were a little older and no one had any idea who he was but us. He ended up walking over and looking over the rail RIGHT next to us, so Mere asked for a shot. As you can see, he obliged, but never once cracked a smile or even acted like he was impressed with the scenery or that he was even happy to be in Hawaii. Think he was consumed with how cool he was, and that he had on more denim jacket flair than anyone else in Kuai.

Na Pali coastline

Yep, you guessed it, we're hiking to some falls. Me being a signage nerd, I thought this sign was rad, placed WAY up in the rainforest on our hike in. Here's a shot of early on in the trail, when you're basically hiking along where mountains meet the beautiful sea:
Believe it or not, I saw some whales way out there spouting and swimming and such, and it was real cool. After we slogged through 2+ hours of muddy (REAL muddy) and beautiful hiking we came upon this:
The falls were amazing and quite large. The rain and mud made the whole event a damp one, but the end result was fabulous. The hike was strenuous enough that our legs were sore the next day, but not long enough that it was a real test. Surprisingly, we saw people in bare feet and very improper foot wear attempting to make the hike. I'm assuming many did not make it to the falls, and the beach halfway was rocky and unswimmable (sign saying 82 had died there), so they may have been a bit dissapointed. We even came upon a guy who slipped and tweaked his knee and had some sort of seizure, which was a little disconcerting. Thankfully, tho, we were prepared w/ good shoes and rain gear, as all Coloradans should be! Was an adventurous day.

And it's on!

First off, lemme just say "woooo hoooo!". We are officially on vacation. The flight over to Hawaii was pretty flawless, minus the fact that we landed in Honalulu at 1am our time. Needless to say we were flogged. The cool part, tho, was that we flew with the rotation of the globe and the sun set at a liesurely pace. Sort of a slow motion sunset, adorned with an amazing band of color hanging on the horizon for what seemed like forever. Thankfully I had a window seat to witness the magic.

After bunking with Travis last night in Honalulu, we flew to Kuai'i early this morning and made the rounds by car today. Man, truly spectacular. Was sorta rainy all day off and on, but really stoked to go rock the Napoli coast trail tomorrow. Apparently it's 'as close as you can get to heaven'. These words from a local today. We're prepared for more rain, and have stocked up on foodstuffs to take for the 5 hour hike. Stay tuned for pics. Hoping for snorkling w/ the turtles afterwards at Kee beach. Have spotted tons of surf boards and surfers and am chompin' at the bit to get me some wave.

Finally a use for my 1 million old Phish bootlegs

check out this cool art made from old cassette tapes..

Riding!

This is a few weeks old, but had a blast skiing on Mere's b-day with Tim and Jennie and also my Auntie Anne was here with her friend skiing. I wish they were in this group shot. We had a sweet day.

Spring rocks the frontrange with snowy goodness

We got crushed with some spring blizzard-ness this week. It was literally 70 degrees one day, then DUMPING the next. I walked into work w/ maybe a trace on the ground, walked out at lunch to my entire bed of my truck filled in just a half a day. Never seen anything like it. In one day we got about a foot of snow and it blowed so hard that there was crazy big ol' drifts of a few feet deep all over the place. Of course, it being Colorado front range and all, it was gone in a matter of days. The shots above came off the iphone, so they may suck a bit but the one shot is in my back yard, one is looking out the front door of my old apt (was over doing a last grab of final stuff and it hadn't been shoveled and it was really deep getting up to the door). Top ones got my full truck bed.

Store money in meat:

This is the sweetest piggy bank ever. Wish I had this when I was a kid. Check 'em here.

What happens in the blink of an eye.

Wow, one minute I'm lounging around, doing my normal old life and then BAM!, it's a whole month later. My life has gone from 0 to 100 and shows no sign of letting up. Not that I'm complaining, I'm real happy to finally be moved outta that tiny apartment and into a big ol' house. Lots to do now, though. Weekends are already choc full o' Home Depot. They love me there. Or should I say, they love my cash there.

Anyway, pics of life on Hooker St to come soon, I promise.

Stay tuned next week, as Mere and I journey to Hawaii for a wedding celebration with a bunch of friends. Hoping to upload some action throughout the trip. We leave thursday and are psyched.

been busy

Wow, buying a house, family visits, moving....and work! I've been really busy and distracted lately, and therefore have had no time for things like blogs. Anyway, I think this site, scanwiches, is fun. Dedicated to scanned sandwiches. I love sandwiches.

That's it for now. Hope to be on here more once we finish moving and I'm settled....

Next

Found out last friday it's onto the next homestead in our path. We close on 2227 Hooker St. next Thursday. We're scrambling to make arangements to get everything in order and to start the transition. It's gonna be so nice to spread out and to finally get all our posessions in one place. We'll be slowly movin' stuff over all month as we still have 2322 Ogden until the end of next month.

Ready to do some spring and summer hangin' in the highlands and stay tuned for some parties at the Duts!

sweet stache on stick

I think this will somehow work into my next halloween costume. Or not. Either way, 'tis cool.

Sweet sleeping/eating bag

Check out this bear sleeping bag this artist made. I think it's technically considered sculpture, but I think it's just plain funny. There's a slideshow of images here.