Why Programmers Grow Beards
Here’s a helpful guide to the relationship between successful computer programming and facial hair.
Month: April 2008
Cha s in the print shop
It’s like all those other Rube Goldberg machine ads, but more funny less better different. Yeah. That’s it. It’s the same but different.
Sleeve Face: Before & After
It just didn’t seem fair to add this sleeve face to our gallery without including a shot of the man behind the “‘Big’ Tiny Little” cover, writer and musician Kevin Kerby.
Ad Clouds
Meet a Flogos. It’s a “mixture of soap-based foams and lighter-than-air gases such as helium” that can be shaped into a floating logo (float + logo = flogo). That’s right, it’s an air-born advertising event. “Mommy look! That cloud looks like Mickey Mouse.” That’s because it’s been shaped from a stencil of Mickey Mouse. Awww.[…]
Procrastination
Procrastination is one of this year’s Jerwood Moving Image Award winners: Procrastinate Learn more about Procrastination by Johnny Kelley here and here.
R.E.M. Earworm
Finally, after four days straight, the new R.E.M. song is NOT playing in my head. Particularly the chorus of the new R.E.M. song, Supernatural Superserious (Album Version). I think it is Mike Mills’ background vocals that make this thing so sticky. What follows in a blockquote reenactment of the aforementioned chorus. I’d link to an[…]
Sweeet Home Alabama!
This is a funny time of year. Some days, posts that look real turn out to be a joke, and then things that look like a joke turn out to be real.. like this! The Leningrad Cowboys, with the Red Army Chorus, booming out Lynyrd Skynyrd finest. Oh my, this is the perfect day-after-April-fools-day rock[…]
How To Speak Hip
Lessons in Audio Del Close and John Brent lay down some nice geek vs beatnik dialogue circa 1962. The twilight world of the American hipster is an important American subculture with a language all it’s own. – Del Close Like, if you took the lid of your Maytag and there was a giant octopus trashing[…]
Stopping the Soderberghicon
Yesterday, we received some unfortunate news here at Lucky Dog Audio in the form of a cease and desist letter. Exhibit A: The Letter An attorney representing Steven Soderbergh claims that our use[…]