my favorite movie

it's possible this movie might stay #1 on my list: WONDER BOYS (I just watched it again for umpteeth time)

and Dylan wrote the music track THINGS HAVE CHANGED which won an Oscar [In 2000, Bob Dylan released 'Things Have Changed' for the Wonder Boys official soundtrack - watch the official music video of 'Things Have Changed,' which was directed by Academy Award winner Curtis Hanson and won the Academy Award for Best Song from a Motion Picture in 2001.]


Things Have Changed Lyrics - Bob Dylan - Soundtrack Lyrics

Asta

Asta's breakthrough piece was 2011’s “The Printing Dress,” co-created with user experience designer Sheridan Martin Small. The dress explored wearable text and its potential impact on the future of fashion. Built almost entirely of paper, the dress enables the wearer to tweet “thoughts” into the dress and showcase them as public art.  It combines the hand-set typography that Roseway studied at Parsons with the contemporary world of social media.
She recently founded Microsoft’s first ever artist-in-residence program, called studio99. This grassroots effort, driven by employees, invites unconventional thinkers and artists to collaborate with researchers on the next wave of technologies.
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I don't think my thoughts ought to be on a dress, or tweeted out in the public... (swearing included) BOOM !
Electricfoxy talks with Asta Roseway at Microsoft Research from Electricfoxy on Vimeo.

remember me? (wink wink)

SO... when we started BIG BOOM, our little champion swimmer was dancing in the sidebar... he still looks good to us.

Here's a few more goodies:





in case you are wondering

I do swear, but not often on the blogs.
Are you kidding? I swear like a sailor...

completely fucking unblemished

(this is too funny)

by Drew Magary

ITEM #23-419938 – COOKING FOR JEFFREY


shameless plug for greatness

(Field Notes Films) Inspiration Ideas don't follow a schedule. Be ready.Everyday Inspiration

Inside the gold plated helicopter


Source: International Jet Interiors
Interior of Donald Trump’s private helicopter. (2015)

Donald Trump doesn't just have a private jet—he has a private air fleet.

Along with his giant Boeing 757, Trump also has an array of personal helicopters. He recently upgraded one of his personal choppers to a Sikorsky S-76, the manufacturer's top-of-the-line for private aviation. To make the interior Trump-worthy, he hired Eric Roth, the famed aircraft interior-designer based in New York's Long Island.


Roth took "Secret Lives of the Super Rich" inside the Trump chopper makeover—or we should say "gold-over." While Roth couldn't comment on the owner's identity, it was hard to keep a secret—the words "TRUMP" are emblazoned in red letters along the side of the Sikorsky.

Roth did Trump's plane in 2011. And when Trump bought the used Sikorsky, he called Roth to gut renovate the interior, which was old and outdated.

Pre-owned Sikorsky S-76's usually sell for $5 million to $7 million. To redo the interior, Trump probably spent at least another $750,000—though Roth won't say how much exactly.
  
"We gutted the whole helicopter and started fresh," Roth told "Secret Lives."
That meant out with the old and in with the gold.
The Trump family crest painted in gold inside Donald Trump’s private helicopter.
Source: International Jet Interiors
The Trump family crest painted in gold inside Donald Trump’s private helicopter.
The whole interior is outfitted with 24-karat gold-plated hardware—from the seatbelts to the handles. Trump also had his family crest painted on the side, in gold of course. And the shelves of the Trump chopper were stocked with water—Trump Ice spring water.
"If it's got the Trump name on it, it's got to be the best of the best," Roth said. "And this helicopter is worthy of his name."

Helicopter deaths (2001):

Chilean army admits 120 thrown into sea

Trashy Geysers (i am so pissed)




Pretty much ever since Yellowstone National Park's geysers and pools were first discovered, people have been throwing stuff into them.

[But of course humans just can’t have nice things, and pretty much ever since Yellowstone’s one-of-a-kind geysers and pools were first discovered, people have been throwing shit into them.]

monday side effects

I call Monday a Maniac

ask me bout my poetry: Going Crazy in New York and San Francisco: An Interview with Poet Julien Poirier


 


Reading these and the other poems that make up Out of Print what struck me was less the ostensive morbidity of Poirier’s images than the searing honesty underlying them.

Jane's necklace



I can't take my eyes off that necklace, Jane Pauley. (on CBS Sunday Morning a few weeks ago)

Radioactive?


bunny and fox as friends



We have wonder all around us. Like this photo. I have no idea how a photog could do this photo unless he had kept this bunny and fox as pets. A fox isn't a pet but a bunny could be... This speaks to me that all of us can get along, and be a comfort to each other. I wrote a story about a bunny terror in my book BECOMING. Bunnies mean alot to me. They have taught me so much. There was also a little silver fox that lived on the land at my late mom's house. I never saw the bunnies and fox together but they shared the land in northern Wisconsin. They shared the land the way we can share the land.

Noisy?

Have you ever wondered about life in the deepest depths of the ocean? Oregon-based oceanographers did, so they dropped a microphone seven miles down. ↶

LISTEN! HERE: Oregon Scientists Eavesdrop On Ocean's Deepest Deep, Surprised How Noisy It Is . News | OPB

fairy lights

I have this thing about shooting photos from a moving car at night. Yup, I'm like that... BOOM


just a reminder

  good reminders!  


oh yeah...

oh yeah...

Trace's book