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Category: Imagery

  • Houston’s glass public toilet

    Updated, see below.

    A while back, Jake posted about a public restroom in Switzerland that was made out of one-way glass. Well, apparently there’s one in Houston now; my friend Kerry sent me the pictures in email this morning.

    Here’s what it looks like from the outside:

    Exterior of Houston's glass public toilet

    And, here’s the view from the inside:

    Interior of Houston's glass public toilet

    Man, that’s just wrong. I just couldn’t use it, no way.

    Update: These are the photos from the original Switzerland toilet; looks like they’re being recycled again. So, take this all with a grain of salt. What’s funny is that I first heard of this (and then got the email) from people at work, and it’s making the rounds on other sites as well (a quick search on Google pulls them up), so there may be an actual Houston toilet; who knows.

  • Is this cat stoned?

    Is this cat stoned?

    (Thanks, Jake!)

  • Cartoon skeletons

    This is cool yet random and kind of freaky at the same time: Skeletal Systems of Cartoon Characters.

    Animation was the format of choice for children’s television in the 1960s, a decade in which children’s programming became almost entirely animated. Growing up in that period, I tended to take for granted the distortions and strange bodies of these entities.

     

    I decided to take a select few of these popular characters and render their skeletal systems as I imagine they might resemble if one truly had eye sockets half the size of its head, or fingerless-hands, or feet comprising 60% of its body mass.

    I like Charlie Brown’s skeleton a lot, but nothing there is quite as alien and disturbing as Buttercup’s (the Powerpuff Girl) skeleton. And this is cool: “Twenty-two of these are currently on show at Stumptown Coffee/Belmont in Portland, Oregon the month of December 2004.” I wish I had time to see them since we’re in Portland right now, but oh well.

    Via Boing Boing.

  • Tasteless… yet funny

    Tasteless ad from Zeldman's Ad Graveyard

    Found on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents: The Ad Graveyard, via Boing Boing. Pretty much speaks for itself.

  • Doom Dog

    Okay, here’s a picture of the scariest dog I’ve ever seen—come to think of it, the entire picture is pretty freaky:

    Doom dog!
    (Picture found on Strong Gundogs)

    Holy shit, that looks like something that would come from Doom or something…

    Apparently people breed dogs like these to hunt wild boar. Jeez…

  • Gizzard Blizzard!

    Well, it’s not going to go down as one of my all-time greatest image hacks, but here we go anyway:

    The new Chicken Gizzard Blizzard from Dairy Queen

    Chicken Gizzard Blizzard™ for y’all.

  • Fool’s World Map

    Via Boing Boing tonight comes the Fool’s World Map. Brilliant.

    This is a project visualizing the world map which many fools in the world imagine. If you can see this map comfortably, you are definitely a fool.

     

    One day, a Texan asked me a question when I lived in U.S…

     

    The question was “How many hours does it take to go to Japan by car?”. (true story)

     

    He didn’t know where Japan is, and even bofore that, he didn’t know that Japan is an island. And then, I thought. “What kind of world map is pictured in his mind?”

     

    This was a beginning to think that it might be fun to gather those mixed up recognitions of countries and visualize it as a world map imagined by the fools in the world.

    I love the map, although it’s kind of depressing how dumb the world seems to be in general…

  • Interview photos

    Following up on my interview for the Bulletin last week, today I went over to the Bulletin building to have my photo taken for the article. Actually, it was myself, Jake, and Chris from monkeyinabox all there for photos.

    Very interesting. The photographer took a bunch of pictures of each of us, then put us together in several ways; I’m very curious to see how they turn out. It was certainly a new experience for me—not that big a deal, really, but still kind of cool.

    I’m told this article should be appearing in the Friday edition of the Bulletin. Stay tuned!

  • For Shannon

    Told you I’d do this. It’s a bit of a hack job, but oh well:

    The Nebraska state Kool Aid quarter

  • Farking Irritating

    Going through the chuggnutt.com logfiles for the 6th, I noticed that there were suddenly a bunch of hits to the Oobi image I’d posted here a while back from TotalFark. Basically, someone’s linked directly to the image on this server from a high-traffic site.

    Now on the one hand, that’s kind of cool—but on the other hand, I’m a little irritated because TotalFark is a paid subscription site that I can’t access without registering first, which means I can’t just go and see what they’re doing with the Oobi image they’re pulling from me. Does that seem fair? Their site is saving money by sucking an image down over my bandwidth, and on top of that I’d have to pay them additional money to find out why.

    And before someone points out to me that it’s only like 5 bucks to register and I’m therefore a cheap bastard, well, consider this: FARK‘s Terms of Service at the bottom of every page reads:

    Text comments, audioedit submissions, and photoshopped images posted on Fark by registered users may not be reposted or broadcast without the express written permission or license from Fark.com and must attribute Fark.com as the source.

    So if they won’t let people use their images without their permission, then why should I? It’s the principal of the thing.

    Grumble… It might be time to brush up on some Apache rewrite rules…