My safety word is "harder"

2012-01-23T22:47:00.001-08:00

nightmare fuel

2011-07-06T21:23:00.000-07:00

MK12 | Follow the Sun | 2011 from MK12 on Vimeo.

Song for the day

2011-01-07T12:24:00.001-08:00

I think I've found my type.

2011-01-07T04:05:00.000-08:00

The girls I for whatever reason find attractive. Click on me!

One of the greatest music videos ever.

2010-10-15T20:21:00.000-07:00

...

2010-09-16T03:34:00.000-07:00

Seaweed from Tell No One on Vimeo.

Another normal night

2010-08-11T22:49:00.000-07:00

Hanging out, eating Taco Bell, Skyping, smoking in my apartment and watching youtube and man vs wild at the same time. Plus downloading new music. Life doesn't get much better.

Oh man. This is too awesome

2010-08-11T17:13:00.000-07:00

Bed time

2010-08-11T05:10:00.000-07:00

Still one of my favorite music videos

2010-08-11T02:06:00.001-07:00

Had a fun night with some awesome people and now at home getting ready to saddle up on some battle field 2. Weird week but working some stuff out and only good to come from it.

Slow lazy day

2010-08-09T21:00:00.000-07:00

First of all here is a video of everyones favorite web kitty doing that thing he does but in super slo mo. oh yeeeeeah

Other than that I have the house all to myself today while the rest of the crew is at the beach. I was pretty beat after this weekend so decided to stay home and try to entertain myself. So far so good. Getting ready to eat some pizza and watch some more TV so not much to report.

Whiteaker Block Party was off the hingles this weekend for the 4th year in a row. Pretty rad to see that many people out for something like that. Lots of good music, food and of course beer! Signing off for now. Here's some stuff I like:

Rachel from MarquisMontes on Vimeo.

"The Music Scene" from Anthony Francisco Schepperd on Vimeo.

Trying to get back on it

2010-08-05T04:58:00.000-07:00

Well Miss Molly you have inspired me to fire this crappy blog up again. To be written in soon. I promise.

More stuff as of 03/11/09

2009-03-11T16:34:00.000-07:00

Found this online. Pretty sick 8-bit medley of some popular rap songs. See if you can name them.

8-Bit Medley

Found this photographer on Booooooom!. Pretty cool stuff. Check out more of his work here: Stuart Pillinger

More found stuff:

More of his work here: Ben Aqua

And a video just for the hell of it.

PS:

I effing love Patrick Jilbert's work on Blood Is The New Black. Check out his other work on his website at Patrick Jilbert.com

Stuff I have found and like...

2009-03-10T16:48:00.001-07:00

I have a feeling that my blog is going to slowly turn into a "found" type of site because I feel like relaying my opinion on stuff or telling people about what is going on in my life is fucking boring so here is a bunch of stuff i have found and like:

This dude's art is sick. I love mixed media stuff. Check out the rest of his site at CodyHoyt.com

Sites to bookmark and check every day: NOTCOT, TheCoolHunter, Beautiful Decay, Booooooom!.

Check all these out. Bookmark them. Go to them every day. Lot's of rad, rad stuff.

VIDEOS:

I update my favorite YouTube videos a lot so possibly bookmark this: My YouTube Favorites

Another great site for awesome videos is my buddy BJ's website that he updates daily: BJ's Video of the Day

If you keep reading my blog open a new tab and listen to this: MashUp

That's all for now and I know I say this all the time but hopefully I will continue to update this in the future.

Guess not. Anyway, look at this...

2009-01-21T17:10:00.000-08:00

This is a piece of work by Alejandro Chavetta. I love mixed media stuff like this especially the colors and little details that you have to look for. Vintage looking stuff made into other stuff makes me hard. Check out the website by clicking HERE

Another artist that I'm liking a whole heckuva lot right now is Mira Ruido. Weird now that I look at the pictures I'm going to post the are almost the same. Check it.

Rad shit. Definitely check out the rest of her stuff on here site: Mira Ruido

are you still being a bitch, blogger?

2009-01-21T17:09:00.000-08:00

hmmm??

New Disco

2009-01-06T15:53:00.000-08:00

Check these ladies out. Definitely digging their sound: MYSPACE

Another female singer I'm really enjoying at the moment is a band called Ladyhawke.

Ladyhawke MySpace

Check them out and hopefully I'll have some cool graphic stuff to put up soon that you can look at.

New snare

2008-12-21T16:45:00.001-08:00

beautiful new OCDP snare drum. maple. sounds sexy. i love it.

Augmented reality on the iPhone. check it out.

For fans of the eggs benedict

2008-12-08T09:41:00.001-08:00

Midtown has some of the best I've ever had. Other than having a final at 8 am this morning this day is turning out to be all right. Yumskers

Holy christ...

2008-12-02T21:04:00.001-08:00

Can someone please get me this shirt???? X-mas is right around the corner!

purchase here! CLICK ME!

ThatGo

2008-12-02T14:10:00.000-08:00

I've been stumbling around Vimeo looking for cool vids and found these two music videos by a guy named ThatGo. Watch and enjoy.

thunderheist - jerk it from thatgo on Vimeo.

natalie portman's shaved head - sophisticated side ponytail from thatgo on Vimeo.

download Natalie Portman's Shaved Head's new album here: CLICK ME!

Photo shoot

2008-12-02T12:10:00.001-08:00

Starting to do some cool stuff with Sam. Here's a sample. More to come tonight. Probably more in focus and not so shaky since we'll have a tripod tonight.

Hate mail

2008-11-26T19:50:00.000-08:00

So I haven't talked to a good friend of mine for a couple months because of certain reasons that you will see in a second. Anyway, trying to be colloquial as possible with out setting off any other parties I sent her this message:

I was hoping to hear from her and get some update on how her life was going. Friendly catching up. A full month later I receive this email from another party who I guess felt like I was encroaching on his territory.

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I have met this person one time for a literally all off 10 seconds. That also was a debacle. I take a slightly sadistic pleasure in the fact that something as small as sending a message to someone I haven't talked to or as far as he knows had a real conversation with in the last year could really be that threatening to whatever he has going. Whatever. I chose not to respond just because it really isn't worth my time.

Anyway, on a happier note, this was found on the girl's restroom wall at the Horse Head the other night.

I've made it.

EDIT: if you had any trouble understanding this post just watch this video till about 2:51.

gah...

2008-11-20T07:25:00.000-08:00

Still sitting up writing a paper that I should have written 6 hours ago and gone to bed. Hello RedBull.

Found out today that I only need two more classes to finally graduate and then it's hopefully off to Portland.

I also received what I think is my first hate mail today. I'll post a pic of it later after I blur out the names of the people sending it. It's kinda fun to have someone that you really know nothing about (and that really knows nothing about you) hate you. I feel special in a weird way. Whatever.

Cig break and paper finish. GO.

Bathroom time

2008-11-11T14:17:00.000-08:00

DISCUSS.

Lady Friends

2008-11-11T14:00:00.000-08:00

So finally dropped my Communications Law class in the sixth week of the term and I couldn't feel better about it. Don't really have much to talk about at the moment so here are so films.

The first one is from the boys over at Waverly Films. Check them out. They are hilarious.

And this next one is an ad that just makes me laugh.

Look at this beautiful fucking dog...

2008-11-10T22:24:00.001-08:00

I think I need to do something like this with just stuff I have. "Take a look at this fucking beautiful guitar" that type of shit. Anyway, look.

"You're blowing my mind, Frank."

2008-11-10T17:28:00.000-08:00

Julien Vallee is an amazing mixed media artist. He works with paper and motion graphics and makes just simply amazing shit.

I want to be this dude. I don't think I have the patience. Or the skill for that matter. Take a look...

Julien Vallee

Twitter

2008-11-10T17:25:00.001-08:00

oh yeah and if you have twitter go ahead and add me. should be under "thepongwiz".

honestly you can probably find anything you want about me if you just google "thepongwiz".

try it.

Ugh..

2008-11-10T17:13:00.000-08:00

I finally decided to come back. I really hate blogging because it seems like no matter how hard I try I can't seem to put my thoughts down in words. It's so much easier to just talk or have a conversation with someone. And who wants to read what I have to say anyway? I guess the only way to get better at expressing myself in a blog is to blog in a blog.

UPDATES: In my fifth year at the UO still trying to finish my advertising major. Working at Cumulus Broadcasting and now at Jameson's bar in downtown Eugene. It has been a little rough keeping up with full time school and then having to immediately go to work at either of these places. I'm making a lot of money but hopefully I don't fail any of my classes.

I'll probably be on here from day to day trying to update even if it's just something stupid. Anyway this made me laugh:

Worlds's Greatest Sandwich

2008-04-15T12:43:00.000-07:00

So I was stumbling through youtube and found this video of adam sandler watching the world's best sandwich be made. Watch it now and I guarantee that your stomach will be growling.

Ingredients

- 3-4 thick slices of bacon
- 2 slices of Monterey Jack cheese
- 2 slices Pain de Campagne, toasted
- 1 tablespoon of mayonnaise
- 4 slices of tomato
- 2 leaves butter lettuce
- 1 teaspoon butter
- 1 egg

Chris Cunningham = Genius

2007-08-20T09:45:00.000-07:00

I didn't really realize how much of a genius Chris Cunningham really is until I found out that he is behind some of my favorite music videos such as Bjork's "All is Full of Love" and a lot of the Aphex Twin and Squarepusher music videos as well. Check some out.

One Club Stuff

2007-08-20T09:29:00.000-07:00

So, I'm working with a girl in China on a project for One Club that is going to be due on September 29th, a month after I get back. She's pretty much amazing and blows me out of the water with her drawing and paintings skills. So I have to get working on that pretty soon. Sigh.

This is going to suck because I don't even get home until the 10th and then I'm going to have to work my ass off to even get a finished product. Oh well. It can be done and I'm definitely going to do my best.

Here's a link to her blog.

HERE IT IS!

hello

2007-07-20T09:52:00.000-07:00

so i havent written in this blog forever but i have my other blog up right now that jordan and i are writing in while we are in Italy. Hopefully this blog will get started up again as soon as i get back to school in September. in the meantime check out my Flickr and Deviantart if you havent for a while and maybe even my Youtube cause we put some more stuff up. laters

winter

HA

2007-06-17T03:25:00.000-07:00

15.298683 19.429651

2007-03-28T22:24:00.000-07:00

post those coordinates into either google maps or google earth and zoom all the way in. FUN!

Ads that make me laugh out loud

2007-03-07T17:52:00.001-08:00

Prostititute Safety

2007-02-19T16:59:00.000-08:00

Just stumbled across this and almost laughed out loud in class. I'll just post the text taken directly off the page. Hilarious.

The Aphrodite platform shoes is a high-tech shoe for prostitutes. To deal with the safety concerns associated with the job, the shoe comes with a piercing loud alarm system and a GPS receiver. It also comes with a emergency button that relays both the prostitute’s location and a silent alarm signal to public emergency services. A prototype of the shoe will come with an integrated LCD screen, speakers, Internet connection and GPS tracking system.

WTF? Someone explain this to me.

2007-01-29T00:14:00.000-08:00

These ads are for two differnet products but have the exact same concept. How do you get away with something like this? Can I get away with something like this?

Thai beer ads

2007-01-28T21:03:00.000-08:00

All right, I laughed out loud at these. They are genius.

Mobile Adz

2007-01-25T12:17:00.000-08:00

I stopped at the Pilot station on the way home to Eugene the other day and saw a large truck with three huge TV screens, one on each side. The side said www.mobile-adz.com so I had to go check it out. I went and talked to the guy that was driving the truck and he said that any company can buy advertising that will be shown on the screens, usually a 30-35 second video spot. He said he had just gotten back from Las Vegas where he drove around all night for 20 bucks an hour advertising an energy drink. Anyway just a cool thing i saw and wanted to share. check out the website: www.mobile-adz.com

I'm all alone

2007-01-24T15:38:00.000-08:00

HowManyOfMe.com

There are:
0
people with my name
in the U.S.A.

How many have your name?

Subliminal Advertising In Iron Chef

2007-01-23T12:56:00.000-08:00

Matt mentioned this in class and so I had to go on YouTube and see what I could find. It's pretty ridiculous. It's one frame out of the show that has an ad on it. I'm kind of curious to see how much it cost to advertise for a fraction of a second during a show. Anyway, check out the video.

Smirnoff Ice Commercial

2007-01-16T02:39:00.000-08:00

Ok so this has to do with bottle caps and shit. and thats all im going to write cause i dont want to forget this idea but it will become a reality soon and you guys will all see it. also i need to buy a scanner so i can draw pictures and then scan them in. i think my dad has an old one. DONT FORGET

Doritos Ads

2007-01-10T20:55:00.000-08:00

People were asked to create a 30 second long commercial spot for Doritos to play during the superbowl. I'm calling that out of the 5 finalists, this one wins. If not, there is no god.

NOTCOT.ORG

2007-01-08T12:37:00.000-08:00

So I just stumbled onto this site that has a huge collection of just random and curious things. I went to almost every site on the first page before I found out that there are 53 other pages with the same kind of stuff on it. Each page is laid out with a couple of rows of pictures that have interesting things displayed in them and a link explaining what the stuff is. Please take a look.
NOTCOT.ORG

Very Funny Ads.com

2007-01-03T12:11:00.000-08:00

VERY FUNNY ADS

I had found this site before but I have always forgotten to blog it. They always have some really good ads up and it's a great place to go for inspiration of comedic relief. Here are two of the ads that was featured today.

Awesome

2006-12-24T01:19:00.000-08:00

Urban Freedancing

2006-12-04T20:56:00.000-08:00

The new sport that's swiffering the nation!

Aneta Badziag

2006-11-30T00:26:00.001-08:00

water lilys
Originally uploaded by anetabadziag.

She's a great photographer I just found on Flickr so definitely check her out!

I think I have a new crush

2006-11-21T22:55:00.000-08:00

So for any of you that actually know me, you know that I have always been obsessed with Lindsay Lohan. I have just had a hard time accepting how skanky and fake she really is. Until now. It's time for a change. I need a classier broad. And I think that broad is none other than Miss Maggie Gyllenhaal. I just saw Stranger Than Fiction and she blew me away. So I think it's time that Miss Lohan was on her way out and this new, older, classier lady is on her way in. Sorry to bother you all with my love life but I just thought I would get it out there.

Competitive RPS

2006-11-20T15:06:00.000-08:00

OK, so I somehow ran across the World Rock Paper Scissors Society's website and I have to say this is pretty much the best thing I have ever seen. The website has everything! It has Game Basics to Gambit play which has descriptions of 3 move Gambits, my favorite being the

They have trading cards and even an online trainer. Tournaments are also posted. Check this site out for sure. World RPS Society

Oh yeah, and we just got Gears of War. Holy shit.

uhhh...

2006-11-19T02:36:00.000-08:00

Sad video but cool stop motion. Apparently one of the crew that was helping with this film killed themself in the same way as depicted in the film. Creepy.

Check out this guy's other videos. I like the Cat Head Theater.

CLICK HERE to go to his YouTube account or CLICK HERE to go to his nakedrabbit.com site.

Myspace

2006-11-17T02:43:00.000-08:00

My room mates and my new myspace pics that I made. Wow. Good use of grammar on that last one. But you know what? I'm not going to go back and fix it. Cause this is a blog godammit and I would rather type more than go back and fix that sentence. Without any further adieu, The Obligatory Bathroom Shots...

Concert Update

2006-11-16T14:55:00.000-08:00

Okay so the concert was pretty awesome. The highlights were definitely Chiodos and Every Time I Die. Here's a little of Chiodos rocking the house.

More pictures and videos to come!

Here's some of Every Time I Die...

Atreyu in Portland

2006-11-15T13:11:00.000-08:00

Jordan and I are getting ready to leave to go see the band Atreyu play at the Roseland tonight. Should be a fun little show. I will definitely be taking the new camera and posting pics to my Flickr account some time tonight or tomorrow. Hope everyone else's night is as fun as ours.

The best Snapple commercial ever...

2006-11-13T03:00:00.001-08:00

So I had this idea for a Snapple commercial last night when we went to WinCo at 2:45 in the morning. We were just about done with our shopping and walked by a display case with a bunch of 4-packs of Snapple. I reached over to get one and in the process of my transferring the quad pack to my cart, one slipped out and began to make its way toward the floor. I tried to stop it with my foot and jerked my body in such a way that another one slipped out and plummeted toward the floor. Both smashed and spilled their sweet nectar all over the floor. "Clean up at the ice cream case, by the ice cream" sounded over the loudspeakers and the clean up guy came over to do his job. We all stood around and mourned the loss of the two bottles of Snapple. "I guess there's a lesson in this," I said. "Got to live life to its fullest every day of your life." We're all just Snapple bottles and who knows when the day will come when we will slip out of our little carrying case and spill our guts out all over the floor. So anyway, to the commercial:

1. It would start off with a slow zooming in on a bunch of "families" of Snapple. There is happy music playing and all the families are talking and enjoying themselves.

2. All of a sudden a large human hand comes into the frame and grabs one of the families. There are a couple of concerned sounds and then the music changes as the father begins to slip. He ends up slipping all the way out and falling and shattering on the floor in slow motion, all the while his family is screaming. The person who is buying the Snapple jerks and drops the mother out of the pack as well. She shatters. The music is really sad as the hand puts the now orphaned Snapples back on the shelf and picks another happy family.

3. The Snapples that are orphaned are then put into a cold display case with a bunch more orphaned Snapples and there is a montage of them shivering and trying to be the ones that get picked to go with the human hand that comes in to buy Snapple. Finally one day a mother and her young son come into the store and look into the display case. This is the first time that we see a human face in the commercial and when they open the case their faces are very warm and glowing. They reach in and just happen to grab the two orphaned Snapples and take them home to a good home. And the ending is that every Snapple eventually goes to a good home and gets loved.

Best T-Shirts Ever...

2006-11-12T20:07:00.000-08:00

So Steve just showed me this awesome site for T-shirts and I thought I would post it on here so some other people could get a look at it. There are some really hilarious shirts on here. This one to the left is called "In Case of Zombies". There are a bunch more so definitely check out this link.

Threadless T-Shirts

Those crazy French...

2006-11-10T22:55:00.000-08:00

Frenchman Jean-Yves Blondeau first conceived of his plastic Buggy Rollin' suit in 1994, while he was a student at Olivier de Serres design school, in Paris. But the invention, which allows a wearer to top 60 miles per hour while maintaining any position found in the Kama Sutra, didn't exactly catch fire with consumers. Not one to give up, Blondeau recently refined the suit to a stripped-down 31-wheel version and developed his own playbook of moves, like the Zaphial (rolling flat on your back with all four limbs pointed straight up) and the Smooth Buggy Dog (three limbs on the ground and one rolling along a wall).

Craziness...

Finished LUST

2006-11-10T20:42:00.001-08:00

Lust FINAL
Originally uploaded by thepongwiz.

This is the Lust poster in the series. I don't like it quite as much as the Wrath one but I think it will look good with the other six posters.

New Camera!

2006-11-10T20:34:00.000-08:00

I just bought this Canon PowerShot SD630 and it's on its way right now! I'm really excited because now I will be able to have an awesome camera with me at all times and be able to take pictures of anything I see. I think this is going to be a good thing to have for inspiration and for taking good photos that I can play with in Photoshop. I can't wait for it to get here!

Oh yeah. I almost forgot...

2006-11-09T18:03:00.001-08:00

Picture 10
Originally uploaded by thepongwiz.

I got my MacBook. It's beautiful...

Guitar Hero Due

2006-11-09T17:43:00.000-08:00

This is pretty much the best game on the face of the planet. We got it two days ago and beat it on Expert mode last night. Does that make us nerds? I'm not going to lie, we are pretty good at Guitar Hero. If you have never played this game come over and play. Please.

I got a callback from Red Bull today and have a group interview on Tuesday. I loathe group interviews. Oh well. It would be really cool if I got the job though.

And, The Shmibb Kid and I are going to do the Insomnia Film Festival this weekend so that should be fun. I will probably post a YouTube video of the finished project so be sure to check it out.

- UPDATE AS OF 11/15/06: we didnt end up doing it due to scheduling conflicts. fuck.

I'm kinda stuck on my LED project. We made a video the other night so here it is...

Yeah!

2006-11-05T15:26:00.000-08:00

So, Jordan and I started doing this thing where when one of us asks a question the other will respond with a series of "YEAHs" each one louder than the next. I don't know where it came from and I don't know why we think it's so funny but whatever. We're weird.

A fun website I just found...

2006-11-04T12:05:00.000-08:00

Custom Google and Yahoo

Go to that link. It's fun. Do it.

This project will be the death of me...

2006-11-04T11:58:00.000-08:00

I have to finish at least two parts of my project today and at least one more tomorrow. My project is making the seven deadly sins into seven deadly posters that are 11 x 17. So far all I have is this...

And I don't even really like this to begin with. I'll probably do some more work on it and then just call it good. I think I'll start on Lust tonight. Should be interesting...

I need to reinstall my keyboard drivers...

Ok, I think this will be the finished product for this one...

Snack Time...

2006-11-03T17:42:00.000-08:00

Imitation crab meat is a delicious snack...

How about that?

2006-11-03T16:22:00.001-08:00

So, I think I'm going to be getting one of those sexy new black macbooks pretty soon. I'm really excited! It's 150 dollars extra to get the black case over the white but I'm pretty much fine with that.

That pretty much sums it up. I really should start working on my person project for my Journalism class. Shit. I think that Tim and I are going to hang out tonight so that should be fun. Go out, have a couple beers, come home and play guitar. Doesn't sound like too bad of a night. I need to clean my room...

Sir Russell Davies

2006-11-02T23:15:00.000-08:00

Right, so Davies came into our class today and gave us the 10 things we should be doing at all times which i thought was bloody brilliant. so here they are

1. Always carry a camera, take at least one picture a day and post it to flickr.com

2. Keep a scrapbook

3. Start a blog, write at least one sentence a week

4. Record a 20 minute interview with someone, podcast it, make them interesting, once a month

5. Sit down in a coffee shop for an hour and make notes on people's conversations

6. Every week read a magazine you've never read before - write 50 words about what you've learned

7. collect something

8. read
-Understanding Comics - Scott McCloud
-The Mezzanine - Nicholas Baker
-The Visual Display of Quantitative Information - Edward Tufle

9. Every month write 50 words about 1 piece of art, 1 piece of film, 1 piece of music

10. Talk to your parents

So there you have it folks. SO now i guess i just post this using the little publish button down here and we'll see what happenes