Evening Walk - come along!

It was a splendid but cold - eeeh - fucking freezing, evening so I decided to go for a stroll.

First I went down towards the dock.


This is where all the ships comes in that makes New York go round in these tough times.



The Brooklyn Bridge goes all the way over to...

...the Brooklyn side: That's kind of considered as not as classy as Manhattan by its inhabitants (even though it's getting cooler). Not in level with Jersey though. That's like "Alby", in Stockholm, Sweden.

All three bridges in a row: the Brooklyn Bridge, Manhattan Bridge & Williamsburg Bridge.


Manhattan Bridge in sight.

Obviously the attempt to show the grandess of the meeting point on the Brooklyn side between Manhattan Bridge and Brooklyn Bridge FAIL. But it was sure a stunning sight, I guarantee you.

I walked under the bridge.

This is something that blew in the wind and it was supposed to show how much the wind blew. FAIL.

FDR.

Then I suddenly realized I was en route of my old running course. Talk about inverted goose-bumps.

Williamsburg Bridge ♥, a place I've crossed more than once. Always sweaty.

This is the foot of the bridge where I always used to run. Twice each time.


Hello Rome - this is where Gladiator was shot.


Then Vegas suddenly emerged.

After that; Chinatown - which felt nice. The I returned home and hands were too freezing to capture more photos and mind too numb.

wave wink

'Looking into the past'

Nice little Flickr project, CLICK to see more.

Another way* to promote batteries

How on earth someone thought of this genius to promote DieHard batteries, we'll never quite (want - that would almost ruin it) know.

But it sure as hell is a great way to infuse interest in a battery. Or like this comment from here manage to say so well that I won't even bother to try to recite him; only quote him:

"Yes, it’s borrowed interest. Yes, the brand advantage is debatable. But honestly, I don’t care. Bottom line—for me—it’s creative. It’s interesting. And I think it’s smart for the agency who came up with this spot to pair up with someone like Reggie to create an interest in a product that isn’t typically associated with “funny, creative or cool.”

This will stand out far more than seeing a demo of a car start up after sitting in the snow overnight. And it’s well crafted. Isn’t that what good advertising is?"

Here's the spot that emerged out of this collaboration:



*The right way.

Aouh. This is just so great in every aspect possible

CLICK for more of Gregory Euclide's brilliant art/work. Thanks Jon.

If anyone's curious ("ho ho")

I am crazy busy right now. Like, madly occupied. More inanity coming up soon.
Like typing a note to yourself.

Bacon Beercan

It's pretty old - but it's still funny. And we like funny. CLICK to experience it.

History Revealed: More than 12 billion years of cosmic history are shown in this panoramic, full-color view of thousands of galaxies.

As usual, I sadly have to urge you to CLICK to access better view of this. But here's some explanation:

"This image, taken by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, was made from mosaics taken in September and October 2009 with the newly installed Wide Field Camera 3 and in 2004 with the Advanced Camera for Surveys and covers a portion of the southern field of a large galaxy census called the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey, a deep-sky study by several observatories to trace the evolution of galaxies."

Awesome Ice, anyone?

CLICK for more of these absolutely f***ing gorgeous ice-photos - and - bigger/better size.

Coffee machine mayhem

So here we go again. New year, new everything – same retarded behavior around the coffee machine at work. Or wait EEEH – wrong – worse behavior around the coffee machine. It’s bad enough that they don’t oblige a permit or license or anything to keep amateurs off, but allowing these rookies get worse without being billed and not getting remarks and tons of fees annoys me.

Now I don’t want to point out the guilty by name or anything, let’s just call them “Elin” and “Vida”, have not the skills required to make a latte. "Elin" even managed to depress me today. Usually these two ladies just put the milk can underneath the steamer and – just let’s of loose, no angle, tilt, skills no nothing. Milk is spraying everywhere turning the whole kitchen into an aesthetic look resembling of bedlam. But today she surprised me; she steamed the milk directly in her cup – with coffee and all. Yes. You read right: In. The. Cup.

Who's up for some shirtless shopping?

OK - does everyone knows what the store Abercombie and Fitch is? For those of you who don't - it's a tacky (they don't think so) store that has shirtless and sexy-dressed store-clerks (boys&girls) walking around their store. It's part of their very well renowned policy and what has made them famous. That's why I had to pause the film halfway through (when I realized where they were) and mentally applaud the gentlemen; no I don't know what the intention nor purpose is - this is just hilarious and beyond brilliant. Let's just leave it like that for now.

Time for a car chase; Benny Hill Style

A better life

Not a man of resolutions or vows – they’ll soon break anyway. Living my life by two rules in my rule-free life – never regret and never complain. Yup, all the clichés – you can’t change what has happened so no need to worry about it. Take lesson but don’t feel remorse. Yadi-yadi-yadi.

Like getting in shape – doing my best but continuously fail. So no need to promise anything here, no. Main foe is the sweet tooth. See, I have no problem consuming overloads of ice creams or candy (what I consider the main hurdle between Hercules and me – plus the fact I hate – wrong despise – gyms and fitness centers – but lets ignore that for now).

Until now. Suddenly – and with no real reason or motivation, I found myself having been without candy for three weeks. Everyone who has ever been addicted to candy knows this time is the hardest part. Getting rid of the immediate cravings. So I saw it as a blessing (no religious man, but thank you god). Feels like it could succeed this time. I mean, been doing this on/off with sweets for ten or so years with little or no result, so no special hopes this time – but strangely it just feels different. Plus I got the pool here now (hello impending muscles). So who knows if it’s “Hercules!?” girls & boys will scream in hopes and joy when I’ll wander down the beach in my sarong and shoulder-long hair all oily and tan. After all it’s over nine months since my last bite on anything resembling a candy. Ice cream is very much excluded.

Public Clock tells time with words

We kinda like this public clock that tells time with words, this one in Geneva. CLICK for the inventor, Nicolas Moigne's site.

"a clock that tells time with words for the city of Geneva, "the simple timepiece blends in with the architecture, aligned along the stone detailing of the wall in which it is installed."

One of the most underestimated movies OF ALL TIME

A bit surprisingly for some perhaps, very expected for the rest of us. Idiocracy – Mike Judge outrageously underestimated/forgotten film, where Owen Wilson (pre-uncomfortable AT&T sell out commercials and a bit too awkwardly large body-size) is frozen in a military experiment for a full year. Things go wrong and he awakes 500 years later. When the world has gone shit-collapse and is literally/barely run by idiotic-morons as IQ level has hit rock bottom; unintentionally making Wilson's – very average – character the smartest person on earth.



Shocking how little budget it had and how little the studio supported it with no or little theatre release. Handling this outrageously funny subject (drum whirl) – that doesn’t really feel that far-fetched – with brilliance it is almost embarrassing sometimes how clever (cymbal) it is. You have to see it now. Or – since you’re smart enough to read this – you have – so see it again, idiot.

Last night

Just moments ago, brother Thomas & Elli + Gustaf left me, New York and returned to cold, cold, dark Sweden (mom left yesterday – so we had a whole parent free day for ourselves). We obviously celebrated this bigtime. Drinks at Schiller’s (GHA! I love that place – best Moscow Mule OF ALL TIME) then dinner at Bread. Not even my retarded overcooked pasta-plates in the lasagna could ruin my mood and then Oskar delighted us with a surprise visit and joined us.

Then stop-by at Max Fish (mini-crush + lé pics!) then - yes - off to the Box where Emmelie and her friends joined up as well. This crazy place in this weird theatre looking place that just amazes you. In all ways (un)imaginable. Renowned for mad sex shows they also amazes you with some really cool performances as well. Yesterday they had (besides the transvestite with penis and breast and bottle up his/her ass) this human beat boxer which always is a nice experience, and the second best MJ impersonator OF ALL TIME. When he rose lying horizontally straight down from the ground in one maneuver it cemented that 2010 will be the best year OF ALL TIME. God I love everyone.

2010 is going to be magical