R.I.P. T.D.R. -- Pop Art Ate Itself.

Apparently, my art-school heroes: The Designers Republic are the latest casualty of the Great Recession. They first caught my attention with the eye-catching album cover for Pop Will Eat Itself's Cure for Sanity. 

The looks or the lifestyle?

Their work with PWEI alone was enough to get them a place in the Design Museum in London. But I only became aware of them as designers when I fell in love with the maximum-minimalism with the pseudo-corporate furture world they created for the Wipeout videogames for the Playstation:

You're often going too fast to notice how well designed everything is.

With a client list that spans from multi-national conglomerates, and hot-shot video game designers, to too-cool-for-school MTV networks -- their influence was huge even though most people on the street didn't even know their name. They've been in business of creating really cutting-edge modern design for 20 years. While I'm sure the individual designers themselves will move on to bigger and better, it still feels like my favorite band broke up.  

Award season.

Today is the last day you can nominate Anarchy for Breakfast for a streamy award.

To those that already have, thank you.

Everyone else:

Anarchy for Breakfast website.

Streamy nomination ballot.

You know what you must do.

Obama, Barack Obama

We all knew President Obama made intelligence cool again, but his administration isn't even 72 hours old yet and he may already go down as the Coolest President Ever.

Forget The Beast, or the custom escort vehicles with pop-up miniguns. 

The dude has bulletproof suits and his own custom PDA with military grade encryption. 

Barack's favorite hero may be Spider-Man, but he rolls like Bruce Wayne.

Terp 2 It @ Club DeVille

Be Seeing You.

Patrick McGoohan was the co-creator and star of one of my favorite TV series of all time. 1967's "The Prisoner." He was a prolific actor, but I think anyone who watched The Prisoner and absorbed it like I did will agree that it was a masterpiece of television. If he had not done anything else before or since, that one show would have been enough to make him one of the greatest.

The Prisoner is about a talented young secret agent that suddenly resigns his commission for reasons that are his alone. He is promptly kidnapped and held at a state of the art prison facility in order to learn the reason behind his resignation. However, he has no idea whether he was kidnapped by the enemy or his own people.

While the show used the Cold War as it's backdrop, it explored deeper territory. While the show held up a mirror to society. It remains one of the few shows that was unafraid to explore abstract issues such as the dehumanization of society and even identity itself.

But the show wouldn't have worked if it hadn't had McGoohan at the center, holding the whole thing together. McGoohan was an intense actor and played the part with a simmering anger beneath the surface, always ready to boil over. Number 6 was morally right and his situation was intolerable. He was not only determined to escape, but to make his mysterious captors answer for thier injustices. 

The Prisoner was an extended morality play as true today as it was when it originally aired. Thanks. Be seeing you.

Wait for it...

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Please enjoy this extraordinary short film. The ending will surprise you.

Time for a Geek Link Bouillabaisse!

How can a mere iron be awesome? You be the judge.

Growing Up Star Wars: The Flickr Slide Show

Welcome to Macintosh: The Indie Documentary

Have you thought about brunch lately? I mean really thought about it?

Sometimes we get what we give. It's a wild wild life.

Son of a biiiii--

Dial Zero

So this is a little something I put together on that new website: xtranormal.com. While the website is new you can only use the robot voices for now. I think if they add audio recording they might be onto something.

I am graduated.

Last night I finally graduated Coldtowne Conservatory.

If that doesn't deserve a blog entry I don't know what does.

There has been some confusion as to exactly which improv groups I am in and in what capacity. In order to clear it up here are the groups I currently play in. If you are in any of these groups with me, please disregard. If you are my mom, you may want to print this out and stick it on the refrigerator.

Northshore Local: This is the newest house troupe at the Coldtowne Theater, this ten person troupe had it's debut on December 14th, 2008 and will be having shows Janurary 22nd, 23rd and 31st.

Wicked City: This is the name that my level 5 improv class has been performing under.

Foursquare on the Moon: This is the group that we formed for cage match, and it is still around rehearsing at an undisclosed location and grapling with changing it's name.

UpTowne: This is the scripted sketch comedy show that I am currently writing and performing in.