Archive for the ‘Ephemera’ Category

Dancing the Dolls

Monday, November 30th, 2009

Dancing Doll Dealer from Josh Dippold on Vimeo. This colorful, car bound character was captured in Vegas demoing his wares -- funny looking doll-type creations.  He song-and-dances them up and down the side of his car.

Liu Bolin, invisible man

Wednesday, October 7th, 2009

Liu Bolin paints himself to blend into his surroundings; to become invisible, you could almost say. He's in this last picture too.  (Look closely.)

Cardboard characters by Bernie Burns

Tuesday, September 15th, 2009

Take a peep at some gnarly cardboard characters created by Bernie Burns.

ShoppyBag hasn’t returned from shopping yet

Thursday, September 10th, 2009

Someone sent me a message on ShoppyBag about six days ago, but I can't check it out.  The site has been nonoperational for at least that long.  I am now dieing to see what this service is all about.  Props for their cleaver maintenance message.

Just the Facts: Learn Something Every Day

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

Learn Something Every Day is dedicated to just that, learning a fact everyday.  There's no write up on the site about the site, but I reckon those running the place get facts submitted and then do a drawing to go along with the fact and present one each day.

List of stuff found in Andy Warhol’s boxes

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Archivists are currently cataloging Andy Warhol's junk.  Here's some stuff they've come across: postal box from Paris piece of wedding cake from Caroline Kennedy's wedding $17,000 in cash naked picture of a Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, autographed soup cans (unsurprisingly) antiques piles of furniture gems worth $1 million mummified human foot Ramones 45 record signed by Joey Ramone orange nutbread

Online outfitter Trunk Club picks out clothes for you

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

I hate shopping. Especially for clothes, even online. Enter Trunk Club, an internet clothing service.  Whenever you need new duds you contact Trunk Club.  They pair you with a "personal Trunk Club expert" who will then send hand picked clothes.  Try them on, fire up a web cam and get ...

Back to the ‘Back to the Future’

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Back To The Back To The Future from Eclectic Method on Vimeo. This one may have come to my attention via The Twitter.  Not sure.  Anyway, I can see how either this could annoy Back to the Future purists or totally delight.  It basically takes bits of the flick and mixes ...

Win the Sword of Blood by ‘spreading the word’

Monday, July 6th, 2009

I recently stumbled upon a somewhat novel Guerrilla marketing effort for a audio novella prequel that involves a broadsword giveaway stamped with a unique and exclusive flash fiction story that will be signed in blood by the author. The sword is the object/subject of J.C. Hutchens's free prequel novella podcast Personal ...

Myrtle’s Melon

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

A truly inspiring act of quality Journalism committed here: