All Hail... Joel McHale

First things first, weak WEAK pun title, for which i appoligise. sorry

Onward into a feverent discussion about a guy who is truly one of the funniest individuals on TV at the moment. In my opinion (and a I'm the only one who reads this blog, it may as well be gospel) Joel McHale is the exception to the rule when it comes to 'hollywood' (cringe) gossip, as anyone who has seen "The Soup" on E! can attest. For a show with an obviously minimal budget and unoriginal base material, Joel manages to make it one of the fnniest shows on the box. The best part being that very few of the laughs come from the material, it's all him.

Admittedly, his proclivity to tear apart reality TV is like a slapfight with a quadriplegic but, god damnn, does he make it gound gooooood (said in Jim Carey voice circa Bruce Almighty). Just look at the guy...



He even looks effortlessly hilarious, like animals in clothes, kids hurting themselves on trampolines, or whatever the opposite of Cathy cartoons is. But enough with the man-crush, it's starting to sound a bit left of centre.. which it totally is not pfft like that would ever happen.

Anywho, I recommend you check out The Soup & Community however you can. If you're a poor non-cabe TV person like me watch it online but be warned, download limits will be punished and your little sisters project on Egyptian culture may become more heresay learned from watching The Mummy Returns than actual fact. Don't say you weren't warned.

RADICALLLLLLLLLLLLL.. dissappear into cloud of mysterious smoke

So that's where I left my Mansion...

I suppose that there's a theme appearing here, being that the most radical things all contain a large input of creativity, predominantly through design. That being said, feast your eyes on this monolith of creative awesomeness which is the Jouin Manku/YTL designed house in KL, Malaysia.



The project was a collaboration between, architects, interior designets, planners, landscapers, and a myriad of other finishing experts to create something which is both functional, original, and radical. One only has to look at the property in profile to understand the conceptual leap envisioned when the designers undertook a blank canvas approach. Voila



The main house is multi-layered due to the use of the topography in the area, resulting in a 3,000 sqm residence which houses three generations of a Malaysian family who basically designed the Kuala Lumpur skyline.

The interion design is almost as striking as the outside and in many places brings internal aesthetics outside.





But forget any of what's mentioned above, the place has 21 bathrooms. If you can "drop off the crosby's" in a different bathroom every day for three weeks, thats radical, almost TOO radical.

WMC 2010

WMC. ULTRA 2010. MIAMI. nuf said...

www.ultramusicfestival.com get someeee

Putting Pen to Paper

Speaking of things I'm terrible at I thought I'd share my recent appreciation for graphic illustrators and typography. Sounds really square, but wait. These doods (sounds cooler than artists) turn what is generally used as a mundane daily function into stunning art. Never in a million years could I produce any of this, not due to a lack of creativity, but rather I have never been able to draw even a decent straight line, every time I try it looks like Muhmmed Ali has tried to play a game of hangman (and lost).

These artists have the gift of taking something mundane and turning it into art, which I believe is a radical skill. They are somewhat limited within their medium but manage to make the variations look boundless.

When I look at a blank piece of paper I see a paper plane (and a pretty bad-ass one at that), where as people like Polly Dedman presumable see something completely different. A world of possibility, if you will (Don't worry, I'll wedgie myself for that comment). Moving right on...

I feel like the skill and creativity that goes into something so simple and beautiful is radical. Even if I tried to trace these on grease paper I think my version would come out looking like the retarded brother of the cookie monster. Itake my hat off to her (for all you know I'm wearing one). To check out her ongoing work cruise to http://www.tellnotales.net/ where she posts a new professional doodle every day, or see her website at http://www.pollydedman.com/.

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I think intrigue drew me to be interested in typography first. We see it everywhere. Every guy growing up has had a t-shirt that says something anti-establishment in a cool typeface and design (or maybe that's just me and I was a cooler 14 year old than you...likely). But from my internet adventure into typographic art the best stuff is so much more. Allow me to explain myself

The simple art of using forms for lettering suddently seems oh so hard. I perused a bunch of typographic artists at http://www.gofonturself.com.au/, a typographic exhibition travelling around Australia atm (at the moment... High 5 gen. Y). This particular artist is Istvan Szugyiczky. And yes, I did choose this artist because it makes me seem more worldy and cultural.

Anywho, I'm off to go doodle on some post it notes until i realise that they fit together in some Da Vinci code fashion to produce beautiful artwork. I was talented all along... MUM COME SEE HOW TALENTED I AM *jumping up and down on the spot*

Kick Em' When Their Down

Because we all like to think we are productive geniuses, especially at work, I thought i would share something that you will have absolutely no interest in (that is, unless noone is watching).

Whileing away the hours in the office there inevitably comes that point in the day when you've just slammed the full-stop on a sentence full of money making goodness andyou feel as though you've earned yourself a guilty pleasure. Here is where i can help, as my life works in an uncorrelated fashion (I sneak the odd financial calculation in between entertaining myself with classic internet age comedy). Now would be an apt time to insert a graph I made on paint of time wasting on the internet vs. productive functions, but I'll save that gem for later (read: couldn't be bothered to draw it...). But I digress.

Inevitably the best discoveries on the internet come from when you set your sights on a certain vein of entertainment, as they are all inextricably linked. My recent endeavour has been in enjoying the eclectic lifestyle of the hipster / scenester. And on that note...

Crowd Warmer; Hipster Puppies centres around photos of peoples dogs in human clothing (funny already, but read on) in irionic hipster situations with tongue in cheek commentary that really hits the mark. Ladies and Gentlemen of the Jury, exibit A...

http://www.hipsterpuppies.tumblr.com/


Margi tells people she does "graphic design" for a living, but in reality she does "nothing"

Furthermore, Unhappy Hipster ridicules the world of the super hip and the lives they make for themselves;

http://www.unhappyhipsters.com/


The stools huddled together, braced for another one of his incoherent solo poetry jams

Other notable mentions go to;

http://www.latfh.com/ for those almost too scene to function

http://www.stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/ presumably self-hating hipsters

Whether it's my love for deadpan humour or the fact that hipsters are far too easy to ridicule I find this stuff hilarious and, with a new update on each daily, is an excellent way to give yourself 5 minutes of sunshine in a somewhat sollem life (That was a bit emo, maybe I'll publish a photo of myself with skinny jeans on and a vintage skateboard and see if I find it so funny then...)

Anywho, should probably do something productive now. I need to maintain the prescious 80/20 ratio, without it world economies would crumble.

And yes, Jane from accounting I can see you reading celebrity news online, BACK TO WORK