This is The Week.

The week after Christmas, where if we've finished enough episodes, we get The Week between Christmas and New Years off of work. Yes, it's awesome.

My big cool Christmas gift this year: Silk screens and screen printing materials. I'm going to see if I can sqeuuze out a 3 color design before wednesday. I'll be hand printing the design on 1 T-shirt, and 2 zip-up Hooded Sweatshirts. That's a total of 3 initial prints, in the printing business we call that a "limited run."

Look out printing business!
I'll post some photos of the finished product soon.

I am a big fan of the mash-ups, sure, I am big enough to admit it. Even though the genre has now been pricked to bleed green blood, there have been some really awesome ones released this year. And try as they might, it'll never be a mainstream genre, if not for the legal can of worms it opens alone. The legality, or illegality of the artform is part of what makes it so great. Everyday people are playing the producer for their favorite recording artists. It makes us, the listener/remixer, an active part of the music.

So here is a mash-up that, as Boingboing put it, was bound to happen eventually.

The Beastles

Which doesn't make it bad, just a little predictable. This mash-up features The Beastie Boys laid over various Beatle songs. The Beatle tracks have been tweaked quite a bit. There a lot going on in these tracks, which is great, despite it's predictability, the mixing capabilities of djBC shine through. (via boingboing)

Oh!
Nothing In It's Right Place- The Roots vs Radiohead

Why aren't any of my favorite Errol Morris documentaries on DVD. Seriously Errol, what's the deal?

Also, did you know that Errol directed the famous Apple Switch Ads? There are some unreleased ones on his website. As well as info on the machine he uses to interview some of his subjects, the Interrotron. Finally, a short segment from an aborted project, The Donald reflects on Citizen Kane!

This is not Pron, it is however, a really big puzzle. Each page is a simple html file. You must figure out how to proceed to the next html page in the chain. There are clues, some are easy, like just pointing and clicking, but most are not. Some you have to view the page source to decipher, or are only revealed when broken with moris code.

Here is the puzzle
Here are some simple hints
Here is a forum for desperate questions

see how far you can get, and see if you have multiple hours to flush down the toilet. (via metafilter)

Aboard the space station we've been working hard to be prepared for the Holidays. Something we've been notoriously bad at in the past. So, not much time for communication lately. I do have some interesting news though.

If you have known C.A. Childers for as long as I have, which isn't nearly as long as some others, you would have seen The Ape Infinitum go through several revisions, a couple of outright slaughterings, and more than a few tweakings.

Well, it went under, and this time when it arose it was very much different.

C.A. got his hands on an Ogo, a slick new handheld device. Now he can compose and send posts to The Ape from anywhere. So look for a new and different Ape. Leaner and juicier, like a holiday goose.

Oh, I almost forgot.
C.A. and I are collaborating on a new super secret project. I only say it's super and secret because I don't want to blow it before we even begin it. But I will tell you this, I will tell you the name of the project, and with its name you will gain its power.

Its name is: Protamo.

There's another project on the horizon, it's not a secret. It's an Art Show, thrown by me and some of my talented friends. It opens in Feb. expect me to run off at the mouth about it more as the day approaches.

When Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey came out in 1968 movie goers who went to UK cinemas were given a program to go along with the movie.

This website details one of those remaining programs

When was the last time you got a program at a movie?

The group at 70-30 has been writing together every now and then for some newer episodes of Sealab. We've also been inspired by those horrible group photos you see on sketch comedy websites. We decided to make our own "wacky" photos for the credits.

like this:

click photo to leave us a message.

The Geist, you know, those cute graffiti ghosts you see around Atlanta. We've talked about him before, remember.

Well, now is your chance to own a piece of ATL graffiti history, the cost to you, a pricey $45 dollars. What you get is a limited edition (only 50 are being made) Geist t-shirt, sporting "eye-burning" pink ink.
pinkink
pikink

That's about as elite as it gets.
And even though I want one because I'm a fan of the Geist, this might be even too much for my obsessive mind to justify. Although I could consider it one of my "good dress shirts." How would I come off if I wore that shirt under a black sports coat, with an old school pair of pumas? If only I were cool enough to pull it off, and swimming in extra income.

I've been sorely underusing my flickr account. Which is a shame considering how much you can do with it. You can leave little notes on your own, or even other people's photos.

It says it's a casino.

Clunkyrobot @ Flickr

This first shot comes from our trip to Las Vegas earlier this year. We stayed at the Luxor, an imitation pyramid filled with giant Go'auld statues.

Well, it's good to be back.

We had a problem with our web hosting service, and after 2 days of trying to get ahold of them, they fixed everything in 5 minutes. It took 2 days to get them to do 5 minutes worth of work.
yikes.

To commemorate our return from the internet void, and to remind us all that life is just waiting to explode in our collective faces...

we give you a new desktop, inspired heavily by Karmadrome's work at baseboard.net, check his stuff out.
TIMEbomb

take me home, won't you?
@ 1600 pixels wide
@ 1024 pixels wide

also, Congratulations to C-Dub, who has recently been hired to help us make more Sealabs.

sorry for the down time, expect some catch-up posts today.

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um, or tomorrow.

Dr. Who?

a new BBC series set to air... um, sometime in the future. Hopefully BBC America will get it as well.

Here is an interesting article about how pitchforkmedia.com is finally getting widespread recognition for their insightful and sales-inspiring reviews.

Pitchfork is the holy land of indie rock hipsters. And while this can be reason enough not to trust them, they seem to be unnaturally honest and fair, if not a bit harsh as well. They were the first ones I saw giving Kanye West's album such high marks. That's an indie rock review website giving a Hip-Hop album a great review, awesome. Their reviews influence record sales in a way Rollingstone and Spin wish they still could. Pitchfork's 9.7 awarded to little-heard-of canadian indie rock band Arcade Fire's album Funeral boosted it's album and gig sales through the roof.

I think the question now is...
How long can they keep it up. Now that Pitchfork is being sited at the source for honest music reviews, even with the hipster spin, will they be able continue to remain honest? Isn't it exactly the influence and recognition that corrupts reviewers like this? If labels know people read pitchfork, then they'll throw money at them, money that is intended to skew their reviews towards favorable.

I don't know, I'm just a robot. But one thing I do know about hipsters, they are fickle. Fickle to the point of being "not fickle" just to come off more fickle than you could ever have imagined. And oddly, that is what gives me hope about pitchfork.