10 March 2010
new york's new sex symbol
New Yorkers have a new sex symbol. The international sign for the power button (the circle with the line thrusting out the top) will grace the wrappers of millions of New York City condoms.
The city's health department distributes 40 million free condoms every year. But the official design was less than stimulating. Enter the Web. An online contest for a special limited edition wrapper brought out the city's more dirty-minded designers and 15,000 people voted on the finalists.
The winning "power-on" logo was thought up by Luis Acosta, a designer from Queens.
"I wanted to associate it with something we see in our daily lives so it wasn't taboo for people," Acosta said. Not that he found the power symbol arousing, or anything. "I like electronics but I don't like them that much."
New York City's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Farley, unveiled the design in a ceremony featuring the five finalists.
"When I saw [the design], I said this is pure genius," Farley told the crowd. "Everyone recognizes that symbol on their PC. People should use their own power to control their sexual health." And once you see the power-on logo in a sexual context, it does have a dirty vibe to it. That's the beautiful thing about designing a condom wrapper: It makes the most simple image seem erotic.
Runner-up Russell Greenberg put a 19th century top-hat on his wrapper design.
"It seemed like a simpler, more chivalrous time, so I wanted to remind people of the fact that there's good manners involved in sex," he said. And if you picture your favorite little gentleman wearing a jaunty chapeau, then so much the better.
Other entries in the condom contest were more suggestive. There was the image of a manhole. Another wrapper featured a subway train plunging into a dark tunnel.
"I didn't want it to be in you face, you know," explained designer Gene Lambert. After all, there's nothing dirtier than the New York City subway system.
Acosta's power-on design will not be on all of the city's official condoms. But with a limited release of 6 million, it will likely become one of the most recognized logos in New York.
"I get to be part of 4 million people's sex lives," Acosta calculates, noting that many people will grab more than one. But not Acosta. He's married and says he doesn't use condoms anymore.
by Robert Smith/NPR
iwanttobeher: dj ruth flowers
gawd, she's fabulous. when i grow up, i want to be just like her.
actually, i kind of want to be her right now.
you should watch this
for all you science geeks and even for you regular joe shmoes, it's pretty freaking interesting.
09 March 2010
ok go
ok, so everyone and their mother has been reposting this vid this week, but it really is amazing, so i'm putting it up too. an amazing rube goldberg tribute. shot in one take, coordinated to music across two stories of a warehouse. pretty freaking awesome.
they did one with the purdue marching band too and since i'm an indiana kid and a proud former band geek, i'm posting this one too. it's cute in it's own way.
check out more about rube here: www.rubegoldberg.com
quotable: jeff koons
"when i view the world, i don't think of my own work. i think of my hope that, through art, people can get a sense of the type of invisible fabric that holds us all together, that holds the world together."
also read: this interesting article
how the mighty have fallen...
oh d'angelo... really?
you can't get a lady??? you gotta pay a prostitute??? really?
you can't get a lady??? you gotta pay a prostitute??? really?
D'Angelo has hit a low note.
The 34-year-old R&B singer -- best known for his critically-praised 1995 debut Brown Sugar -- was arrested around 2:30 a.m. Saturday after allegedly offering an undercover policewoman $40 for oral sex in New York City's West Village neighborhood. The New York Post reports he also had $12,000 stashed in his SUV.
In a statement, D'Angelo (real name: Michael Archer) says he will plead not guilty.
Vowing to fight the charge, he said he hopes the public will "allow the American justice system to resolve the matter before jumping to any conclusions."
http://www.usmagazine.com/celebritynews/news/singer-arrested-for-soliciting-prostitute-201083
AD LOVE: van de kamp's frozen fish
what is this minced? you feed me minced???
you ever catch a minced fish???
hahahaha :P
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