Daily View, 7/10

Happy birthday to my lame brother, who didn't bother to call me on my birthday. Ahem. Once again, I'm the cooler/better of us both. :P

• Pirates 2 rakes in box office booty, and people seem to be mystified. Why, because there's a healthy consumer appetite for cheesy fun that isn't about fart jokes? C'mon, people.


• Tell Coolhunting WHY you need this and they just might give you one of the new Le Cool Barcelona City Guides. They do indeed look (le) cool, but all my Barcelona stories/reasons to return involve cartoons, ham, and getting drunk for the first time (not in that order). Not particularly interesting or coherent, alas.


• The Blue People of Troublesome Creek (no, not the latest Brooklyn band)


• They found a photo of Stanzie Mozart. Er, so?


• This is bullshit: unjust Wiccan grave issue


• This is also bullshit: lame Mac ad parodies


• Dude, I understood the beauty of the weird green shell thing right away. It's FUN. Apparently that makes me hopelessly juvenile.


• I'm sure the Blackheart Gang thing is amazing... too bad it won't load. GRRRRR...


• Inky Circus top tens their fave geek tees, and I discover more at One Horse Shy (love it).


• Experience design. Maybe that's what I should do. ?


• Always nice to read that no one reads news articles online right after I bust my ass to set up a news section for one of our major clients. Sigh.


• What appeals to me here is not Seurat (ruined by Sondheim and pointilism), but the bunch of nerds in this town who got together and reenacted Sunday in the Park (on a Saturday). Trés Stars Hollow, kinda.


• These design rules could surely be applied to anyone working with developing countries, yeah? Am thinking specifically of my buddies with dreams of a sustainable tourism outfit...


• Must... see... Night Watch!! They've done subtitle FX!!! My little geeky heart is going pitty-pat.


• Beer bottles that double as bricks seems like a great idea to me. Why didn't it take off? People suck.


• She-Ra!!


• Josh Spear thinks it would be cool to hang an art version of your fingerprint up chez vous: "something you get for yourself to show your individuality in your own home"... I think he it is dumb and narcissistic. Nyah nyah.


• Apparently all designers should read something called Chasing the Perfect...


• Today I discovered Pajiba. Now, what the hell that means, I know not, and I'm hoping like hell it's not some sort of vaginal euphemism, but meanwhile, they have some great movie reviews. Nacho Libre: words outta my mouth. Never has there been such an apt sumuppance of Vince Vaughn's odd charms (so true about the "money") as in this rant about The Break Up. Everything he says about The Lake House is exactly right, down to the 10th grade pleasantries and the plot holes (yeah, why DIDN'T she just Google him???). Yet I enjoyed the film, which is why I doubt I could ever possibly rule the world as a filmmaker—bottom line, people like movies for their own illusive reasons. Meanwhile, what a wonderful treatment of Winona & Co. in this article, which hits on everything from "if only someone could find a decent script for Christian Slater" to the disaster that was Bloodrayne, which "only bowed on 950 screens, but in Romar's defense, Boll's tally doesn't include the 7,000 screens in Hell that have been airing the film nonstop since its release." Rock on, Pajiba. Nice and bitchy.


• And finally, a blast from the 80s past, via an obnoxious yet somehow funny Pole Position commercial. I remember the PP theme song being different, though...