Impossible - Things Are Happening Every Day

Nothing too groundbreaking here, if you keep up with obscure trend news (I dont, but I do spend a lot of time dicking around on the internet, and the happened to fall into my Venn Diagram of various interests): but, good news!

Apparently a group of workers at the Polaroid manufacturing center somewhere in a Netherland got together and decided to resucitate the dead/dying instant film market. Since the plant stopped production in June of last year, they have struck a deal with Polaroid to lease the plant and equipment and hash pipes and whatnot. They call it project Impossible (the Dutch version of the show 'Mission Impossible' must have had a really wild Dutch title; or these people are completely clueless about clever branding; or, they are smarter than branding dickheads and didnt want to be obvious; anyway, they decided not to call it ''Mission'' Impossible for some inscrutible reason), and its great that they are doing it.

What I love best about this story is that I know a number of photo people who ran out and bought up all the Polaroid instant film in their neighborhood/city/country/whatever, spending god knows how much on film. I never checked, but I am sure that ebay and other auction sites must have had a thriving gouge-market for Polaroid film, and now all these guys are broke but have tons of Polaroid film and they are real smug about it. Maybe - just maybe - the joke is on them. Or on me. Or POLAROIIIIIIIIIID!!!

Brave corporate logo

Why wouldnt a construction company have a penis in overalls as its logo? And such an outgoing, welcoming Penis at that. Have a happy fiscal 2009, wood penis builders.

Clean

Hey all you slobs start tucking your cardigans in right now, duh.

Workstation? Jerkstation.

Super connected. Is this new wave? Am i on board?

Royalty

Really, this is what i do all day. Except sometimes i do it on the computer.

Logjammin'

a good boyfriend/husband is expected at times to purchase things he might rather avoid: tampons, bouquets, anything soy-based, etc. but there are things that we are all embarrassed to buy, for whatever reason. people ashamed of their sex life abhor shopping for contraception, people ashamed of their hairline hate asking for propecia, and people who poop a lot hate buying lots of toilet paper.

i find it really amusing that everyone considers buying toilet paper to be an embarrassing event. of course there is the issue with buying 20 rolls at once because they all come in huge oversized packages; thats kind of embarrassing. plus, said huge packages dont have any sort of handle or grip to them, so the package itself is super awkward to carry and it doesnt fit in any reasonable-sized grocery bag.

however, i would think the act of buying toilet paper is something of a public statement of hygenic observance. in buying toilet paper, you take a moment to reaffirm to your fellow shoppers and the clerks - and everyone you pass on your way home - that 'Yes! I choose to clean my shitty ass rather than let it let it crust up and crumble off in its own time'. i should think that a civilized society would appreciate that sort of considerate behavior.

Sincerely Yours,

Joel Lively
Proud wiper since 1981

Wacky Artist Revue

i just saw a bunch of pieces by this guy Federico Uribe (http://www.federicouribe.com/). as always, disregard if you know him and are tired of him and his nonsense.

i especially like the shoelace 'paintings'. they make me think of clay stop-motion animation (there has got to be an easier way to say that) that i think i saw on sesame street. a bunch of little play-doh worms that slither around and squish together and do things. anyway, these 'paintings' remind me of that, but i think i just like it cause feels somehow more deliberate than oil and canvas and brushes. like, it seems to me that you can only manipulate shoelaces so much, unlike the subtleties of painting.

im sure frederico would tell me that the shoelace is a subtle and unpredictable medium, but i wouldnt really buy it, even if i nodded appreciatively and smoothly changed the subject to colored pencils.