Cartoon Of The Day
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Nov 262010
Tee Shirt Of The Day: Obama Loves America Like OJ Loved Nicole
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Nov 262010
1,200 Hot Wheels Circulating Around a Track
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Nov 262010
This amazing track, built by Chris Burden with Erector Sets, Legos, and Lincoln Logs, is called Metropolis II and can carry 1,200 cars at a time along with 13 toy trains.
The California artist Chris Burden may be in his 60s, but he is still playing with toys. The thing is, the older he gets the more outrageously complicated the toys become.
Two years ago he created a 65-foot Erector Set skyscraper that stood in Rockefeller Center, and in 2004 he made “Metropolis I,” composed of 80 Hot Wheels toy cars zooming around two single-lane highways along with monorail trains chugging on tracks of their own. The piece was snapped up by the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan.
“I was happy with ‘Metropolis I,’ but it kind of disappeared once it went to western Japan,” Mr. Burden said in a telephone interview from his studio in Topanga Canyon in Los Angeles County. So in 2006 he and a team of eight studio assistants, including an engineer, began “Metropolis II,” a far more ambitious version. It includes 1,200 custom-designed cars and 18 lanes; 13 toy trains and tracks; and, dotting the landscape, buildings made of wood block, tiles, Legos and Lincoln Logs. The crew is still at work on the installation.
In “Metropolis II,” by his calculation, “every hour 100,000 cars circulate through the city,” Mr. Burden said. “It has an audio quality to it. When you have 1,200 cars circulating it mimics a real freeway. It’s quite intense.”
Nov 262010
Joke Of The Day
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Nov 262010
A teacher asked her class to find out a story from their parents with a moral at the end of it. The next day the kids came back and began to tell their stories.
“Jimmy do you have a story to share?”
“Yes miss – my daddy told me a story about my Uncle Willie. Uncle Willie was a pilot in the Air Force in the first Gulf War and his plane got hit. He had to bail out over enemy territory and all he had was a small flask of whiskey, a pistol and a survival knife. He drank the whiskey on the way down so it wouldn’t fall into the hands of the enemy, then he parachuted right into the middle of 20 enemy troops. He shot 15 of them with the gun until it ran out of bullets, killed four more with the knife until the blade broke, then he killed the last one with his bare hands.”
“Wow”, said the teacher. “What kind of moral did your daddy teach you from that?”
“Stay away from Uncle Willie when he’s been drinking.”