stinogle

So, I made a pit stop at Sheetz on my way back from the beach this week, and picked up the Penguins Stanley Cup Champion issue of Sports Illustrated. A very good read all in all, albeit mostly what I would expect to get from SI. Finally, I turned to the back cover, and found this gem of an ad for State Farm:

I’m pretty sure Marian Hossa won’t be buying State Farm insurance any time soon.

Facebook has come out with a neat little “username” option for your profile page today. Basically, it lets you set your profile page to have a nice clean friendly URL, instead of those ugly PHP param laced monstrosities. Good call Facebook, good call.

By the way, here’s mine:

http://www.facebook.com/stinogle

Mad Max, Beyond Thunderdome

I’m pretty sure ESPN need to rethink their titletown selection, and right quick.

There are some kick ass signs in Pittsburgh…

… signs that define our city, both socially as well as economically. Many of them tell stories of our past, and some even point to events yet to pass. Many also can serve the starving artist, as iconic images of reference. Luckily, you don’t have to go out and chronicle them all yourself. They’ve all been painstakingly laid out for you already by a group called The Pittsburgh Signs Project.

The Pittsburgh Signs Project has also just put out a book, Pittsburgh Signs Project: 250 Signs of Western Pennsylvania. The book is filled with some amazing full color photos taken from area artists, and is definitely a coffee table gem if there ever was one. The book is listed at $29.99, but you can find it on amazon here for just over 20 bucks.

On top of that, they have a facebook group, and here are a few links to some sweet flickr feeds on signage of the Burgh:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47211597@N00/sets/72157614779435468/
http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=pittsburgh%20signs&w=47211597%40N00

All in all, I was very taken aback and impressed with such an undertaking. I now have new respect for the signage of the Burgh.

_Rob

Sunset on the 606

Finally, I dusted off my copy of photoshop and put something together for Design By Humans. I’ve been wanting to for a while, but as many people know, wanting and doing are very different things.

This shirt is based off of the building I lived in in college, and the idea that that lifestyle eventually comes to an end. Currently its just a submission. The way DBH works is based on the idea of one big ongoing tshirt design contest. The designs are done by the community, and voted on by the community. So get out and vote for mine!

_Rob

This is a kick ass new feature in CS4: You can control which objects will be distorted when you scale an image.

May the 4th be with you!

It takes a lot to shake me up.

That being said, I was left in a very Micheal J. Fox-esque state after my visit to The Warhol yesterday. I went with a few friends to catch The Vader Project before it left the burgh. The project was quite amazing, but that’s not the story I’m telling here.

So we started from the top floor of the museum, electing to catch what we came to see last. Alarmingly, however, it was what I saw on the top floor that blew my mind. The Exhibition on display happened to be The End: Analyzing Art in Troubled Times. The show featured many artists, all depicting their individual renditions of what they deem to be art in foreboding economic times. I was actually pretty excited to see the results.

One of the very first works we came to was The 7 Deadly Sins, by Lukas Maximilian Hüller. Seven insanely well constructed, and ultimately disturbing, panoramic scenes floated before us. Based on The Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things by Hieronymus Bosch, Each panorama depicted an extremely elaborate, Rocky Horror type view of its subject. Great care had evidently been taken to set up these complicated, macabre scenes. I was impressed, but moreover, I was shaken up.

Anyways, I’ll leave it up to you, the reader to decide your own take on these. Be warned, some parts are extremely graphic.

1. pride
2. lust
3. wrath
4. sloth
5. avarice
6. gluttony
7. envy

You can see a list of Hüller’s work here.

_Rob

If this event ever does actually come to fruition, I will be on the first shuttle to the moon.

… IN AMAZING FASHION!

http://www.opera.com/?

_Rob