free all picture: 2007

Monday, December 31, 2007

Illustration: Now that's a trophy room

By Andrew Rae. Via.

Etsy finds 12/31/07

Domo-Kun knitted cap.

Blue monster plush.

Brown monster plush.

Blue monster.

Pac-Man ghosts wall decoration.

See more of my Etsy finds here.

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 3

I thought it'd be fun to post some military patches, and ended up finding a treasure trove of good ones. I posted the first batch here, and the second batch here. I'll be posting more soon.

These patches (and many, many more) are all on sale at McGrogan's. Wired has also posted quite a few.

Photo: Panda (costume) at the beach

vl. panda
Originally uploaded by 10012

Via.

Sappy song from Allstate commercial made it to No. 40 on the Billboard charts

NY Times: It would be unremarkable that the song “From Where You Are” by Jason Wade, a singer in the band Lifehouse, had cracked the Billboard top 100 list — except that it was written for an Allstate commercial.

Unavailable on any album, the song has received little airplay on the radio but it had wide exposure in a 60-second Allstate spot promoting the insurance company’s safe driving program for teenagers. The commercial first ran after an episode of “Friday Night Lights” on NBC in late October that had a teenage driving theme.

On Nov. 6, “From Where You Are” was made available on iTunes, where it sold briskly enough to hit No. 40 on the Billboard charts for the week ended Nov. 24.

Wow, that song's terrible. Via.

2-D Furniture

Designer's site. More photos here.

Turn your old fridge into a "kegerator"

Link.

Business Logo Design - $90

Seems like a pretty good package compared to similar sites. Link. Via.

Awesome U.S. Military Patches Part 2

I thought it'd be fun to post some military patches, and ended up finding a treasure trove of good ones. I posted the first batch here. I'll be posting more soon.

These patches (and many, many more) are all on sale at McGrogan's.

Update: Here's the Halo patch, and here's the shut up patch.

Land of the Giants (Hulu Video)

I received an invitation to Hulu, NBC's version of Youtube, and spent some time exploring it this morning. Overall, not bad. The full length television programs start quickly and run smoothly, aside from occasional frame stuttering. First, I tried watching Andy Barker P.I., since I'd recently read about how great it was. I lost interest by the first commercial. Eventually, I spotted something called Land of the Giants. I'll let Wikipedia explain:

Set in the then-future year of 1983, the series tells the tale of the crew and passengers of a sub-orbital transport spaceship called the Spindrift. In the pilot episode,The Spindrift, which is a vehicle of space tourism, is en route from Los Angeles to London via the ultra fast route of earth orbit. Just beyond Earth's boundary with space, the Spindrift encounters a strange space storm/wormhole and is transported to a mysterious planet where everything is twelve times larger than its counterpart on Earth, including the human inhabitants. The Spindrift crew calls the inhabitants "the giants". If an average Earth human is about six feet tall, an average "giant" will be about 72 feet tall. The Spindrift crashes on this planet and becomes inoperable.

These giants are in form entirely human, but their society is a dictatorship of which not too many details are given, and which employs no symbols. The giant government has put a reward out for the capture of the tiny Earth people, presumably because of the Earth people's superior technology. Episodes often have the plot of giants capturing one of the passengers or crew, with the rest having to rescue the captured one. The Earth people avoid capture most of the time because their spaceship is hidden in a forest outside the city.

Here, for your viewing pleasure is episode 2, in full. It starts off right in the middle of the action.