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As I was on my lunch break the other day, May 1st to be exact, I took a few pictures of the Mayday march that was going on downtown. Later as I was looking through the pictures I looked closely and noticed this Praying Mantis had joined the march. Not to sure what the Mantis Struggle entails, but it looks like he just wants a little respect.
Last Wednesday, thousands of protesters marched outside our building. We’re fairly sure they weren’t upset with us, per se, but it’s hard to tell. I took some photos.
Yesterday on my way to the train, I saw two cops riding around Hollywood on these three-wheeled Urban Assault Segways:
How long before we get this… ?
If you live or work in downtown LA, I’m sure you’re aware of how there is CONSTANT movie and commercial shooting here. You can see our own little corner in such movies as Transformers, Spiderman, Rush Hour 3, and tons of others. Our street corner is one of the few in LA that can double for New York, so it’s used in almost everything. Sometimes I’m completely disconcerted on my way to work by rows and rows of NY taxi cabs and hot dog vendors.
I thought you might like to see two pictures I’ve taken recently on my camera phone, of what I can only guess were commercial shoots.
We all know how much I love cereal:
And not too long ago there was a HUGE Slip’n Slide down Bunker Hill, on 4th Street! You can’t see too much from this photo, but it was about a block long, and there were a bunch of people at the top with inner-tubes, ready to take the plunge.
So I saw this billboard on Sunset - coming soon… “Moonvertising.” It turns out it’s a Rolling Rock campaign where you write with “lasers” on the “moon” in their website. Kind of a letdown. Although I still can’t quite tell if they’re really going to try to do it. Stupid viral ARG marketing universe.
My initial reaction was twofold:
1) That is horrible. Is nothing sacred? I can’t believe we live in a world where people think it’s OK to put advertising on the moon!
2) I kind of want to live in a world where we can write with lasers on the moon.
These conflicted emotions are exactly the sort of feelings I have about cloning, teleportation, and a lot of other technologies that seem dangerous, but too cool to pass up. Then i started reading some of the comments that people “wrote on the moon”:
“Chompers, I love you, love, Nummies.”
“I love all my schmoopies”
“I will forerver [sic] yours, we will live forever”
If this is the level of moon discourse, maybe its better we just keep our lasers and things down here.
ps- This also reminds me of that episode of the Tick when Chairface tries to write his name on the moon, but runs out of space and only gets as far as “CHA.”
Want to buy some old crap?
Here at Psychic Bunny, we’re getting rid of some equipment. And Doug just wrote us some highly amusing Craigslist ads.
19″ Micron (Sony) Trinitron TFT Monitor - $25
PowerMac G4 - $25
Brother 7820N multi-function laser printer - $40
Hey, if anybody needs to rent a Red One camera package, talk to me, I know a guy.
No, Lloyd Dobler, not kickboxing.
I have this theory about sports. They are built, and ultimately popularized, by the dominant media of their age. Baseball was built for the radio. Somebody can describe to you, in real time, everything important that’s happening in a baseball game. Even the some of the things most associated with baseball are auditory - “the crack of the bat,” “the roar of the crowd,” even that old 7th inning stretch classic, “take Me Out To The Ballgame.”
Football, on the other hand, is really a creature of television. Sweet heavens, the sport even has built in commercial breaks! But as we get sick of commercials, and our media outlets move online and on demand, I suspect non-stop games like hockey, basketball, and soccer (aka “football”) will gain dominance.
The inevitable death of television as we know it will, I think, finally usher Soccer in America into the dominant place it already holds worldwide. Until, of course, Rollerball.
And because I love Lloyd Dobler…
The great Errol Morris, Wieden+Kennedy, and Matt Scott bring us this fine message as we kick off this year.
Nike - “No Excuses”
As for why this blog hasn’t been updated in two weeks – no, no excuses. No excuses indeed.