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(via sandman-kk) Keansburg, New JerseyPer me i fuochi...

Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:00:06 +0200

(via sandman-kk) Keansburg, New Jersey

Per me i fuochi artificiali sono come la neve: mi piacciono molto ma mi mettono un po’ di malinconia.

Il primo acquisto coi saldi!(immagine dal catalogo Esprit. Io...

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 20:12:00 +0200

Il primo acquisto coi saldi!

(immagine dal catalogo Esprit. Io non sono bionda :-)

Verano en Mallorca(da questo set di Eyedeaz)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:50:43 +0200

Verano en Mallorca

(da questo set di Eyedeaz)

The origins of 10 of your favorite Muppets

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:48:00 +0200

(via didyouevernotice)

1. Cookie Monster. Jim Henson drew some monsters eating various snacks for a General Foods commercial in 1966. The commercial was never used, but Henson recycled one of the monsters (the “Wheel-Stealer”) for an IBM training video in 1967 and again for a Fritos commercial in 1969. By this time, he started working on Sesame Street and decided this monster would have a home there.
2. Elmo. The way it’s described by a Sesame Street writer, apparently this extra red puppet was just lying around. People would pick him up and try to do something with him, but nothing really panned out. In 1984, puppeteer Kevin Clash picked up the red puppet and started doing the voice and the personality and it clicked – thus, Elmo was born.
3. Telly Monster was originally the Television Monster when he debuted in 1979. He was obsessed with T.V. and his eves would whirl around as if hypnotized whenever he was in front of a set. After a while, producers started worrying about his influence on youngsters, so they changed him to make him the chronic worrier he is now.
4. Count von Count made his first appearance in 1972 and was made out of an Anything Muppet pattern – a blank Muppet head that could have features added to it to make various characters. He used to be more sinister – he was able to hypnotize and stun people and he laughed in typical scary-villain-type fashion after completing a count of something and thunder and lightning would occur. He was quickly made more appealing to little kids, though. He is apparently quite the ladies’ man – he has been linked to Countess von Backward, who loves to count backward; Countess Dahling von Dahling and Lady Two.

5. Kermit was “born” in 1955 and first showed up on Sam and Friends, a five-minute puppet show by Jim Henson. The first Kermit was made out of Henson’s mom’s coat and some ping pong balls. At the time, he was more lizard-like than frog-like. By the time he showed up on Sesame Street in 1969, though, he had made the transition to frog. There are rumors that he got the name Kermit from a childhood friend of Henson’s or a puppeteer from the early days of the Muppets, but Henson always refuted both of those rumors.
6. Real Swedish Chef Lars “Kuprik” Bäckman claims he was the inspiration for the Swedish Chef. He was on Good Morning America, he says, and caught Jim Henson’s eye. Henson supposedly bought the rights to the Good Morning America recording and created the Swedish Chef (who DOES have a real name, but it’s not understandable). One of the Muppet writers, Jerry Juhl, says that in all of the years of working with Jim Henson on the Swedish Chef, he never heard that the character was based on a real person.
7. Animal - Everyone’s favorite member of Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem may have been inspired by Keith Moon of The Who. This is speculation, but people who support this theory will point out that Jim Henson named one of the Fraggle Rock characters “Wembley”, which is the town Moon was born in.
8. Miss Piggy is apparently from Iowa. Makes sense. Anyway, she started as a minor character on The Muppet Show, but anyone who knows Miss Piggy can see that she wouldn’t settle for anything “minor”. Her first T.V. appearance was actually on an Herb Alpert special. It wasn’t until 1976, when The Muppet Show premiered, that she became the glamorous blonde with a penchant for frog that we know and love today. Frank Oz once said that Miss Piggy grew up in Iowa; her dad died when she was young and her mother was mean. She had to enter beauty contests to make money.
9. Rowlf the dog, surprise, surprise, was first made in 1962 for a series of Purina Dog Chow commercials. He went on to claim fame as Jimmy Dean’s sidekick on The Jimmy Dean Show and was on every single episode from 1963 to 1966. Jimmy Dean said Rowlf got about 2,000 letters from fans every week. He was considered for Sesame Street but ended up becoming a regular on The Muppet Show in 1976.
10. Oscar the Grouch is performed by the same guy who does Big Bird, Carroll Spinney. Spinney said he based Oscar’s cranky voice on a particular NYC cab driver he once had the pleasure of riding with. He was originally an alarming shade of orange. In Pakistan, his name is Akhtar and he lives in an oil barrel. In Turkey, he is Kirpik and lives in a basket. And in Israel, it’s not Oscar at all – it’s his cousin, Moishe Oofnik, who lives in an old car.
by Stacy Conradt mental_floss Blog

Lost property at Glastonbury (gallery dal Guardian)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:33:00 +0200

Lost property at Glastonbury (gallery dal Guardian):

The Glastonbury festival welfare centre dealt with over 2,000 items handed in over the weekend, including approximately 400 mobile phones, 100 cameras and 400 wallets, as well as passports, airline tickets, car keys, tents, wellies and rucksacks. Items brought to the office in previous festivals have included prosthetic legs, a piano, wetsuits, a barrister’s wig and a substantial sum of cash handed in by a naked man.

Ken Livingstone's London top 10

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 17:26:43 +0200

Ken Livingstone's London top 10:

(via byronic)

The former mayor reveals his favourite London haunts.

The 30 Most Adorable Album Covers (da Best Week Ever )

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:41:00 +0200

The 30 Most Adorable Album Covers (da Best Week Ever ): Un po’ ironici, un po’ no.

Yeti Hoodie (si compra su gama-go.com)Awesome!

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:26:41 +0200

Yeti Hoodie (si compra su gama-go.com)

Awesome!

La rubrica Visual Language (da Cineobscure.com)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:20:52 +0200

La rubrica Visual Language (da Cineobscure.com): Alcuni dei film più famosi della storia del cinema spiegati nei dettagli tecnici di alcune scene topiche. Molto interessante.

Il sito della fotografa Ngoc Minh Ngo

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:16:22 +0200

Il sito della fotografa Ngoc Minh Ngo: Bellissime foto, specie quelle di interni. Non per nulla lavora anche per Elle Decor.

Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage (dal Telegraph)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:37:00 +0200

Women prefer men with stubble for love, sex and marriage (dal Telegraph):

Eh? Davvero?

[della serie “le notizie scientifiche fuffa dell’estate]

"Brothers & Sisters" (and me)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 11:54:00 +0200

Ieri sera un po’ per caso ho visto la prima puntata di “Brothers & Sisters”, di cui avevo molto sentito parlare. Mi è piaciuta.

Però la sensazione di essere stata presa di mira come target ideale della serie è fortissima.

Pensateci: la protagonista è ‘Ally McBeal’ con dei deliziosi abitini (e si chiama Kitty!), ci sono Sally Field e Tom Skerritt come genitori, i fratelli e le sorelle sono simpatici e conflittuali (e dalla battuta pronta), il personaggio ambiguo di turno è ‘Sloane’ di “Alias”, c’è un plagio evidente della commedia con Kevin Bacon “He said, she said” (1991), ci sono le cantautrici che ascolto nella colonna sonora (Rachael Yamagata con “Be Be Your Love” dopo tipo 20 minuti!!!) e così via.

Mi sento una cavia da laboratorio. :-D

(via luminol)Ma da che libro è tratta la frase?? Devo...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:55:00 +0200

(via luminol)

Ma da che libro è tratta la frase?? Devo saperlo.

Update: una gentile email dell’autrice di Secondo Piano ha svelato il mistero, è da “La storia dell’amore” di Nicole Krauss.

(via antoinetta e dontmakemegetmyrobots)how cute is this?

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:48:37 +0200

(via antoinetta e dontmakemegetmyrobots)

how cute is this?

The most famous steadicam shots in movie history

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:45:25 +0200

The most famous steadicam shots in movie history: (da tylerriewer, via NOTCOT)

"Thankfully it seems as though we’ve mostly cycled through the whole Joy..."

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:31:45 +0200

“Thankfully it seems as though we’ve mostly cycled through the whole Joy Division/”punk-funk” thing and that the “we’re playing cheap Casios, lolz 80s!” aesthetic is on the wane, but we’ve still got a glut of limp psychedelic folk, faux-Animal Collective bullshitting, and lame-ass attempts at mimicking the Jesus & Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine.”

- La nuova rubrica di FLUXBLOG si intitola “Your New Influences #1”: consiglia dischi da (ri)ascoltare e prendere nota, rivolgendosi in particolare ai musicisti in cerca di ispirazione. Il primo consiglio è “Miss You Much” di Janet Jackson. Giuro.

(da Dieselsweeties, QUI si legge grande)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:07:54 +0200

(da Dieselsweeties, QUI si legge grande)

5 Books to Read on Vacation (da About.com)

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:53:40 +0200

5 Books to Read on Vacation (da About.com):

Here are five books that are quick, entertaining reads—great choices to throw in your bag for your next vacation.

Devo ricordarmi di trovare “Beginner’s Greek”.

Video per combattere il caldo, #3:TLC -...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:52:38 +0200

Video per combattere il caldo, #3:

TLC - “Waterfalls”

(canzone seria ma tanta acqua e qualche effetto speciale)

Video per combattere il caldo, #2:Wendy & Lisa -...

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:49:06 +0200

Video per combattere il caldo, #2:

Wendy & Lisa - “Waterfall”

(l’acqua è solo quella dentro il pianoforte di Lisa, ma questa canzone urla estate da tutti i suoi pori. L’assolo di chitarra a 2:44 è fantastico)