29/1/2012
My client – whose name shall remain concealed – again requires my unique set of creative services. Again, I deliver.
– But first, an abbreviated back story –
We have a friend
His name is Ruby
My client believes Ruby is best classified as “A Hater”
There existed a photo with this alleged hater in a very particular pose. In our digital social circle, it brought unexplainable joy to those who saw it. Little did we know that this crudely lit digital photograph would swell in popularity to become something Epic.
A few days later, someone placed the popular meme font “Impact” on the photograph, adding stacks and stacks of isolated McRibs in front of the subject.
The People Loved It.
This simple layout, completed in some archaic version of Microsoft Paint, was impressive enough to launch the next evolution which should be referred to as nothing less than a rudimentary change in the digital culture within our ring of friends.
My client had an idea. He also provided all necessary photography. After isolating what came to be to known as “RubyMeme” in Photoshop (applying a slight feather on the edges and doing general color correction) I began placing the subject in front of his car - with “BORN 2 H8” digitally etched on his license plate.
Neither I nor my client understood what happened. Underneath the clever photoshop techniques, a new genre of meme was born. MemeRealism was born.
After making the RubyMeme available to the general public as a png file via email, other creative RubyMemes began popping up. Indeed, it was a successful campaign.
But my client believed there was still something much larger over the horizon. And after a grueling week of work, it dawned on him.
He approached me with the idea of pouring a football cooler marked “Haterade” on Ruby Meme. It was excellent, but withing seconds, we began pushing our minds to the bring of creativity… and beyond.
MemeRealism was Realized.
After retrieving and photographing the subject bottle of Gatorade with my DSLR / 1.2 35mm, I began using various tools in Photoshop, fonts, and effects to achieve this final result. A solid afternoon’s work.
Of this, I am proud.
28/1/2012
Amazon Rainforest Mapped in Unprecedented Detail.
“The technology that we have here gives us a first-ever look at the Amazon in its full three-dimensional detail, over very large regions…”
via theguardian
11/1/2012
ANTHROPOLOGY NEWS
- Ancient Mayans used an ancient genetic strain of Tobacco that had hallucinogenic properties…
- It was also used to ward away snakes and kill botfly larvae.
- Obviously some serious shit, and it probably had a hell of a hangover.
Archaeologists have found traces of nicotine in a 1,300-year-old vessel, revealing the first physical evidence of tobacco use by the Mayans.
Made around A.D. 700 in the region of the Mirador Basin, in southern Campeche state, Mexico, during the Classic Mayan period, the 2.5-inch-wide and -high clay vessel was a “house of tobacco,” as indicated by hieroglyphic texts.
They read: “y-otoot ’u-may,” (“the home of its/his/her tobacco,”) .
“This is only the second case in which residue analysis shows a Mayan vessel to have had the same content as indicated by hieroglyphics,” Jennifer Loughmiller-Newman, from the State University of New York at Albany, told Discovery News.
The last discovery occurred more than 20 years ago and involved a vessel containing cacao.
Loughmiller-Newman and Dmitri Zagorevski from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., analyzed residues from more than 50 various Mayan vessels, mainly from the Kislak collection of the Library of Congress.
“None of them, as of now, have shown any traces of nicotine or other alkaloids,” the researchers wrote in the journal Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry.
Indeed, several issues, such as bacteria, contamination and the fact that the usage of containers changed over time, often limit the success of chemical analysis on ancient residues.
Nevertheless, Loughmiller-Newman and Zagorevski were able to find the chemical fingerprint of tobacco in the codex-style flask.
The identification was performed by using two analytical chemistry techniques — gas chromatography mass spectrometry and liquid chromatography mass spectrometry.
“Both methods resulted in the positive identification of nicotine,” said the researchers.
In addition, three oxidation products of nicotine, indicating natural processes of bacterial degradation, were discovered.
None of the nicotine by-products associated with the smoking of tobacco was detected, likely ruling out the use of the vessel as an ashtray.
“The tobacco found in that container was probably not used for smoking. It was likely a powdered product,” Loughmiller-Newman said.
According to the researcher, the tobacco known to the ancient Mayas “was far stronger than any plant grown today and possibly strong enough to be hallucinogenic.”
Likely mixed with lime, the powdered tobacco from the vessel would have been chewed, consumed as snuff or added to alcohol for stronger drinks.
The powder was also used as a repellent to keep serpents away (it irritates their skin) and to kill botfly larvae.
“Our study provides rare evidence of the intended use of an ancient container,” Zagorevski said.
“Mass spectrometry has proven to be an invaluable method of analysis of organic residues in archaeological artifacts. This discovery is not only significant to understanding Mayan hieroglyphics, but an important archaeological application of chemical detection,” he added.
04/1/2012
A HunterWriterer original completed in the first half of the Orange Bowl.
22/12/2011
21/12/2011
Flight of the Frenchies
18/12/2011
He keeps a blue flag hanging out of his backside.
But only on the left side.
Yeah – That’s the Crips side.
13/12/2011
I have no words for these moves.
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