DJ Earworm’s mix finally hit today:
FreddeGredde is one of my favorite Youtube artists, and he’s back with a special 12 Christmas songs in 4 minutes, check it out:
Submitted without comment:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fNYza7yaaI
CubeNews1 swoops in to the rescue with their holiday gift guides:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwLyyzy5Moo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z89oNAU0qk
More fun goodness from my many RSS feeds and around the Net, let’s see what I’ve found today:
First up, there’s this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWTpJtgSfiM
First up, Top Men over at whoba! have some great posts. First up, living room projection mapping, followed by architectural projection mapping, and finally The Eyes Have it.
This looks fun:
And a whole bunch of stuff that comes courtesy of Copyranter:
The bastardization of corporate logos by using Comic Sans.
Amazing save the animals ads:
Wonder Bra lets you bungee jump in front of a giant ad of theirs, amazing photo op:
Cool spot from FedEx:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tlv02a0-xQk
Amazing ad that was put up for the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Not sure how much air time it got on TV, but I hope it got a lot!
I don’t think I’d want to be the one taunting the cat with the food, but cool to watch:
Amazing (accidental) optical illusion:
I feel as though something’s wrong here. And it’s a shame:
Big 3-D street art by Reebok:
Everyone’s favorite (or favorite to hate) Kiwi church is back at it, check out their new billboard here.
Well now it makes sense:
“I’m a lawyer, I’m on a billboard” Click through only if you want your mind to explode.
And finally, an stunning bus ad:
That’s it for now, but I’ll be back real soon with more!
Just like my last entry were items left over from my humor section of Google Reader, this time, the videos and articles come from my appropriately named “Dork” section.
First up, really awesome bicycle animation:
Next up, if you have not seen the new Muppets movie, go directly out to see it. Then read and watch this awesome article about Mahna Mahna.
Some fun on Black Friday:
And finally, coming back to Earth:
Now that November is done, I’m finally catching up with my RSS feeds and some other items from around the net.
Here’s the humor items I had waiting for me, I’ll be back soon with lots more:
From Literally Unbelievable:
Yes, turning on Fox will help….
And here’s some great racism:
And coming in from Amazon:
And I really loved this one:
And from Catalog Living, check out this amazing entry.
And finally, The Oatmeal pops in with some illustrated tweets, a favorite:
Written: 12/10/2011
A good friend and co-worker died in a car crash over Thanksgiving.
I heard the news, and as I am wont to do, moved on quickly. I spent the entire night, talking with friends over Facebook, text message and on the phone, a trend which continued the next week and a half. I helped to write the letter to the Board, camp staff members, and the messaging we put out on Facebook.
I helped to type up the memorial service, and spent an entire day finding and cleaning up an image of my friend.
The day after his funeral, a day which ended with a bit of a mind fuck, I went to the funeral of my great aunt. I didn’t see her that often, so I wasn’t that upset, but it was sad to see my grandmother so sad.
But during her funeral, it hit me about my friend, and I had a hard time holding it together.
Whenever there’s a death, I always go into comforter and organizer mode. I’m the one who helps keep everything else from falling off the tracks, and supports everyone else. That’s just what I’m best at. I don’t let myself break down, I take care of everyone else. There are too many things to do, and there is nothing we can do to bring back the dead.
And while this has led me to another realization (which I keep forgetting to blog about, but hopefully I will soon), it’s let to another problem: I’m have the predisposition to be really emotional, and I guess that sometimes I’m afraid of showing that, especially at work, lest I lose control and spill some information and lose my job.
I actually didn’t go to my friend’s viewing, for a few reasons. First, by that point, I was so spent from spending so much time getting ready for the memorial service that I didn’t think I could really handle it. On top of that, I didn’t want to see all of my camp staff kids.
It’s strange, I’ll do just about anything for them, even if they don’t know it, or believe it. But I’m always pulling strings for them behind the scenes that they’ll never know. I like to take care of them as much as I can, although sometimes, I just need to be alone and not around that many people.
I’ll miss my friend, of course, and I hope that we can have a good season in his memory.
All my best,
The King of Spades
