Day 11: EscherField Estates

Im back friends. Who am I kidding...like anybody looks at this stuff. Well I guess it's just you and me Escher ol' buddy. At least this one has NOTHING to do with Jesus. That was getting weird.

Day 11 Challenge: Shit + Stick = Kinkade

Bestselling "artist" Thomas Kinkade doesn't just sell paintings. You can buy all kinds of crappy merchandise with his "designs", from golf hats to shirts to AN ACTUAL, REAL HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, designed so you can live in one of his nostalgic bullshit paintings.

The development know as The Village at Hiddenbrooke, just north of San Francisco, was not such a hit with REAL people though. Apparently people were not stoked about the cost and environmental impact of year-round christmas lights, much preferring the price tag of the neighboring village nook: The Snoopy Huts. Plus there are way less douche-bags on Peanuts AVE.

Banavacado Sunday

Here is a delicious design by my good friend Leigh in honor of Easter weekend.

Is it me or is this blog becoming decidedly Jesus-ey. Weird. I'll have to do something about that.

Day 9: Buddy-Jesus Light

Day 9 Challenge: What Would Jesus Drink?

Everyone knows the St. Patrick's day tradition. Wear green, get drunk, dance a jig, hit something (preferably with your fist and not your car, and preferably a poodle and not a person), dance another jig, drink some more and then wake up the next morning somewhere along the parade route. Sounds great right?

Well in a move to threaten this holiday's sovereign traditions, Dublin Leaders have asked the nations devout to try and "avoid drinking too much alcohol". In the words of my favorite enslaved Brit-turned patron Irish saint: "F*#@ the government lads! We're getting tanked for Jesus!"

WWJD indeed.

Day 8: Copyright 2008 General Mills

Day 8 Challenge: Coca Puffs

The government of Bolivia is trying to find new profitable uses for that country's staple crop - the coca plant. The Bolivian Foreign Minister, in fact, suggested that coca be used to make -- wait for it -- CHILDREN'S CEREAL! That should wake those little brats up!

Day 7: Sooo duh

(Completely Unrelated): Hillary Parables

The Guys at Cloudal Partners have put together a fantastic-ly hilarious series of videos explaining the logic of Hillary 08' campaign...in biblical terms.

Also worth seeing is their video response to her 3am campaign video.

Day 7 Challenge

Yoda, Soda and Pumps

Inventor Ken Schellenberg has grand plans to launch a soda bottle into orbit. His Rockets, soda pop bottles powered by nothing more than water, dish soap and a bicycle pump, are capable of reaching altitudes of 656 feet. He believes his new design, incorporating liquid carbon dioxide, could actually reach orbit. Schellenberg has started a company to sell kits of his soda bottle rockets, naming it AntiGravity Research Corp.

Day 6: Broken Escalator to Heaven

Day 6 Challenge

A French mayor recently threatened to impose sever penalties on residents who died without authorization... adding "offenders will be severely punished".

At least they don't have to fear the death penalty.

Day 5: You can't judge a ball by it's hair...

Day 5 challenge

In a move guaranteed to raise reasonable and polite debate, this mother has decided to ensure that her Downs syndrome daughter has plastic surgery to look more "normal"

Day 4: Prints Albert

Day 4 Challenge

Undercover police officers in Virginia insist that the only way to bust a suspected ring of prostitutes is to engage their services. The Spotsylvania County Sheriff told The Washington Post, "If I thought we could get the conviction without that, we wouldn't allow it...this has to be done."

Day 3: Veteran Mice

Day 3 Challenge

The Army will pay Disney $800,000 to help revamp attitudes at the "unhappiest place on earth" also known as the Walter Reed Hospital. Maybe it is the fact that they are both founded by Walters but this military-industrial complex just got a little weirder... like a headless Mickey in back-lot Disney.

Day 2: 112 Vespas

Exxon Won I think.

Coffee Break: Fat Soldiers

All throughout the army, there are clerks, drivers, and other administrative personnel who were suddenly faced with the prospect of getting shot at in Iraq. So, apparently, some of them tried to eat their way out of their commitment. If a man surpasses 22 percent body fat, he gets a discharge.

This might be a very bad idea...

Inspired by my NPR Page-A-Day calendar, I am going to attempt a design a day.

This is the plan.
1. For now get inspired by that days "Wait Wait...don't tell me" factoid.
2. Use my two ten minute breaks at work to design, and publish something... good or bad.

My thoughts so far:

"These are all going to suck"

I will fill you in on further developments.