OBSESSED W/ FACEBOOK

Avatarded Technology: "World Lens" visual translator/dictionary.

Newest cast member JAY PHAROAH best addition to SNL in years.

“Saturday Night Live” recently hired Jay Pharoah as a featured player and he’s coming through in a big way.

When journalists write about impressions they tend to throw around the terms “dead on” and “spot on” although very few attempts at celebrity impressions are ever any good. But such high praise is justified for Pharoah, who has so far delivered terrific takes on SNL on Will Smith, and, this week, Denzel Washington. They need to give this guy the Obama franchise and move Fred Armisen into something else, like maybe craft services. At this point you have to wonder–why is Armisen still allowed to do Obama? It’s generally acknowledged that he’s not good at it, and now they have a guy on staff who is better at doing the same job. Is SNL part of of old boys (TV) network? What’s up?

Effective impressionists, like Dana Carvey, find specific characteristics about their targets that they exaggerate for comic effect. These characteristics can be real or imaginary–Chevy Chase’s impression of President Ford, for example, isn’t anything like the real Ford, but it captured some of the public’s conception of the man. Armisen doesn’t get this, and flounders away, trying to recreate surface impressions of Obama. There’s no comic imagination or artistic joy in what he does (by contrast, watch Frank Caliendo send up John Madden–he’s having fun, and he draws the audience in).

Pharoah’s spoofs, judging by the few data points he’s offered up so far, go right to the heart of his subjects, painting with bold, bright colors. He’s poised to do some memorable stuff. Here’s a clip of Pharoah from last night’s SNL. The writing in the sketch is sketchy, but his impression is gold.

What do you think? Leave your thoughts in the comments.

Jay Pharoah's debut Saturday Night Live

"Cloudscapes" exhibit; up in the air with art.

(re-blogged from picdit.wordpress.com)

Tetsuo Kondo and climate engineering firm Transsolar worked together to fill a closed space with clouds! “Three layers of air are pumped into the room: cool dry air at the bottom that keeps the cloud floating, hot humid air in the middle to fashion a dense fog and hot dry air at the top.” In the end, you get an amazing exhibition titled Cloudscapes, located at the Corderie in Venice!

GREAT SCOTT! “MARTY MCFLY” NIKE AIR MAG RELEASE?

According to the World Intellectual Property Organization’s website and Dime, Tinker Hatfield and his boys at the Nike Innovative Kitchen have filed patent papers for a shoe with an automatic lacing system, such as seen on the Nike Air Mag from Back to the Future II.

If this technology is to be used in the form of a Marty McFly inspired sneaker it would be the definition of game changer; the perfect intersection between performance and nostalgia. The movie was set in 2015; is a Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” release on the horizon? Stayed tuned to Nice Kicks for more info!

Check out more photos of the shoes, the lacing system, and the charging system below.

RELATED: A History of Marty McFly Kicks

Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” Lacing Components

Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” Fastening and Lighting Detail

Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” Electric Components

Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” Inner Component Detail

Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” Function Diagram

Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” Touch Closure

Nike Air Mag “Marty McFly” Charging Stand

McDonald's hamburgers don't age

Things that are made from organic material age and decay, especially when they stop being alive. A piece of home-baked bread, say, left on your kitchen counter, will get moldy relatively fast. Lord knows what some ground beef would smell like after a week. But the artist Sally Davies has been photographing one McDonald's hamburger and fries every day for 137 days. They look basically exactly the same.

Far be it from me to tell you what to eat, but I am pretty sure your stomach can't break that down any better than the mold and microbes in the air. Check out the whole progression here.



Via Buzzfeed.

Cop accidentally shoots himself in classroom.

THE DARK KNIGHT'S GOLF CART  














Look, no matter how much evil Batman squashes with his Death-Monk training, at the core of it he’s still a rich white guy. As such, he is innately drawn to hit the links on weekends.
The armored golf tumbler is great in the rough, marauding through sand traps and protecting its driver from stray golf balls. It can even help you play an entire round in under 30 minutes. The only thing it can’t do is improve your short game–that’s where you have to “become an idea” and relentlessly attack chipping and putting like they killed your parents in an alley.













By CHRIS HARDWICK @ nerdist.com