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Eye Wood

Not sure how these iWood Eco Sunglasses from Green Loop really save the environment but they are seriously funky looking.

Design Villany

There are some dangerously cool things to be found at Suck UK.

Be Modest With Yourself

“A sleek, soft-purring convertible, a pretty girl, and handsome boy — or a carful of both — and an open road. What could be more thrilling, more desirable to the young and the young in heart!"

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints produced a series of postcards in the mid-to-late 50s entitled Be Honest With Yourself. Aimed at the high school and college-aged crowd, they were the original MormonAds."

[Via TinyPineapple, by way of Fugo Sushi]

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And you thought Vegas was tacky.

During my 10 years of living here in Salt Lake I've heard rumor of ye olde Anniversary Inn, a fussy local boutique hotel with different themes for each room. I never really looked into it until my eye caught an ad in the free local wedding guides that one sees strewn about the city each Spring.

Let me turn your attention to the reasons why A.I., as I enjoy referring to it, is so much more than you ever realized. Now with four locations, three in Utah and one in Boise, Idaho, you too can have an "Experience like no other". The saccharine sweet website goes on to proclaim, The Anniversary Inn has a "Touch of Elegance" and a "Hint of Adventure".

I took it upon myself to bring discriptive highlights together from many of the more exotic rooms web pages to create a mythical A.I. Master Suite ...if you will... so insanely imaginative, that it cannot be contained by the minds of mere mortals:

Marriage Got You Down? Try The Anniversary Inn. Surround yourself in luxury and the picturesque as you step into a fairytale, cross the moat and enter your castle. A dream world of mermaids and Greek legends with visions of dolphins, tropical fish and coral reef surround you. An octopus stands guard at your bedstead!

Visit the middle of the South American rain forest with old ruins and artifacts from an ancient civilization surrounded by the Amazon river and jungle. Continue your fantasy with a ride in the silver spaceship bathroom with a jetted tub surrounded by a winged dragon and a queen-sized bed sitting on the back of two elephants. Inside a rock sea cave you can relax as the waterfall shower cascades from a elephant's trunk or clamshell. Maybe carpets don't fly, but who knows if you don't really try?

Roughing it takes on a new meaning when you bed down in the Old West (or similar cliché). Drift off to sleep in a covered wagon, an old fashioned carriage, a pleather gondola or under a grass hut, inside an ice cave or lighthouse! Sleep in the "balcony" while you watch the "play" (a 52" Television) on your own Phantom Of The Opera stage. Take a disco nap on an octagonal bed in a white lattice gazebo or on the round leather bed in the Bikers Road House/Cave. Then turn on the fireplace and hope the whole place doesn't go up in flames like a Sid and Marty Krofft set.

The treasure, of course, is the memory you take with you when you leave. Let your imagination run wild, after all, there's a little magic in every room at The Anniversary Inn.

Seriously, the A.I. website is pretty good. I highly suggest browsing the different locations with accompanying 360° tours of each of the rooms. Here are links to some of the best:

Amazon Rain Forest, Aphrodite's Court, Arabian Nights, Caribbean Sea Cave, Jesse James Hideout, King Arthur's Castle, Lake Powell Suite, Lost In Space, Pyramids Of Egypt, Biker Road House, Carriage Suite, Country Garden, Enchanted Forest, Hay Loft Suite, Light House Suite, Mammoth Ice Cave, Mysteries Of Egypt, Opera House Suite, Oregon Trail, Romeo and Juliet Suite 1, Romeo and Juliet Suite 2, Sleeping Beauty's Castle, South Pacific, Sun Valley, Swiss Family Suite, Treasure Island Suite 1, Treasure Island Suite 2, Italian Gondola Suite, Jackson Hole Suite, Jungle Safari, Phantom Of The Opera, Sultan's Palace, The Rose Garden, Swiss Family Robinson, Jungle Safari, Mississippi Serenade, Mysteries of Egypt, Neptune's Cave, Secret Garden, Sultan's Palace

 

Scare Tactics

My friends brought me back some S.A.R.S. masks from Tokyo earlier this year. I just love wearing them in heavy traffic on bad air quality days because you know everyone in Utah is scared shitless of bird flu or similar "end times" plagues.

Related: Low-dose Glaxo bird flu vaccine seen ready in 2007.

Jesus-zilla

I just love this picture.

Pioneer Day

Every year we watch the fireworks from my friend Dan's back yard which happens to be 100 feet away from the patch of grass in the park where they are launched. It's extremely loud (think Nam or Baghdad) and sometimes you even get hit by falling shrapnel. What more could you ask for?

Square Eclipse / Dream Home

The Square Eclipse 2006 uses 24 microcontrolled tri-color LEDs that are carefully positioned behind the unit to create clean geometric patterns of light and shadow. As colored contours from one LED intersects with the colored contours from other LEDs they create new patterns and colors that morph as animations are played through the full spectrum LEDs.

Also via MoCo Loco, there's everything right with this becoming my new dream home.

[Both Via: MoCo Loco]

Life... Imagined!

This Saturday July 22nd, Nick James and I will be playing at a one-off party called LIFE... IMAGINED at the posh new Blue Goose, an exclusive private lounge ($1000.00 starting memberships!) above The Depot. The great news is that LIFE welcomes all NCM and JWD enthusiasts! It will be nice and cold in there, plus we're going to have the full NCM Sound System blasting the coolest lounge and dance music we think you've never heard. Blue Goose, (Above The Depot), 13th North 400 West / $7 Cover.

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Beards emerge from the bush... "It's a sign of the times," Martin said. "People are into beards right now."

[Via: International Herald Tribune]

Free Neo Show

Meshell Ndegeocello is going to be doing a free show for the Twilight Concert Series this Thursday. A sparkling singer, bassist, and multi-instrumentalist, Meshell is one of the true originators of the Neo Soul movement and more than one-dimensional as far as a label like that goes. Her latest album incorporates some dub heavy production for example and recently I've been rocking a new remake of Radiohead's "National Anthem" she and co-conspirator Chris Dave have contributed to the forthcoming Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads. Could be a nice early start to the upcoming Pioneer Day weekend.

Play Air Guitar For World Peace

In the light of recent events in the Muddle East, (you know... World War Tres and shiz) I want all the people of the world to stop and think about the the untapped possibilities that Air Guitar has to offer. Here is the official 2006 Finnish Air Guitar World Championship official statment of intent:

"The Purpose of the Air Guitar World Championship is to promote world peace. According to the ideology of the Air Guitar, wars would end and all the bad things would disappear, if all the people in the world played the Air Guitar. This is why the whole universe is invited to play the Air Guitar at the end of the competition."

Proactive Lindsay

Ooohh, this is so trashy... but it's so much fun to watch L. Lo in her Proactive debut. [Via: Pink Is The New Blog]

And while we're on the subject of advertising, this viral ad for Folgers coffee is brilliant in that it illuminates just how much we all hate morning people. (Thanks Mark)

Freitag Flagship Store

The new Freitag concept flagship store in Zürich Switzerland continues in it's tradition to reuse and recycle. The bags they produce (I have one and, LOVE it...) are made out of the vinyl signage used on trucks and freight. It comes as no suprise that the new store is comprised of stacked and rusting containers. Very cool.

[Via: Reluct]