Kate Beaton draws funny comics, mostly about history. They’re generally pretty entertaining. If you’re like me you’ll want to access the Livejournal page, from which you can subscribe to her RSS feed.
I missed this video when it first came out, but recently found it and thought it would be worth posting since sometimes the amazing things done by Francophones don’t make it to the eyes of English readers. It’s a music video made entirely by knitting, for the band Tricot Machine (Knitting Machine in English, I believe). I like its simple aesthetic more than Michel Gondry’s video for Steriogram’s Walky Talk Man, the only other contemporary music video made from knitting I can think of.
The video was directed by Simon Laganière, and knit by Lysanne Latulippe of Majolie Knitwear.
For a more classical knitting animation, Russian Master Nikolai Serebryakov’s Ball of Wool is also a must see.
Seen Today: Someone spreading salt on the snow on their lawn. The only explanation I can possibly think of was that they wanted the snow to melt faster so the grass would show through sooner. The mind boggles.
I’m thinking of changing Five Whys into a blog of funny cat photos. Here’s the first one.
There has been a recent rash of public advertising here in Montréal trying to make accounting look cool and hip. They must be having huge problems getting young people to become accountants, because they’ve pulled out all the stops here. These campaigns, of which there have been several, are pretty fantastic.
The thing I like best about this first set, aside from the bad photoshop and the hilarious copy, is that this ad has the layout of a generic financial institution advertisement, but with a “cool” font and skydivers inserted. Change the font and put an older (but hip) man, woman, or couple on the beach in there and you have an ad for a bank, a retirement fund, investments, or pharmaceuticals. They must have used the same template.
The cynic in me also can’t help but think that those skydivers are probably too close to the ground to open their parachutes on time. Maybe I’m just over-thinking things.
The mountain-climber is pretty great too, and would be very much at home on the Photoshop Disasters page. Aside from this lady being a reflection-less vampire, what exactly is she holding on to?
Lastly, we have “Les Indispensables”, which casts young accountants as Super Heros . It’s much more slick, but the concept is still amusing. The billboard campaign, prominent in the Montréal Metro over the past few months, seems to have been mostly phased out. Their website continues though, en Français.
From Wooster
It’s officially Theremin day at Five Whys. Thanks to Sean for pointing me to this.
I’ve always found it interesting how the human brain is wired to pick out certain shapes, like faces. I took this photo a couple of years ago, because I couldn’t help but view this jewelry set as a big screamy face.
Here’s a gallery of unintentional faces that do the same thing.