walrus exercises to la bamba

the single greatest elevator pitch of all time

an open letter from michael ian black

Michael Ian Black is a funny guy. You may recognise him from such shows as 'Ed' and MTV's 'Viva Variety' or maybe the Simon Pegg flick he wrote; 'Run Fat Boy Run'He writes a great blog here - check it out if you enjoy this excerpt

An Open Letter to Rob Palleschi, Global Head of Doubletree Hotels

 On Sep 4, 2010, at 1:27 AM, Doubletree wrote:

Dear Michael Black, Recently, we sent you an invitation to complete a Guest Satisfaction Survey concerning your stay with us at Doubletree Tallahassee, where you checked out on August 25, 2010.

We noticed that you did not have time to complete the survey. We are concerned that you may not have responded because we have somehow failed to live up to your expectations.

At Doubletree, we are committed to providing a superior guest experience to every customer. Please take a few minutes to tell us how well we met your expectations.

To complete the survey, please click on the web address below. If that does not work, please copy and paste the entire web address into the address field of your browser.

http://survey.medallia.com?cdkwkxwd742dbk7

Thank you again for choosing Doubletree. I look forward to hearing about your stay with us.

Sincerely, Rob Palleschi

Global Head - Doubletree Doubletree

***

Dear Rob, Thank you for writing to me to remind you to take the survey I ignored earlier. A clarification: The reason I did not fill out the survey is not because I did not have the time, but because I did not want to. To put that into survey language, on a scale from 1-10, with one being the lowest and ten being the highest, the amount I wanted to fill out your survey was zero, which is a little bit below the lowest number I can choose.

I actually have a lot of free time, which lately I have been filling by playing Rock Band 2 on the Wii. (Great fun, but I am currently struggling with, believe it or not, Fleetwood Mac’s “Go Your Own Way.”) If anything, I have too much free time which is why I have the time to sit here and write you this email from the Marriott where I am currently staying.

Until I received this email, I would have rated my experience with Doubletree as “very good.” Now, however, I would downgrade my overall experience to just “satisfactory” because I do not like receiving surveys about my experiences.

For example, if I received a survey from the Grand Canyon asking me how I enjoyed the Grand Canyon, I would be annoyed. But the Grand Canyon does not ask people to fill out surveys because it already knows it is awesome.

By the way, I am not comparing staying at your Doubletree Hotel to visiting the Grand Canyon. One of them is a national treasure and the other is your hotel.

Even if I were to fill out your survey, what would I possibly say? Nobody expects to be thrilled at a Doubletree. It is the kind of place you stay because you can’t afford the Sheraton. Or the Marriott, which as I said, is where I am currently staying, and which is AMAZING!!!

Hopefully they will send me a survey so I can tell them all about it.

I appreciate that you are concerned about you “somehow failed to live up to my expectations.” Generally speaking, the only expectation I have when staying at a mid-priced hotel chain is to be left the fuck alone.

Thanks again for taking the time to write a passive-aggressive email,

Michael Ian Black

P.S. Your cookies are good.

modern art

20 x 200 Print by Craig Damrauer

via Design Milk

tracking down the trans

For three years, James West of Sydney, Australia has been receiving emails from the Tran family as they plan for their annual Thanksgiving family reunion.

Which presumably means that James West of California, USA has either not turned up, or has been a bit pissed off about not getting invited like everyone else.

This year, the Aussie made a film to try and track down the family and see if he could score a free Yankee meal.

According to news.com.au James flew out of Sydney last night, canned corn in hand

the cool hunter hits the big time

To celebrate some very saucy looking numbers, stalwarts of awesome The Cool Hunter asked Brazilian artist Fernando Volken Togni to design them this poster.

Needless to say, it's cool as hell. 

Check out more of Fernando's work (including an awesome poster for a local TED event) at his website fernandovt.com

Oh, and if you see Bill from The Cool Hunter around, let him know he can buy our blog for a very cool million hits. And thank him for keeping us all continually inspired

finger skatin' good

There's not a lot that would make me want to buy Hermes clothing (especially after taking a squiz at their website... snorezzzzzzzzzz)

However the internetz is a new world, where social media can turn a great idea into hard cash simply by spreading branded content like this cool little video and giving us all a new perspective on a Parisian classic.

Or, if that's all a bit hoighty toighty stratoigic for you... 

Check out this fully sick vid, it's going hella viral!!

i'm in charge and the answer is no

via @PieterPeach

italian volcano blows a smoke ring

This sexy pic found via @rod3000

bread people

According to the site description. "Bread people is a service that provides pictures of bread celebrities for you to look at"

'nuff said. Check it out immediately and enjoy

via Huffington Post

your face... in a book

gabriel wickbold: sexual colour photography

A new series of photographs titled 'Sexual Colour' from Brazilian artist Gabriel Wickbold

Check out the rest at Bit Rebels

See and download the full gallery on posterous

fully sick, street legal van for sale

Looking for a cheap Mitsubishi Express Van? 

Too late, it's already sold thanks to this awesome listing on ebay...

 

This vehicle was the back up car for the Delorian in "Back to the future"  (Flux capacitor removed for safety and intermittent time travel issues....we once got stuck in the 80's for a few days...or was it Adeleaide...either way we were happy to be home) and for the Camaro "Bumble Bee" in Transformers (the Robot Mode has been turned back to factory default to prevent inadvertant transforming at the traffic lights when you stop next to a prius and all bumble bee wants to do is to monkey stomp it, and for back up required during street fights....goes without saying)

 

More gangtsa than The Saprano’s

More Pimp’n than Snoop dogg

More secret compartments than Colombian airplane

Still not convinced…..

Cop engine

Cop tyres

Cop chip

Cop steering wheel

Cop seat

Cop glove box

 

 Does the quarter in flat 30's.....for real

For those romantics out there! The ladies love the blackened windows for some privacy and flat super soft plush marine carpet in the back or,   for the entrepreneur….. if you need to move some merchandise around without “the man” F@$$ing your SH#% up....

Just like that drunk chick at the party…you can put any amount of your junk in the rear end of this…. Without the cursin’ and cryin’….just in and out , no questions asked!

But you still want more.....

“Almost surround sound” (Trademark) car stereo with not only the ability to switch from AM and FM but comes complete with the Compact Disc (CD) technology

Optioned with: Tow bar, Bull Bar, Cargo Bar, Mars Bar

Reg Mar 2011, to get you through your first summer of absolute awesomeness-ness.

Regretful sale, but since I’ve been married my wife dosen’t like me driving by myself for all the attention from all the classy ladies that I get, when I’m on my way to the dump.

DISCLAIMER (This car has no affiliation with any movies what so ever, there are no police products on this vehicle and secret compartments maybe either too secret to find or non existent. The “tin can” acoustic properties of the van provide the concert style “Almost surround sound” TM. Snoop dogg or the saprano’s have not endorsed this vehicle, Mars Bar not included)

found via @RyanSpanger

original breast munchies

via @whatjanesays

totally (literal) eclipse of the heart

evolving logo for an evolving climate

This cracking corporate identity for the Nordkyn Peninsula in Norway is pretty cool on its own, but the designers at Neue Design have stepped it up another level.

By hooking up a feed from the local weather station, they have created a digital pulse for the entire region by allowing the logo to change colour and shape in realtime with the weather.

Check out the evolving logo at VisitNordkyn.com

found via @brandamentalist

lego: a blocumentary

Legendary snowboard cinematographer and dead set cool kat Jess Gibson has just released this documentary about Lego, AFOL.

"Hey, I already knew Lego was rad!" I hear you say... Well check out this crew of lego lovers.

via Lemonade

have sex with a guy with a moustache day

that's not a cat joke, it's a fart joke

unicorn sandwich

Artwork by Kathryn McNaughton

via Lifelounge

people are awesome

You've probably seen at least some of these video clips, but when you put them all together it really brings home two things:

1. People are awesome
2. The internet is awesome

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

honk if you love god

Well played, North America.

photo by Jen McGoldrick, Shredmonton

vintage posters by kazumasa nagai

Check out even more (and download these in beautiful high res) at Pink Tentacle

via DJ Lazer Ferrari

See and download the full gallery on posterous

got beef?

via @thinktankmedia

the awesome foundation

The original idea for That's Ace! was developed around a hope to document and amplify the amazing people, sights, sounds and experiences that a few of us are lucky enough to come across every day online and beyond. 

A secondary motive was to work towards helping some of these ideas get off the ground when maybe they wouldn't have otherwise. Enter The Awesome Foundation

Want $1000 just for doing something awesome?

Got a big idea you want to get off the ground but know will never happen because it's just too much pocket money?

Or, even cooler, are you a little more 'financially advanced' and always on the lookout for cool ways to contribute to the next generation of creative do-gooders, without necessarily wanting to sit on a board of directors for the next four years?

THE AWESOME FOUNDATION IS AWESOME.

They don't want a slice of your company, or your cash, they just give a thousand bucks to random projects every month because they are awesome - No strings attached.

That definitely deserves one of these

leandro erlich wants to blow your mind

Argentine Leandro Erlich likes to screw with people. And we love it.

Check out his website for more mind bending joy

skateistan: learning to skate in a war torn city

Skateistan, a short film shot last year by Orlando vo Einsiedel, exploring what it's like for young peope growing up and learning to skate in one of the most dangerous cities on the planet.

via Wired

marion bolognesi: watery eyes

All artwork by Marion Bolognesi

via Lemonade

See and download the full gallery on posterous

VIDEO: a life lived through facebook

The best thing you will watch today.

found via @DanIlic

empty billboard blurs architecture, advertising & art

Check out this recently erected 'billboard' on the Canadian / US border, designed by Seattle art / architecture firm Lead Pencil Studios

You'd think that something so blatantly anti-capitalism would have to be a stunt put on by the Canadian Tourist Bureau, eh? 

Well think again, this intelligent piece of design was funded by the US Federal Government, who are nothing if not art critics.

Lead Pencil Studio's Daniel Mihalyo describes the work like this:

"Borrowing the effectiveness of billboards to redirect attention away from the landscape... this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond."

What an awesome way to celebrate the open spaces between two of the most beautiful and expansive countries on earth.

Read more at FastCo Design

via @benhyphenrowe

don't worry, be students

Posted for no other reason besides I think it's a rad use of coloured paper.

Sticky note infographic created by the team at Yokoland for a NY Times article titled 'Don't worry, be students'

shit just got real

I'm sure I've already posted this but I just needed to watch this so bad and figured someone out there could probably use a smile as well.

For an even better viewing experience, check out the original at somethingjustgotreal.com

curious cat photobombs a sexy shot

I have never understood the funny cat photo phenomenon, but this is dead set comedy gold.

A girl tries to send her boyfriend a very personal photo and the cat gets jealous.

found via @reddit

beautiful water photography

See the whole set here

via @Flipbooks

See and download the full gallery on posterous

when a car is a shoe: calligraffiti for pink ribbon

I must admit, until I saw this I was pretty sure nobody could make "tagging" names cool.
But when Breast Cancer charity Pink Ribbon approached legendary artist Niels 'Shoe' Meulman, they brought two things:

1. The painfully sexy, Special Edition Mercedes B-Class, representing a shiny new sneaker, ready to become an instant collectible
and
2. A list of names, symbolising all the Dutch women who have been touched by the disease

Call me an idealist, but I genuinely believe that when big business decides to link arms with creativity and stare down the seemingly impossible global issues, anything seems possible.

the middle finger project

If you have ever considered punching a hole in the wall beside you, running and screaming for the nearest exit from the confines of your desk... This blog is for you.

If you have ever wanted to travel, while being paid to do so.. This blog is for you.

If you have ever wanted to raise your middle finger at the establishment and forge your own path... This chick seems to know her stuff and has written a great e-book to help you wrap your brain around how to give it a crack as well.

For a limited time... it's only 12 bucks. That's the cheapest pep-talk / motivational speaker you will find on the planet.

Do yourself a favour and check it out here

Click here to visit Ash Ambirge.

mapcrunch: your portal to the world

I know some people (including one regular contributor to this blog) who love trawling the internet for new places to travel, but to me that just sounds like effort.

What about a website that does all the choosing for you, taking me places I wouldn't have even thought or known about otherwise?

MapCrunch.com is just one of the amazing concepts that have been created using the magic of Google's Streetview project.

That said, it's definitely one of my favourites so far.

Simply choose a few countries you would like to see and MapCrunch will take you there.

Or if you're like me, simply click on the green Go! button to be instantly transported to a random spot anywhere on the planet, like this cool bridge in Italy.

influencers: how trends & creativity become contagious

INFLUENCERS FULL VERSION from R+I creative on Vimeo.

secret wars: melbourne

You may remember Bryony's post about the amazing 'Secret Wars' concept that recently touched down in Melbourne. 

If not, check it out here

Otherwise, you can just sit back and enjoy the highlights of Round One in this fresh new video

via @SecretWarsAu

commando: the musical

via @JessMcGuire at Defamer