All of those infrared rays caught in our atmosphere are really starting to make me sweat. The summer is here along with its friends to kick our asses. I just saw An Inconvenient Truth at 11:15am in the Lloyd Center Mall and my heart is crushed. I have little to no information about my viewers/readers, but I'll go ahead and assume that we're all fairly like-minded. Our mission today is to try to convince one not-so-like-minded person we know to go see this movie.
If you haven't seen this short documentary that Spike Jonze put together in 2000, check it out:
Part 1 of 2 (YouTube link)
Part 2 of 2 (YouTube link)
Right now I'm feeling crazy about Al Gore. I'd love for him to run and win the 2008 election and it crushes my soul to think that he won't even run. It's inspiring to see movies like this getting pretty popular on the internet (see also the amazing Stephen Colbert roast movie) and movies like An Inconvenient Truth and Who Killed The Electric Car? getting played in theaters all across the country. Shit is deeply fucked and it's scary and powerful to see people talking about and making this kind of epic media. Claire and I are thinking about putting together a weekly video series... more on that later.
I'll keep myself busy making music and jokes and websites in the meantime, like this new movement I just found out about called BLOSTING. It all started with a very in-depth fictional biography of Ernst (Count) Chocula penned by an anonymous genius.
There's even a Blosting fansite/HQ on Urban Honking that neither Mike, Steve, or I knew about... hacked? So weird.
What is Blosting? From the soon-to-be-deleted Wikipedia entry:
Exploiting the open format of user edited content sites, "blosters" recontextualize pop culture icons, corporate brands and the complexity of living documents. Manipulating nostalgia, irony and post-flash mob meme mentality, blosts leave an exciting--if ephemeral--vellum-like layer on the already subjective concept of history.
Hawaiian computer parties in a pre-blog era were known as "blasts", which were wrongly interpreted by haoles--or mainlanders--as blosts, ergo blosting.
The first widely known occurrence of blosting was a 2006 biography of Ernst Choukula, and was quickly followed by the life stories of Robert and Francis Christopher Barry. The veracity of these Blosts were highly contested after being linked from the popular blog of Jason Kottke. In addition to Kottke's link [1] the legend of Ernst Choukula was covered by the equally popular New York City based daily blog, The Morning News [2], and the Portland, Oregon weekly newspaper The Portland Mercury [3].
I don't know what's more interesting, the the actual "blosts," or the discussions around them.
Blosting seems like a glorified terms for "humorous writing." It seems like the people involved (and I know who is involved) is taking the whole thing a bit too seriously.
On a different note:
Did you ever actually see this? Sorry it got edited down so much, but there's space limitations, apparently.
I hope you like how it turned out though.
ok i skimmed over yr blog post...
CATCH THAT BEAT 3:
what happened to: jib kidder, extreme animals, hooliganship, and dites donc???????? privacy, anyone????? what's white rainbow or valet doing that day????
love you and wish you'd talk to me--
suze ie your dogg 4 life
that image of you all gathered around the anonymous genius is so norman rockwell...! im going to render it in a painting i think. i hope you are well! i miss you. say hi to the lake for me!
Hey Jona, I meant to ask you. There's this thing on the internet that's called "We Float Around, Hang Out On Clouds" and it's supposed to be a YACHT and Lucky Dragons split and it's all Nirvana samples and stuff. Is this getting a release... like a white label thing even? It's good vibes. Okay! Hugs.
Love you Jona!