The Green Dove Life Space

Blog Integration

2009-03-25T20:45:00.002-04:00

I've decided to integrate this blog with my other more journal-y blog for the time being. Head over to abigailgreendove.blogspot.com now.

"Where the Wild Things Are" Trailer

2009-03-25T20:14:00.002-04:00

The trailer for the upcoming Spike Jonze adaptation of the children's book "Where The Wild Things Are" has just been released.

Could be amazing in a trippy, fantastical way like "Being John Malkovich" and "Adaptation" were. Or it could be incredibly creepy the way most animatronic movies are ("The Neverending Story" still gives me nightmares).

The film was co-written by Jonze and Dave Eggers, which is pretty beyond awesome. Also, using Arcade Fire in the trailer wasn't a bad touch.

Stefan Brüggemann: Words As Works of Art

2009-03-03T13:42:00.008-05:00

I've always wanted to open an art gallery that mixes paintings, photographs, and sculptures with poetry and quotations written on the walls in large, block letters as if they were pieces of art as well (which I think good writing can be). So, imagine how thrilled I was when I found out about text artist Stefan Brüggemann.

designboom.com

A list of potential exhibition titles

todayandtomorrow.net

Brüggemann is a young conceptual artist who creates, among other things, word art. He was born in Mexico City and is part of a new Mexico based art boom. He turns his criticisms of the art industry machine and contemporary society into thought-provoking and sometimes mind-bending works and that combine sculpture, text, and plays on advertising.

A Nice, Hot Bath

2009-03-03T13:36:00.003-05:00

For some reason I am being drawn to photos of bathtubs today. I think it's because I need to learn how to relax.

apartmenttherapy.com

Yes, that's a bathtub.

NOTCOT.org

apartmenttherapy.com

It's much too bad that every time I take a bath I realize that I don't actually enjoy it. It's either too hot or too cold, the room is too bright or too dark, and the bathtub in my apartment drains itself accidentally. I'm like the goldilocks of bathtubs.

Type Tees

2009-02-22T18:51:00.003-05:00

I don't normally like slogan tees, but these are just too funny to dismiss.

Available for about $15 each at typetees.com

An Anorexic's Nightmare

2009-02-22T18:43:00.006-05:00

This is why you're fat has to be the most ridiculous foodie website of all time.

cheeseburger pizza

It's just a blog where people post photos of the fattening, fabulous foods they're eating.

Is it weird that this makes me hungry? Chocolate covered bacon, anyone?

The descriptions of the food are definitely better than the photos though.

deep fried peanut butter brownie wrapped in cookie dough

corn dog pizza

iPhone Coasters and Solar Panel Samsungs

2009-02-17T23:14:00.006-05:00

I just saw a thumbnail of this on NOTCOT.org and started laughing out loud, alone in my tiny little cottage apartment.

16 iPhone coasters for $60 from Meninos, a design group based in Brazil.

I was about the post this when I saw this other thumbnail on NOTCOT linking to Samsung's new eco-friendly "Blue Earth." It's an iPhone-like touchscreen phone made from recycled plastic. It runs off solar panels on the back of the phone. Incredible.

More at neowin.net

The Right to Bear Arms

2009-02-13T22:04:00.006-05:00

I was flipping through* images from the first two days of New York Fashion Week and stumbled upon this Jenni Kayne fur sleeve jacket that gave me pause.

via Coutorture

Anyone remember this Busted Tees "Second Amendment" shirt?

via Busted Tees

Curious. Very curious.

*Can you use that term for internet surfing? I don't know, but I will.

You can't touch this ice, ice baby

2009-02-13T00:18:00.005-05:00

I never thought I'd say this but... anyone want to take a road trip to Utah? Utah has always been at the bottom of my list of favorite US states and I couldn't wait to get out of it when I was driving through on my way from Los Angeles to Boulder, Colorado. But this little nugget of concert news has made me suddenly change my mind:

Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer will be performing together at the McKay Events Center in Orem, Utah on February 27th. The event, Hammer Pants and Ice (no, I didn't make that up), is happening one night only. Tickets range from a ridiculously low $30 to $35.

Seriously. Utah? Anyone? I'll drive.

Oh, and... anyone else think Hammer Pants on Ice would make the best Ice Capades show ever.

Via Yahoo News. Thanks to the Rachel Maddow Show .

Guns are a girl's best friend

2009-02-13T00:00:00.005-05:00

America's obsession with guns usually makes me very, very sad and/or angry, but sometimes it just makes me laugh and shake my head. Today it's the latter.

General Coin & Gun Exchange in Eau Claire, Wisconsin is giving away a gun with every purchase of diamond earrings worth $400+. Owner Brian Zinn told the AP that since "guys like guns and girls like diamonds," he thought he'd "mesh the two together this year."

How romantic. As a little girl, I always dreamt of the day I'd meet a kind, handsome, charming man who would get a free gun and shoot me with some diamonds.

I'm sure Michael Moore is going crazy right now.

Via wisn.com. Thanks to the Rachel Maddow Show.

jack kerouac quote art print

2009-02-06T19:53:00.000-05:00

This Jack Kerouac On The Road quote poster seems to be on every college kid's dorm room wall (it was also on mine), so I was skeptical when Apartment Therapy mentioned a print with the same quote by Jamie Meares. But I gave it a look anyway and, to my delight, discovered that it is truly beautiful and not at all cliche.

To buy it click on her name (above). It costs only $25.

a lazy, rainy thursday

2009-02-05T23:49:00.002-05:00

Just too cute not to post. From Apartment Therapy.

Demetri Martin show premiering... finally

2009-02-05T02:33:00.002-05:00

I wrote about Demetri Martin getting his own Comedy Central show on October 4, 2007 (read the proof). I finally saw a trailer for it tonight while watching "The Colbert Report." That's almost 16 months later, to the day.

He reminds me of how much I loved living in New York and going to Rififi and the PIT to see friends perform stand-up.

Watch the extended trailer:

The show premieres on February 11th.

The White House Via Atlanta

2009-02-04T22:11:00.003-05:00

I think this is the very definition of Fresh Off The Boat:

an Iranian immigrant named Fred Milani lives in this White House replica in Atlanta––

I think it's ridiculous, although that pool is quite pretty.

Self-Loathing in the Commerce Department

2009-02-03T21:19:00.006-05:00

Just saw this reported on by Rachel Maddow and thought it was much too good to pass up:

President Obama's pick to head the Commerce Department, Republican Senator Judd Gregg, once tried to destroy the Commerce Department:

President Obama’s new candidate to run the Commerce Department voted in favor of abolishing the agency as a member of the Budget Committee and on the Senate floor in 1995.

Sen. Judd Gregg , R-N.H., whose nomination was expected to be announced Tuesday, also worked in the Senate to trim the department’s budget as head of the Commerce-Justice-Science Appropriations Subcommittee.

Read more at CQ Politics

Blog love

2009-01-31T02:52:00.001-05:00

via thinggeek.com

Baddest bad ass electric car: Aptera

2009-01-27T21:56:00.005-05:00

If you've ever wondered what James Bond would drive if he went green, I think Aptera's new electric car is it. The car features an aerodynamic body and a lithium-based battery that can go for about 100 miles on a charge. It accelerates from 0 to 60 in 10 seconds and can go up to 90 miles per hour. The price isn't set yet, but the car will probably go for anywhere from $25,000 to $45,000 (I'm voting for $25,000).

The hamburger bed

2009-01-19T01:28:00.001-05:00

Just too funny.

via Apartment Therapy

CocoRosie profile in the NY Times

2009-01-18T01:50:00.007-05:00

I just dug up this CocoRosie profile in the New York Times by Fernanda Eberstadt from July 2008. Eberstadt lets the Casady sisters speak for themselves in the article and while following them to two gigs and spending time with them in their Paris apartment, she offers you a full portrait of just how richly weird Bianca and Sierra Casady really are.

The article delves into their lives in Paris, their musical theories (they don't listen to it), fashion tastes (see the quote below), food choices (hard boiled eggs and tea), and familial relationships (fucked up).

Here's a little taste of the article:

Bianca: "put on the things you like least, things you hate the most. Things that give you pain. It’s the same thing we do with the language we use in our songs: making ourselves use words we hate.”

Bianca: “Sierra’s anti-humanity, into nature, lightning, physical endurance. I’m into hustling, selling, cheating people, creative vandalism.”

Sierra: “If there’s a poetic to our work, a weird continuity of deliberate mistranslation, it’s what comes off the streets and is purified and reduced by the dollar stores...
I’ve been reborn by the idea of artificial paradise, an urban hustle. We are finding our way to God through the dollar stores of this world.”

Gorgeous.

Listen to their latest single "God Has A Voice, She Sings Through Me":

God Has A Voice, She Sings Through Me - CocoRosie

"Shit Be Math" - astronomy art print

2008-12-30T00:10:00.003-05:00

(I know I haven't posted in ages! I guess I'm taking a little winter vacation.)

I just saw this poster on NOTCOT.org and thought it was awesome. It's the "Seven Rules of Astronomy" print by Jody Avirgan and Noah Rauch. It's 13 by 20 and costs only $30. I think it would make a great gift for anyone interested in astronomy/science or anyone who collects original art prints (like me!).

Kosher beer

2008-12-16T00:33:00.004-05:00

I just read about this in Elle of all places. It's a kosher brewing company called Shmaltz Brew Co.

Their tagline is "The Chosen Beer." I think that's just hysterical.

Atheist holiday cards

2008-12-03T16:41:00.003-05:00

Stephen Colbert talked about these Order of St. Nick atheist "Christmas" cards on Monday night's "Colbert Report."

I think they're awesome.

They're $18.99 for a pack of 10.

Fox News warning: Obama will turn us into pot-smoking transexual vagabonds!

2008-11-28T04:26:00.007-05:00

I made it exactly three minutes and ten seconds into this video before I had to pause it because I was laughing so hard.

This is from an O'Reilly Factor investigation of San Francisco, where the Obama-loving "far left" have taken over "almost every single neighborhood" with a "dark underbelly that seeps into the regular society."

"In San Francisco they [the homeless] travel in packs. You have your vagabonds, you have your street kids, your runaways, your 60s hippie retreads, and they're pretty aggressive."

Priceless.

Thanks, Mia, for telling me about this video.

Untitled random post

2008-11-27T04:02:00.002-05:00

http://www.becausestudio.co.uk/glit.html

More Rahm Emanuel Entertainment

2008-11-27T03:24:00.006-05:00

My obsession with Barack Obama's future chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, continues.

This post is very meta. Below, you can watch a video of Saturday Night Live's Andy Samberg doing an impression of Emanuel's propensity to expletive laden tirades, a 2006 video of the actual Emanuel talking to John Stewart about finding a new FDR (Obama premonition?), and a clip from the "West Wing" with Bradley Whitford playing Josh Lyman, a character inspired by Emanuel.

Got that?

Here goes...

The Daily Show With Jon StewartM - Th 11p / 10c

Rahm Emanuel

Barack Obama Interview
John McCain Interview

Sarah Palin Video
Funny Election Video

Another quick vid worth checking out that doesn't have anything to do with Rahm Emanuel, here's new SNL cast member Michaela Watkins doing an incredible Arianna Huffington impression.