The local Shop-Rite grocery store won’t personalize a birthday cake for little 3-year old Adolph Hitler, son of Aryan Nation members Heath and Deborah Campbell of Greenwich Township. Little Adolph has a younger brother and sister too, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell.
“We believe the request … to inscribe a birthday wish to Adolf Hitler is inappropriate,” said Karen Meleta, a ShopRite spokeswoman.
The Campbells turned down the market’s offer to make a cake with enough room for them to write their own inscription and can’t understand what all of the fuss is about.
If you missed the opening, don’t worry, you can drop by anytime to the Official Bad Art Museum of Art at Cafe Racer because it’s now open from 7am until 2am, 7 days a week. Stop by for lunch or dinner or a cold one after work and view the stupendous art. • Video by Marlow •
This is a great day for America, on so many levels and in so many ways.
Jodavid and I are Obama supporters and we’ve been working on the “OBAMA” Room at Cafe Racer. That is the acronym for the Official Bad Art Museum of Art. So of course we chose to spend election night there, in the OBAMA room, with our friends.
Kurt, the owner and chef, read that an analysis was done to see how much each vote costs and with over one billion dollars spent during the campaign season, the cost for each vote totaled eight dollars. So Cafe Racer had an election party and for the Obama supporters served Obama’s most favorite food, chili, using his own recipe, for $8 and for the McPalin supporters, they served prune juice and caribou jerky.
After McCain conceded and Obama made his acceptance speech, there was a spontaneous dancing in the streets. Jo posted the video on Seattle Twist.
Well, Microsoft has released two milestone announcements today.
The first, which most readers may be aware of with today’s media coverage, is that Microsoft has negotiated a $10 million dollar deal with Jerry Seinfeld, who will appear as a key celebrity pitchman in ads along with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates, in an effort to invigorate it’s image in the ongoing Apple Inc. young hip dude versus the Microsoft Corp. stodgy old-fart guy.
This new $300 million ad campaign, one of the largest in Microsoft’s history, and pitting it against Apple will no doubt insure minimal market “shrinkage” for a company which identifies itself only as Microsoft.
We here at Unusual Life are devout lifetime fans of Jerry, attend his sold-out shows at the Paramount, and watch Seinfeld reruns incessantly, so we salute you Bill for crashing at Jerry’s place or whatever you’re going to do in the ads. This sounds like great fun and I want to sit in on those ad brainstorming meetings.
As much as this excites us however, The second bit of news Microsoft announced today is the release of the much anticipated Photosynth online software.
Photosynth is an amazing new way to share and experience photography in a 3D environment.
Our introduction to Photosynth here at Unusual Life happened a couple of months ago when we were contacted by our pal Janet Galore, asking if Microsoft Live Labs could film at our home for a new top secret software project called Photosynth to be released soon.
Apparently, for their Photosynth “How To” software release video they were looking for an interesting home with some cool art, and the right amount of synthy quality…?
Of course!, we replied, and the film crew with talent Laura Foy arrived two days later for the shoot, which was lots of fun. I immediately began researching Photosynth, and realized that in the near future I would have a new tool that would fundamentally change the way that I thought about taking photos in a most profound way. At the shoot, my initial conversation with David Gedye set my mind spinning with creative possibilities and practical applications of synthing photos together in 3D environments: online virtual galleries, travel, real estate, anything to do with sharing visual information.
Like the best of any viewer created online community, it opens the doors to a whole new experience in open community visualization and interactive possibilities.
And guess what?
You can create your own synth – fast, easy, and free.
Jon Ronson’s fascinating film about his experiences and discoveries documenting the thousands of boxes of Stanley Kubrick’s estate. This is a 50 minute documentary, so click on the full screen button under the video and enjoy it when you find the time.
Off the Map gives you an opportunity to enter a unique view of the world as seen through the eyes of ten incredible visionaries. Once you are inspired by their vision, be sure to build your own online backyard paradise and share it with Unusual Life.
The hottest parties in Vegas aren’t at the clubs. They’re by the pools.
Nestled in a corner past the Mirage’s general pool area, beyond the Secret Garden and Dolphin Habitat and down a winding concrete path, is Bare, the hotel’s exclusive, adults-only pool. Shrouded in greenery and teak paneling, the velvet-roped entrance is guarded by an employee who checks IDs.
This museum consists mostly of toilet seat lids decorated by Barney Smith, a retired master plumber now in his eighties.
At last count, Smith had 645 toilet seats and lids in his garage at 239 Abiso Avenue in the San Antonio suburb of Alamo Heights (210Ã824Ã7791). Each item has a different theme. Some themes are more serious than others. “The last toilet seat I hung up was of the Columbia (space shuttle),” Smith said. “I’ve got the patch that they wore on the front, nd on the back I’ve got a newspaper clipping that says ‘Columbia Is Lost.’”
Deceased hornets are glued to one toilet seat and lid combination. “Please open slowly, do not disturb,” reads the message on the lid. Lift the lid and you see the bugs underneath.
“These are yellow jackets,” Smith said. “One of them stung me on my head, and I just said, ‘I’ll put you on my toilet seat.’ ” Now that’s what I call a payback.
Another lid has a photo of Miss America on it. (Miss America probably didn’t figure she’d end up being so honored, right?) Another toilet seat lid is covered with dog tags (from dogs, not soldiers), and still another is decorated with somebody’s swizzle stick collection of swizzle sticks.
Smith selected toilet seats as his motif because he has connections in the plumbing supply business who give him damaged toilet seats they can’t sell. He said the neighbors don’t complain because the garage museum hasn’t attracted a lot of tour buses.
Ironically, the museum has no bathroom. “I got plenty of toilet seats, but no toilet,” Smith admitted.
Since 1984, Jon Barnes has been carrying tourists through Aspen in the back of his 1978 yellow Checker cab. Now he’s carrying thousands more virtual visitors online. The vintage taxi is enough to stop traffic. But over the years, Barnes has been accumulating more and more cool stuff — electronic keyboards, drums, lasers, lights — until by the early ’90s, it became more a vehicle for entertainment than transportation. Now, the Ultimate Taxi is on the Internet, broadcasting images of passengers and Aspen scenery through a cutting-edge wireless network, designed by Harvie Branscomb with Sun Microsystems Aspen research lab funding the wireless broadband project.
The Liberace Museum was founded April 15, 1979, by the late entertainer Liberace. The Museum features “Mr. Showmanship’s” dazzling jewelry, rare antiques, unsurpassed wardrobe, unique and historical pianos and his custom car collection.
Highlights include Liberace’s famous sequined, bejeweled and rhinestone-studded costumes, feathered capes and fur collection, plus his incredible pianos and amazing car collection.
He was very popular in the 1950′s, especially with the ladies!
In 1966 Liberace opened Liberace Interiors and Objects d’Art,” in Hollywood, California. No surprise for he had quite a flair for decorating, and spared no expense when it came to one of his many homes. He even offered his interior design services to clients!
He had several homes around the country. Here are a few pictures from his Hollywood Hills home, completments of Bob’s World of Liberace.
Bob’s tribute to the
Glitter, the Glitz, and the Camp of America’s most flamboyant entertainer, the one and only “Mr. Showmanship®”, Liberace!
is not to be missed and feature incredible photos of Lee Liberace’s many homes.
Christmas was Lee’s favorite times of the year and he spent thousands of dollars decorating his home. He had custom Christmas cards made for himself every year, sometimes costing up to $4 a piece, and he had a mailing list of 7,000.
Self-professed “all-American, Jewish, lesbian folksinger” Phranc will come to your house and have a Tupperware Party!
Phranc got her start in the late ’70s Punk rock movement with synth rock band Nervous Gender and reggae Goth band Catholic Discipline (a band that would be immortalized in the first installment of the Decline of Western Civilization movies). During this period, she would sing some of her more political songs acoustically to allow the audience to clearly hear her words. It was these performances that eventually led to the discovery of her voice as an acoustic folk artist. During the span of her early solo releases (Folksinger and on), she discovered her niche — a voice for not only the gay and lesbian community, but for the socially conscious everywhere. Phranc’s music is often humorous in approach, but the underlying message is always based on serious subject matter.
