Tag: Interwubbing

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I figure I end up mindlessly reading newsfeeds anyway, so I might as well inflict some of the pain on my delightful reader(s).

Self Heating Dinners
Years from now, depressed and lonely bachelors everywhere will snuggle up to their warm, inviting curry-flavoured pillows.

This looks nice. I read a review, and it is refreshingly neither some kind of awkward Magic-a-la-Hollywood movie (it’s called The Illusionist, nor Edward Norton Does Shrek). Plus it has Jessica Biel in it, so I’m sold.

Edward Norton does Shrek. eeeew.

Wow. Zhang Yimou and Chow Yun Fat. Unfortunately, judging by how both Hero and House of Flying Daggers were handled, I’ll probably get to see this on DVD long before the theatrical release in these parts around 2012 (which will be an English dub anyway, so what’s the use?)

I get all hot under the collar about Ron Howard making a Straczynski-penned movie called The Changeling (a Garfield Logan movie! Woohoo! Sign up Adrian Grenier!), and then it turns out to be some kind of cheap little grey-toned thriller that will no doubt waste Nicole Kidman/Charlize Theron/Diane Lane (or other 35 actresses who have won/been nominated for an award) in a sleepy, underdeveloped character with the latest iteration of the Haley Joel Osment meme playing the creepy Son/NotSon. No doubt, with JMS writing, it will turn out that NotSon is the emissary of an ancient alien race who goes around seeding planets with their cosmic bingo-bongo.

I ask you, Ron Howard, isn’t it so much easier to round up a bunch of animals and turn them green in post? You’re the guy who made Splash, for Mary Mags’s sake!

Somewhere, deep down, JK Rowling just loves to watch fanpersons convulse.

Price of car and pedigree of brand are directly proportional to ugliness of resulting vehicle (and make no mistake, while this is a mockup, the eventual one will be a total eyesore. Hell, I remember seeing Cayenne mockups that looked
nice once). In other news, BMW X3, still no, no, no.

But, just to prove that there is an exception to every rule…
BTW, saw one of these, brand new, red and black, on the back of a shipping truck making its way from the airport. I hope and pray that the owner doesn’t wreck it before I get to see it drive by (3 out of 4 of the local Porsche Carrera GTs, including the black one I saw once, are now sadly in the scrap heap).

I love it. Does it have cupholders?

Love it more. Does it have a DAP dock?

Who’s yer daddy?

The Nigerian Carving Industry is more developed than I thought.

James Bond tech, when processed for production in the real world, always ends up looking like something from the Boys 6-12 aisle of the Toy Store.

A Bruce Lee Musical. Can’t be worse than Dragon.

And finally.

…I can’t wait for the pr0n version.

ten little big things

Oh My Gawd, it’s my entire life in ten bullet points.

(via Drawn!)

quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

Just wanted to point you all to this article.

All I have to say (other than, “It’s about damn time!”) is that it couldn’t have happened to a better book. If you’ve never read Watchmen, you really, really should. Now.

Not only is it a damn fine story told with awesome prowess both in the writing (I want T-shirts with half the lines of the book quoted on them) and art departments (I want many of the panels blown up and framed on my wall), but it one of the few truly influential books of the last two decades. If you’re one of those people who likes to read ‘important’ books, then there’s really no reason you shouldn’t have read it by now.

Go on then.

V

expandex

Did you know that this blog is the number one Yahoo! Search result for “breasts bursting shirt”?

Yahoo! indeed.

sequence

Y’know, there are great web comics, there are greater web comics, and then there are those you hope are going to continue for a long, long time.

argh, my eyes, part two

Ladies and Ladas, this is why I became a designer (some pics contain “only your boss will freak out at them”-class nudity, so probably not safe for work). I actually used to own a couple of catalogues from the eighties that were like this, only by then everything was shit-brown in colour with grey ersatz metal stereo equipment. Thank god we had Transformers, and this generation has cool accessories for their loved ones.

Like this.

(links via the ever excellent screenhead)

unsurprising

Following a link from Caren’s blog, I came upon this test. I figure that since I’m going to rule the world anyway, I might as well see what kind of role models I have to call upon.

Since it gives you the option of taking multiple numbers of questions, I decided to do them all. First three times, on the short answer tests, I got this:


What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Then I took the longest one, and got this:


What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

No, that can’t be right, I said, I must take this again, and ended up with this:


What Famous Leader Are You?
personality tests by similarminds.com

Sigh… one of them (supposedly) bonked Marilyn Monroe, but was shot in a convertible. The next guy had a bunch of palaces and gold guns and stuff, but ended up in a ditch with one hell of a facial hair problem. The third, well, he gave up a life of painting for a life of living in a (larger) hole and waving a lot.

Still, he did have a natty dress sense 😛

argh, my eyes, part one

Just in case you thought I was kidding…

(note, this is exactly the same image that’s on the actual pickle bottles)

my life is complete now

Chow Yun Fat is going to be in the Pirates of the Caribbean sequels.

Chow Yun Fat. Johnny Depp. In the same movie.

In two movies.

ohmygodohmygodohmygod.

*head asplodes*

mosaic

it's all good, babe

Well, it’s my fiftieth post on Renderosity, and so this is every thumbnail for every one of the 49 images posted there so far.

pictographic

This flagrant disregard for the norms of what is commonly considered a “photo blog” (words. ACTUAL WORDS! The gall of this creature!) is here because it’s far too late in the day, I want a post every day of the month**, and the photos are in the other room on the work computer, unprepared for posting. I spent the day watching James Bond kiss Japanese onna and doodling images of giant robots.

**UPDATE: Apparently my website doesn’t know what time it is and changed dates at least 40 minutes before it actually turn midnight here. 🙁 Oh well, I’ll get you next month, you full linked calendar column…**

It has occured to me that this incarnation of iLevel originally didn’t start out as a photo blog, but as a meld of the original wordless — well, commentary-less — site and my infrequent text dump. I’ve been trying to get something other than a photo up here for what seems like forever, and sometimes I actually do. It is, however, much easier to just look through my stash of photos, pick one that looks mildly interesting, crop and work it until it looks somewhat decent and stick it up here. Hey, it works.

Today, for the reasons mentioned above, there will be no photo. So I’d like to address a few things that have gone unmentioned due to the steady flow of pictures:

1) Vanilla Coke
If you came here through the post on Boing Boing that mentioned me and looked around for more information regarding the beverage, Bollywood or Vivek Oberoi, I’m sorry you were disappointed. Other than pictures of household objects and potted plants there is nothing yet on the site about any of the subjects.

(If you came back here again regardless, then Thank You, and I hope you like the pictures)

I am curious, however, as to what information you hoped to find here. All I did was send the link to BoingBoing and put in my blog as the sender’s website; I never did expect anyone to come here seeking info specifically relating to that post. I suppose a translation of the lyrics of that ad might be helpful to some, and while my Hindi isn’t perfect I’ll try and whip one up soon. If it’s anything else (no, I don’t have naked pics of Vivek Oberoi 🙂 ) at all please leave a comment.

heck, leave a comment anyway; tell me about your love life.

2) Icewalla
Yes, I know, just like everything else I left it halfway. I’m in two minds whether to take down the three parts I’ve posted and edit them up a bit — a couple of lines in there are just plain horrendous. The story, however, will be completed, and more short stories will follow (although I doubt I’ll do a multi-parter soon. Those just beg to be abandoned).

As I said, this isn’t just a photo blog, y’know.

3) Renderosity
I haven’t mentioned this on the site yet, but I have started posting larger versions of the stuff you see on iLevel at the Renderosity computer graphics community. My gallery can be found here. So, if you ever wanted a closer look at the guy on the torn poster in String Theory, or count the pores in Pores, now you can.

I still like the smaller sizes on iLevel (bandwidth friendly and nice layout — Thanks Samir!), and it’s always updated first (plus any text posts such as this, as well as multiple photo/illustration posts will only be available here).

So, a photo should be up tomorrow. Hope you come back (I don’t have a tracker on this site yet; I’m lazy as is amply evidenced).

Back to those giant robots…

rejujuvinationation

Welcome to iLevel 1.5, now incorporating Restart Twice.

Restart Twice was my old text-blog on Blogger, and iLevel was on Camblog. Both of the old blogs have now been blasted to smithereens! :laugh:

iLevel 1.5 — this blog — is what I originally envisioned as what my blog would be; a mix of words, photos, illustrations and everything in-between. I had considered trying to tag on the previous year’s of content on the old blogs into 1.5, but have decided against it. Sometimes you just have to move on. (Don’t worry, I still have back-ups of the photos and text, though they may never be put up for public-access again in their original form. Maybe some photos will come up in galleries in the 2.0 stage)

Yes, 2.0. iLevel 1.5 is the stepping stone to 2.0, which will be a full personal website, and iLevel in its new 1.5 form will be a part of that along with galleries and other stuff that makes me look cool. :hehe:

So welcome to iLevel. Enjoy.

Vishal