I worked at a movie theatre during college. I was a manager there, and managed to score a few movie posters. The posters were printed on translucent paper since they were posted on lightboxes and hung on the wall. They are rather large, and I’ve been keeping them rolled up in the corner of my closet.
Back to the X-Entertainment, here’s a print ad from the 80′s that let’s you make a flip book. Interestingly enough, there are no directions for creating the flip book itself. But the illustration shows the Chips Ahoy getting “striped” and then bitten.
The Sims 2: Makin’ Magic is an expansion pack for the computer game The Sims. The manual for this pack is very detailed. So is the installation manual that comes long with it.
According to EA, makers of The Sims, you can’t just pop the disc into your CD-ROM. (Yes, you can.) You have to follow the ten page instructions before you can enjoy the game.
What kind of instructions? First, you must defrag your hard drive. Really? For anyone that has ever done this, this process can take hours. Just pop in the disc and install.
Honey Bunches of Oats cereal has a stupendously long story about its history on the back of the box. I’ve never had this cereal. I’m not sure how it even ended up in my kitchen. The story is rather boring, and doesn’t offer the personality that the company’s current ads showcase.
Do I really have favorite words? I’ve come up with a short list, and most of them are silly, “giggle” words. And the winners are…
I particular like “glacial” because of how I heard it used in a sentence. The phrase is from the movie “The Devil Wears Prada” when Glenn Close’s character says “By all means, move at a glacial pace.”
Steve Concotelli, a freelance Editor living in Los Angeles put together this amazing narrative that previews the adventures of the Goonies as they face the Pirates of the Caribbean in their search for One-Eyed Willie. I found this movie trailer some time ago, and watch it every once it while. The quality is top-notch and it makes me wish this movie really existed.
One of the best books I’ve ever bought is “The Art of The Lion King”. Using rough sketches, watercolors, and movie stills, the book tells the entire story the movie through art.
There are words throughout the book of course, but the star of this book is the art.
I have two copies of this book: a small, pocket-size copy and a large, heavy coffee table copy. The small one is nice, but the artwork in a larger format just blows me away.
WWF Paper Towel Dispenser
The World Wildlife Foundation altered a regular paper towel dispenser to show how paper use depletes rain forests in South America.
As written at Inhabitat:
These paper towel dispensers have a cut out the shape of South America through which a stack of green paper towels illustrates the green rain forest canopy of the continent. As the paper towel dispenser is slowly drained of its green paper towels, we see the greenness slowly drained out of South America, symbolizing the nasty environmental impact of disposable paper towels.
My favorite sentence is actually a well-known phrase. The interesting thing about the sentence is that there are actually two versions of it, depending on where you are from. If you haven’t guessed it by now, the sentence is:
Great minds think alike, but fools seldom differ.
I enjoy this sentence because it reminds me of all the times my sisters and I would have these really amazing (in our own minds) ideas. We’d make up a song and sing “great minds think alike,” which my mom would reply “fools seldom differ.” My sisters and I would just giggle at our mother and continue on with the plan we had set out to accomplish.
The first part of the sentence “great minds think alike” is a common phrase. The “fools seldom differ” part of the sentence is widely known in Britain, and rarely heard of here in the U.S. I couldn’t tell you why.
Now, I’m not sure if selecting a quote from an anonymous source actually counts as a favorite sentence. It probably doesn’t. Which is why I have backup. And it comes from a local source, of sorts.
I’ve really been slacking in the show and tell department. I always have something, but it always slips my mind to post. So, to make good on this issue, I’ll be posting them shortly. I apologize.