Bizarre Japanese Fighting Robots

Battlebots 2009! FIGHT!

Japanese Robot Of The Year 2007

Where is this year's robot of the year?

Wal-Mart Employee Burns Himself to Death in Parking Lot

A 58-year-old Wal-Mart employee who said he "couldn't take it anymore" lit himself on fire outside the Bloomingdale store where he worked late Thursday night and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, authorities said this morning.In an interview, his son said his father went to work last night with nothing seeming out of the ordinary. "This had nothing to do with the economy. I want to make that clear," he said, adding that the family may never know the reason for the public suicide.
The Carol Stream man, who worked the overnight shift, was in a parking lot of an adjacent sporting goods store in the west suburban strip mall when he set himself on fire with lighter fluid around 10 p.m., said Randy Sater, a watch commander with the Bloomingdale Police Department. At least 10 people, including some teenagers, witnessed the suicide and several attempted to help the man by throwing their coats on top of him in an effort to put out the flames, he said. "He said he didn't want any help and threw the coats off," Sater said.
When one of the first officers tried to speak to the man, who by that time was severely burned, he responded, "I just couldn't take it anymore," Sater said, citing the officer's report.
The man "enjoyed his job and living in the 'burbs," his son said. "We were getting ready to redo the front lawn." He added that his father had no health problems.
"You try not to ask yourself the question [why he did it] because there's no answer," the son said.
A store manager, who identified himself only as Erwin, had no explanation for the suicide. he said the man had not been laid off.
Wal-Mart corporate spokesman Dan Fogleman said the man had worked for Wal-Mart for a little over 7 years, most recently as an overnight stocker. He said he had spoken with a member of the store's management who described him as "a good guy and fun to be around."
He called the suicide "a tragic situation, and our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family."
Wal-Mart was cooperating with authorities in their investigation, he said, but he declined to "speculate" on whether the man had been in to work last night before the incident or had spoken with any employees. "That's not something we'd be able to share publicly," Fogleman said, saying those issues are considered personnel matters.The man was rushed to Advocate Good Samaritan Hospital in Downers Grove before being transferred to the burn unit at Loyola University Medical Center in Maywood. He was pronounced dead there at 12:42 a.m., according to the Cook County medical examiner's office.
A woman who answered the phone at the family's Carol Stream home and identified herself as his cousin said the family was grieving and declined further comment.

How many times have I told you people? Wal-Mart is pure evil its too bad this poor old man had to be the final straw in proving my thesis.

Stop Being A Pansy Dragonlady.

Eastwood thinks political correctness has made society humourless
Fri, Feb 27 01:15 PM
London, February 27 (ANI): Acting legend Clint Eastwood , 79, apparently believes that political correctness has rendered modern society humourless, for he accuses younger generations of spending too much time trying to avoid being offensive.
The Dirty Harry star insists that he should be able to tell harmless jokes about nationality without fearing that people may brand him "a racist".
"People have lost their sense of humour. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist," the Daily Express quoted him as saying.
"I find that ridiculous. In those earlier days every friendly clique had a 'Sam the Jew' or 'Jose the Mexican' - but we didn't think anything of it or have a racist thought. It was just normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity. That was never a problem. I don't want to be politically correct.
We're all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything," he added. (ANI)

GO see Gran Torino to see what Eastwood is talking about.

Start Your Friday Off Properly

Pump this through your office and we'll make it through the last day of the work week in one piece! Good Luck everyone find the strength inside you!

Blown Up - Unplugged 2 26 09

Our friend Nick jamming out. He's the one singing.

Awakward Scenes from Batman Forever

Back to Back uncomfortable filmmaking. This movie is so strange. Why did The Riddler want diamonds anyways?

DVDTalk: Ace Ventura 3 DVD Review

"While Flitter is bursting with New Jersey energy, his Carrey mimicry leaves much to be desired. "Ace 3" is far too dependent on Flitter's fixation with his punchlines, as director David Mickey Evans rests a majority of the humor on the youngster's shoulders, assuming Carrey callbacks and flatulence jokes are enough to fill a 90 minute family film. With a raspy delivery and stubby physical appearance, Flitter is a total failure as the second coming of Ace, with every last one of his lines dropping out of his mouth with all the grace of an anvil."

Full Review

I hated this kid so much in License to Wed, I couldn't stand the 90 minutes thinking I would rather be stabbing forks into eyeballs then watch another second of this shit.

I Love You, Man Clip: Boat Race

This movie has so much potential. Favs is perfect in this. This realyl is too damn funny. THIS IS NOT COOL GET THE FUCK OUT!

Watch "Raw" Whenever You Want

Just saw this on Aint It Cool News. Eddie Murphy to play Richard Pryor is genius casting by Bill Condon. I just posted this so they'll be an easy link for me to watch "Raw" at any time I want!

CUPCAKES FOR TWITTER!

An unexpected tour of the Twiiter Offices. It looks so drab in there why not spice the place up a bit tweets?

INDIANA JONES RIDE SHOT IN HIGH DEFINITION

This ride looks crazy! I need to ride this all day.

DCA's Tower of Terror Ride (Complete) @ Disneyland

Who doesn't love this ride?!

Adventureland - Final Trailer (High-Def) (RED-BAND)

IGN was being a stinker so here's the YouTube version of this clip that appeared over there.
HHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM.... well hopefully the marketing department for some reason, is making this look worse than it should be. I want to like this movie a lot because it flat out stole my idea. Oh well. If it fails well, The Heat Is On!

The Superman Exists Clip

Get out! Elaine?

Elaine never showed enough skin for me on Seinfeld. One of if not the only downfall of that show. Thanks Shape for going where Seinfeld never could.

Pick Your Package: Josh Freese

From JoshFreese.com
JOSH FREESE : NEW ALBUM & WEBSITE "SINCE 1972" COMING MARCH 24TH
My new record ("Since 1972") and the different packages for sale aren't available until March 24th here at Joshfreese.com but I had a press release go out the other day and there's been a lot of talk on the ol' internet about what I'm doing and "if it's real" or if I'm "joking." It is very much real and I am surely not joking. Buy one and see for yourself....but not until March 24th! For now, I just wanted to at least post the menu and prices up here so that there was a definite spot where people could come check it out for themselves rather than just HEARING about it from someone else. Thanks for stopping by. Sign up to be notified when it comes available in a month. More to follow, Josh

PRICE MENU:
$7
-Digital Download of "Since 1972" (including 3 videos)

$15
-CD/DVD Double Disc Set -Digital Download

$50
-CD/DVD Double Disc Set -T-shirt -"Thank You" phone call from Josh for buying Since 1972. You can tell him what you like about the record that you purchased, or what you thought sucked. Ask whatever you want, like "Is Maynard really THAT weird?" or "Which on of Sting's mansions has the comfiest beds?" or "Are Devo really Suburban Robots that monitor reality or just a bunch of Dads from Ohio?" or "Why don't the Vandals play more stuff off the first record?" It's your 5 minutes to yack it up. Talk about whatever you want.

$250 (limited edition of 25)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download. -T-shirt -Signed Drum Head and Drumsticks. -Go on a lunch date with Josh to PF Changs or The Cheesecake Factory (whatever you're into.)

$500 (limited edition of 15)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download -T-shirt -Signed Cymbal and sticks -Meet Josh in Venice, CA and go floating together in a Sensory deprivation tank (filmed and posted on youtube) -Dinner at Sizzler (get your $8.99 Steak and "all you can eat" Shrimp on)

$1,000 (limited edition of 10)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download. -T-shirt -Signed Cymbal, Drum head and Drumsticks. -Josh washes your car OR does your laundry....or you can wash his car. -Have dinner with Josh aboard the "Queen Mary" in Long Beach, CA -Get drunk and cut each other's hair in the parking lot of the Long Beach courthouse (filmed and posted on youtube of course)$2,500 (limited edition of 5)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download. -Get a private drum lesson with Josh or for all you non-drummers have him give you a back and foot massage (couples welcome) -Pick any 1 member of the Vandals or DEVO (subject to availability) to accompany you and Josh to either the Hollywood Wax Museum or the lunch buffet at the "Spearmint Rhino" -Signed DW snare drum. -Take 3 items of your choice out of his closet (first come, first serve) -Change diapers and make bottles with him for an afternoon (after hitting the strip club)

$5,000 (limited edition of 3)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download. -T-shirt -Josh writes about a song about you and make available on iTunes. -Co-direct a video with him for the song about you and throw it up on the youtubes. -Josh gives you and a friend a private tour of Disneyland -Get drunk together. If you don't drink we can go to my Dads place and hang out under the "Tuba tree" -Stone from Pearl Jam will send you a letter telling you about his favorite song on "Since 1972"

$10,000 (limited edition of 1)
-Signed CD/ DVD and digital download -T-shirt -Signed DW snare drum from A Perfect Circle's 2003 tour. -Josh gives you a private drum lesson OR his and hers foot/back massage (couples welcome, discreet parking) -Twiggy from Manson's band and Josh take you and a guest to Roscoe's Chicken n' Waffle in Long Beach for dinner. -Josh takes you and guest to "Club 33" (the super-duper exclusive and private restaurant at Disneyland located above the Pirates Of The Caribbean) and then hit a couple rides afterwards (preferably the Tiki Room, Haunted Mansion and The Tower Of Terror) -At the end of the day at Disneyland drive away in Josh's Volvo station wagon. It's all yours....take it. Just drop him off on your way home though please.

$20,000 (limited edition of 1)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download. -T-shirt -A signed drum from the 2008 Nine Inch Nails tour. -Maynard James Keenan, Mark from Devo and Josh take you miniature golfing and then drop you off on the side of the freeway (all filmed and posted on youtube) -Josh gives you a tour of Long Beach. See his first apartment, the coffee shop on 2nd St where his buddy paid Dave Grohl $40 to rip up tile just weeks before joining "Nirvana." See the old Vandals rehearsal spot, the liquor store he got busted using a Fake I.D. at when he was 17 (it was Dave from the Vandals old ID). Go check out Snoop Dogg's high- school. For an extra 50 bucks see where Tom and Adrian from No Doubt live.=2 0For another $25 he'll show ya where Eric from NOFX and Brooks from Bad Religion get their hair cut. -Spend the night aboard the Queen Mary and take the "Ghosts And Legends" tour. (separate rooms...no spooning.) -Josh writes 2 songs about you and it's made available on iTunes and appears on his next record (you can sing back up on em, clap, play the drums, triangle, whatever....) -Drum lesson OR foot and back massage (once again...couples welcome and discreet parking available) -Pick any 3 items out of Josh's closet.

$75,000 (limited edition of 1)
-Signed CD/DVD and digital download -T-shirt -Go on tour with Josh for a few days. -Have Josh write, record and release a 5 song EP about you and your life story. -Take home any of his drumsets (only one but you can choose which one.) -Take shrooms and cruise Hollywood in Danny from TOOL's Lamborgini OR play quarters and then hop on the Ouija board for a while. -Josh will join your band for a month...play shows, record, party with groupies, etc.... -If you don't have a band he'll be your personal assistant for a month (4 day work weeks, 10 am to 4 pm) -Take a limo down to Tijuana and he'll show you how it's done (what that means exactly we can't legally get into here) -If you don't live in Southern California (but are a US resident) he'll come to you and be your personal assistant/cabana boy for 2 weeks. -Take a flying trapeze lesson with Josh and Robin from NIN, go back to Robin's place afterwards and his wife will make you raw lasagna.

Peru Pushes For Guinea Pig Meat Exporting

(AP) After 34 years of patient tinkering, researchers at Peru's most prestigious agrarian university have bred a new culinary export they hope will scamper onto dinner plates throughout the world: the super guinea pig.

The animal is a cuddly companion for millions of children. But in Peru, the rodent's birthplace, it remains a vital source of protein in rural communities, a mainstay of Andean folk medicine and a common religious sacrifice.

"It is well known that Peruvians eat guinea pig. Foreigners are more reluctant to eat it as they see the animal as a pet," said Gloria Palacios, director of La Molina National University's project to promote guinea pig exports.

"I think if they become familiar with the cuisine, maybe suddenly they'll give in and be tempted to try it," she said. "It is really delicious."

Peruvians consume an estimated 65 million guinea pigs each year. It is a dining experience that normally requires two hands to pick scant, sinewy meat from a bony carcass — often with the head staring up from the plate.

But earlier this year, La Molina University started exporting the "Peruvian Breed" — faster growing, plumper, tastier guinea pigs — to the United States, Japan and several European nations that have large Peruvian immigrant populations.

The 1,000 guinea pigs shipped out weekly — mostly to the United States — each weigh nearly 2½ pounds, said Dr. Lilia Chauca, head researcher of the breeding project.

In comparison, she said, the guinea pigs raised on alfalfa and vegetable peels in 98 percent of rural households in the Peruvian Andes weigh up to 1.5 pounds.

The meat is high in protein and low in fat and cholesterol and has a distinctive flavor, similar to rabbit. Chauca and her team of researchers at La Molina's National Institute of Agrarian Investigation started the super-size guinea pig project in 1970.

Archaeological evidence shows guinea pigs were domesticated in Peru as far back as 2500 B.C., and had deep cultural and religious significance. Guinea pigs are still a common tool of ritual healers, or "curanderos," who use the animals to diagnose illnesses.

A 17th century native chronicler, Guaman Poma de Ayala, wrote that the Incas sacrificed 1,000 white guinea pigs along with 100 llamas in Cuzco's main plaza each July "so that neither the sun nor the waters would harm the food and the fields."

From the beginning of the Spanish colonization, the Catholic Church brutally suppressed Indian religious icons. But the guinea pig was spared.

Geronimo de Loayza, the first bishop of Lima from 1545 to 1575, refused a request by Spanish priests to order the mass extermination of the rodents, fearing it would spark a rebellion.

The Spanish colonizers made Indian artists paint, weave and carve items with Catholic themes to decorate churches and evangelize the natives. The artists copied prints imported from Europe, but added Peruvian touches.

Today, churches in Lima and Cuzco still display Indian depictions of the Last Supper with Jesus and the 12 disciples eating roasted guinea pig.

By Rick Vecchio

What Goes Into "Wrestle Jam?"

Creating Wrestle Jam
Learn what the gan g who created "Wrestle Jam" for "The Wrestler" had to go through in creating an old school NES game in a PS3 world.

Enjoy Every Sandwich Poster B

Enjoy Every Sandwich Poster B, originally uploaded by seanmalloyproductions.

The first poster from Enjoy Every Sandwich. The first HD production from Sean Malloy Studios.

If You Don't Know About Watchmen's Production Timeline

Read This!

"In 2001, just over a month after the devastating terrorist attacks of 9/11, Universal Studios hooked up with Gordon to bring Watchmen to the screen. Writer David Hayter, the voice of Metal Gear's Solid Snake and writer of X-Men, was signed to adapt the script. Hayter wrote a 134-page screenplay which Moore once called "as close as I could imagine anyone getting to Watchmen." Gordon's co-producer Lloyd Levin also deemed it "a great adaptation ... that absolutely celebrates the book." Hayter began talks with the studio about making his directing debut with Watchmen, but ultimately passed on that opportunity due to irresolvable creative differences.
"It is definitely disappointing not to be able to direct the film, but we got into our second studio deal and it became increasingly clear that I was going to continue to have trouble getting the film made the way those of us who are fans know it must be made, until I gained more weight as a director," Hayter said."

GO HEAD PBS! Sita Sings the Blues

Sita Sings the BLues will be airing in Full on PBS! Check Local Listings!

HELL YES! Chinese Bluegrass紅庭

This is what I'm talkin bout!

He-Man vs. Skeletor - The Arena

Badass one on one fight between He-Man and Skeletor

S. Darko (Official Trailer HD)

We need to get to the children before they spoil.

What is that firebird at the end?

Turn Your Volume DOWN and Watch!

If our new movie is even half this intense I think we'll be ok.

Liger on National Geographic Humanzee

Ligers! The biggest cat you will ever see! Thank god they can't reproduce.

UFOs sighted by Marines in Iraq

Proof. You cannot deny this.

Is Heather Graham ok?

Is this why Heather isn't getting any major roles these days? Was there a car accident I didn't hear about? That guy behind her seems to have noticed it and couldn't hold it in.

HUMANZEE

YOU HAVE TO WATCH THIS

Watch How A Big Mac is Made!
Come on back.

More Betchfilledsancho Reviews

She's back in old grain film!

She's Back!

Funny People Trailer

Apatow is really moving towards his Cassavetes phase, and I'm down.

Time Lapse Snails Attack Your Yard Every Night!

Snails Go west ! Funny TimeLapse from www.time-lapse.fr on Vimeo.

Experts Warn Terminator was Correct!

Military’s killer robots must learn warrior code

Leo Lewis

Autonomous military robots that will fight future wars must be programmed to live by a strict warrior code or the world risks untold atrocities at their steely hands.
The stark warning – which includes discussion of a Terminator-style scenario in which robots turn on their human masters – is issued in a hefty report funded by and prepared for the US Navy’s high-tech and secretive Office of Naval Research .
The report, the first serious work of its kind on military robot ethics, envisages a fast-approaching era where robots are smart enough to make battlefield decisions that are at present the preserve of humans. Eventually, it notes, robots could come to display significant cognitive advantages over Homo sapiens soldiers.
“There is a common misconception that robots will do only what we have programmed them to do,” Patrick Lin, the chief compiler of the report, said. “Unfortunately, such a belief is sorely outdated, harking back to a time when . . . programs could be written and understood by a single person.” The reality, Dr Lin said, was that modern programs included millions of lines of code and were written by teams of programmers, none of whom knew the entire program: accordingly, no individual could accurately predict how the various portions of large programs would interact without extensive testing in the field – an option that may either be unavailable or deliberately sidestepped by the designers of fighting robots.
The solution, he suggests, is to mix rules-based programming with a period of “learning” the rights and wrongs of warfare.
A rich variety of scenarios outlining the ethical, legal, social and political issues posed as robot technology improves are covered in the report. How do we protect our robot armies against terrorist hackers or software malfunction? Who is to blame if a robot goes berserk in a crowd of civilians – the robot, its programmer or the US president? Should the robots have a “suicide switch” and should they be programmed to preserve their lives?
The report, compiled by the Ethics and Emerging Technology department of California State Polytechnic University and obtained by The Times, strongly warns the US military against complacency or shortcuts as military robot designers engage in the “rush to market” and the pace of advances in artificial intelligence is increased.
Any sense of haste among designers may have been heightened by a US congressional mandate that by 2010 a third of all operational “deep-strike” aircraft must be unmanned, and that by 2015 one third of all ground combat vehicles must be unmanned.
“A rush to market increases the risk for inadequate design or programming. Worse, without a sustained and significant effort to build in ethical controls in autonomous systems . . . there is little hope that the early generations of such systems and robots will be adequate, making mistakes that may cost human lives,” the report noted.
A simple ethical code along the lines of the “Three Laws of Robotics” postulated in 1950 by Isaac Asimov, the science fiction writer, will not be sufficient to ensure the ethical behaviour of autonomous military machines.
“We are going to need a code,” Dr Lin said. “These things are military, and they can’t be pacifists, so we have to think in terms of battlefield ethics. We are going to need a warrior code.”
Isaac Asimov’s three laws of robotics
1 A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm
2 A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law
3 A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law
Introduced in his 1942 short story Runaround

Another Inglorious Basterds poster

That's what I'm talkin' 'bout

Goodbye To The Masturbating Bear

Harrison Ford On Indiana Jones And Sean Connery

Perfectly timed, humble appreciation for Henry Jones from his son.

Not Sure If This Is Newsworthy

...but here it is anyways.

Conan's Last Today Show Interview

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

Entertainment Weekly's Horsehit Top 25 Active Directors

What the Hell?

Favs??? Why is Ron Howard better than P.T.? No Lynch? Most should be there I suppose it just seems like a list made up from saying "Hey Gil name 25 modern film directors!" "OK!"

The Adam Hadler created trailer for Where's Waldo: The Second Coming. I forgot this even existed. Where did our former nemesis go to anyways?

LAS VEGAS 1956

Neat-O in indeed.

Cascada - Everytime We Touch (High Quality)

One of the lameass video from Cascada. This got 3 million + views and was also reccomended to me.

400 FEET TENSILIZED POLYESTER

400 FEET TENSILIZED POLYESTER, originally uploaded by Leo Reynolds.

400th POST! 400th POST! 400th POST! 400th POST! 400th POST! 400th POST! 400th POST! 400th POST! 400th POST! 400th POST!
WE MADE IT! CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES COME ON!

Type Domino's American Legends into YouTube

This is the first result to pop up. I mean Fats Domino is an American Legend just not the kind I was hungry to try out. OH well. I guess these new pies aren't going over so well, backlash from the Oven Baked Subs? Only time will tell.

Framing Exercise: Film Noir

Criterion Newsletter Finds

I always try so hard to figure out what these clues mean? I never figure it out before the DVD is released. This is one of my biggest regrets in life.

NO BOX SET CASSAVETES! DON'T MIND IF I DO! The Killing of Chinese Bookie is stunning, I can't wait to see what his debuts holds.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Blu-ray Collection

Kick ass cover artwork for the Blu-Ray Collection of all the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle movies. Secret of the Ooze was my go to movie back in 92.

Paul Rudd Fights a Robot in a Hong Kong Action Flick

This movie looks frickin badass! Paul Rudd needs to do more action specifically Hong Kong action, asap.

Maggoty

"Maggoty" from Nino Gabriel on Vimeo.

Nude Facebook Ads

As you can see this is the Sean Malloy Productions HD page. Notice the ad in the bottom right. Seems like a harmless enough specifically generated for you advertisement. Let's take a look closer shall we...

Yet again this is just simply a pretty darn attractive woman pointing at her white t-shirt which in turn conceals her breasts. Or so it would seem...

On closer inspection it appears that our new friend is actually not as covered as we once thought. Yes your suspicions are correct. This girl does not have a bra on! This is a randomly generated ad pulled from a pool that reflects my interests. And goddamn if they aren't spot on. So we can now assume that Facebook doesn't really censor or check what kind of ads are being generated. Just in case you think this is still not happening let's investigate further...

BINGO! Gentlemen we have landed. She absolutely is showing her breasts on Facebook! This really show how little the people who use facebook care. Come on whoever made this ad at least give a small amount of effort towards creating these ads. What if some 13 year old saw this on the 'ol book they would be so bored with it. I mean why couldn't you have given us a nice lingerie shot? Maybe some red satin sheets? You want to create traffic to your site I would think, so why not give us some goods up front? No self respecting 13 year old is going to be tittilated by this ad in this day and age. If you want traffic for your ad it's gotta be spicy. To finally determine the spiciness of this photo here is a NSFW [DETAIL] of the photo, simply for scientific purposes.

Hopefully this ad was created by facebook using there "We Own Everything You Post" clause.

This just looks sweet

Testing Out Facebook Video Embed

Let's see how this pans out. I've never embedded from Facebook before. It's something new.

Final Conan Tour with Captain Badass Matt Lauer

Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy

I'm really going to miss that set, Conan seems to be taking it in stride though, we'll be there for you brother.

David Lynch Interview

David Lynch’s diamond dome

The cult filmmaker shows off his skills as an artist and has installed a new, atmospheric work in the Cartier pavilion

Charmaine Picard | 6.12.08 | Daily fair edition

Projections from David Lynch’s Diamonds, Gold and Dreams on the opening night of the installation at the Cartier Dome, Art Basel Miami Beach 2008

American film director and screenwriter David Lynch is best known for his dark and unsettling films such as “Eraserhead” (1977), “Blue Velvet” (1986) and “Lost Highway” (1997) that have become international cult favourites, but few people realise that he began his career as a fine artist. A major exhibition of his work was presented last spring at the Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain in Paris including a selection of digital images of vintage erotica, Post-it note drawings and expressionistic paintings from 1960 to the present. For the Cartier Dome in Miami, Lynch has created an immersive environment furnished with gold-fabric walls, gold-printed carpets, gold-trimmed vitrines and a seven-minute film projection of a “floating diamond” accompanied by an atmospheric original score. Fittingly titled Diamonds, Gold and Dreams, Lynch’s installation is on view this weekend only, in the Botanical Garden.

The Art Newspaper: Most people are unaware that you began your career as a painter and that you studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Why did it take over 40 years to publicly exhibit your work at the Fondation Cartier in Paris last year?

David Lynch: I had shows before, but never one that big. I was represented at the Corcoran Gallery in Los Angeles for a while, and then James Corcoran left the city and began to deal privately in the early 1990s. I also had one show with Leo Castelli in New York. I love to paint.

TAN: Are your works for sale, or do you think of them more as an archive?

DL: The works from the Fondation Cartier show are for sale, but I don’t have a gallery dealer right now.

TAN: Can you tell us about the painting you are currently working on?

DL: It’s a painting of a woman sitting on a bed, titled Woman with Broken Neck and Electric Knife Speaks to Her Husband.

TAN: Many of your paintings appear to have a dark quality, even though you work in sunny Los Angeles.

DL: Even if they’re dark, there’s humour in them. I like absurd things. This painting is pretty absurd.

TAN: Do you think the humour makes your work less threatening?

DL: Yes, I think it does. But once you name something, people often become upset. If you take the name away and you just see a visual, it can be quite beautiful.

TAN: Which artists would you say have influenced your work?

DL: I think Francis Bacon is my biggest inspiration. The organic phenomenon in his paintings and his use of space is incredible. I also like Basquiat, Schnabel, Kiefer, Baselitz and Freud. There are so many great painters.

TAN: In 1966 you left with fellow artist Jack Fisk for Europe, where you planned to study art with Austrian expressionist painter Oskar Kokoschka. Originally you planned to stay for three years. Why did you return after only 15 days?

DL: We wanted to study with Kokoschka, who had some sort of school in Salzburg. As soon as I got there I realised it was the wrong place to be. It was clean and fresh, in this famous castle—it was just not conducive to painting in my mind at all. Most of the 15 days were spent on the train, and finally we said, we’ve got to go back home. That’s when I came to Philadelphia.

TAN: What kind of ­paintings were you making at this time?

DL: I always say that Philadelphia was my biggest influence. On one hand it was great because at the art academy there were some serious painters, and it was really thrilling. But Philadelphia itself was such a sick city and there was so much fear and absurdity there that it just seeped into me. At the time, I began making figurative paintings of mechanical women.

TAN: While at the academy you also made your first moving painting, Six Men Getting Sick, using ­animation projected onto six casts of your own head. What was the inspiration behind this work?

DL: I was making a painting of a garden at night that was mostly black, but it also had some green coming out of the black. Suddenly I saw the green start to move and a wind came from it. That’s when I said, “Oh, a moving painting”, and that started it.

TAN: Did you script it out conventionally like you would a film?

DL: No, I didn’t know anything about film and cameras. I was starting totally from scratch. Most of what we do is common sense. It was a beautiful experience.

TAN: How many moving paintings did you make?

DL: I tried to make one more, but my camera was broken. So when I finished two months of animation, I got the film back from the lab and it was a continuous blur. That was one of the greatest things that ever happened to me, because I had been getting other ideas during that time. I took the money that I had left and made a film called “The Alphabet”.

TAN: Can you tell us about your installation at the Cartier Dome in Miami?

DL: I worked with John Chalfant, who is a 3-D artist, and we built the imagery entirely on a computer. The seven-minute movie will run every hour and in between there will be projected images of slowly moving diamonds. There’s also a soundtrack; it’s a beautiful mood piece. A dome is such a great shape to project a movie on. I think one day people will have domes in their homes. They’re magical.

Why You're Fat

Bacon Cheese Pizza Burger

Giant burger between two large meat pizzas, eggs, bacon, colby and pepper jack cheese.

This Is Why You're Fat

I'm Angry

I was going to originally post this as a comment on the 911 phone call video below but I think it's too long so here you go:

For years and years I've been warning about this. Monkeys (Chimps and Orangutans in particular) are demons sent from the darkest depths of hell. THE THING TRIED TO STEAL A COP CAR!! THE WOMAN STABBED IT REPEATEDLY WITH A BUTCHER KNIFE AND IT REFUSED TO DIE!!!!! These things are smarter than we think, they only play dumb so that they can pull off shit like this. I’ll bet that fucker understood every word of the English language, IT KNEW HOW TO LOG ITSELF ONTO THE INTERNET! You people thought it was cute that I had a fear of monkeys, who’s laughing now huh? Monkeys are capable of using any weapon we have, they can even fly military jets! (thank you terrible Matthew Broderick movie that I can’t remember the name of at the moment, something “X”?, “Project X”?) and here we sit like fools, training them to do all this shit. WE TAUGHT THEM HOW TO GO TO SPACE FOR CHRISTS SAKE! If you think for a second that these monkeys aren’t secretly training themselves and preparing for an all out war on mankind, well then you’re just a fucking idiot and I can’t help you. And guess what? They don’t even need weapons! They’re like 100 times as strong as humans and have mouths full of razor sharp teeth! The bastard bit off that woman’s hands and then RIPPED OFF HER FACE without even blinking! These things have zero natural weaknesses, no achilles heel. They were built by Satan himself with the sole intention of ripping us to shreds. So gear up morons, buy yourself some rifles and start going to church ‘cause shit’s gonna go down and I ain’t gonna protect you, I’m looking out for number one.

UPDATE:

I decided this post needed a visual, I also have way too much free time at work today.

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Owner stabs 200-pound pet with butcher knife after woman badly injured

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STAMFORD, Conn. - A 200-pound domesticated chimpanzee that once starred in TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola was shot dead by police after a violent rampage that left a friend of its owner badly mauled.

Sandra Herold, who owned the 15-year-old chimp named Travis, wrestled with the animal on Monday, stabbed it and hit it with a shovel after it inexplicably attacked her friend Charla Nash, 55.

Earlier that day, the chimp was acting so agitated that Herold gave him the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in some tea, Stamford police Capt. Richard Conkin told reporters.

Nash had gone to Herold's home in Stamford on Monday to help her coax the chimp back into the house after he got out, police said. When the animal lunged at Nash as she got out of her car, Herold ran inside to call 911 and returned armed.

"She retrieved a large butcher knife and stabbed her longtime pet numerous times in an effort to save her friend, who was really being brutally attacked," said Conklin. Herold told police that the knife had no effect, and that she also struck Travis with a shovel.

Nash was in critical condition Tuesday after suffering what Stamford Mayor Dannel Malloy called "life-changing, if not life-threatening," injuries to her face and hands.

Her sister-in-law, Kate Nash, said Tuesday morning that Nash underwent surgery Monday night and came out of it "OK."

Victim not recognized due to hair?
Herold and two officers also received minor injuries, police said. Conklin said police don't know what triggered the attack.

"There was no provocation that we know of. One thing that we're looking into is that we understand the chimpanzee has Lyme disease and has been ill from that, so maybe from the medications he was out of sorts. We really don't know," Conklin said.

Conklin also suggested the animal may have attacked Nash because she was wearing her hair differently and perhaps wasn't recognized.

Colleen McCann, a primatologist at the Bronx Zoo, said Tuesday that chimpanzees are unpredictable and dangerous even after living among humans for years.

"It's deceiving to think that if any animal is ... well-behaved around humans, that means there is no risk involved to humans for potential outbursts of behavior," she said. "They are unpredictable, and in instances like this you cannot control that behavior or prevent it from happening if it is in a private home."

After the initial attack, Travis ran away and started roaming Herold's property until police arrived, setting up security so medics could reach the critically injured woman, Conklin said.

But the chimpanzee returned and went after several of the officers, who retreated into their cars, Conklin said. An officer shot Travis several times after the animal opened the door to his cruiser and started to get in.

Chimp 'cornered' officer
"The animal had cornered him," Conklin said Tuesday. "He had no other recourse."

The wounded chimpanzee fled the scene, but Conklin said police were able to follow the trail of his blood: down the driveway, into the open door of the home, through the house and to his living quarters, where he had retreated and died of his wounds.

A woman answering the door at Herold's house Tuesday morning declined to comment.

The chimpanzee was well-known around Stamford because he rode around in trucks belonging to the towing company operated by his owners.

Police have dealt with him in the past, including an incident in 2003 when he escaped from his owners' vehicle in downtown Stamford for two hours. Officers used cookies, macadamia treats and ice cream in an attempt to lure him, but subdued him only after he became too tired to resist.

'Raised almost like a child'

At the time of the 2003 incident, police said the Herolds told them the chimpanzee was toilet trained, dressed himself, took his own bath, ate at the table and drank wine from a stemmed glass. He also brushed his teeth using a Water Pik, logged onto the computer to look at pictures, and watched television using the remote control, police said.

When he was younger, Travis appeared on TV commercials for Old Navy and Coca-Cola, made an appearance on the "Maury Povich Show" and took part in a television pilot, according to a 2003 story in The Advocate newspaper of Stamford.

"He's been raised almost like a child by this family," Conklin said Monday. "He rides in a car every day, he opens doors, he's a very unique animal in that aspect. We have no indication of what provoked this behavior at all."

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Bill Gates Gives Everyone Malaria to Prevent Malaria

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LONG BEACH, California (AFP) – Microsoft founder turned disease-battling philanthropist Bill Gates loosed mosquitoes at an elite Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) Conference to make a point about the deadly sting of malaria.

"Malaria is spread by mosquitoes," Gates said while opening a jar onstage at a gathering known to attract technology kings, politicians, and Hollywood stars.

"I brought some. Here I'll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected."

Gates waited a minute or so before assuring the audience the liberated insects were malaria-free.

TED curator Chris Anderson fired back at the legendary computer software maker, joking that the headline for the video of his talk to be posted online at Ted.com would be "Gates releases more bugs into the world."

As he has in travels on behalf of his eponymous charitable foundation, Gates detailed the strides made in dealing with malaria in affluent countries and the need to fight the disease in impoverished nations.

"There is more money put into baldness drugs than into malaria," Gates quipped, triggering laughter. "Now, baldness is a terrible thing and rich men are afflicted. That is why that priority has been set."

Gates called for aggressive distribution of insect netting and other gear proven to protect people from disease-transmitting stings.

He also shared that a malaria vaccine backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation should start Phase Three testing in a few months.

"I am an optimist; I think any tough problem can be solved," Gates said.

"The market does not drive scientists, thinkers, or governments to do the right things. Only by paying attention and making people care can we make as much progress as we need to."

Gates' clever candor continued as he filed a question from Anderson about the pall he felt shrouding the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, last month.

"I think it is good that the mood in Davos was bleak," Gates said.

"It was a great meeting where people really had to say 'Hi, how is your economy falling apart ... Gee that is different than how mine is ... What is your solution?'"

Gates said he is confident the economy will recover, with new technologies playing vital roles, but that the financial meltdown was "a great checkpoint" compelling people to think realistically about money and business.

"For me, it was a chance to make sure aid for the poorest doesn't get cut," Gates said of his time at Davos.

His foundation plans to increase annual spending this year to 3.8 billion dollars despite its investment portfolio's value sinking.

In a TED session titled "Reboot," Gates also called for vastly improving the quality of teachers at US schools because it will take "brilliant people" to solve the world's woes.

"I hope I'm not in the Reboot session because you have to reboot your computers and associate that with me," Gates joked. "That might be fair, but don't think about it."