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You all know facebook. Right. I was checking homepage when this banner ad caught my eye simply labeled. Ew. Disgusting. and below it a picture of a girls waist, pictured below.



So now you have checked out the picture I posted, do you see anything wrong with that? I mean how many girls are going to sign on today see that photo of a girl with a muffin top and start to get self concious about them selves and thier bodies. Come on facebook, Ew. Disgusting.

What do you guys and gals think of the ad?

Friday Fun with Videos

Hey Sweet Pants (to quote the Jerky Boys), here is a block of videos to keep your sanity while you work on Friday.

First up is Honey, yeah. This video was an eye opening experience back in the day. This must have been on TRL every day for the max. amount of time, due two a couple of things. First Mariah is smokin' in the video, second Eddie Griffin with Johnny B. who would have done that, o yeah Mariah cause she is on fihya.

Mariah Carey - Honey




Alright so I found this video today, it is pretty amazing, it is simple flash animation with a nice melodic song behind it. The story is amazing a bunch of demons try to attack vikings, so after a perfect description of an event staff, they Battle. Robot time...Watch and learn, cause knowledge is power.

Jason Forrest: "War Photographer"



This is probably one of the best things to enter my ocular cavities is a little while, yeah that is all there is to say about this video.

David Lee Roth - Just a Gigolo



I am pretty sure the first thing on my mind after I woke up was Matt Pinfield, you know the only VJ on MTV (other than Kurt Loader) who knew anything about music. He use to host a show called 120 minutes. Green Day appeared one time and talked about their videos, that discussion always made me think of this video with live dental footage.

Green Day - Geek Stink Breath



Duck walk. White Girls in cages. Chuck Berry playing in a tiny cramped space. The all white audience. Plus it is an awesome performance.

Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode

Cyborgs...Not Joking

The new episode of collateral TV discusses HI-MEMS

This weeks episode is about remote controlled bugs, implanted micro-cameras and the Pentagon's latest attempt to spy on terrorists ... wait a few years and this new technology called 'Hybrid Insect Mems' or 'Hi-Mems' will be in the hands of domestic law enforcement flying around your living room.

DARPA site

Cyborg beetle



Control Circuits

Laser Focus World

So as you know I read alot of magazines well I just found my new favorite magazine.

It is called LASER Focus World : International Resource for Technology and Applications in the Global Photonics Industry.

I think every one who like lasers or just cool shit shoulds order this magazine. I am pretty sure that it is a free business magazine.



This artical is pretty cool it is about

"Researchers at the University of Washington (Seattle, WA) have successfully embedded optoelectronic devices into a biocompatible contact lens. This achievement is a significant step toward enabling virtual head-up displays within the human eye, delivering visual aids to help vision-impaired individuals, or for incorporating biosensors directly on the surface of the eye, among many other possible applications."

Click Here To Read It

This is Star Trek people. Geordi La Forge

3 Swell Videos

Just looking at some cool videos on youtube check them out, heading to the phils game. Enjoy have a good weekend.

Pearl Jam - Do The Evolution



Screeching Weasel - Cool Kids



Groovie Ghoulies - Til Death do us Party

Blinking Blue Lights

I am not sure who has noticed, but if you have driven through West philly since last monday you may have seen blinking blue lights on top of light post. Well you should get used to it, Philadelphia has hired unisys to install 250 camera throughout the city. These cameras are being placed on high crime corners throughout the city, there were 12 test camera launched in 2007. You may have noticed it on the corner of Broad and Erie.

"The cameras will capture images and send them via a secure wide area network to the city’s central monitoring facility staffed and managed by city personnel. An online storage system will maintain those images for forensic evaluation." .unisys.com November 19, 2007

Personally, they said this was announced last October or November but no one in Philadelphia seemed to know. Some people know me other do not, but each week i have a ton of odd magazines that come to my house. I recieved one that was called Government Video, talks about advancement in government technology, but real big on the cover was Philadelphia Under Surveillance. Here is a link to the article.



*Side note about video recording in the streets of Philly

Local Hardcore Punk band Paint it Black Played outside of Sailor Jerry's, for the world priemere of the doc about him. The concert took place on 13th and Sansom st in Center City Philadelphia. Here is some footage from the show.



Enjoy!

* Note watch the last 30 seconds in which is a kid jumping from a twelve foot tree.

Frankenfish!!!

I am sure many of you have heard about the Northern Snakehead (dubbed frankenfish), Philadelphia, has taken some new action in trying to stop these fish. By shocking the lake, therefore paralyzing the fish.

The Northern Snakehead fish, or ‘walking fish’, is a native of China that has been banned since it was imported to the United States because of it’s predator behavior. These fish are extremely aggressive, and even worse, a serious threat to area fish of all kinds. The Northern Snakehead fish has been discovered in local ponds and lakes, which is not good news. But.. did we mention they can walk? You won’t see them strolling along the riverbank, but instead slithering and springing. Creepy, right? They can go days without water, so once they finish eating fish from one pond they can saunter over to another pond. Experts fear that these fish will make it to the Delaware River and hit up other waterways, making this a big deal. To make matters worse, these fish are ugly, really really ugly.

Philadelphia’s Academy of Natural Science is making an effort to stop this demon fish before it’s too late. They have been conducting fish surveys in lakes and ponds of FDR Park, using electric shock to temporarily paralyze the fish for a couple minutes, count the different types of fish and then release them. Which has to be the coolest thing to see a pond full of fish be paralyzed and then snap back to life. Where can I find myself a fish-pond-shocker? So far an increasing amount of snakeheads have been discovered, and the scientists have yet to finish the shocking.

Here is the NBC10 video they they did on this shocking story...Snakehead Video



Catch it, Kill it.

365 Party Excuses

So I have a collection of old bartending books, started paging through them this morning, this is what I found:

365 Party Excuses

*Highlights
Jan 7th - Birthday of Millard Fillmore
March 3rd - Anniversary of Child Labor Law
April 9th - Tommy Manville's Birthday
June 16th - Convention of the International
brotherhood of Magicians
July 20th - Anniversary of the Nat'l
Shuffleboard Championship
August 6th - Deadwood Day
September 1st - Beginning of Oyster Season

Read on for more, feel free to repost. Print them out post them on the wall!

Let me know your favorite day.





*Next post will be about how to throw a 1950's Style Party

Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival

From the Japan American Soceity of Philadelphia:
http://www.jasgp.org/cherryblossomfestival/

Welcome to the world of the cherry blossoms (sakura). Few things in nature can equal their delicate beauty. Come celebrate it with us! For two exciting weeks, all of Philadelphia is in full bloom for Sakura Matsuri - the Cherry Blossom Festival.

The Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, or Sakura Matsuri as it is known in Japanese, is an initiative to encourage a better understanding of the cultural, social, and educational customs of Japan and the United States. Japan has been celebrating the beauty of the elegant pink cherry blossom for hundreds of years with picnics under the trees accompanied by traditional music and dance. The Festival also seeks to beautify the Philadelphia landscape by annually planting and maintaining 100 cherry trees in Fairmount Park. In the spring of 2007, the JASGP finished planting 1,000 cherry trees to supplement the 1,600 flowering trees donated by Japanese government as a gesture of friendship in 1926.

The 2008 Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival will take place from Saturday, April 5 to Saturday, April 19 -- be part of a centuries-old tradition as we bring together the best in Japanese art, cuisine, dance, fashion, flowers, music and much more.

Dozo, oide kudasai! We look forward to seeing you.

Program Highlights:

Philly Native: Subaru Cherry Blossum Festival, In the Philadelphia Area!

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New Blog Site

A couple of people have recently commented that this really enjoy reading my blog, so I am going to expand. Some of you know, I love food made in Philadelphia so I started a new blog:

www.phillykevfood.blogspot.com

Check it out let me know what you think, there is also a link on the right side of the page.

I would like some help with this site because I want to capture the whole city. I am going to start out simple, with French fries and move on from there.

Eat it up Philly!

Crime Spotter

So in my early morning internet seaching, I have discovered this site called:

www.spotcrime.com/philadelphia

This site uses google maps to pin point local and national crime, so now you can look at this site and find out who was mugged on your corner or where car are being stolen from.

The only drawback that I see is that they are a little slow on the update, I looked this morning and they only had till March 25th on the map.

I have always thought that a neighborhood crime website was an amazing idea, because it lets everyone in the area know wahts going on. In a way bringing back an online neighborhood watch, which in this day and age is an easy thing to do. (Hell i spend hours online each day.)

Give it a look see, comment back on your feelings about the site.

Lenny Dykstra!

This video is kind of interesting, I have heard anything from Lenny Dykstra in years. After watching this video I kind of see why, not the most elegant of people.

"Now you got your Dick in your Hand...Basically." Lenny Dykstra

Lunar Eclipse Vlog!

So I have had a hell of a time uploading video from my editing program my audio codec is all fucked up anyway. Here is the Lunar Eclipse vlog, it is alright enjoy the music.

First Song: Brazilian Girls - Don't Stop (off of the ST)
Second Song - Dan Deacon - Wham City (off of Spiderman of the Rings)



If anyone who reads this wants to contribute or collaborate on something let me know.

Leave me a Comment!!

Blowing My Load

So I am back on the net, you know the thing with all the videos. I should really space out my post but when I hear about something cool or interesting I like to post it.

Here we go!

I do some work for Woodshopfilms in Philly, and they did this show prob like a year ago. The show is Breakfast at Sulimay's, the premise of the show it that these three older gentleman get together and review the new release music. Personally one of the most entertaining things that I have seen in a while. Here you go:

*I am only going to post the first to eps. if you want more check for woodshopfilms on youtube*





Hope you enjoyed them as much as I did.

And its the Nail in the Coffin

Alright I was talking with a friend of mine how i get frustrated when good blogs do not post anything for a week or so. Yeah i understand blogging can be a full time job sometimes, but remember when you read about something like this you need to post.

Phillies Gear Out of Hand?

As I wake up from my sleep each morning I like to read a little news, so this morning i decided to read a Philadelphia based publication and learn more about the arts and culture happening in Philadelphia. But to my surprise it was not in the culture or arts (well i guess it is art) section, but the sports page. Yes I follow some sport but not as hardcore as some people i know.

*Announcement, I will be in FDR park on opening day*

Back to the news at hand, I was reading about this "Michigan based company has a licensing agreement with Major League Baseball to provide team themed caskets and urns, and the Philllies are among the first team products to be offered." Amazing, i think so. Why? Because I know Phillies fans will be knocking down the doors at this place to get one.



���������We have people buying our baseball urns that are still in their 30s and just think it���������s cool and they want it in their home because they want it to be the urn they go into.���������



Currently 13 team urns are available, including the Atlanta Braves, Baltimore Orioles, Boston Red Sox, Chicago Cubs, Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers, New York Mets, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, San Francisco Giants, and St. Louis Cardinals.

After being in awe I decided that I have to look deeper into the commericalization of death business, so i checked out their site. www.eternalimage.com. The entombment devices they are selling, urns and caskets are not all that pricey. The urn goes for $799 and the casket sells for $4,499, I am guessing this is reasonably priced for a casket. Wait there is more, not a fan of baseball.

They have many different styles available, Vatican, Precious Moments, Dog Kennel, Cat Fanciers, and my personal favorite Star Trek. Each offers one urn and and coffin, for around the same price.

No Sex with Koala's you will get the Clap

So I was surfing Youtube and saw this video of this baby Koala being feed, then I saw it a Rare white Koala.

Yeah the White Koala was pretty cool, but the commentary at the end of they video was so amazing I had to post it.



Remember always wear a raincoat.

We are Japan...

So This is probably the greatest idea for a show ever. The Japanese did it again, if american Idol was like this I would watch.



Basically this is a Japanese Kareoke show were they wear prostetic face pieces to look like some famous singer. They always are one step ahead of everything we do. Amazing.

Black Cherry Bombshells

So after the posting about the short zombie doc., my buddy Tony Trov told me he has been developing a comic book called black Cherry Bombshells.

This comic features Ultra-violent girl gangs fight for supremacy of a doomed future where all men have been mutated into flesh eating zombies. In Las Vegas the Black Cherry Bombshells, Led by the outcast Regina, are gaining a reputation as the baddest bootleggers in town. That doesn't sit well with a powerful, local crime boss; the woman they call 'The King

Check out this video and the Myspace.



http://www.myspace.com/blackcherrybombshells

Enjoy!

Helium: A World Without the Chipmunks / Part.1

Helium: A World Without the Chipmunks / Part.1

I recently watched the film Alvin and the Chipmunks, (yeah that’s right Jason Lee) and there is a scene in which Alvin picks up a balloon full of Helium. Alvin takes a hit and his voice goes from his usual delightfully high pitched voice to a booming deep voice, made me chuckle pretty hard. Where am I going with this you say, well the very next day I was on set with a large canister of Helium and we got into a discussion about the rising cost of Helium. It was stated that this increase in price is due to the fact that we are running out of Helium, and that within our lifetime we would run out of precious Helium; this called for an investigation.

After many hours of online research and government findings, and probably one too many cups of espresso, I present to you the Helium report.



Helium (He) is a colorless, odorless, tasteless, non-toxic gas and is one of seven noble gases; the others being neon, argon, krypton, xenon, radon and ununoctium. Helium is the second element on the Periodic table of elements, due to its atomic number. The atomic number, also known as the proton number, has to do with the number of protons found in the nucleus of an Atom. (Sorry if this is getting to scientific.) Helium also has the lowest boiling and melting point amoung all of the elements, and it is most commonly found as a gas except in extreme conditions. Helium is the second most abundant element in the known Universe after hydrogen and constitutes twenty three percent of the elemental mass of the universe.

Helium was first detected by French astronomer Pierre Jassen, on August 18th 1868, during a solar eclipse. It was spotted as a bright yellow line in the chromospheres of the sun, later that year scientist Norman Lockyer theorized that there is an element that is found on the sun that is not found here one earth; thus naming the element Helios the Greek word for the Sun. (For those of you who do not know, all colors coincide with a numerical value, which is measured in nanometers. Sorry I sometimes study wavelengths to know which sort of color correction gel I need to put over a light fixture, to make it match. Yes there is a certain science to filmmaking.) Later in 1903, a Kansas state geologist by the name of Erasmus Haworth, stumbled upon a gas while conducting a routine oil drilling operation. Haworth found that the gas was non-flamable, after further investigation found that helium was present in vast quanties under the American Great Plains. Haworth’s discovery now made the United States the world’s leading supplier of Helium.



Helium has many remarkable properties, it is smaller than any other element and it is the second lightest gas known to man; it is also known for its very stable and symmetrical structure. Due to these properties Helium has many uses. It is an ideal lifting gas, as everyone knows what kind of party would be complete without some balloons. Helium unlike Hydrogen, is non-flammable, so it has many uses in the field of aerial transport. Helium is also has a high thermal conductivity rating, therefore it is able to be used in the heat treatment of optical fibers, with little or no imperfections. On the other end of the spectrum, due to Helium’s low liquefaction temperature it makes it ideal for, rocket propulsion systems, cryogenics and the cooling of superconductors; namely MRI machines. Due to its sable nature, humans have found many uses for Helium in the scientific field, and not to mention birthday parties. So what’s the problem?

Helium in a non-renewable resource,

“Nearly all helium on Earth is a result of radioactive decay. The decay product is primarily found in minerals of uranium and thorium, including cleveites, pitchblende, carnotite and monazite, because they emit alpha particles, which consist of helium nuclei (He2+) to which electrons readily combine. In this way an estimated 3.4 litres of helium per year are generated per cubic kilometer of the Earth's crust. In the Earth's crust, the concentration of helium is 8 parts per billion. In seawater, the concentration is only 4 parts per trillion. There are also small amounts in mineral springs, volcanic gas, and meteoric iron. The greatest concentrations on the planet are in natural gas, from which most commercial helium is derived.”

According to Lee Sobotka, the world’s helium supply may be in danger. Check out the link below for the full article.

Helium supplies endangered, threatening science and technology




Why Your Voices Gets Higher With Helium Gas.

When a series compression waves (your voice) leave the helium in your lungs and hit the denser air, the wave train is suddenly slowed down. The wave in front is slowed first while the wave behind it is still moving fast. Then the second wave is slowed while the third is still moving fast, and so on. It's like fast moving traffic on an open freeway suddenly coming to a slow point in the road, all the cars bunch up close to each other.

Your ear interprets closely bunched sound waves as a higher pitch than widely spaced waves. So when your voice originates in helium and then travels through the air to someone's ear, it sounds higher. If both you and the listener were in a room filled with helium, your voice would get to their ears faster than normal, but there would be no pitch change.

Zombies on The Vegas Strip

Check out this video:

(For those of us who paid money to see Diary of the Dead, I find myself much more satisfied watching this video)

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Foreign Film Meets Rock and Metal

I was looking in this magazine the other day maybe Blender or Spin, and out of the corner of my eye I saw this:



I thought it was amazing, just simple enough to be considered interested and only a handful of people would know what the shirt meant. Here are the other designs that they have put out my personal favorite is the Fassbinder but I also really dig the Von Trier one. Check out www.mondotees.com.

P.S. No one buy the Warriors vintage T-shirt that is mine. (I know it's sweet)

Aqua Teen Hunger Force

So if you know me you know i like the Show ATHF, so I have been real dissapointed with the recent episodes. However, the new episode Reedickyoulus was amazing I am posting a link below to watch the second half of the episode on line.

5 words: Gay Ape Zombie Party Bus

Synopsis: Shake pops Meatwad's kitten in the microwave causing Meatwad to retaliate by doing the same thing to Shake's kitten. The pets are buried in the yard, which is exactly where Carl has been taking bathroom trips of a nuclear variety. A glowing crotch and radioactive feces just happen to be two of the side effects of his new sex machine, "Reedickyoulus." Once the radiation seeps into the ground, it reanimates all of the Aqua Teen's dead pets into a zombie army led by a gay ape who wants to have sex with Shake. As you can guess, the prospect of free sex with anyone, zombie or not, is too much for Shake to turn down. As a result, Frylock and Meatwad have to cut off Shake's decomposing head and send him away on the zombie party bus into the sunset.




http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID=8a25c39217f359ab0117f47a358d0008

watch it and be amazed!

What should I do with my Old Car?

Alright so it seems everyone has a different idea as to what i should do with my old car.

For those of you who are unfamiliar with my car it is a beautiful 1989 Plymouth Reliant K. This beast has kept me on the road for three years with very few problems, survived two accidents and not a thing had to be repaired. Not bad for a free car huh.

So a couple of people want me to take it to a demolishion derby, others want me to do fun things with the car. I will leave it up to you to help me figure out what to do with my old ride.

MJ wants me to turn it into a Redneck Roller Coaster. Video Below:





So comment, send me messages, call my phone, email me. Operators will be standing by. I will post the best ideas on this blog.

And maybe you will be the winner.

Space Getting Closer to Home

So I was doing my random browsing of nasa.org, this morning; like i do every couple fo months or so. So this is a little bit of what I found out about the current exploration of space.

A Closer Look at the Previously Unseen Side 01.28.08



Two weeks ago, on January 14, 2008, MESSENGER became the first spacecraft to see the side of Mercury shown in this image. The first image transmitted back to Earth following the flyby of Mercury, and then released to the web within hours, shows the historic first look at the previously unseen side. This image, taken by the Wide Angle Camera (WAC) of the Mercury Dual Imaging System (MDIS), shows a closer view of much of that territory.

Just above and to the left of center of this image is a small crater with a pronounced set of bright rays extending across Mercury's surface away from the crater. Bright rays are commonly made in a crater-forming explosion when an asteroid strikes the surface of an airless body like the Moon or Mercury. But rays fade with time as tiny meteoroids and particles from the solar wind strike the surface and darken the rays. The prominence of these rays implies that the small crater at the center of the ray pattern formed comparatively recently.

This image is one in a planned set of 99. Nine different views of Mercury were snapped in this set to create a mosaic pattern with images in 3 rows and 3 columns. The WAC is equipped with 11 narrow-band color filters, and each of the 9 different views was acquired through all 11 filters. This image was taken in filter 7, which is sensitive to light near the red end of the visible spectrum (750 nm), and shows features as small as about 6 kilometers (4 miles) in size. The MESSENGER team is studying this previously unseen side of Mercury in detail to map and identify new geologic features and to construct the planet���������s geological history. Mission Elapsed Time (MET) of image: 108827618

That was pretty neat, the network news is refering to this photo as the "spider".

Next...I have been following this Cassaini-Huygens Project since before the launch in 1997.

New Update

The Cassini spacecraft successfully flew by Titan on Jan. 5. Its visual and infrared mapping spectrometer mapped the Huygens probe's landing site, now in direct sunlight. The flyby featured two separate stellar occultations to study the structure of Titan's atmosphere. The spectrometer watched the star Alpha Bootes, and the ultraviolet imaging spectrograph pointed toward Alpha Lyra.



A rainbow in Saturns rings. Reflection of the Cassini Probe.

Next... New Horizons

NASA's Pluto Mission Launched Toward New Horizons

The first mission to distant planet Pluto is under way after the successful launch today of NASA's New Horizons spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla.

"Today, NASA began an unprecedented journey of exploration to the ninth planet in the solar system," says Dr. Colleen Hartman, Deputy Associate Administrator for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. "Right now, what we know about Pluto could be written on the back of a postage stamp. After this mission, we'll be able to fill textbooks with new information."

The 1,054-pound, piano-sized spacecraft is the fastest ever launched, speeding away from Earth at approximately 36,000 miles per hour, on a trajectory that will take it more than 3 billion miles toward its primary science target. New Horizons will zip past Jupiter for a gravity assist and science studies in February 2007, and conduct the first close-up, in-depth study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015. As part of a potential extended mission, the spacecraft would then examine one or more additional objects in the Kuiper Belt, the region of ancient, icy, rocky bodies (including Pluto) far beyond Neptune's orbit.

So far...



The voyage of NASA's Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system earlier this year provided a bird's-eye view of a dynamic planet that has changed since the last close-up looks by NASA spacecraft.




And finally... Man found on Mars (Not Really)




Hope you enjoyed this installment, please feel free to check out www.nasa.gov for more information reguarding your countries space travel agenda.

Skull Fucking

So it has been brought to my attention that there is an epidemic currently taking the country by storm.... yes folks skull fucking; in other words ocular penetration.

According to Benjamin Sinclair, not a day goes by where a gang member does not skull fuck an elderly woman outside of her apt. building.

I take this time, to inform you to please be wary of this urban menace known as skull fucking, please do not engage in this act because it can leave you with brain damage. Who knew?

Also stay away from Ohio, skull fuck capital of the world.

To quote Mr. Sinclair, "I am sick of skull fucking." Also remember teach your children, that skull fucking is wrong and no one is born a skull fucker.

In closing remember that "if we do not open our eyes to reality soon, they will get fucked right out of our heads." -Sinclair



Comign soon, Cooking with Kev!

Plastic Little

Plastic little show tonight. $5 bucks Silk City.

Work on this video prob a year ago, check it out.

So I decided to start blogging mostly because some days I feel that i have nothing to do. So i figure if i can not do anything else i might as well add to the amount of crap on the internet. I hope to start adding photos of the city every day or week, as i take them. Also in the future hope to add video content, I have a little minidv cam if anyone wants to shoot little feature about things going on in philly. Interviews would be fun too. Maybe music Reviews and such anyone want to donate please feel free.

For now I will only have this post until I find something cool to upload.