My First OSU Basketball Game

So last Sunday (2/22/09) I attended my first Ohio State basketball game. My good friend, Rick Smith called the Friday before with an offer of an extra ticket. Having never been—I thought it would be a wonderful way to spend a cold, dreary Ohio day in February. As we drove through campus we passed Ohio [...]

Image Dump: 022309

If a picture says a thousand words I’d be curious to hear the stories behind these!

KISS—Dressed to kill Via: My Confined Space

Via: Say No To Crack

Mark Twain

Samuel Clemens who was better known as Mark Twain (1835–1910) was a businessman, speculator, orator, publisher, and author whose work revolutionized American literature and whose jokes are as funny today as they were 150 years ago.
Samuel Clemens grew up in Hannibal, Missouri, on the banks of the Mississippi River. Both Hannibal and the Mighty Mississippi [...]

“Desert Breath” The Cones Of Egypt

By: Annalee Newitz Via: Unique Daily
These strange cones and holes look like a bizarre wind formation in the Egyptian desert, until you see the pattern they make from the air.
Created by Greek artist Danae Stratou and the DAST art team in the mid-1990s, this earthwork art is called “Desert Breath.” It covers 100,000 square meters [...]

Elvis meets Nixon

Via: The George Washington University These materials chronicling the Presley-Nixon meeting were obtained from the Nixon Presidential Materials Project at the National Archives at College Park (College Park, Maryland).
Of all the requests made each year to the National Archives for reproductions of photographs and documents, one item has been requested more than any other. That [...]

DCS Happy Hour @ The Dark Horse Tavern

Saddle Up

We’ve been keeping things pretty serious with our member meeting in January and our Adobe User Group kickoff earlier this week, but we still need to let loose! All work and no play makes Jack a dull creative.
So clear your calendar for this coming Monday the 16th and join us at Dark Horse Tavern. [...]

Tiki Part1

So I’m having lunch with my buddy Tom Davis the other day and we’re talking and I say “yea I’d really like to have a tiki tattoo on my left forearm at some point.” Come back from lunch, finish out the day and cruise through the evening, I awake the next morning to a text [...]

AI-NGEL

If you’re not familiar with the GroBot Project or didn’t see the previous posting here on Circa71 or the Real Art Blog I recommend checking them out. If you were on the Real Art mailing list you should have received a poster, on that poster was a hand written code that is good for $50.00 [...]

DCS Adobe Users Group

Calling All Creative Pros
We’re holding our first Adobe User Group meeting TONIGHT (2/10/09) , and you’re invited! This first meeting is free for everyone, whether you’re a member of DCS or not. If you use Adobe creative software and you live in the Dayton area, this meeting is for you!
Details

Tuesday, February 10 @ 6pm
School of [...]

Vozrozhdeniya Island

Extreme expedition: Anthrax Island by Ransom Riggs Via: Mental Floss
At the center of one of the world’s worst man-made ecological disasters — the now almost nonexistent Aral Sea, a dusty, forbidding graveyard for beached ships — is one of the world’s deadliest islands. Vozrozhdeniya Island, as it’s actually called, or Anthrax Island, as it’s more [...]

Soda or Pop

Pop Versus Soda
Via: LarryFire
When on a hot summer’s day you buy a carbonated beverage to quench your thirst, how do you order it? Do you ask for a soda, a pop or something else? Americans drink so much of the carbonated beverages sold under such brand names as Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Sprite, Mountain Dew, and 7-Up that [...]

A-Team movie in 2010

Via: The Telegraph
A long-awaited big-screen version of the cult 1980s television series, The A-Team will be directed by Ridley Scott and is scheduled to hit cinemas in 2010
The production will be a “fast-paced action movie” that avoids the campy tone of the original and replaces Vietnam with the Middle East as the place the do-gooder [...]