[via Paved] Here’s a flickr photoset covering Accordion City’s subway stations…
…and follow this link to see photos from last night’s subway train party. I’m going to have to catch newmindspace’s next bash, which may be streetcar-based.
If you’re looking for new background images for your computer desktop,
need to spice up your dorm room or cubicle with wacky posters or are
looking for off-the-wall Christmas or Chanukah gift wrapping paper, the
Universe People website is a gold mine waiting to be tapped!
The Universe People site opens with something that I’ve heard only at
the Apple Store and that International House of Pancakes in San
Francisco’s SOMA district with the overly-cheeful staff: “WE LOVE YOU
AND HELP YOU OUT”. They warn you that “They” — meaning governments and
big business — “want to replace your spiritual heart by calculator!”
As far as I can tell, the Universe People are a wacky UFO-meets-Jesus
cult based in the Czech Republic. The text of the site, a mishmash of
Heaven’s Gate-ish sci-fi religion written in poorly-translated English,
makes hours for unintentionally hilarious reading. However, the site’s
true gem is its collection of images, of which there are thousands. For
example, take a gander at this image of Jesus in a style approaching
that of Maragret Keane’s “sad-eyed children” paintings:
Better still is this diagram of “Transcendental Action of Helpful
Energies from Heaven and Hell on the Planet Earth”, shown below. You
can click the image to see it at full size.
Click the image to see it at full size.
I really love that “Informatic-Analyst” bit at the bottom
(“informatics” is a term often used outside North America to refer to
what we call “computer science”). Let’s take a closer look:
Click the image to see it at full size.
You know, that looks like a lot of dot-com business models.
Thousands of other equally-strange images are available for
download from their images site. Be sure to browse this freaky gallery
where you can find this painting, which makes me want to go buy a van
right now so I can have it airbrushed just like so:
Damn, I wish I could’ve used that image for our wedding invitations!
Being a UFO-Jesus cult, they have no shortage of pictures of flying saucers:
or ships that look just like the “whalesong” vessel from Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home:
The Universe People’s site should give you lots of fun browsing during
the downtime of the Christmas season. Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah,
Even while at Kickass Karaoke, I’m still takin’ care of bidniss!
The article on the front page of that section — Tucows Milking the Internet, featuring a photo of our CEO — is mentioned in this entry. Thanks to Eldon Brown for providing me with the paper!
Today is the last day to vote for “Best Blog” in the 2005 Canadian Blog Awards — at midnight tonight, the polls will close. Please cast your vote for Accordion Guy!
Last night’s snowfall has some very pretty after-effects, so I took a
little time to take some pictures around the neighbourhood before
hopping on the train to work. I’ve gathered them into a small
collection which you can view in album or slideshow format. I’ve got a couple of samples below:
Bloor Street, looking east between Quebec and High Park Avenues. Click the picture to see it at full size.
The entranceway to High Park. Click the picture to see it at full size.
Seen this morning on the eastbound platform of High Park subway
station: a discarded day-old boutonniere sitting on top of a pay phone.
I’ve seen enough dates to semi-formal school dances gone wrong — many
of them my own — to imagine scenarios that would’ve led to this:
From Lesson X — “Races of Man” — of Mrs. M.B. Moore’s book, The Geographical Reader for the Dixie Children:
The men who inhabit the globe, are not all alike. Those in Europe and
America are mostly white and are called the Caucasian race. This race is civilized, and
is far above the others. They have schools and churches and live in fine style. They
also generally have wise and good men for rulers, and a regular form of government. The
women are treated with respect and tenderness, and in many cases their wish is law among
their male friends.
There is a class of people who inhabit most of Asia which is of a yellow color. They
are a quiet, plodding race, but when educated are sensible and shrewd. They
have some books, and a regular form of government, but they are heathen; I mean
by this that they worship images made of wood and stone. They do not know about
Jesus. And yet they pray to those idols much oftener than we christians do to our
Savior. This race is called the Mongolion. Missionaries have
been sent to teach them
about Jesus. When they every become converted, they hold fast their profession, and
are not fickle like some races.
The African or negro race is found in Africa. They are slothful and vicious, but
possess little cunning. They are very cruel to each other, and when they have want they
sell their prisoners to the white people for slaves. They know nothing of Jesus, and the
climate in Africa is so unhealthy that white men can scarcely go there to preach to them.
The slaves who are found in America are in much better condition. They are better fed,
better clothed, and better instructed than in their native country.
I must say, it reads rather like Steve Sailer’s site in places.