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Mona: Part 1

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:18:00 -0500

vaqume-fiction: by Chuck McCarthy Liz stood very still at first, but then started to slowly shift...

Sarah Palin & Oprah Let The Innuendos Fly

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:54:39 -0500

Do Sarah Palin and Oprah understand what kind of creepy sexual innuendos they are making in this...

vaqume-arts: glwoodphotography: Rough sample of a future...

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:00:30 -0500

vaqume-arts:

glwoodphotography:

Rough sample of a future editorial dealing with a bondage inspired theme.

vaqume-arts: happylittleboobies: One Dollar by atypyk

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 15:52:02 -0500

vaqume-arts:

happylittleboobies:

One Dollar by atypyk

vaqume-life: The job hunt can be more than frustrating at...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 07:13:38 -0500

vaqume-life:

The job hunt can be more than frustrating at times. Don’t take your anger out on those around you with a semi-automatic weapon; get creative like Kensey Pete:

Subject: ACCESSORIES COMPANY IS SEEKING A TALENTED BELT DESIGNER (West LA)

Date: November 11, 2009 4:01:59 AM PST

To: job-mk382-146045052@craigslist.org

Hi
I can do this job. Attached is what I am currently working on, the
claspy middle part will probably have a Sapphire or something. As you
can see I’m far above mid level. The work really speaks for itself.
Is it speaking your language? I thought so. I’m glad you speak belt.

There are two parts of your ad I can not do.

1. I can not forecast belt trends… because I make belt trends.
Trying to forecast ‘what is next’ for me is called thinking.

2. regarding “wearing many hats” I am NOT a hat designer. I design
belts, that’s what I do. I can design head belts if need be and can
design many head belts if need be, but I do not wear nor design hats.

Where I see belts going, meaning where I’m taking belts, is actually
both backward and forward. I want to return to the time of ‘belt as
function’, a time where wearing a belt meant something. It meant your
pants weren’t going to fall down. I want to get this back YET I want a
belt so striking it retain the allusion to taking off your pants. I
want to ballance funtion and sex appeal. How can something that’s
meant to hold up your pants make you think about dropping your pants?
Hire me and I’ll show you.

Sincerely,

Kensey Pete

kenseypete.com

vaqume-newmedia: Is Lucas Cruikshank a.k.a. Fred Figglehorn one...

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:22:21 -0500

vaqume-newmedia:

Is Lucas Cruikshank a.k.a. Fred Figglehorn one of the most brilliant minds of our time?

This video is proof that he is.

This song and music video are about wanting “cash” from his Mom for Christmas, an audacious premiss for someone who is making thousands of dollars a month from YouTube partnership advertising, t-shirt sales, and endorsements, more than likely out earning his parents. But this concept hits home with all his fans, or at least those too young or too stupid to realize how ridiculous him wanting “cash” from his mom is, and bothers everyone else who does realize to the point that they want to tell other people what a little asshole this kid is. Moreover, he recognized the fact that Christmas songs, no matter how terrible they are, will always get play somewhere, something that we are all reminded every Kenny Rogers’ Christmas in America plays (and an Angle gets genital warts).

What do you think? Is Lucas Cruikshank a.k.a. Fred Figglehorn one of the most brilliant minds of our time?

"Maybe the main problem was that they promised too much and in doing so effectively set themselves up..."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 03:55:10 -0500

“Maybe the main problem was that they promised too much and in doing so effectively set...

vaqume-newmedia: This is very unlikely. First of all, if an...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:45:05 -0500

vaqume-newmedia:

This is very unlikely.

First of all, if an institution like the New York Times were to do this, in the amount of time it would take for people to figure out where they went, or for them to tell people, they would become even more irrelevant than they are now. Not enough people care whether they get their news from the New York Times, a blog repost of the New York Times, or a guy on Twitter that lives in New York.

Second of all, where is the profit? Working with the numbers presented, Microsoft is not going to pay out huge lump sums in the range of $75 million to 10 or so entities, $750 million, in the hopes that all the advertisers already in place on Google move over to Bing.

Now, if Microsoft was to make this same offer to all the major pornography websites, you would see a shift, and the price tag to corner the market on those searches would, no doubt, cost a good deal less than trying to deal with Rupert Murdoch and Fox alone. This seems unlikely too for PR reasons, so Microsoft should probably work on ways to leverage the X-Box Live Network popularity into more Bing searches. This is probably their best chance at gaining market share.

soupsoup:

Jason Calacanis on How To Kill Google

Photo

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:17:40 -0500

Here is a slideshow of photos taken by Vaqume Senior Editor...

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:32:51 -0500

Here is a slideshow of photos taken by Vaqume Senior Editor Jennifer Nies at the HARD Haunted Mansion- Halloween 09.

It seems overly apparent that Mariel Haenn has been studying...

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:39:00 -0500

It seems overly apparent that Mariel Haenn has been studying her Ellen Mirojnick.

Don’t worry. I didn’t know who either of those people were until 2 minutes ago.

Mariel Haenn is Rihanna’s stylist, and Ellen Mirojnick was the wardrobe stylist on the 1992 thriller Basic Instinct. If you have forgotten what happens in this scene, or just need a pick-me-up, feel free to click the picture for a link to a video clip.

Was Mariel Haenn’s styling a subconscious decision? Did the Good Morning America producers just subconsciously fall in line, lighting and framing the camera angles to mirror the film? Or, was this all Diane Sawyer’s evil genius plan to send a message to all would-be Rihanna beaters that Rihanna will stab yo ass with an ice pick next time.

What if the person who was right for you, your one and only true...

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:29:36 -0500

What if the person who was right for you, your one and only true love, lived in a time before or has yet to come?

lyall:

Poolside 1963 (via superbomba)

“Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:00:00 -0500

“Being a funny person does an awful lot of things to you. You feel that you mustn’t get serious with people. They don’t expect it from you, and they don’t want to see it. You’re not entitled to be serious, you’re a clown.”

Fanny Brice

Photographer GL Wood, always pioneering, did this photo shoot...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:48:27 -0400

Photographer GL Wood, always pioneering, did this photo shoot with Vaqume.com founder Chuck McCarthy as muse and model via iChat webcam, using screen shot to immortalize these poses.

“It’s a lot harder to do a photoshoot with the screen shot,” Wood pontificated on his new modus operandi after the shoot.

Many judge art not by its intrinsic value, but the apparent level of difficulty to bring it to completion, giving this new exploration of the balance between performance and product at least a fighting chance at acceptance by the general public.

Only time will tell where in art history this will take its place.

thedailywhat: Letter of Note of the Day: Pre-Pop Andy Warhol’s...

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 12:48:31 -0400

thedailywhat:

Letter of Note of the Day: Pre-Pop Andy Warhol’s generous drawing donation gets rejected by the Museum of Modern Art.

“[W]e feel it is not fair to accept as a gift a work which may be shown only infrequently.” I bet I know someone who wishes they had a time machine right about now.

[via.]

1337 Arts

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:15:05 -0400

1337 Arts : This is a link to 1337 Arts’ website, a team of MIT students dedicated to...

applearts: 10 Unusual and Creative T-Shirts

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:57:33 -0400

applearts:

10 Unusual and Creative T-Shirts

The Tumblr Film Festival far exceeded any and all of my...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:33:18 -0400

The Tumblr Film Festival far exceeded any and all of my expectations. Check it out.

lifeofbk:

This is what happened on Monday, at the Reblog This Film Festival.

Photo

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:04:25 -0400

I had a run in with the law back when I worked for a junk...

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:59:45 -0400

I had a run in with the law back when I worked for a junk company called Liberty Curio in Atlanta.

These girls came in and traded a street sign along with some cash for a dresser, and my boss told to put the street sign up for sale on the internet.

I put it up for sale on Ebay and Craigslist.

Shortly after listing it, I got a phone call from an “interested buyer.” He wanted to come see it. I told him where he could find us, hung up the phone, and told my boss that I thought that the “interested buyer” was a cop.

An hour or so later, the “interested buyer” showed up to check out the sign. He then did a circle or two around our expansive junk warehouse, and went outside. I told my boss that I thought he was a cop. A minute later, the “interested buyer” returned having donned his badge. He was a cop.

He confiscated the sign and questioned us about where we had gotten it etc., then left.

For days, I seriously pondered the fact that I had been able to spot this guy as a cop. Am I inherently a criminal?