Bad times?

Such an uncomfortable sight near the Curve on Sunday, a booth promoting the Isotonic drink Revive that states… to every empty can/bottle of isotonic drink you throw in, you get a 1.5l Revive Bottle FREE.
Okay, the uncomfortable part was the huge crowd and the fact that people were pushing into the booth till the promoters had to shout back at the public and that it looked a lot like a bad night market scene with people stealing bottles too!

I just cannot take it into logic the lengths and effort that people go to, just to get something so trivially “free”.

Really, what part of participating in a greedy mob of people makes getting a bottled drink worthwhile? Rationally thinking…

I realize the word “FREE” really gets to people easily. Just because it’s "FREE", people are willing to put on a thicker face and take that little effort to fully absorb the ‘free experience’ no matter how thriftily petty it might be. Are we really living in bad times?

Or am I just being a snob?
But just for a bottled drink? Come on now… seriously.

Ahh... this reminds me of the whole "petrol price hike mayhem" last year, where panicked people queued endless line just to get the last full tank of cheaper petrol. And how's the petrol price currently? HAH, look at you people now.
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Prada Marfa

The World’s Loneliest Prada Store

This amazing promotion stunt/art piece is situated in the desert on a desolate stretch of highway 90 near Marfa, Texas, the amalgamation of two Berlin artists Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset. The store includes a number of Prada's 2005 Fall Season high-heel shoes (all right foot) and bags.

Words from the artists:
'..the combination of a vast, open desert landscape in an un-populated area and a luxury goods store is completely unthinkable. Nature suits fashion as a visual backdrop, as one often sees in advertisement. The minimal, corporate Prada design and the desolate surrounding ranch land make a great impression together, but simultaneously the two forces also render each other useless.’



Something so contradicting yet, simply brilliant. Mmm... minimalism! Btw, no one actually works there, its just art.

This was something I wanted to post a LONG time ago, but never found the time to till now :)
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Year 2009’s Worst News!

This year has had one of the best revealing news (Blink182’s return) and now comes probably the worst yet:

Chad Murray and Hilarie Burton
will no longer be in One Tree Hill.

It’s something many of you might have already known and many who just heard it. One Tree Hill has taken a run for the worst, signing off its two main cast members in a shameful decision made by the network executives.
Lucas Scott (Chad) isn’t just a main cast member, he IS One Tree Hill, the whole show started and revolves around him and signing him off just makes no sense at all!

And to add hot sizzling oil to the wound, they decided to sign Peyton Sawyer (Hilarie) off too. One Tree Hill’s most adored couple with probably the best love story ever to be told on TV will soon see an abrupt end to it.

That’s like the equivalent to having William Shakespeare’s play without Romeo and Juliet, the Titanic without Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet, Transformers without Optimus Prime and Megatron or even One Tree Hill without Lucas & Peyton, I heard all of your gasps alright… the horror I know.

They're better off calling it Lone Tree Hill.

Just try having a show now CW!

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4 Fast 4 Furious 4!

"Muscle beats import anytime!"

Fast & Furious 4 kept up to what a racing/car chase movie should be like just like the other Fast & Furious movies, just with more sand. Though it still lacks substance to some point… like it wasn’t enough, nothing really to fall back on (I have to watch it again; everything went a little too fast… oh the irony).

nice weapon, and i'm not talking about the NOS.

But for a movie fourth in running, it still manages a firm grip on car junkies with the obvious hot bodies + hot cars formula. And if cars and Vin Diesel isn’t enough for you… added to the mix, the extremely hot mysterious new girl Gisele Harabo (Gal Gadot).

Miss Israel *drools*