Jun 5 2013

RoboCop is Disrupting ART!

John Leonard thought a 10-foot-tall RoboCop statue would be an ambassador for Detroit, today thanks to crowd funding on Kickstarter it’s a reality. RoboCop did not seem to carry a great artistic value to Detroit Mayor David Bing, but Kickstarter gave the 50,000 to bring RoboCop to life.

Providing crowdfunding platform for innovative persons, Kickstarter disrupts art in the way that helps lowbrow art to enter the market. Click here to learn more about the artisans who are bringing the grassroots project to full metal life. RoboCop demonstrates a new business model as anyone can get their business ideas funded easily, which is disruptive to the old-school perception that any arts must be highbrow and be kept in the museum. The beauty of crowdfunding is to encourage new creations to change the status quo of arts.

Jun 4 2013

Custard

This reminds me about Amy Pond, so sad that she’s gone 😦

KeithParker.org

“Haven’t got a hotdog in there, have you? I’m starving. I know, it’s the Cyberman of food, but it’s tasty.” ~ The Doctor

I knew I’d found a show to call home when I googled “Doctor Who food” and came up with 351,000,000 damn hits. That’s more hits than there are people in these United States of America plus Nebraska. By contrast, the same search with Star Trek gave me 145,000,000. In fact, it was Star Trek that gave me the idea for this post. In “The Trouble with Tribbles,” Jim Kirk pulls a tray chock-full of tribbles out of the ship’s replicator.

“My chicken sandwich and coffee,” he says. “This is my chicken sandwich and coffee.”

We were watching this episode at home during the run-up to Star Trek Into Darkness. When I spoke these lines in perfect harmony with William Shatner, not only did I garner a sideways…

View original post 372 more words