Here’s a view of New York City that the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade coverage simply cannot provide…
No, you don’t need special New Yorker senses to see this –
You need 3D Artist and Motion designer JR Schmidt.
He created this New York City view using satellite imagery to break down the landscape into pixels and then replicate the block format with LEGO. If you like the look, he has created an online store just in time for the holidays.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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Tagged 3D Artist, art, design, designer, holidays, JR Schmidt, LEGO, Macys Thanksgiving Parade, New York City, online store, Thanksgiving
Hosting Thanksgiving this year?
There’s an app for that.
Butterball, who has long provided a telephone hotline on Turkey Day to help panicked poultry purveyors, is entering the social media realm this holiday season with an app for Apple users.
That’s right, fellow Androidites. We’ll just have to muddle along old-school. No Butterball specialness for us.
We could chose to be offended, I suppose. Or take it as a sign from the turkey gods that we should be a guest at dinner instead.
Oh yes. I am likin’ the taste of that stuffing.
Posted in Cooking, Foods, Holiday, Humor, Life, Technology
Tagged app, Apple, Butterball, Foods, holidays, hotline. hostess, Humor, life, Thanksgiving
Anderson Cooper just tweeted that he ‘doesn’t see the point in waffles.’
He argues that they are just pancakes with holes in them. I like pancakes better myself.
I’m more interested in the idea of foods that ‘don’t have a point.’
I know I have a list.
And on the day after Thanksgiving — when most people’s stomachs are stretched and sad from a day of overeating — more food and drink is bound to make that list.
What are your pointless foods?
Place them in the comments section…and we can rush to agree/argue!
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Tagged acquire a taste for, Anderson Cooper, commentary, cooking, food, food list, Foods, foods that don't have a point, Holiday, Humor, life, pancakes, pate, stretched stomach, Thanksgiving, tweet, Twitter, veal, waffles
Te quiero Turkey Day.
Have a great one, everyone!
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Tagged Dogs, Holiday, Humor, life, photography, Spanish, Thanksgiving, Turkey Day, turkeys
I am very compromise-oriented.
Just ask my family.
So I appreciate clever companies who create products with compromises built right in.
For example, I don’t do the big Turkey Day dinner; I haven’t for years. I prefer to spend the day at the Macy’s Parade and the movie theater, munching on popcorn and candy.
And this year’s menu will include Thanksgiving Gumballs!
In turkey, pumpkin pie and cranberry flavors, these candies are a mini-Thanksgiving dinner, which should placate friends and family horrified that I’m skipping the biggest holiday-sanctioned food fest of the year.
Plus, they will help me keep the holiday in mind while I’m viewing The Muppet Movie and The Descendants. ‘Cause nothing makes a person feel more thankful than…
Turkey balls.
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Tagged candy, comedy, commentary, compromises, cranberries, cranberry sauce, food, food fest, Foods, gumballs, Humor, life, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, movie marathon, movie snacks, movie theater, New York City, pumpkin pie, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving Day, The Descendants movie, The Muppet Movie, turkey
I’ve already seen a lot of movie trailers this week (and there are two days of movie watching still to come).
There is the ‘green team’ — The Green Hornet and The Green Lantern — and for some reason, they always seem to run them back-to-back. Poor planning on someone’s part at the studio.
And, of course, that blasted Little Fockers trailer has been running for months. I don’t know what’s more annoying — its total lack of originality, or the audience laughing at it every time. Depressing.
But my favorite discovery so far at the theater? Cowboys vs. Aliens (and it’s not even a cartoon, folks).
The movie trailer opens on a dusty town you’ve seen in a hundred other Westerns. Then, out of nowhere… aliens attack! And Harrison Ford is in it! And Daniel Craig and Sam Rockwell… with Jon Favreau directing!
I mean — come on! How could this not be the funniest thing ever?
I know, I know — it’s no Fockers. So brace yourself.
You might just see something you’ve never seen before.
Posted in Celebrities, Commentary, Entertainment, Holiday, Humor, Life, Movies
Tagged aliens, aliens attack, celebrities, commentary, Cowboys vs Aliens movie, Daniel Craig, entertainment, Harrison Ford, Holiday, Humor, Jon Favreau, life, Little Fockers movie, movie audiences, movie mashup, movie theatre, movie trailers, movie westerns, Movies, Sam Rockwell, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving weekend, The Green Hornet movie, The Green Lantern movie
The day after Thanksgiving. Yep, it’s already here.
For those of you lucky enough to have the day off — well, you’re no doubt still sleeping. The rest that have to work, or who feel strongly enough about saving money that you’re braving the crowds at the mall, you may be asking yourself:
Why did I eat so much? Drink that last one? Get so little sleep?
Why does everything hurt so much?
To ease your pain, might I suggest this paper tunnel created by Swiss digital artist Aron Summer.
Once the browser window opens, the tunnel will move and change shape in response to your cursor…which is pretty cool.
But more importantly, I think you will find great solace — as have I — in just staring at it. All your pain will be seemingly swallowed up in the unseen depths of the digital paper tunnel.
How does it work? I don’t know.
Maybe it’s a bit like the focal point women use in childbirth. Or maybe the tunnel is literally sucking your brain cells inside.
Look at how many of mine are gone already.
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Tagged Aron Summer, art, ate too much, beauty, browser window, childbirth, commentary, day after Thanksgiving, drank too much, ease the pain, entertainment, family, focal point, friends, Holiday, Humor, Internet, life, paper tunnel, philosophy, spectrum, Swiss digital artist, Thanksgiving
Happy Turkey Day!
I hope you enjoy:
You can do as much or as little as you like — that’s something to be thankful right there.
And as you consider your entertainment choices, I want to point out one available to you online — a collection of ten of the greatest Thanksgiving episodes from television, comedy and drama.
I found the list on TVSquad.com, and I have to say — they hit the turkey right in the stuffing on this one. These truly are the greatest Turkey Day TV celebrations of all time — ranked in the correct order, I might add — complete with clips for your viewing pleasure.
Gilmore Girls. Friends. Cheers. Everybody Loves Raymond. WKRP in Cincinnati. Plus five more. (It is a list of ten, you know.) I guarantee you’ll laugh.
And it should clear up any lingering confusion you might have about turkeys flying.
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Tagged Cheers tv show, comedy, entertainment, Everybody Loves Raymond, food coma, Friends tv show, Gilmore Girls, Holiday, Humor, Internet, life, Macys Parade, sitcoms, Television, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving tv episodes, Turkey Day, TV, tv drama, TVSquad.com, WKRP in Cincinnati
Celebrating a less traditional Turkey Day?
Me too!
But perhaps we should consider adding pumpkin pie back to the mix.
A new study reveals that pumpkin — one of Thanksgiving’s mainstays — has an exciting alternative use.
Chicago’s Smell and Taste Research Center found that men really like pumpkin, but not necessarily because of the taste. Apparently the smell of pumpkin ‘turns them on’ more than any other scent.
The scientists measured arousal by the amount of penile blood flow. (He he — I know, right?) Vanilla and strawberry scored next highest in the study.
So…interesting stuff.
Of all the foods traditionally served at the ginormous Turkey Day dinner that I am purposefully avoiding this year, pumpkin pie is my favorite. I usually buy one at Thanksgiving and eat on it for the next week or so. But this year?
I’m gonna save some to put behind my ears.
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Tagged arousal, Chicago's Smell and Taste Research Center, commentary, cooking, dating, food, Foods, friends, holidays, Humor, life, men and smell, news, penile blood, pumpkin pie, Relationships, smell and arousal, strawberry, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving dinner, Turkey Day, Turkey Day dinner, vanilla
Pop!
Still feel so full you could pop?
Well, you’re in luck.
Actually, these pins and needles aren’t intended to deflate your sadly distended stomach (although I still think it’s a good idea). No, Pins and Needles Day is in anticipation of the really big days to come.
Christmas. Hannukah. New Year’s.
The remaining days of the year we overeat as well.
But there are GIFTS.
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Tagged anticipation, Christmas, comedy, commentary, distended stomach, food, gift giving, Hannukah, Holiday, Humor, life, New Year's, overeating, Pins and Needles Day, so full you could pop, Thanksgiving