A book dedicated to the tote bag? Your friendly neighborhood tote bag is a welcome site to the environment. No longer will the earth choke on the plastic bags we polluted all over our backyards. Jitesh Patel examines the tote bag and explores the many faces of the bag that is revolutionizing the way we […]
How did Deep Purple come up with the famous Smoke on the Water riff? Ritchie Blackmore comes clean and confesses he stolen the riff from Beethoven's 5th Symphony. He claims he loosely played Beethoven's 5th backward. The rest is history as Funky Claude was running in and out pulling kids out the ground, Deep Purple ran to the bank with their biggest hit ever. Poor Beethoven never saw a royalty check. Rock historians will point out that Smoke on the Water was based on Iggy Pop's Stooges song "Loose" and borrows many melodic elements from the song released two years earlier. You have to have a keen sense of musical hearing for that one.
Danish photojournalists Sofia Wraber and Nanna Kreutzmann chronicle the aging of men from 0 to 101 in age. Witness how many age gracefully while others not so much. Soon they will have women 101.
Remember the golf range as the lonely golf ball collector in his meshed golf cart collected golf balls as everybody whacked balls at him as he though he was a was a walking bulls-eye. How about clay pigeon target shooting with a golf ball? This is the coolest thing. They should do more events like […]
New year’s resolution. Escape from the The Bermuda Triangle of Productivity and be more productive once again. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at sandboxworld@gmail.com. I read every message personally and, with your permission, […]
By the end of 2011 somebody on this planet will become the 7th billionth person to be born. Since 1880 we had a population of only 1 billion people, we increased seven fold. Just how big can we sustain as a race? Seven billion can fit into Los Angeles shoulder to shoulder if you are […]
Spokeo claims not to be your grandma’s phonebook. The personal information harvester is just a click or two from displaying information about yourself you don’t want to disclose. Give it a whirl and you will be shocked. Do you really want people to know this much about you? For the cost of half a latte […]
Ray Davies and See My Friends is perhaps an oddity of sorts in rock and roll recordings, a tribute to Ray and the Kinks. The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Who and the Kinks were the four horsemen of rock and roll Apocalypse, unfortunately the Kinks had trouble with the authorities in the sixties. The […]
The new Google doodle drawing has a few perplexed, not to worry it is quite simple. MMXI is the Roman numerology for 2011. HAPPY NEW YEAR. Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email at sandboxworld@gmail.com. […]
With the advent buzz of the new Steven Spielberg/Peter Jackson Tintin movie, fans are sprouting with tribute art. The small stream is already flowing. Neon Monster has collected some of the net’s favorite Tintin art. Tintin will be impacting the English world from the predominate Belgian deeply rooted fictional hero who holds dear to many […]
The Adventures of Unemployed Man takes a stab at the so real world of recession. (some are still in denial there is not one) Gan Golan and Erich Origen created this gang of recession league of heroes battling big money and corruption. Unemployed Man is the new Robin Hood of the 21th century. With 2010 […]
The latest Time magazine cover of “Person of the Year” of Mark Zuckerberg cries out Avatar. Is it possible Mark Zuckerberg is an Avatar? (I know, bad Photoshopping) Tony M.If this article made you think, brought back a memory, or made you see something differently, I’d love to hear from you. Send me an email […]