27th April 2012 The Blonde In The Casino

An attractive blonde from Cork, Ireland, arrived at the casino. She seemed a little intoxicated and bet twenty thousand dollars in a single roll of the dice.

She said, "I hope you don't mind, but I feel much luckier when I'm completely nude." with that, she stripped from the neck down, rolled the dice and with an Irish brogue yelled, "Come on, baby, Mama needs new clothes!"

 

As the dice came to a stop, she jumped up and down and squealed... "Yes! Yes! I won, I won!"
She hugged each of the dealers, picked up her winnings and her clothes and quickly parted.

The dealers stared at each other dumbfounded. Finally, one of them asked,
"What did she roll?" The other answered, "I don't know - I thought you were watching."

 

MORAL OF THE STORY

Not all Irish are drunks, not all blondes are dumb, ... but all men ... are men!

 

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27th April 2012 The Hypnotic Art Of Benjamin Lacombe

 

The well known French illustrator Benjamin Lacombe just presented his latest, quite spectacular versions of the ghoulish stories of Poe. I was most attracted by his self portrait, featuring himself with 6 arms, and with his very funny looking wrinkly dog Virgile by his side. 

 

He explained that's how he sees himself, always doing many things at the same time, making illustrations, writing, designing and drawing posters, making films ... and sculptures of his book characters, for exhibitions in New York, Paris, Rome & Tokyo and, now, versions for iPad. Like the one of 'The Herbarium of Fairies'.

 

It's a beautiful story of a botanist, collaborator of Rasputin, co-written with Sebastian Pereztat and will arrive in Spain end of this year. As invited star guest recently to the World Book convention in Barcelona, he came with novelty under his arm: The Mocking Bird, about a shy and timid boy in an institution in the 50's.

But I am not here to talk about his books. I found his portrait enchanting that says a lot about him, and a couple of his drawings that almost by themselves tell part of the story, or invite your imagination to get busy writing your own.

 

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27th April 2012 Google Drive, Shortest Man, Game Museum

Free hard disc from Google ~

 

Two days ago on the 24th, Google officially launched 'Drive', a hard disc online for all it's users, 5GB gratis storage for safekeeping documents, files, videos and photos. (If you need more than 5GB, you need to pay). Opening an account on Drive is simple:

drive.google.com

The shortest man in the world ~

 

The 72 year old dyer (person who dyes cloth, leather, etc.) from Nepal, Chandra Buhadur Dangi, has just entered the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest man in the world, who measures only 54 centimetres high (27 inches), and weighs 12 kilos (26.4 pounds).The previous record kept till now was the shortest man in the Philippines, Junrey Balawing, 59.9 cm in height.

All his life he had been stared, jeered and laughed at as 'a bad joke of nature' said the old man, now happy that with the official record, he hoped to be able to travel out of his birth place, see a bit of the world, and meet more people.

Video games in a museum ~

 

'The future Museum of Comic & Illustrations of Catalunya in Badalona, Barcelona is not meant to be for aficionados of comic books or illustrated strips, but a centre of talents and creations with enterprising plans', so assured Carles Santamaria, after announcing that the project has been re planned to include the video and animation industry.

The first phase of the building work has been completed, but lamentably, the work has been temporarily stopped and the forecasted completion for 2014 does not seem possible, due to the recent cutbacks on the already very tight budget, estimated to be of 10 million €.

The money problem is no news, everybody in every field has some these days; but a museum exclusively for video games and animated comic strips and cartoons is. 

 

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