Hot ‘N Stinky — Where you learn life’s essential skills, like how to roll an Amsterdam tulip:
Now if the tulip is too complicated, here’s a great tutorial on more traditional rolling using little Lego men:
Watch closely, though, and you’ll notice the Lego men do twist one up using the slightly more advanced — but at the same time, very elegant — backroll method.
I, however, prefer to skip the tobacco.
Tags: drugs
If you’ve found your way to this obscure corner of the web, you’ve doubtless seen Spiders on Drugs:
What you may not know was that it was made by Victoria-based filmmaker and journalist Andrew Struthers, and that its posting was the result of an experiment into the dynamics of YouTube popularity that had an outcome beyond his wildest hypotheses:
No one was more surprised than me when Spiders on Drugs became a minor hit on the film festival circuit this summer, by which I mean it was seen by tens of people at festivals all over the planet.
But the festival guides usually listed it as a “spoof,” which I thought ruined the joke. My fantasy had been to rent a slot on local TV at 2 a.m. and run it as a PSA. I imagined people getting sucked in, and their minds blowing like old nickel fuses.
That’s when I became interested in YouTube.
I made three little films, and they got a few hundred hits each. My dream was to do one a week for e-zines like, say, The Tyee or Slate.com, something like an editorial cartoon, except on video. While the Tyee showed a bit of interest but waited around to make up its mind, I ran out of money and had to write more stuff about buildings and food to pay the rent. But Christmas delayed all the cheques, and by Jan. 2 I still didn’t have my rent, for the second month in a row.
Meanwhile I had discovered the greatest thing about YouTube: you can connect with everyone on the planet, because everyone is doing it. That’s also the biggest problem. There are 65,000 videos posted a day. If you go to the videos page and click on “Most Recent,” you’ll see the newest hundred uploads have no hits at all. That’s the fate that awaits most clips, even many of the good ones. They disappear into that giant electronic hopper and vanish without trace.
This is somewhat similar to the problem writers encounter when selling a magazine article. Editors are very busy people, and unsolicited manuscripts tend to pile up on their desks like snow and sit there for a week in what’s called the “slush pile” until they get a chance to slog through them. Of course, there’s one big difference with YouTube: there’s no one checking the slush pile. No editor. No one driving the plane.
…How to stand out in all that slush? Late last Tuesday night I had an idea. A simple experiment I could run right from my desktop that very night.
In addition to generating more than a million views (and counting), Mr. Struthers has gotten his wish — a weekly slot on the relatively obscure but worthy British Columbian webzine The Tyee (where this account is published):
The funny thing is, I’ve been showing the script for Spiders On Drugs to Canadian film producers for seven years. Nobody bit. I could have made a thousand of these little films in the meantime, but I was tied up with committees and meetings.
But that’s all in the past, just like the Canadian film industry. And Hollywood, for that matter. The long dark meeting of my soul is over. I’m shooting my next film in my living room as I type, and I’ll see everyone next week, right here, with another crazy tale of YouTubular adventure.
A U.S. college student imprisoned for three weeks for trying to take flour-filled condoms onto an airplane has settled her lawsuit against Philadelphia for $180,000, a city spokesman said on Friday.
Should you wish to experience life on the other side of the equation, AddictingGames offers up the browser-based Airport Security.
Tags: airports, airport security, drugs, games
Who would not click on a link titled, Hallucinogenic mushrooms and flying reindeer?
I know I would — especially when you find out shit like:
Reindeer were the sacred animals of these semi-nomadic people, as the reindeer provided food, shelter, clothing and other necessities. Reindeer are also fond of eating the mushroom; they will seek it out, then prance about while under its influence. Often the urine of tripped-out reindeer would be consumed for its psychedelic effects.
This effect goes the other way too, as reindeer also enjoy the urine of a human, especially one who has consumed the mushroom. In fact, reindeer will seek out human urine to drink, and some tribesmen carry sealskin containers of their own collected piss, which they use to attract stray reindeer back into the herd.
It’s cool that tripped-out reindeer could be a factor in the creation of early Christmas traditions, but I think I’ll continue to eat my mushrooms — and skip the urine drinking — when I want to trip out.
At Hot ‘N Stinky, drinking is another popular way to pass the time. Hell, we’ve been knocking them back all day. But even drinking has rules… So if you want to make sure you stay in your favorite bartender’s good book, you may want to check out Modern Drunkard’s…
Learn handy tips like:
7. Never borrow more than one cigarette from the same person in one night.
34. If you bring Old Milwaukee to a party, you must drink at least two cans before you start drinking the imported beer in the fridge.
65. Before you die, single-handedly make one decent martini.
76. The greatest thing a drunkard can do is buy a round of drinks for a packed bar.
Pot! We all love it, and The Urban Grower shows you how to grow it. It’s a bit of an ad for Advanced Nutrients — a big fertilizer company — but there’s some cool videos of great marijuana gardens.
According to the web site:
The Urban Grower is the only Internet show that tells you how to harvest two pounds or more per light. You’ll learn how to produce the biggest, juiciest yields you’ve ever seen. Urban Grower tells you how to buy the best grow lights, mix primo soil, buy healthy clones and add C02 to your grow room.
We give you the latest techniques for air exchange, humidity control, getting rid of mildew and mold, air movement, beating disease & insects, and the ever-important harvesting and curing. This show is available only on the Internet and only from Advanced Nutrients Medical.
