This is a fun game to play. Make up taglines for words.
Here’s are some examples:
Nefarious – not just your average evil.
Tubular – why did this mean awesome in the 80s?
Venacular – a great word to use when swilling wine.
Broken – could it be more awkward than this?
Feel free to add your own in the coments. I’m excited to read what you good people come up with!
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Filed under 001 Imagination, Everything Else, intss blog by on Sep 2nd, 2008. 3 Comments. 
I went online to buy a plane ticket from LAX to Greenville, South Carolina. It was $350… great! However, I went back 12 hours later and the ticket was now $555.99. I had to buy it at that price then. What gives Continental Airlines? I know it’s not just you, almost all airlines are guilty of this price jacking.
So I made this t-shirt that tells everyone how much my ticket costs.
Now it makes me really wonder should we be more upset about the extra baggage fees airlines are now charging, or the sick amount of money airline companies are overcharging us on a whim for plane tickets!?!?!
I encourage you to fight the good fight and next time you fly wear a t-shirt that says how much you paid for your ticket from where to where (I used a sharpie paint marker, it doesn’t stink). FIGHT FOR FLAT PRICE PLANE TICKETS!
video to come soon…
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What if restaurants and waiting rooms had scratch-and-sniff walls? So while you are waiting to see your dentist, for example, you could go around the room and scratch certain parts of the wall and smell different things. Is this totally impractical, like a nose hair trimmer that simultaneously scratches your chin when you use it or a toilet that plays Neil Diamond’s “America,” when you flush it?
Disclaimer: I’m not sure what my deal is in writing “today” in the title of these last two posts, cause it implies that I may be doing this everyday, and I won’t.
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#1 – him walking around w/ parrot on his shoulder
or
#2 – her walking around w/ parrot in portable case
Cast your vote in the comments!!! This is extremely important!
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Filed under 001 Imagination, Everything Else, intss blog by on Aug 27th, 2008. 2 Comments.
So, here are a few very special ideas for phenomenal tattoos that are guaranteed to impress strangers, friends, and family AND get you fancy jobs!
1) A baked whole chicken tattooed on your back
2) A beard tattooed on your face
3) A green dickie turtleneck tattooed on your neck, you know, those fake turtlenecks that fake to be real!
4) An extra nose tattooed on your face next to your real nose
5) A scar tattooed on your face, like this one…
6) A Band-aid tattooed on your arm
7) A tattoo of a piece of Bologna that appears to be stuck to your back
8 ) Extra arm hair tattoo
9) Turn yourself into a zebra or a cheetah!!
10) Bloody pieces of tissue tattooed on you face, so it looks like you cut yourself all up when you shaved that morning
11) A huge birthmark tattooed on your neck
12) A Hairy mole tattooed on your face
13) Acid Wash Jeans tattooed to fully cover your legs – that would be really intense, cut-off shorts would work here too!
14) Thick rim glasses tattooed on your face – permanerd!
15) A mullet tattooed down the back of your neck
16) Black socks tattooed to your feet, pulled up mid-calf style
17) Dirty white gym socks with a hole in the toe tattooed to your feetsees
18) And lastly, a tattoo of flies on your face
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I will be giving tours of my apartment during the whole month of January. If you or someone you know is in Los Angeles, don’t miss this special opportunity. Please just send me an e-mail at marc at ineedtostopsoon dot com and we can arrange a specific date and time. Happy New Year!
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MARC HOROWITZ 1: Would you please explain The Center for Improved Living (TCFIL) blog?
MARC HOROWITZ 2: Oh, I’d love to! TCFIL is simple. Every day I post a new question to the internetters. Something like “What’s the silliest thing you have in your purse or wallet? People answer and we all get to learn a little something about humanity. It’s win/win!
MH1: But Mr. Horowitz, aren’t these questions supposed to “improve your life?”
MH2: Call me “Marc.”
MH1: Alright.
MH2: The questions are improving lives ‘cause they bring people closer together by giving everyone a little peephole into another person’s world. Someone’s answer to “What do you wish you could keep in a jar?” may make someone else laugh for the first time in years. Another may find inner peace by discovering that there’s a guy out there who also imagines God always wearing jeans. Someone might fall in love with the girl that doesn’t believe in socks. The questions make people think about themselves, what’s around them, and give them space to ponder things that they’d never think about in their hurly-burly world.
MH1: Wow, Mr. Horo…I mean, Marc…that actually sounds real nice. But TCFIL is bigger than just this blog. You were telling me earlier that the Center just had an exhibition at Analix Forever Gallery in Geneva and you’re set to have another at Nuke Gallery in Paris and then at SCOPE New York.
MH2: It’s blowing up, Marc. At these shows, I get to really show off what TCFIL is meant to be: a collaboration, a think tank, a place to daydream, a place to “shake it off,” and a place to embrace individuality and that the world around us is a place of infinite possibilities.
MH1: Well, I’ll definitely be there in Paris! Tell me what else you do with your limitless creativity?
MH2: Oh I do all sorts of stuff. I have another blog: www.ineedtostopsoon.com. That’s where I post my various projects and dreams. I’m pitching some TV comedies at the moment. I’m currently making a series of drawings for the Nuke show. They’re titled, “at least you don’t have it this bad.” One of them is of a guy with saws for hands and he’s trying to eat Chicken McNuggets. I shoot photography for magazines here and there. I also have really vivid dreams, so I try to sleep as much as possible. Rodney Dangerfield usually co-stars in them. He was trying to sell me a hot tub in the last one. Do you dream, Marc?
MH1: Me? Yeah, I dream, but it’s typically about accounting. I have one where numbers don’t exist and I can’t get properly reimbursed for mileage.
(long break for laughter.)
MH2: How’re you doing, Marc?
MH1: Oh, you just make me so happy! Can we get back to TCFIL? I think that’s just so interesting. In your gallery shows, you have made up your own motivational posters. That’s awfully bold of you.
MH2: Thank you.
MH1: Let’s give them a try. Hit me with one.
MH2: “It’s time to do something about something!”
MH1: Woah! That really works.
MH2: “Look out the window. You’re not alone.”
MH1: Bam!
MH2: “I’m really doing it!”
MH1: Enough! I’m frothy with motivation!
MH2: See what I mean? I’m improving your life already. And you know what?
MH1: What?
MH2: While I’m improving your life, you’re also improving mine.
(Long pause for awkward hug.)
MH2: Well, it was great talking with you. We should hang out more.
MH1: I’ll see you in the mirror.
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I recently had some articles published in Nuke magazine, which is an incredible magazine out of paris – http://www.nuke.fr/.
For the first article, I asked the same questions about Endurance to an avid Mortal Kombat Player and a Hollywood Agent. If you want to see the full size article to read it, go here – http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1581094502&context=photostream&size=l
and http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1581091396&context=photostream&size=l
For the other article, Giant Hand, I report on how LA finally solves its traffic problem. For the full size version, go here for text – http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1580197467&size=l&context=photostream and here for the image – http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=1581079154&context=photostream&size=l
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