Directed by Laurie Thinot, this music video for the song “Stay The Same” by Autokratz is full of wonderful animations of birds and people and the various life cycles that they go through. Love it!
Another day, another book! Mark Batty Publisher sent over this oddly amusing book called Chicken: Low Art, High Calorie about the many varieties of chicken food signage and logos from London. The book by Siaron Hughes is filled with page after page of full-color graphics and type all relating to the American-branding of UK chicken food joints.
If the content doesn’t drag you in, the cover of the book certainly will because the pages are wrapped in a very durable pink vinyl cover. It has a strong plastic-y smell to it, but I think that’s part of the reason why it draws me in — because it looks like a book but it smells like a toy. And heck, with menus, storefronts, signs, labels, stickers, and uniforms as amusing as the ones shown here, why can’t I have fun reading it too?
Wow, I had no idea that chickens could keep their head so still while the rest of their body moves all over the place! It doesn’t even matter if the chicken is being moved around by some other kind of force or if the chicken is moving its body on its own, that head just stays in place no matter what! [via]
To put them in perspective, I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. “Can I interest you in the chicken?” she asks. “Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?”
To be undecided in this election is to pause for a moment and then ask how the chicken is cooked.
That’s just hilarious and very fitting of Sedaris’ style of writing. Also, the gay unicorn cartoon that’s connected with the story is funny.