Norwegian comedy show Team Antonsen demonstrate why. [via]
The United States of McDonald’s
September 24, 2009 @ 6:02 pm
Stephen Von Worley over at Weather Sealed created this amazing visualization of McDonald’s locations in the United States after going on a road trip this past summer. He wanted to see how far he could get from the franchise establishment in any location in the contiguous United States. His research led to this image which shows that no matter where you are in the US, a McDonald’s restaurant really isn’t that far away.
He says:
As expected, McDonald’s cluster at the population centers and hug the highway grid. East of the Mississippi, there’s wall-to-wall coverage, except for a handful of meager gaps centered on the Adirondacks, inland Maine, the Everglades, and outlying West Virginia.
For maximum McSparseness, we look westward, towards the deepest, darkest holes in our map: the barren deserts of central Nevada, the arid hills of southeastern Oregon, the rugged wilderness of Idaho’s Salmon River Mountains, and the conspicuous well of blackness on the high plains of northwestern South Dakota. There, in a patch of rolling grassland, loosely hemmed in by Bismarck, Dickinson, Pierre, and the greater Rapid City-Spearfish-Sturgis metropolitan area, we find our answer.
Between the tiny Dakotan hamlets of Meadow and Glad Valley lies the McFarthest Spot: 107 miles distant from the nearest McDonald’s, as the crow flies, and 145 miles by car!
Great work Steve!
Meals served to a wedding photographer
August 27, 2009 @ 8:01 pm
An anonymous wedding photographer has been blogging photos of the meals served to him/her during the lunch breaks on each wedding shoot. [via]
Maybe this is one way this photographer is branching out to newer subject matter? I mean, the photos of the food don’t look bad at all.
Famous Dave’s giving free entree to anyone named Dave, Davy, or David
August 11, 2009 @ 1:48 pm
To celebrate their 15th anniversary, Famous Dave’spit BBQ is giving a free entree worth up to $15 to anybody who comes in on August 30, 2009 named Dave, David, or Davy. Gotta take my dad here on August 30th for sure. Thanks Andrew!
Tuck Shop freebies
August 8, 2009 @ 2:13 pm
So last night Yelena and I wandered into the Tuck Shop because we had late night munchies. We had just come from a bar/club on Chrystie Street where we picked up some kiddie star-shaped sunglasses which I had kept in my shirt pocket. Upon ordering a meat pie, the person behind the counter at Tuck Shop said that if we ate the entire pie while wearing glasses, we’d get the pie for free.
We got the pie for free. :)
Food advertisements are going the way of CGI
July 22, 2009 @ 4:37 pm
McDonald’s Versus from Bruce Branit on Vimeo.
This is pretty darn realistic. I wonder if it’s cheaper to create food on the computer than to have a food stylist work hours to make it look perfect. I wonder which person would work less hours. [via]
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