Black Friday Picture Follow Up!!
On Friday we spent the night people watching around Beaverton, Oregon. Below are a few photos taken by our art director. Read the whole live blog of our night and a collection of concluding comments here!
Black Friday 2009
Go here for a follow up of photos taken by our very own art director, Steven "Pocket" Uppinghouse.
A bunch of us here at Cleverpork Central are kinda excited about today because it is black friday. We aren't necessarily pumped to go buy a bunch of cheap stuff, what we are more excited about is watching crazy people and maybe a little bit of messing with people. So stick around here and watch for our live blog of the event!
ASL Mr. Blue Sky
Earlier this term I was told I needed to sign a song for my ASL class. I started going through my list of karaoke songs to choose a song I would enjoy, I could really perform, and wouldn't be boring. I came up with Electric Light Orchestra's Mr. Blue Sky. However, in class my song didn't get recorded as I had hoped. I woke up this morning to a beautiful blue sky that remained throughout the day down here in Eugene, and decided I would record myself signing Mr. Blue Sky under a blue sky.
Enjoy the full video after the break!
US Soccer Gone Fowl
Chicago, IL
With national teams around the world fighting for spots in next years world cup, many coaches are beginning to take drastic measures to ensure success in the qualifying tournaments. In the US, National teams coach Steve Sampson announced a change to the teams roster that will now include two roosters, affectionately named Talons and Beakers the Soccer Star, who Sampson saw kicking a ball on the side of the road while driving through Fresno, CA, last weekend.
Though the birds are vastly undersized and unable to either comprehend verbal commands from the coach nor the rules and play of the game of soccer, coach Sampson is optimistic about the addition of the two fowls. "These roosters are made for soccer, case in point the talons. We don't have to buy 'em shoes or shin guards because nature has already bought them for us. They are completely ready to compete on a competitive level. They've been practicing with the rest of the guys for a couple weeks now and the coaching staff thinks really likes the progress they're making. Especially Beakers the Soccer Star who has really picked up his game defensively".
But some team members are reluctant of playing with poultry, when asked about the desision nearly the whole team has publicly come forward and questioned Sampson's reasoning behind the addition of the two roosters to the squad. Most vocal amongst the dissenters is forward Jozy Altidore, "They cant keep up! There fuckin' legs are too short, and that shit Sampson is feeding you about "improved defense" is nothing more than Beakers jumping on our backs with his talons and pecking our backs. Its annoying, and it's sure to get him a red card." When asked why, with so much dissent from his players, would Sampson push to put the roosters on the team the coach brought out two rooster sized US soccer jerseys and asked the room of reporters just how cute the two birds would look in them.
As cute as the birds will look in those tiny little jerseys the true test of the birds worth will come on the soccer field in international play.
Declaration of Independence in Google Wave
For all of you out there, like us here, who have Google Wave already, check out this Link. It is the Declaration of Independence. At first it looks kinda boring, just the document transfered into Wave. But then go and hit playback. Not only is it somewhat informative, it is kind of amusing as well.
It also to some extent shows what Google Wave can do in terms of collaborative editing. Or for education. It is a great tool.
From the Google Students Blog Twitter
Illiterate Poet Wins Major Award
In an attempt to connect the users of cleverpork central with culture and art from around the world this writer gladly presents to you Carla Rosedale's 2009 Carlo Betocchi Poetry Prize winning poem "Gladder Flub en Tonnino". It is short, but the form and the meter at which Rosedale constructs her poetry really presents an ironic view of language, making it as though their is no meaning or form to the written word at all. That unique critique on the written word asks the reader to take a look at their own words, their own language, in a powerfully existential way and critically examine how they participate in language in their own life. Extremely controversial for her unique prose, critics of Rosedale's work bring up that she is illiterate and her 'creativity' is because she is illiterate and not because she is some kind of poetry genius. I ask the reader to keep an open mind, and to try and see the genius of Rosedale's work for what it is. Enjoy...
Gladder Flub en Tonnino
by
Carla Rosedale
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