The Marker Story

This video was made using a collection of pictures taken and then compiled in a super-awesome-mega-hyper-creative project. We call it... The Marker Story.

On-field action in the palm of your hand.

The NFL and MLB are expressing interest in a new device that is aimed to revolutionize the way fans appreciate football and baseball at the stadium. The device, called FanVision, has a screen about the size of your palm, and plays the games for the sport you watch at the stadium. Not just the live one (after-all, you could just look at the field for that), but also games being played at stadiums all over the United States.

Replays, highlights, statistics, team breakdowns, and more will be shown during the game, and this new media is leaving some wondering why fans even come to the game if their heads will be buried in the FanVision the whole time. However, Mike Weisman, a former executive of NBC sports, claims that the device is "best used during the substantial down time in a game..." In other words, during pre-game warmups, scheduled breaks, timeouts, quarter-stoppages, and halftime.

An intriguing idea to be sure, but as of now, it is still largely just that; an idea. Only 12 of the 32 teams have embraced and shown support for the FanVision media player. Until the other 20 teams choose to incorporate it into their fan's football experience, the FanVision will not have the necessary foundation to support it and make it an attraction for more people to come to the games. However, if word spreads, teams jump on the bandwagon, and FanVision becomes a reality, I wouldn't mind taking the trip to see an NFL game and try this new media device out.

Check out the article here.

Movies to Music? Who would have thought?!

Take a look at this: It's the best and probably the only movie to music compilation you'll see in quite a while!

A man by the name of Ricardo Autobahn created this masterpiece of movie clips spanning decades of film, and pieced them together in rhythm, to a beat, AND it actually rhymes! This has to have taken many hours of cutting/editing movie clips into place, and it worked like a charm. The compilation brings back memories of movies and movie quotes I had completely forgotten about, like Ghostbusters, "We came, we saw, we kicked his ass!", and then he topped it off with some Sesame Street as well! This is just one of those things that you don't see very often, but when it happens you have to appreciate it with some head nodding goodness that is... the Seinfeld/Anchorman/Ghostbusters/Sesame Street/Airplane/Naked Gun/Spinal Tap/Pulp Fiction/Star Wars/Many, many more compilation.

The Journey of a Marker: Rough Draft

http://purpleslinky.com/jokes/kids/101-things-to-do-with-a-permanent-marker/

With the help of this link above ^ me and JV-Roo will be creating a story through pictures. The idea is to tell the story of a day using a marker in as many ways as possible. For example, we can draw on someone's face, throw it at someone, make funny signs, ruin someone's uniform, graffiti random walls/places, and the list goes on and on... further updates to come.

I was there... Yes... I was a refugee in Vietnam...

That's me, !Xobile, 2nd from the right. It was a terrible time. Very little food or water, and all we had were loin cloths. Luckily, I managed to steal some shorts, but it was nevertheless a traumatizing experience for me...

The Limits of the Human Body. Engineered for a beating.

When an engineer designs a new building, or a new computer, they must take into account many factors (although I, !Xobile, am not an engineer, I attended the Royal African Academy of Learning, so I am well educated in most things). They have to factor in the unit strength, the conditions they will be subjected to (heat, cold, wind, water), and they must always account for the unpredictable as well. As it turns out, The Great One (or God, as some religions would say) created us using the same set of rules.

In this article, information regarding the human body's true limits are suggested, and although never tested, the theoretical limits to how far we can go are astonishing. Ever felt so cold you thought you were going to die? Think again, because until our core body temperature reaches 0ºC, we technically still stand a chance of surviving. Ever felt like you were running so fast your legs would break? Think again, because human males can technically run at just over 43 km/h before the tendons in their knees break. Ever had something so spicy you felt like you couldn't breathe? Multiply that by about 100 and you'll come close to the maximum spiciness the human body can take without dying.

In closing, the human body, like most things nowadays, is made to withstand a tremendous beating. The forces of nature and everyday use seamlessly pass by, because of the tremendous amount of abuse we are capable of taking. If our body were a computer, it would be pretty damn hard to break.

Fun + Music + Stairs = GREAT SUCCESS!

Back when I, !Xobile, visited the big city of Stockholm, I was surprised and delighted to hear the sound of music beneath my feet. No, I was not stepping on musicians as I walked down the street, I was simply walking down the stairs at the subway station.

How is this possible, you may be wondering? Well, the village shaman told me there was no way of this happening, so I had to investigate further, and this is what I found.

The Musical Stairs

It seems the good people at "The Fun Theory" decided to test the theory that more people would take the stairs if it was simply fun to do. How do you make something fun then? Well, I believe that to make something fun, you have to make it appealing to one or more of the senses. In this case, they utilized music and stairs to tap into our need for physical and auditory stimulation. In other words, when movement and music is combined, good things happen. Look at the other fun thing that people from all over the world (okay, mostly Asia) enjoy, Dance Dance Revolution (ooooo DDR!). To make these stairs musical, workers placed sensors and speakers on each step of the flight of stairs. Then, a covering of either white or black tiles were placed over the steps. After calibrating each step to play a corresponding note, presto, you have musical stairs!

At the end of the day, 66% more people than normal chose to use the stairs rather than the adjacent escalator.
Musical Stairs: decreasing obesity, one note/step at a time.

Black magic creates multiple !Xobiles!!!!

The village Shaman, !Ogidah, used his wizardry to create clones of me, !Xobile. My clones decided to go to the village holy place to give praise for their new life.

Clone Stamp. !Xobile's #1 choice for eliminating unnecessary cows.

Above is the original picture of my uncle Tin!op's farm. On his farm are many cows, which can get very irritating at times, so I decided to eliminate all cows except for the central black cow, as well as removing the poor black cow's oppressive ear tags and collar.

Much more peaceful. This cow is now calm and relaxed, thanks to Clone Stamp.

10 things about me. Because, who doesn't want to learn more about !Xobile????

From top left to right: Morphsuits, Cheering/Painting Myself, Michael Jackson/Music, Football, Drama, Water-Bending, Turtles, Working Out, My Team, My Turf Field.

Play it slow, let it blow.

In my village, the local musician, Kikobina!ot, creates beautiful music on his many instruments. His ballads keep me entranced for hours on end, and I feel like I never want to stop listening. However, even I would get tired of a song that lasts for over 600 years. Yet, the good people in Halberstadt, Germany, aim to make this song a reality. The piece, titled Organ/ASLSP, and composed by John Cage, is scheduled to be played for 639 years. This is real. I'm not making this up. The piece first began on September 5th, 2001, with a two year "rest", lasting until February 5th, 2003. It was then that the first chord was played, lasting for another two years.
The piece will be finished in the year 2640.
Perhaps my great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandson will experience the ending of this song, which gives a new meaning to the phrase "slow and steady."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/As_Slow_As_Possible

I MADE A MELON HEAD!

Salamu. I, !Xobile, have made a fruit and vegetable head from the fresh crop of my village. Enjoy!

Double Rainbow OH MA GOD

Greetings brothers. I give you a video of epic proportions. Straight from the interweb, I, !Xobile, give you...
Double Rainbow.

In Africa, we rarely see rainbows, because we almost never have rain. Perhaps once, maybe twice a year if we're lucky, we will get a rainbow. And only during the wet season. But never... NEVER, have I seen a double rainbow. Yet, if I had seen a double rainbow, I may have called over some of my fellow tribesmen to see it, but I would not have reacted with screaming at the top of my lungs about some hidden meaning behind one of nature's mini-miracles. This man from the United States seems to be on some kind of hallucinogenic drug while recording this video of what he calls "almost a triple rainbow." Foolish. I was raised by my mother to always expect the unexpected, but a double rainbow is nothing to get so overly worked-up about.

THIS, on the other hand, is a masterful recreation of the "Double Rainbow" video. This was created by a group known as "Auto-Tune the News", and it uses many techniques to transform a crazy man yelling about a rainbow, into a beautiful melody that can only be described as "majestic." Some of these techniques include auto-tune, beat/music making, and cutting audio clips of the man screaming into rhythm.