Kevin · Allen · Jr.

So, I've got some new photos up on my flickr. They are perhaps not the safest for work, but I think you should push the envelope and go for it, it's nothing porn-y.

I found out yesterday that Sweet Agatha has been nominated for the Diana Jones award. That's sort of like a nobel prize for gaming (although even saying that makes me feel like a total fake and phony). I'm surprised and super pleased.

This one is about the secret wars...

No, not those, the one being waged between FedEx and UPS.

I figure that if you don't think a nationalized healthcare plan is a good idea, you probably don't have any idea what it's like not having healthcare.

Progress comes whether industry likes it or not. Sometimes necessary innovation bankrupts those that didn't have the foresight or care to consider the needs of real human beings. It's not an accident or a problem, it's the very fulcrum capitalism bends upon. Those so concerned with avoiding socialism would be well suited to take an econ class so as better to understand what it is exactly that they are defending. Marching boldly into the future inevitably leaves the craven and stubborn behind. Just ask typewriter manufacturers, library card catalogs, Pan Am, telegram services, or GM.

Stalwart nostalgia and personal greed are no excuse for hamstringing the weakest members of society. That is, the working class citizens that the venal and pandering so love to court.

Making it IN ANY WAY more difficult for the ill to get treatment is perverse and grotesque. Turning the plight of the sick into a strange political gambit is not simply wrongheaded, it's predatory and cruel. Cruel in the same way pretend-drowning is cruel; cruel in the same way locking someone in a sweltering rattan hut is cruel; cruel in the same way shooting animals from helicopters is cruel.

It is a dark farce of a caring nation that would see me bankrupt and homeless because I fell and broke an arm, or got a bad cold, or needed to get my tonsils out. You want to help people? You want to do gods work? Be a patriot? Then concern yourself with the plight of the tired, the poor, the tempest-tossed, and look beyond the ludicrous desires of rich old men who would use sensationalism, propaganda, and hate-speech to line their pockets at the expense of any not like themselves.

Really, in other words: Don't be a douche, the people need doctors.

New post on Adverting disaster. Part two of the Espresso book machine discussion. (NOTE: if you feed this content to your LJ, you got a sneak peak at my editors notes thanks to a copy/paste snafu, lucky you. This problem has since been corrected on the actual blog.)

New photos up on My Flickr. Like this one:

Happy friday.

advertingdisaster.blogspot.com/

This one's about two really crappy commercials. Check it out.

Also, I'm twittering now, you can follow me @ twitter.com/kevinallenjr

ain't i just a media darling?

I was in Disney World all last week, and because of that, I have fallen behind in my internet posting duties. Here's me getting my act back together:

1. A new Adverting Disaster is up. This one's about Republicans, hope you enjoy it. If you do enjoy it, feel free to comment.

2. I've posted some of my vacation photos here. I realize now that I didn't really take any vacationy photos. I barely have any of the lovely folks I went with, none of the "park highlights," and since we didn't go to Universal I didn't get the shot of me molesting/fighting Wolverine that I had my heart set on. Oh well, you'll have to settle for photos of giant vultures:

3. Here's some links for you to enjoy:
• If you haven't been to ThruYou then you've done a great disservice to yourself. Video mixing so astounding and funky you'll kick off your shoes and start dancing in front of you computer. Seriously tight. If you like breakbeat, dub, or Jive get on this.
• Have firewalls at work blocked your ability to chat with internet friends? Tinychat can help. For now at least.

• So normally my flickr doesn't get a ton of hits, around 20 a day, but every week and half it spikes, like jumps up to the hundreds of views. I'm not complaining, but I don't exactly understand it. I didn't post a new photo during the entire course of february, so it's not new content hitting people's contacts feed. I wonder what facet of the internet is drawing people with such regularity.

• New article up on Adverting Disaster. This one's about orange juice.

No Adverting Disaster this week. Next week we'll go back to the two articles a week schedule though.

In the meantime, here's a video for you.

BRYAN LOOK WHAT YOUR FRIENDS HAVE from Ryan Aylsworth on Vimeo.

Available @ http://advertingdisaster.blogspot.com/

This one's about donuts. Yumm

[if your using Chrome as your web browser, there may be some problems with the links in that post, I'm looking for corrections to the problem currently, sorry for the inconvenience]

1. I posted a follow up article about PETA's veggie sex commercial over on Adverting Disaster, check it out.

If you want to stay current on that site, you can feed it (see the bottom of the right hand collumn on that page) or you can go to http://syndicated.livejournal.com/advertingdisast/. (big special thanks to fred hicks for setting that up ((i didn't even ask))).

2. Poster boy may or may not have been arrested. Poster boy is one of the most innovative space taking artists in NYC. His only weapon is a razor blade and what's already out there on the walls. Check out some of his stuff:

3. There isn't enough praise i can heap on the 1000 blocks project. You simply have to see it. Go to the link above, read the short description, then click on the words "1000 blocks." I don't know why the site has made it confusing to find your way to it's bountiful harvest of gorgeous art, but it has. Follow my instructions, you won't be sorry.

4. I haven't done any photo work this week, sorry.