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BnB Mix ^no.6

Red and Gold - feat. King Ghidra MF Doom
Shakey Dog Ghostface Killah
It will Never Be White Fence
roche Sébastien Tellier
O Yep Brothers From Another
Interlude Notorious B.I.G & Frank Sinatra
Lalibela Caribou
Bad Touch Example Company Flow
Nightcall Kavinsky
Beyond Any Doubt s/s/s
Bulbform Trust
Make It After the Smoke
Smoker's Anthem Snoop Dogg

5 for 1

Author Selena Category

Misc

Aug 17 2011

This Wednesday is special. I have all of these small things that I want to share, and it wouldn’t really make sense to give them their own posts since they are small things, but still boss things. So here they are:

1. This little animation for The Northwest Film & Video Festival by David Emmite. It’s too cute!!
www.davidemmite.com

2. A super easy free oriental pattern maker called Japonizer. If you are running out of time and need a little extra something for that poster or just need a fresh new desktop wallpaper, this will work great.
wanokoto.net/japonizes

3. A new find for Chris and I which we have been coveting, but no longer! Scriptographer is a revolutionary tool for the Adobe Illustrator user. It is a free scripting plugin that is super easy to use, and the effects can be quite amazing.
scriptographer.org

4. A great retro font resource, also free! When those other crazy free font websites aren’t doing it for you and you want something fresh and old school, this is the place for you.
tackorama.net/Fonts/

5. Finally, our good friend Aaron Bloom showed me this after I wowed at his “The” on his newest poster creation. It is literally a stockpile of “the’s”. Seriously, this would have come in handy SO MANY TIMES. Again, FREE.
thetheproject.com/archive

Road Trip!

Author Chris Category

Misc

Jun 24 2011

We’ll be out for two weeks starting tomorrow, with our dear friend, Katie, to trek across a chunk of the USA. Peep the route, going counter clockwise, and let us know if we’re gonna be close to your town so you can offer up a place for us to sleep and give us your food :) Or just let us know of some dope spots we gotta hit up.

Why is BNB going on this epic interstate tour? Selena’s never been to New Orleans, so we’re doing that: Cajun style.

Don’t worry if you notice we’re not posting every day; that’s just how it is out there when you’re livin’ by the code of the road: miles from home, miles from friends, eat what you can when you can, and updating your blog is slightly less easy.

Planned stops:

Quest Field (my pa will be crossing a marathon finish line)
Canon Beach (duh)
Red Wood National Park
San Francisco
Austin
New Orleans

Monkrahwr

Author Selena Category

Misc

May 13 2011

I found this blog Monkrahwr detailing the hilarious shit that happens to this girl in California. She draws these super crude illustrations, probably in some Microsoft Paint software, to go along with her stories and they always make my day. I wish she would blog more often, because whenever I read a new one, it’s guaranteed I’ll have a better morning. Though blogging about funny things in your life all of the time can’t be that easy. I know that I couldn’t do it. Not only would I fail at continuously having funny things to talk about, but I would fail at being able to express how funny they were at the time. I am a terrible storyteller!

I also really love how she’s able to joke about herself. That’s also a hard thing to do sometimes. After looking at beautiful art so often, since that’s my job, it’s kind of nice to look at something so badly illustrated. Some amazing t.v. shows are done in bad illustration (though “bad illustration” is definitely based on opinion) like The Life and Times of Tim. Definitely follow her so you can read her next post! Though if I were you, I’d just go there right now and read all of her previous posts from beginning to end.

Follow BossnotBoss

Author Chris Category

Misc

Apr 29 2011

There’s now a link to our twitter feed!!! You can click on the left there in the nav or right here.

The feed itself isn’t too new, but the link sure is. On our twitter, you’ll find lots of extra boss and notboss content that may not be boss or notboss enough to merit an entire post. Videos, people, events, and anything that is still enough to talk about, but more of a, “hey, check this out right now, fool.”

Plus there’s always the classic, rss feed :)

United Visual Artists

Author Selena Category

Misc

Apr 15 2011

Teaming up with Coachella this year is a company from London called United Visual Artists. They are designing the main stage for bands to preform on such as Arcade Fire, Interpol, and Animal Collective. All I can really say about these guys is, they are awesome. Can you imagine putting together a show like that?? Lighting design, props, crazy shit, projections? They have also worked on stages for Jay Z, Chemical Brothers, and Massive Attack. Damn. I wish I worked for a company like this one. Getting to tour around the world and designing awesome shit? Fuck, sign me UP!

The video is made by this other mind blowing company called The Creators Project. I’m still a little confused about all of the different things they do, but it looks like they mainly help out with giant visual projects such as Coachella and other, smaller artistic exhibitions. They also make awesome little videos about events and the people they get to work with. I watched a few of the ones they have up and they were all super cool, so I would check them out if I were you.

kirupa.com

Author Chris Category

Misc

Apr 12 2011

Kirupa has saved my butt at least one thousand times. If you’re new to flash or simply not very good at it, then this is where you’ll be spending most of your nights. There’s a million helpful tutorials and if that’s not enough there’s plenty of forums for you to dig through and find some other kid who’s had the same problem.

One thing that I can’t seem to ignore is that a lot of the forums are five or six years old – some even more than that. Is this a sign that flash is dying, that nobody wishes to learn flash any longer during these days of iPads and apps, or is it simply that everyone who’s interested in flash is already a master at it?

I for one still have a love for flash and love the feeling I get when my action script, that I grabbed from a ten year old forum, works just right.

It should be noted that kirupa does offer tutorials on programing outside of flash, but who cares about windows phone 7?

Launch Party

Author Chris Category

Misc

Feb 06 2011

We held a launch party on Friday, February 4th, 2011, and it was so much fun! Thank you to all of you who came out to support BossnotBoss even if you’d never heard of it before.

There was a break in the dancing to ask some of the guests their own Boss & notBoss which you can find in the video.

Within 24hrs, BossnotBoss had over 430hits on it’s first day, blasting way past our expectations of 30! So we have to say Thanks again to you all who have allowed yourselves to be touched by the BossnotBoss

Casteller

Author Chris Category

Misc

Jan 09 2011

The idea of building a castle of humans, or castell, started in the late 18th century in Catalonia. It seems like such a strange thing to get so big, but at the same time the amount of strength, balance, and strategy required to successfully build and dismantle one of these bad boys is on a level beyond admirable. I can’t believe that kids get in on this too! I mean it makes sense since they’re so light and naive, but damn. I guess if you’re already using children, why not kick it up a bit and use babies. I suspect that you’d be able to achieve another two or three levels if your team started passing up babies to top off the tower.

Clearly this is very dangerous and I highly recommend it. Just get a few friends, strangers, parents, executives, and new borns together, then have at it. Just make sure you all remember to wear your faixa as it will greatly aid in your construction. If you do actually attempt a castell, you should take a pic of it and I’ll throw it on BNB inside this post and you’ll be famous!

Glenn Beck

Author Nash Category

Misc

Dec 28 2009

Glenn Beck is a scat muncher!

Glenn Beck’s fear mongering, liberal bashing, and illogical rants are (in my opinion) crafted to advance the Fox New neo-conservative agenda and further his own career, and nothing else. Programs such as Glenn Beck’s are (by Fox’s definition) NOT news, they are purely opinions and entertainment. OK, that is fine, except they are presented as news and that is how they are often interpreted. So here is the deal, I can’t say that I always disagree with Beck, from time to time he says stuff that isn’t total garbage.

But watch a few clips from his nightly turd fest and you will see: his arguments lack facts and logic, he consistently bashes any form of liberalism and relates them to communist, fascist, socialists, etc, he distorts everything to fit the neo-con agenda, and he presents all of this with a fake ass acting persona that makes you so want to agree with everything he says. Please don’t, he’s full of shit.

See Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert rip him apart:
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Nocturnal Emission

Author Chris Category

Misc

Dec 24 2009

One of nature’s cruelest practical jokes. Why does it happen to the best of us and how to aid avoiding it after the lump jump

There you are just minding your own business, sexing away and it’s great. Then you wake up to find that the only thing real about it is the mess you now have to clean up.

A nocturnal emission (wet dream, night discharge, or spontaneous orgasm) is when you ejaculate while you’re catchin some z’s. It’s most common for boys in puberty, but it also happens to girls in the form of extreme lubrication of the vagina. This post, however, will focus mainly on the male side of things.

Wikipedia states that there’s no data to suggest an exact cause (aside from increased hormone production) or method of prevention, but several other sites, as well as a little common sense, say that you just gottalotta semen in your balls and you need make room for some fresh new swimmers. The more you rub one out on your own or with a friend, the less your body rubs one out for you. Although there have been cases where this isn’t the case, I have gone out of my way to put this theory to the test for the sake of Boss Not Boss readers everywhere, and it’s held true. So I’ve come up with this line to help you keep from waking up to the chore of washing your sheets in the middle of the night:

Awake for the cream, avoid the clean.