Important and interesting fun fact: Vancouver means “from the place where the cows cross the river.” Yeah, pretty much the exact same thing as Ox Ford, but with far fewer Fords, and many more vans.

That man at 1:30 kicked higher than any old man has ever kicked before.  Those guys were probably raving in 1956.

DJ Dancefloor – Skating on Sunshine (To download: right mouse button, “save target as”)

For more of DJ Dancefloor’s screamingly-hot tracks, click here.

Okay, okay.  The Pokemon one was up there as well:

The thought of being able to wear shirts like this un-ironically is somewhat pleasing. Three cheers for Japan!

I’m a huge fan of infrastructure and trying new things, so redo-ing this blog is a fun project.  Thanks again to Ian Mackenzie for egging on the switch to Wordpress.  I really liked blogger, and pretty much anything Google offers up, but sometimes you gotta start fresh.  So here we are.  I haven’t really blogged about much in the last couple years, but many fun things have happened.  I’ll try to post more often about stuff that’s gone down, keep you up to date on new things in the pipeline, and do my part to distribute ridiculous business idioms to no end.  It’s nice to try new things on for size.

Either way, here’s a comic for your looking enjoyment.

A series of mangled bike pictures caught the eye of Rob of Galerie Armatta in Montreal, and they were exhibited in the spring of 2009 as Cycle Killer.

Photos of the pictures being exhibited.

Cycle Killer makes a great exhibit.  Drop me a line if you’d like to show the pictures somewhere!

On July 12, 2005 I posted a picture of a red paperclip on my blog and asked if anyone wanted to trade something bigger or better for it.  A few days later I traded the paperclip, and after making 14 trades over the course of a year, I wound up with a house located at 503 Main Street in Kipling Saskatchewan.

It was an amazing year.

Here’s a cool video that covers most of the project:

Over the year of making 14 trades, I met hundreds of awesome people made great new friends, and tried out many new things. The whole experience was incredible. Some of the more ridiculous highlights:

• I was made mayor for the day of Kipling
• Dom and I were made honorary residents of Kipling for life
• I was given the key to the city.
• I received a Guinness World Record for Most Successful Internet Trade
• Kipling erected the World’s Largest Red Paperclip, another Guinness Record
• Dom and I traveled to Japan to be surprise guests on one of those crazy Japanese shows.
• Another Japanese TV show made this.
• I was on stage with Alice Cooper at a concert in Fargo.
• The press had a field day
• I wrote a book about the adventure.
• Volkswagen Spain made a TV commercial based on the story
• I starred in a Mastercard commercial.
• Grolsch Beer made a TV commercial inspired by the story

But the best thing of all was not that I wound up with a house in a year, or that the but that it was fun to do the project. By far the most important trade was when I traded away the red paperclip to start the process. If I’d never made that first trade to get things going, nothing would’ve ever happened!

I have since donated the house to the Town of Kipling, where along with the World’s Largest Red Paperclip, it is a major tourist attraction and community asset.

Wikipedia entry
Pictures
The archived one red paperclip blog
Press Coverage

www.whoaretheseguys.com

DJ Dancefloor Videos on YouTube: = http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=0D02C500D0BF081E

DJ Dancefloor comes from a long line of talented musicians who have been making techno music for centuries deep in the heart of Europe. DJ Dancefloor’s worldwide domination of mainstream radio, underground club and indie rock charts has been observed and studied for decades, but the jury is still out on what makes his music so extraordinary. Please feel free to download the free mp3s for DJ Dancefloor’s mouth-watering tracks from the discography below.

Club Thumping Beats – Released: Sept 2009 – download mp3s from links below
(to download the whole album as a zip file click here.)

1. Beach Enthusiast
2. Beat Generation
3. Breezy Rider
4. Corn Chocolate
5. Dogged Horse
6. Grandmaster Splash
7. Island Hopping
8. KLM 671
9. La Quebecoise
10. Location Turbo
11. Lounge Chair
12. Mat Dore Has Long Hair
13. Moe Bandy
14. Revello Equipped
15. Rolling in the Ghind
16. Skating on Sunshine
17. Snow Fence
18. Stomp Your Feet
19. Three Across
20. Walky Nose
21. The Yellow Pages
22. 1991
23. Le Vernisage
24. Every All The Time

OFFICIAL CLUB THUMPING BEATS ALBUM COVER