Pennhurst State School - Closed, Condemned, Haunted
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Off the beaten path
For Halloween, I found this rather appropriate and extremely terrifying. It was a mental hospital for children in Pennsylvania but was shut down decades ago. This IS the essential haunted house. I wouldn’t dare set foot in it:
Pennhurst by Breathless
Pennhurst by Opacity
Pennhurst by Fifty One Eggs
Tags: haunted, pennhurst, scary as shit
Chicago vs NYC - Pizza Battle (Part 2)
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Food Glorious Food
This is coming from the other writer on QP, a Chicagoan, and I have to admit, I like NYC pizza better. I guess that was a quick defeat.
Still, I asked around what the best “Chicago” pizza is and apparently that immediately requires me to answer Deep Dish. If that’s the case, it’s Lou Malnati’s.
Tags: deep dish, deep dish sucks actually, lou malnati, pizza
Chicago vs NYC - Pizza Battle
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Food Glorious Food
Who wins in the competition of pizza - Chicago or NYC?
Best of NYC - In the running for best pizza in NYC is Roberta’s Pizza. Located in Bushwick Brooklyn (or East Williamsburg depending on what real estate broker you are talking to) this pizza place specializes in seasonal ingredients and excellent pork products, most often coming from the cheek. Make sure to check out other things on the menu. Event the beans have pork “Jowl” in them.
Bring it on Chi-town! What you got?
Tags: battles, face meat, pizza
Monotonix - Summers and Autumns
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Stick it in your ear., Yachts, Gadgets, & Bling
Wicked Garage Rock from Tel Aviv.
Tags: awesomeness, garage rock
Best Of Craigslist: Manly Bike (San Fran)
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Off the beaten path
From sfbay.craigslist.org
(props to Priestas):
“Bike for sale
What kind of bike? I don’t know, I’m not a bike scientist. What I am though is a manly guy looking to sell his bike. This bike is made out of metal and kick ass spokes. The back reflector was taken off, but if you think that deters me from riding at night, you’re way wrong. I practiced ninja training in Japan’s mount Fuji for 5 years and the first rule they teach about ninja biking is that back reflectors let the enemy know where you are. Not having a rear reflector is like saying “FUCK YOU CAR, JUST TRY AND FIND ME”.
The bike says Giant on the side because it’s referring to my junk, but rest assured even if you have tiny junk that Giant advertisement is going to remain right where it is. I bought this bike for 300 dollars from a retired mercenary that fought in both World War 1 and World War 2 and had his right arm bitten off by a shark in the Phillipines while stationed there as a shark handler. When he sold it to me I had to arm wrestle him for the honor to buy it. I broke his arm in 7 places when I did. He was so impressed with me he offered me to be his son but I thought that was sissy shit so I said no way.
The bike has some rusted screws, but that just shows how much of a bad ass you are. Everyone knows rusted screws on a bike means that you probably drove it underwater and that’s bad ass in itself. Those screws can be replaced with shiny new ones, but if you’re going to go to that trouble why not just punch yourself in the balls since you’re probably a dickless lizard who doesn’t like to look intimidating.
The bike is for men because the seat is flat or some shit and not shaped like a dildo. If you like flat seated bikes you’re going to love this thing because it doesn’t try to penetrate your ass or anything.
I’ve topped out at 75 miles per hour on this uphill but if you’re just a regular man you’ll probably top it out at 10 miles per hour. This thing is listed as a street bike which is man-code for bike tank. The bike has 7 speeds in total:
Gear 1 - Sissy Gear
Gear 2 - Less Sissy Gear
Gear 3 - Least Sissy Gear
Gear 4 - Boy Gear
Gear 5 - Pre-teen Boy Gear
Gear 6 - Manly Gear
Gear 7 - Big Muscles Gear
I only like gear 6 and 7 to be honest.”
Tags: bike scientist, craigslist, ninja
Scary but Dope Viewing Platforms
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
Some of the more architecturally astounding viewing platforms around the world.
Top of the Tyrol
Grand Canyon Skywalk
Sydney Tower Skywalk
Tags: architecture, glass, skyscraper, skywalk, viewing platform
Delicious Design League
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
One of the sickest design shops out there. Keepin it real, only print. Bought one of their t-shirts at Flatstock this year at Pitchfork Music Fest.
Tags: delicious, delicious design league, design, posters, print
Nutrigrain… BABIES!
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Food Glorious Food
You may have seen our beer posting a few weeks ago, this one’s from the same film company. (thanks for tip, toombs)
Tags: babies, feeling great, nutrigrain, turnpike films
The Art of Augustine Kofie
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
Tags: acrylic, art, augustine kofie, design, hope, keepdrafting, obama, watercolor
Fail Blog : Best Man Fail
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events
My favorite new site: Fail Blog. People failing in life, failing in their messages to the world, just pure failure all around. Hilarious.
Tags: fail, failure, funny losing jerks, losers
Kings of Leon - Closer
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Stick it in your ear.
Kings of Leon has been a great band to hear their music mature as the band does. Here is a great track off their New album, Only By the Night
Tags: closer, kings of leon, music
Monkey Journey to the West
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Art & Design, Stick it in your ear.
Created by the team behind Gorillaz, Journey to the West is performed by both European and Chinese musicians and singers and produced by Damon Albarn (Also of Blur and The Good the Bad and the Queen). The album is a natural development of art and music based on the opera of the same name which Albarn and Hewlett Created with director Chen Shi-Zheng. Below is a video done by the New York Times about the opera. Click Here to be directed to the website for more info.
Patchwork Nation
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Current Events
The 2008 presidential campaign unfolds into 11 communities chosen from 3,142 US counties. Each sector on this map represents a distinct community type within the American electorate. Which one are you? Industrial Metropolis, Tractor Country, Evangelical Epicenter? Click the buttons below the map to highlight just those types of communities. (Props to Oloffson for the tip)
Tags: election, patchwork nation, the motha f'n melting pot
The Ampersand!
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
An entire site dedicated to “&” and even a post about “abolishing” it…
Tags: &, ampersand, design, lettering, special characters, typography
2009 Track/Fixed Bike Porn
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Art & Design, Yachts, Gadgets, & Bling
Click on the Jamis below to see some nice available track and fixed gear bikes. Take a look at the Raleigh One way. That Bike has some class.
Tags: fall cycling, land yachts
Robots!! Perform Ballet Mecanique by George Antheil
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Off the beaten path, Stick it in your ear.
Listen to an NPR Story about it here:
The Ballet mécanique is Antheil’s most famous—or notorious—piece. At its various premieres, it caused tremendous controversy, not to mention fistfights. Although it was very successful in Paris, it was a huge flop when it came to New York, and in fact Antheil’s career as a “serious” composer never recovered from that debacle.
The Ballet mécaniqueis a highly rhythmic, often brutalistic piece combining, among other elements, sounds of the industrial age, atonal music, and jazz. Its instrumental parts are extremely difficult to play, and it lasts, in its various versions, between 14 and 30 minutes.
Until the 1990s, this version of the piece had never been performed in its original instrumentation, since the technology for linking and synchronizing multiple player pianos, whether 4 or 16, although theoretically possible when Antheil conceived the piece, turned out not to be practical. The European-based Ensemble Moderne was the first to attempt the piece: in 1996 and 1999, they performed it in Germany and France using two custom-modified MIDI-driven player pianos to play the 16 parts, and six pianists to play the two human parts.
Today, however, we have the technology to perform the piece with its original instrumentation. And it has now been done several times.
(above is an abridged description of piece from antheil.org)
Tags: automoton, fart for art, robot musicians
Poster Boy NYC
Posted by Slake! | Filed under Art & Design
This guy in New York rearranges subway advertisement posters to create art. Check out some of his stuff by clicking on the image above:
Tags: guerilla art
Italian Sub Stoup
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Food Glorious Food
GOOD LORD this is the tastiest, meatiest, most filling, sauciest soup-slash-stew I’ve ever eaten. Just try it once, I promise.
Ingredients
* 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil, 2 turns of the pan, plus 1/4 cup for croutons
* 3/4 pound, 3 links, hot or sweet Italian sausage, split and meat removed from casing
* 1/4 pound piece stick pepperoni, diced
* 1 ham steak, diced (about 1/2 to 3/4 pound)
* 1 green bell pepper, seeded, quartered and sliced
* 1 medium yellow onion, peeled, quartered and sliced
* 1 (15-ounce) can diced tomatoes
* Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
* 6 cups chicken stock
* 1/2 pound gemelli pasta or other short-cut pasta
* 5 cups cubed crusty bread
* 3 large cloves garlic, cracked from skin
* 1/2 cup grated Parmigiano-Reggiano, a couple of handfuls
* 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
* 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
* 2 bunches arugula, trimmed and coarsely chopped (about 4 cups)
Directions
Place a soup pot or deep sided skillet on the stove top and preheat to medium high heat. Add olive oil, 2 turns of the pan and the sausage. Brown and crumble the sausage, drain off excess fat if necessary then add the ham and pepperoni. Cook meats together 2 minutes then add peppers and onions and cook 2 or 3 minutes more. Add diced tomatoes and season with salt and pepper. Add chicken stock and bring stoup to a boil. Stir in pasta and cook for 8 minutes. Make croutons while pasta cooks.
In a large skillet heat about 1/4 cup of olive oil, 4 turns of the pan over medium heat. Add garlic and cook 1 minute. Add bread to garlic oil, toss and toast the cubes 5 or 6 minutes. Season the toasty cubes with red pepper flakes, oregano and lots of grated cheese.
Stir arugula into soup just before you serve it up. Ladle up the stoup and float several toasty garlic bread cubes in each bowl.
Tags: cold days, forks, jesus this is good, onion, pepper, sausage, soup, spoons, stew, stoup
Hot Chip
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Stick it in your ear.
This is a little late, or in the politically correct term of the word… “retarded” in promoting this band and this single, but honestly they deserve to be a lot bigger than they have become since this 2006 release (yes, they released something this year but not nearly as good as The Warning). Plus it’s my birthday in a few days and the weekend just kicked in. Y’heard?
“And I Was a Boy from School”:
A 1280 x 960 wallpaper from the Hot Chip release
Tags: dance music, dance your ass off bitches, hot chip, nix's birthday, toy music
Koehnline’s Animations
Posted by QuenchPops | Filed under Art & Design
Totally 90s. Totally freaking out my eyes and makes my skin itch. Be Sure to click “NEXT” on the top left to see all of them.
(thanks to Toombs / Ludington for the link)
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