Art! JBD Style
By Baker Jeff | May 16, 2008
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George Bush clip in Harold & Kumar 2 : Escape from Guantanamo Bay
By Baker Jeff | May 4, 2008
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Imageless CSS
By Baker Jeff | May 2, 2008
Here is The Header!
How did I do it?
This is the CSS external doc:
/* CSS Document */
.b1h, .b2h, .b3h, .b4h, .b2bh, .b3bh, .b4bh{font-size:1px; overflow:hidden; display:block;}
.b1h {height:1px; background:#aaa; margin:0 5px;}
.b2h, .b2bh {height:1px; background:#aaa; border-right:2px solid #aaa; border-left:2px solid #aaa; margin:0 3px;}
.b3h, .b3bh {height:1px; background:#aaa; border-right:1px solid #aaa; border-left:1px solid #aaa; margin:0 2px;}
.b4h, .b4bh {height:2px; background:#aaa; border-right:1px solid #aaa; border-left:1px solid #aaa; margin:0 1px;}
.b2bh, .b3bh, .b4bh {background: #ddd;}
.headh {background: #aaa; border-right:1px solid #aaa; border-left:1px solid #aaa;}
.headh h3 {margin: 0px 10px 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 3px;}
.contenth {background: #ddd; border-right:1px solid #aaa; border-left:1px solid #aaa;}
.contenth div {margin-left: 12px; padding-top: 5px;}
And the HTML code:
<b class=“b1h”></b><b class=“b2h”></b><b class=“b3h”></b><b class=“b4h”></b>
<div class=“headh”>
<h3>Here is your Header!</h3>
</div>
<div class=“contenth”>
<div>Look ma, no images!</div>
</div>
<b class=“b4bh”></b><b class=“b3bh”></b><b class=“b2bh”></b><b class=“b1h”></b>
You will have to link the external CSS document to the HTML file
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Deal or no deal (TV show)
By Baker Jeff | April 30, 2008
(I’ve watched it before a couple times)… and don’t understand why people who got a ‘deal’ for anything over 100,000 didn’t take it. So I researched the probability to conclude my theory…
At the beginning of Deal or No Deal, the contestant is presented with 26 suitcases that contain the amounts shown in the image above, and the expected value can be calculated from the following equation:
If no cases have been opened, then this value computes to approximately $131,477.54.
-WORD
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E-bomb
By Baker Jeff | April 30, 2008
STORY ART BY JEFF BAKER
In this Dr. Strange love world of pushbutton warfare, the Electronic Bomb, or “E-bomb,” is the latest weapon of choice, An e-bomb is an electronic magnetic pulse device delivered to it’s target in payloads of magnetic strips, generating an electromagnetic fields intense enough to knock out electronic equipment and devices of all kinds. dropped from a bomb-bay at 10,000 feet, an e-bomb with high-power microwave capability can knock out hard drives, database, TV and radio transmitters for good. They can turn the most modernized industrial state into a Taliban-like society. No blood. No dead. No cell phones and no modems. According to insiders, E-bombs were used by the U.S. in Afghanistan to disrupt al-Qaeda communications and Osama bin Laden’s ability to talk to his field commanders on their satellite phones. Of course. “when you are up against a foe living in shit and fighting with spears,” says a former member of the U.S. special Operations Command,” there are limits to all this high-tech wizardry. Technology helps, but these wars need to be fought with knifes and blood.” Anit-terror experts must also contend with the possibility that E-bomb technology could get into the wrong hands and wreck a different kind of havoc altogether than that of September 11. while most metropolitan areas in the U.S. have taken preparatory measures for further terrorists attacks. E-bomb countermeasures are rarely discussed. “We control much of the world’s news and information. we have the stock market here, two of the busiest airports and a subway system that ferries millions each hour,” says a former high-ranking officer in the NYPD’s Special Operations Division. “This city is one large fuse box that in a zap can be brought back to the Dark Ages.” -Samuel M. Katz
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Hammer Juggling King!
By Baker Jeff | April 16, 2008
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Andy Warhol
By Baker Jeff | April 12, 2008
Andy Warhol
Guns, 1981-1982
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
16 x 20 in. (40.6 x 50.8 cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
In the early 1980s Andy Warhol painted a variety of iconic objects, including guns, knives, and crosses. Warhol rejected the idea that his work functioned as social criticism and instead described himself as an American artist who was merely depicting his environment. This description suggests that his paintings of guns be read in the same way as his images of Campbell’s Soup, Marilyn Monroe, or Coca-Cola—as simply images of American icons. Yet, as with many of Warhol’s statements and works, there is the surface of things and then the multiple meanings below it. Gun ownership in America is hugely popular, in part, because it gives people a sense of security. Hollywood imagery and video games add to the allure of guns. The gun is also, through its widespread use and availability in America, a tool of real and commonplace violence. This particular gun, the .32 snub-nosed pistol, was of the type that Valerie Solanas used in her 1968 assassination attempt on Warhol. In his choice of such richly associative iconic objects, Warhol becomes a truly artful social observer.
Andy Warhol
Hammer & Sickle, 1976
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
72 x 86 x 1 1/4 in. (182.9 x 218.4 x 3.2 cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
Andy Warhol created his Hammer and Sickle series in 1976 after a trip to Italy where the most common graffiti in public spaces was this symbol found on Soviet flags. Under communist control it signified the union of industrial and farm workers’ interests. In Italy, a democratic country since the end of WWII, the repeated graffiti symbol was to Warhol more Pop than political. After returning to the United States, Warhol asked his studio assistant Ronnie Cutrone to find source pictures of this symbol. The reproductions found in books were like the Soviet flag, flat in appearance, and Warhol wanted something different. Cutrone purchased a double-headed hammer and a sickle at a local hardware store and arranged and photographed the tools in many positions. Warhol used the Cutrone photographs for his silkscreened series.
In 1977, these works were exhibited under the ambiguous title Still Lifes at the Castelli Gallery in New York City. Warhol disavowed any political ties to his work, while he was simultaneously aware of the power of symbols and the cultural climate of the Cold War. This war between superpowers, America and the Soviet Union, from the early 1940s through the 1980s was characterized not by actual military combat but by a climate of tension and mutual perceptions of hostility between East and West, communism and capitalism, resulting in the build-up of arms, nuclear weapons, and influence peddling around the globe.
Knives ca. 1981 - 82
acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas
20 x 16 in. (50.8 x 40.6 cm.)
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
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80,000 jobs slashed in March ‘08
By Baker Jeff | April 8, 2008
In March ‘08 the unemployment rate rose from 4.8 to 5.1 percent. Gas prices are on pace to double since last year. Lenders aren’t lending anymore. Students at private colleges can’t get loans because the banks stopped offering and government loans don’t cover the rising cost of a college education. Car companies like Mercedes, BMW and Lexus are reporting big loses. I don’t want to even talk about the airline industry.
As an entrepreneur it is frustrating for me to see the American dollar going down and so many jobs being outsourced. The American Dream can be described as a belief in the freedom that allows all citizens and residents of the United States of America to achieve their goals in life through hard work. I’m having trouble with that freedom. I’m being restricted, not supported by our government. All the while knowing that the war in Iraq cost each American household more than $100 a month. On top of lower wages, loss of jobs and more expenses.
I support Sen. Barack Obama 100%. I have been a fan of his since he was elected Sen. of Chicago. We can’t keep this pace up. Unfortunately his competitor Sen. John Mccain (A respected war veteran) has said he will continue this path. He will keep fighting the war and ultimately in my opinion lead America in a downward spiral. I know we can’t just turn off or cover up the mess George W. Bush has created. Camp Anaconda - is one of the largest American military bases in Iraq. Balad (In Iraq) operated by the Pentagon is currently the second busiest airport in the world. There are 27,500 landings a month. Troops and more troops. George W. Bush never had any plans of leaving Iraq. We can’t just stop what he has done in Iraq. But like many other Americans I will be counting the days till the November elections. I hope we make a change, not pass the torch.
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