Word: cartoons
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...best, street art repositions the public space around it, making it a place where cryptic little messages are offered to those who care to see them. Even an image that might not resonate much on its own--a flower, a cartoon bunny--sends out a different frequency when it shows up on a banged-up city block. Although it sometimes appears in the suburbs, street art is mostly a city format, borrowing its images from the primordial ooze of video games, advertising, science fiction, skateboard decals, porn and politics. Masked gunmen, spacemen and George W. Bush are all major motifs...
...present position at Apple in 1997, that's the situation he found. He and Jonathan Ive, head of design, came up with the original iMac, a candy-colored computer merged with a cathode-ray tube that, at the time, looked like nothing anybody had seen outside of a Jetsons cartoon. "Sure enough," Jobs recalls, "when we took it to the engineers, they said, 'Oh.' And they came up with 38 reasons. And I said, 'No, no, we're doing this.' And they said, 'Well, why?' And I said, 'Because I'm the CEO, and I think it can be done...
...which people may or may not have been turning out in droves is a listening party for “The Mouse and The Mask,” a collaboration between celebrated hip-hop artists MF Doom and Danger Mouse (known collectively as Dangerdoom); and, oddly enough, the Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programs (see review on page B7). Featuring such guests as Ghostface Killah (of Wu-Tang Clan fame) and Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Master Shake, the album is unusual to say the least, but unusual in an undeniably entertaining way. The party...
...last supper at Ruth’s Chris—he abstains, staring all too wistfully at the nearest blank television screen. So in searching for a way to challenge his plastic mind without turning him and it off, this summer I found a surprising solution: The Cartoon Network show “Family Guy.” The show is seldom considered educational and appropriate for children, but after two months of controlled viewing, it actually appears to be cultivating my brother’s gray matter without sacrificing one ounce of his innocence. Well, maybe one ounce...
Even if the reader is only an 8-year-old cartoon...