I love to draw, sketch or paint - it relaxes me a great deal. Temporarily all my art supplies are in storage which isn't overly convenient. And on my laptop, the only thing I have installed that could even be remotely considered digital art software is MS Paint. I have dabbled in that app a few times just for fun, but thanks to search engines, I was amazed at what you could actually do with it.
It's not easy to do, but I was able to create the above from scratch based on the instruction from the video below:
I found the above image on my computer the other day. Even though it can be found all over the internet, I don't know its origin, so I can't give it its due credit. But I know why I saved it...I love anything puzzle-like. Perhaps you do as well, and if that is the case, check out the image below (click on either pic to enlarge the image, which can then be further enlarged in Picasa) and name as many of these people as possible.
So, if you are so inclined, knock your socks off. As someone has already pointed out, the answers are google-able, but that is not the point of the post. Google can be used if you have an idea of who someone is and need more information. Because, who can remember exactly what Friedrich Nietzsche's profile used to look like? Also, I have learned how abysmal my knowledge of all things related to Asian history and culture is (as well as men with long, white beards), so search engines can be helpful in that respect as well.
I have already started a numbered list, marking the ones I am not 100% sure of or flat-out guessing on with an asterisk. I will update the following list as I figure them out or get better information, so feel free to leave comments or send me an email. Have fun!
1. 2.* Moses, but the scroll instead of tablets is suspicious. 3. 4. Vladimir Lenin 5. 6. Bill Clinton 7. 8. Bruce Lee 9. Winston Churchill 10. Henri Matisse 11. 12. Napoleon 13. Che Guevera 14. Fidel Castro 15. Marlon Brando as Vito Corleone. 16. Yasser Arafat 17. Kirk Douglas as Spartacus 18.* George W. Bush in his pajamas? 19. Osama bin Laden 20. 21.*Humphrey Bogart? 22. 23.* Julius Caesar? 24. 25. Pele. 26.* Genghis Khan. If not, he's gotta be in here somewhere. 27. Yul Brynner as Rameses 28. 29. Margaret Thatcher, although it looks like Olivia Walton. 30.* Someone who looks nothing like Glenn Miller? 31. Franklin D. Roosevelt 32. 33.* Someone with the hair of Elvis and nothing else. Maybe Ritchie Valens. 34.* Gonna guess Gary Cooper 35. William Shakespear 36.* Mozart? 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. Confucius 43. Marilyn Monroe 44.* Guessing another 40s/50s actor - Cary Grant or Gregory Peck? 45. Luciano Pavaratti 46. 47.* Nelson Mandella? 48. Mikhail Gorbachev? 49. 50 51. Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly
52. 53. Adolf Hitler
54. 55. 56. General George Custer, but should totally be Colonel Mustard. 57. 58. *Pol Pot 59.* Andrew Jackson? 60. Saddam Hussein 61. 62. Charles Darwin 63. 64. Friedrich Nietzsche 65. Abraham Lincoln 66. *Kim Jon II 67.* Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau? 68.* Tecumseh? 69. Ariel Sharon 70. 71. 72. Mother Teresa 73. 74. 75. 76. Charlie Chaplin 77. Henry Ford due to the Model T, but I think he looks more like Andy Griffith. 78. 79. 80. Sigmund Freud 81. 82. 83.* Catherine the Great? 84. 85. 86. 87.* Looks like the guy from "My Favorite Martian". 88. 89. 90. Abraham 91. 92. Mike Tyson 93. 94. Ella Fitzgerald, but no clue why she is part of the table cloth. 95. Shirley Temple 96. Albert Einstein 97. Noah 98. 99. Ghandi 100.* I really should know this dude. 101. 102. Jack Daniels (note the bottle) 103.* Pablo Picasso or Salvador Dali?
The similarities are uncanny, no? Ok ok, looks-wise, not so much, but their message most assuredly is. This coming Monday is the observation of Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday. A few years ago, my friend Don wrote about his "dream" and it was subsequently printed in the Seattle Times. I hope one day to be able to write something as eloquent and insightful. But until then, I can't think of a better opportunity to share the following:
~My Dream, written by Don Gaines.
Like Dr. Martin Luther King,
I too have a dream. I see a world were elected officials act like
statesmen instead of politicians. Where their concern is good
public policy rather than getting votes. Where the best way to
get elected is a by molding a solid platform rather than a game-show-host
hairdo. Where republicans aren’t controlled by the religious
right and where democrats aren’t driven by the gay and liberal agenda.
It’s a place where voters realize that matters such as abortion and
same-sex marriage are personal, not political, issues. Where there
are no red states or blue states, just United States. Where morality
is shared, not legislated.
It’s a world of fewer wars
because organized religion promotes acceptance rather than intolerance. Where Protestants and Catholics get along in Northern Ireland.
Where Jews and Arabs share territory in the Holy Land. Where fanatics
loosen their turbans and their extremism. Where Sunnis don’t hate
Shias, Hutus don’t hate Tutsis, and vice versa. Where the only tribe
is that of the human race.
In my dream, there is no Black
community. There is no Latino community. There is only one
community of which we all are a part. In this community, there
is little crime because all who want to work have jobs. There
are no unions because employers treat their employees equitably.
It’s a place where selecting the job of educating our children is
the highest paid profession because of the responsibility it entails.
A place where our schools revert back to considering ketchup a condiment
instead of a vegetable. A community where the residents realize
that along with the right to vote 'no' to taxes comes the responsibility
to contribute to charitable organizations that provide social services.
It’s a world where beauty
is defined by what we contribute, rather than how we look.
Where people take responsibility for their actions. Where
fast food companies aren’t blamed for our expanding waist lines.
Where restaurants and bars aren’t sued for the irresponsibility of
drunk drivers. Where murderers are held responsible for killing, not
the companies that manufacture the weapons they use. Where people
recognize that one large part of the cure for diseases like obesity
and alcoholism is an injection of self-control.
But then I wake and realize
it was all just a dream. But I also recognize that we have the
power to create this world. If we all help the less fortunate.
If we can accept the views of others even if they differ from our own.
If we wake up with the goal of making the world a better place.
One by one. Little by little. If we all try. Then we can
lay down to rest satisfied with our accomplishments. And dream
of a world that is a better place. And wake to make it so...
My friend Amy posted a couple videos of her sons, Elliot and Ben, showcasing their dancing skills to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance on YouTube. Since then, Ben has been completely obsessed with how many hits it has and how quickly it will go "viral". Elliott? He just seems to be along for the ride on this one. And as of a couple of days ago, the hit-counter for both videos sat at an even 40 hits each. Therein lies the problem.
Unbeknownst to Amy, I asked my friend Daniel to post both videos on his personal blog. He has thousands of disturbed followers to the extent his blog could qualify for tax-exempt status, and since he posted Elliott's video first by complete happenstance, it naturally received the most hits by default.
Oops?
According to Amy, the following is a conversation she had earlier today:
Ben: “Mom, can you check Youtube and see how many hits I have today?”
Amy: “What? You’re six. Aren’t you supposed to be playing with Legos and fighting your little brother?”
Ben: “I’ve done that already. I wanna see if I’ve got more hits than Elliott.”
Amy: “Seriously, Ben, it’s not a competition.”
Ben: “Yes, it is! I toldallmy classmates to check out my Lady Gaga dance video! I wanna see if they did.”
Amy: “You told your classmates?”
Ben: “Yeah. Wolfgang, Joey, Samir, AND Luca!”
Amy: “Okay, okay. Let’s see.”
"Wow, 508!"
Ben: "Really??? What about Elliott? How many hits does HE have???”
Amy: "Woah, 932!"
Ben: Incredulously, “ARE YOU SERIOUS? He didn’t even TELL anybody!How is that EVEN possible?"
Amy: “He’s five Ben. He doesn’t care and neither should you…”
Ben: “Man, I’ve gotta find a new way for this to get more hits…"
As always, I am here to help. Amy was basically my roommate through most of college, we go back a long time, this much I know. But at the same time, I need to take into consideration that she was the one that had the bright idea of buying that hamster. Then there was also the time she asked to borrow a pair of my jeans since she had gained some weight recently, and totally acted like it was because she loved the jeans and not because she had gained some weight and could now fit into them. And did I ever tell you about the time...
Nevermind, I am not one to hold petty grudges. As such, I will let all of you (yes, all 20 of you) decide the outcome...
1. Click on Elliot's video if you think Amy deserves her current lot in life (as well as for the next 12 years). Also, if you think that Amy should gain some weight.
2. Click on Ben's video if you think Amy should be relieved of having to personally contact Lady Gaga and John McEnroe to get them to watch Ben's video AND leave a comment. Also, if you think that Amy should gain some weight.
As for me? I still fit in those jeans Amy needed to gain some weight to wear. Not that it is important or anything. This is totally about the kids and THEIR rivalry. I am just sayin', is all.
My friend Amy posted a couple videos of her sons, Elliot and Ben, showcasing their dancing skills to Lady Gaga's Bad Romance on YouTube. Since then, Ben has been completely obsessed with how many hits it has and how quickly it will go "viral". Elliott? He just seems to be along for the ride on this one. And as of a couple of days ago, the hit-counter for both videos sat at an even 40 hits each. Therein lies the problem.
Here to share a personalized and off-beat view of the world without emoticons...just as long as you promise you don't know me. (^_~)
