One more reason to love Obama

He’ll help you skip school.
Make sure to watch the video. This man is seriously the awesomest.
Thanks to Shannon D for the tip!

Fake black dad

One of Toronto’s summer fun guides did an almost-imperceptible Photoshop job: can you spot it above? It’s pretty nuanced, so look closely. Ok, ok, take it easy, I’ll tell you. They pasted a black man’s face over a stock photo depicting an olive-skinned man. Why? Because Toronto is a multicultural mosaic and they wanted to make their cover family more diverse. Now the image represents both interracial marriage and microcephaly. I quite like this, actually. I wonder who BlackDad really is, and if he made royalty fees? A head tax, maybe?

If anyone sees this magazine around town, can you grab me a copy?

Via Torontoist

Google sometimes makes suggestions

Via Jess

Model falls; newscasters laugh their asses off

A model falling on the catwalk isn’t that big a deal, and in fact I get all kind of “poor lady, she must have been so embarrassed, I hope her ankle didn’t get sprained and she didn’t lose work and stuff”. But when a model falls on the catwalk and three news anchors bust a merry gut laughing at the highlight reel? Well that’s pretty funny.

Thanks to Hill for the tip.

Nosefinger

My friend James is a professional prosthetist, which means that if you ever need a fake nose, a rubber hand, or, uh, you know, some other synthetic appendage, he’s your dude. There are lifelike silicone feet on his dining room table, if you know what I mean. And I’m gonna go ahead and assume that you do know what I mean, since that’s not actually a euphemism.

Anyway the other night we were over there for Elan’s birthday and James had a beautiful, highly detailed silicone fingertip kicking around (uh, maybe I should say “poking” around?). One of the interesting properties of this kind of silicone is that it sort of suctions on to human skin, which suggests some interesting possibilities.

James isn’t sure about this idea.

It’s like the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, only… not.

(That’s our pal Damian- I’m making some arts for an art show with him later this summer; stay tuned for deets, it’s gonna rock)

And I think this one’s my favourite pic of me & the Scooter, ever:

And also? James is gonna make a mold of my feet for use in a future prosthetic! I have pretty much the least attractive hands a human can have, but my feet are grade-A for adorable, so I’ll gladly comply, and wlll be sure to document the proceedings in an upcoming Pageslap post.

Thanks to Mandy for the marvelous camera & photos.

UPDATE: He did it! He made models of my feet! I am officially a model! From the ankles down! Pics here.