Flip Flop Flying

This is an idea that has been floating around in my head for a few months, and for obvious reasons, I got around to realising it this weekend.

Each dot represents one word of the song. The colours represent who is saying that word.

Sometimes, I’m asked if there are prints of my work available; I don’t normally do that sort of thing, but on the off-chance that you would like a print of this graphic, I’m providing a hi-res TIFF (254 x 321 mm / 10 x 12.6 inches; zipped file; 18.1MB) that you can download and have printed.

You don’t have to pay for it—-I certainly don’t want to profit from it-—but if you do want to download and print it, it would be nice if you would consider donating something to a cancer charity.

Here are some links to cancer charities in different countries.
If your home country is not listed, and you want to donate, just do some Googlin’,
and do it that way (and if you do do that, please email me (craig AT flipflopflyin DOT com)
and let me know which charity you used, and I can add it to the list.)

Canada: cancer.ca
Germany: kinderkrebsstiftung.de
Mexico: amlcc.org
UK: cancerresearchuk.org
USA: cancer.org

Here’s the Mediafire link to the hi-res file: fightforyourright.zip

Chris Brown is so sexyy
Chris brown is fucking sexy.
Chris Brown is so damn sexy!
Chris brown is tooo damn sexy …

Chris brown is sooo hot
Chris Brown is so fuckin hot
Chris Brown is Soo Hot<3
Chris Brown is pretty hot.

chris brown is so fineeeeee!
Chris Brown is fiiiinnneeeee as hell
Chris Brown is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooodamn fine :)
Chris Brown Is Some Fine Caramel!!

Chris Brown is in the building
Chris brown is in the building
Chris Brown is on the building!
chris brown is in the boulding.

Chris Brown is the king of Pop.
Chris Brown is the prince of RnB!!
Chris Brown is a really good dancer
Chris Brown is like jesus to me.

chris brown is a singer
Chris brown is perfecto! <3
Chris Brown is oh so soothing
Chris Brown is a modern day Sisqo

Chris Brown is my idol.
Chris Brown is my role model
Chris brown is really an inspiration.
Chris Brown is the master of my soul!

Chris Brown is a worthless fucking scumbag

All lines from this poem culled from searching "Chris Brown is" on Twitter.
http://twitter.com/#!/search/chris%20brown%20is

Note: it feels like picking low-hanging fruit to do a Twitter search poem of the things said about Chris Brown. He’s a moderately talented musician, a pretty good dancer, and, it would seem, a hideous human being. But he has a lot of fans, many of whom are more than willing to overlook his failings as a person simply because he is physically attractive.

More Twitter search poems here.

pigging out on Moroccan food
Pigging out on Cambodian
pigging out on Mexican
pigging out on Indian!!

pigging out on a burrito
Pigging out on pizza
Pigging out on noodles
pigging out on fajitas

pigging out on brownies
Pigging out on Chinese
Pigging out on strawberrys
Pigging out on some Portuguese cheese

pigging out on Wendy’s
Pigging out on burger King
Pigging out on Mcdonalds
pigging out on buffalo wings

pigging out on porfiteroles
pigging out on cupcakes
pigging out on oreos
Pigging out on chocolate and milkshake

pigging out on spagetti on toast!
pigging out on subway
pigging out on Mac and Cheese
pigging out at a buffet

Pigging out on mangoes!
Pigging out on fruit
pigging out on cereal
pigging out on froot loops

Pigging out on leftovers
Pigging out on sushi
pigging out on a huge cheese plate
pigging out on KFC!

pigging out on curry
pigging out on pizza hut
pigging out on bacon
pigging out on donuts

pigging out on nacho’s!
pigging out on apple pie
pigging out on cheesy puffs
pigging out on french fries

Pigging out on pickled onions.
pigging out on soda
pigging out on dim sum
pigging out on the sofa.

http://twitter.com/#!/search/pigging%20out%20on

More Twitter search poems here.

You know what’s awesome? Cheese.
You know what’s awesome? Leaving work early.
You know what’s awesome? Being a virgin.
You know what’s awesome? Elbow sweat.

you know what’s awesome? jello shots.
You know what’s awesome? Magical unicorns.
You know what’s awesome? Earth Wind & Fire.
You know what’s not awesome? A papercut on your knuckle.

You know what’s awesome? My mom
You know what’s awesome? My new phone
You know what’s awesome? My spider-man blanket
You know what’s awesome? Nothing.

you know what’s awesome? Mustaches.
you know what’s awesome? DINNER.
You know what’s awesome? Lightsabers.
You know what’s awesome? Kicking dudes.

you know what’s awesome? life
you know what’s awesome? kitties.
You know what’s awesome? Nothing.
you know what’s awesome? Me!

http://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/You%20know%20what’s%20awesome%3F

Poem edited from searching for the above term on three separate dates: 4th August 2010, 17th May 2011, and 7th May 2012.

More Twitter search poems here.

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Sad news. Here’s a little pixel-y animated GIF I made in 2004, of a part of the “Ch-Check it Out” video.

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There’s something very appealing about old futuristic houses that are in a less-than-perfect, slightly crumbly, state of repair. This is in Puebla, Mexico.

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TV announcer for the Tampa Bay Rays was reading my book on the telly last night. I is prouds.

Radiohead, Foro Sol, 18 April 2012.

It was good to hear There There, but aside from that, they were average. They need to get out of their arses and realise the glitchy songs don’t really have a place when you’re playing to a jillion thousand people in a baseball stadium. But then, I thought their last album was shit, and they played a bunch of songs off it, so, y’know. I got drunk, though, so that was good.

Pulp, Palacio de Los Deportes, 23 April 2012

Way way way better than Radiohead. First time they’ve ever played in Mexico. Crowd so into it. And it’s rare I feel any patriotic pride for my home nation, but there was something so amazing about hearing songs with lyrics about things which seem so local, so British – woodchip on the wall, for example – being sung by 10,000 Mexicans. I got drunk again.

Bars need tables. Normal tables. The sort of tables you can eat a knife-and-fork meal off. In my opinion the worst thing that happened when bars got all fancy was the introduction of sofas and coffee tables. Kinda makes sense in a nightclub: you’re more relaxed, and they are obviously better for any copping-off opportunities. But in a bar, where people tend to begin the night sober and you might want to have a conversation with your friends, the sofa and coffee table arrangement is awful. Just think of how easy a conversation is around a regular table. You can pull your chair in, lean on the table, drink, and your heads are relatively close together. They are built to enable socialbility. The sofa and coffee table arrangement, though, totally retards sociability. The only people you can talk to in any comfort are the people either side of you. If you are having a conversation with someone on a sofa on the other side of the coffee table, all comfort that the sofa is there to provide disappears. Particularly because the type of bars with sofas tend to also have louder music. You have to raise your voice. Making everything even louder. So everyone raises their voices, and they scooch to the edge of the sofa and lean forward (rendering the original comfortable intention of the sofas redundant; a regular dining chair is way more comfortable than perching on the edge of a sofa), still with a huge coffee table between you. It doesn’t promote conversation at all. Bars need normal tables.

This was released ten years ago. Ten years. Still a beautiful song and a wonderful video. I can still clearly remember going to Saturn, a big electrical chain store, in Berlin on my lunch break with my then-girlfriend to go and buy the Pet Shop Boys “Release” CD on the day it came out. Not my favourite Pet Shop Boys album, but this is definitely top five Pet Shop Boys songs for me. Especially the bit where Chris Lowe says “we’re going home.” Love that bit.

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Hey guys :B
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hey guys lol

Hey guys how are ya
Hey Guys How Are you???
Hey guys! How all doing?
Hey guys, what’s up?

Hey Guys! Please go follow my new twitter!
Hey guys, i know I’m being desperate, but can of of the people I follow, follow me back it’s just I need followers. Thank you!
Hey guys m new on twitter..pls follow.
Hey guys!I hope you twitter with me:} and sorry I can´t not good english ]:{——→

Hey guys!Welcome to my Twitter!
Hey guys wanna be friends??
Hey guys, thanks for the follow.
Hey guys pls follow me back

Hey guys do you like this?
Hey guys, like my shoes?
Hey guys like my tattoo?
Hey guys, this look suspicious to you?

Hey guys what do you think about my new profile picture?
Hey guys what happened with Toby?
Hey guys! Who’s excited for icarly and SNL tomorrow !?:)
hey guys, do you ever come back in Italy? :)

hey guys bring kleenex
Hey guys look!…. i brought bread.
hey guys this is soooo intresting!
HEY GUYS! I’m bored right now :(

HEY,GUYS,WHERE YOU BEEN?
hey guys have a great day.
Hey guys, I hope you are having a great night.
Hey guys – no big plans for the my weekend.

Hey guys check out my latest article
Hey guys check this out!
Hey you guys can’t miss out on this!!
Hey guys I wrote you a haiku

hey guys sorry!
Hey guys! Sorry I haven’t been on.
Hey guys, sorry i didn’t tweet last days..
Hey guys sorry for all the issues today

HEY GUYS HAPPY FRIDAY!!!
Hey guys, ITTSS FRRRIIIDDAAAYYYY!
Hey guys it’s April 6, 2012.
Hey guys, it’s April 06, 2012 at 04:30PM. Better grab yer dicks.

More Twitter search poems here.

A couple of years ago, I did an infographic about Turner, Montana being the farthest town in the contiguous United States from a Major League Baseball park:

(it’s also in the Flip Flop Fly Ball which is still available at bookstores of varying quality).

Journalist Conor Dougherty decided to visit Turner, Montana. You can read his article (and see his video) for the Wall Street Journal here.

I really want to visit Turner now I’ve read and seen that.

I moved into a new flat at the weekend. I’m loving the view from the balcony. I can see the mountains on the edge of the city; and every night, there’s a sunset behind the World Trade Center.

And not really giving a shit about lip syncing properly.