{"id":12415,"date":"2007-07-04T10:34:19","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T10:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2007\/07\/blowin-up-real-good.html"},"modified":"2007-07-04T10:34:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T10:34:19","slug":"blowin_up_real_good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/blowin_up_real_good\/","title":{"rendered":"Blowin&#039; up real good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While getting frozen yogurt the other night, I observed a posse* of little boys&#8211;maybe 5 or 6 years old&#8211;swarming around a small pink &quot;Little Mermaid&quot;-themed chair.&#160; They were goading one of their little buddies to body slam himself into the chair, chanting &quot;Dooo <em>it,<\/em> dooo <em>it&#8230;<\/em> Destroy <em>IT, <\/em>destroy <em>IT!!&quot;<\/em>&#160; Ah, the complete purity of that human impulse to see some stuff <em><strong>smashed all to hell<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In honor of today&#8217;s American holiday devoted, in some part, to that impulse:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Gene Gable features some cool vintage <a href=\"http:\/\/www.creativepro.com\/story\/feature\/25650.html\">Fourth of July artwork<\/a> on CreativePro.com.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/heintze\/postcards.htm\">Similar goodness<\/a> comes from American U.&#160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.american.edu\/heintze\/postcard18.jpg\">Go heavy<\/a> or go home, right? <\/li>\n<li>The <em>NYT<\/em> hosts a slideshow from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/packages\/khtml\/2007\/07\/02\/science\/20070703_BOOM_FEATURE.html\">explosives summer camp<\/a> in Missouri.  Adios, watermelon. (Here&#8217;s the accompanying <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/07\/03\/science\/03boom.html?em&amp;ex=1183694400&amp;en=c09fb0ec93316bf0&amp;ei=5087%0A\">article<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>In the spirit of fire-breathing, wheel-popping patriotism, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/slideshow\/2007\/06\/27\/us\/20070628_TRACTOR2_3.html\">these shots<\/a> from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/06\/28\/us\/28tractor.html?ex=1340683200&amp;en=6dcece1fe2c5c269&amp;ei=5088&amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;emc=rss\">Wisconsin tractor pull<\/a> (recalling a little slice of my youth).&#160; Not pictured: Sierra Club reps. <\/li>\n<li>Not tied to the Fourth, but in the vein of vintage artwork, check out these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fruitcrateart.com\/201.html\">fruit crate designs<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/drawn.ca\/2007\/06\/28\/fruit-crate-art\/\">Via<\/a>]&#160; (See also <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2007\/03\/fruity_typograp.html\">previous<\/a>.) <\/li>\n<li>Update: For more bombs bursting in air, see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.firework-art.com\/image_page.htm\">Firework-Art.com<\/a>.  Man, all this really makes me miss summer car trips as a kid, where we could buy legally questionable goodies from web-footed Southerners by the roadside.  [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/firework_label_art_6747.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy (and grudgingly safe) Fourth,<br \/>\nJ.<\/p>\n<p><em>*What <u>would<\/u> the correct term (a la &quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dnr.state.mn.us\/young_naturalists\/namegame\/index.html\">pride of lions<\/a>&quot;) be? Gaggle of boys? Hootenany? Fisticuff? <\/em> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While getting frozen yogurt the other night, I observed a posse* of little boys&#8211;maybe 5 or 6 years old&#8211;swarming around a small pink &quot;Little Mermaid&quot;-themed chair.&#160; They were goading one of their little buddies to body slam himself into the chair, chanting &quot;Dooo it, dooo it&#8230; Destroy IT, destroy IT!!&quot;&#160; Ah, the complete purity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12415\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}