Doomsday Preppers is a Hit
February 13, 2012
Doomsday Preppers, the 10-part TV series, premiered on National Geographic channel Tuesday, and a whopping 4 million American people tuned in. That makes it the most viewed Nat Geo show ever for a Tuesday.
Hopefully the message will get through to many of the viewers, in case there is a catastrophe this year (or in the future…)
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/09/4251596/series-premiere-of-doomsday-preppers.html
Chevy Super Bowl Advert
February 4, 2012
Only two products survive the apocalypse: Chevy Silverado and Twinkies. Fords didn’t make it… The ad features common 2012 themes like volcanic eruptions and UFOs, but they also slipped in some raining frogs for good measure.
KRS-One: New 2012 Rap
January 21, 2012
Full size at YouTube
The lyrics to Aztechnical show that KRS-One has studied 2012, knows it inside out, and has his own take on it. Basically, if you believe in a doomsday prophecy, someone will use it against you. Just like the Spanish did against the MesoAmericans. Cortez deliberately made their prophecy come true, for his own purposes.
This is probably the most intelligent rap on 2012 there will ever be, so here are the lyrics:
[Verse 1]
If you don’t like what you singing, you sing a different hook
If you don’t like what you cooking, you get a different cook
If you don’t like what you wearing, you get a different look
You wanna escape Armageddon, read a different book
When knowledge is right there, we don’t even look
December 2012 got this whole world shook
But look, the last days for others are the first days for us
The question to ask is who can you trust
Respect to all that 2012 stuff
But when you really study it it’s fear, it don’t apply to us
Honduras Celebrates 2012 Countdown
December 26, 2011
The President of Honduras, Porfirio Lobo, was present at a celebration held in the Copán ruins, near the border with Guatemala.
A website has been created to highlight Copán and 2012:
http://www.copan2012honduras.com
You can see the countdown clock there, and also at a brief news item on the event:
Lynx 2012 Ad: Cleared
November 4, 2011
It seems that some people get upset about anything daring or risque. It’s not unusual for Biblical memes to be used light-heartedly in advertising. I can recall ads that portrayed Adam and Eve, the Ten Commandments, Judgement Day, the painting of the Sistine Chapel – and that’s without trying, so I guess the Advertising Standards Bureau in Australia is used to such complaints:
One complaint suggested the ad causes offence by “mocking, trivialising and sexualising a sacred text” and portrays women in a demeaning way by “substituting them for the pairs of animals that were drawn to the ark by God in the Genesis story.”
The complaint was dismissed. You can watch the ad at the original story about Lynx’s 2012 Deodorant (the brand is Axe in some other countries)
The Apocalypse Calendar
November 1, 2011
This calendar (or just the pics for real cheap) can be purchased via KickStarter.com – or you can just look at most of the images there. Also worth a look is the video to promote the calendar, where they point out that soon your money will be worthless anyway, so you might as well spend it on their calendar. If you pay $1500, one of the artists will insert you into their image.
2012 Calendar by Campari
October 31, 2011
[We'll have another 2012 calendar for you tomorrow...]
The star of the 2012 Campari calendar is actress Milla Jovovich. She is no stranger to apocalyptic themes (The Fifth Element, Resident Evil), so it is fitting that this calendar is titled: IT’S THE END OF THE WORLD, BABY!
Above is the June pic from the calendar, the rest can be seen at Celebs.com
Comedian Bill Bailey on 2012 & Trampolines
September 23, 2011
British comedian Bill Bailey (of Black Books fame) has created a short video, filmed in his bunker, in which he discusses the effects on animals of a geomagnetic pole reversal, and why this possibility is causing a lot of trampolines to be sold:
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Reform Clothing Join the Bandwagon
September 17, 2011
The clothes don’t look even remotely survivalist. Seems all they have done is added the number 2012 to an existing design. The video seems to show a fella being chased by the boogie man (or is a ninja?). The name of the campaign: Survive 2012. I should’ve copyrighted it ten years ago 
Here’s the video:
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Movie Updates: X-Files and 4:44 Last Day on Earth
September 16, 2011
First up is a real doomsday movie starring Willem Dafoe and Shanyn Leigh, and directed by Abel Ferrara of Bad Lieutenant infamy. Like the recent Lars von Trier film, Melancholia, the focus is on the last hours of humanity, and how people react to their coming demise. in 4:44 Last Day on Earth, less attention is paid to the cause of the apocalypse (they allude to a hole in the ozone layer, and Al Gore makes an appearance), as it is ultimately irrelevant to the story. Given that nobody really knows what will occur in 2012, the story is familiar and rings true:
Everybody knows the final hour is coming, even though some don’t believe it. Snippets of routine continue, with some odd context twists, like when Dafoe’s character, Cisco, gives several hundred dollars to a Chinese food delivery man, since money now means nothing, and lends his computer so the man can briefly Skype his family in China.
Meanwhile Gillian Anderson is hopeful that 3rd X-Files movie will be made and released to coincide with the Dec 21 2012 end-date that featured prominently in the TV series:
“I hope it will happen, there’s talk of it. I don’t know who’s writing it but I hear there’s something going on.”
