Elvis and 2012
May 17, 2012
Yes, there is a connection – one of Elvis’ famed white jumpsuits had an image of the ancient Aztec Sun Stone Calendar embroidered on it. And the Sun Stone was the Aztec reinterpretation of the Mayan Long Count Calendar. Now Elvis loved exotic imagery, so the Aztec calendar was part of a range of images that appeared on his jumpsuits, such as peacocks, Inca gold leaf, and a Chinese dragon. But this is the suit he wore the most in his final year alive, and he also wore it during his last ever concert.
Interestingly, especially for those who think 2012 is connected to numerology, the Aztec image on Elvis’ jumpsuit has 16 points around the outside, and 8 on the inside – seemingly pointing to the day he died: Aug 16 1977.
Michael C. Luckman, author of Alien Rock: The Rock ‘n’ Roll Extraterrestrial Connection
The jumpsuit can be seen on display at Graceland.
Nibiru / Planet X – The Truth
May 10, 2012
This is a humourous video, but it basically points out many of the faults with the whole idea of Nibiru returning in 2012:
More info is available at 2012 Hoax, or my free eBook, 2012 Myths and Facts.
Post-Apocalyptic Art
April 11, 2012
Ever wondered what the world will like post-2012-SHTF? Well artist Lori Nix has imagined just that, and created a series of paintings, The City, that show everyday locations – like the beauty shop above – after humans have left the scene. See them all here:
http://www.lorinix.net/the_city/index.html
Killing Joke’s Jaz Coleman on 2012
April 9, 2012
Jaz Coleman, of the rock band Killing Joke, lives on an island off the coast New Zealand these days. He’s been in NZ since 1991. Perhaps it is not a coincidence that he is a conspiracy theorist, and the new Killing Joke album is titled MMXII (2012 in Roman numerals). The opening track is Pole Shift:
The earth’s geomagnetic current is diminishing in power; the worry is that this is a prelude to a complete pole flip. Magnetic north, you see, is meant to be moving at a rate of two inches every ten years, right now it’s moving at 70km a year. It has left Canada and is now hurtling towards Siberia as we speak.
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.
