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Awesome metal work by David Buckingham.
Peter Fuss's billboard reflects my exact opinion on the weather lately.
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Guys, I don't think the 
ABB said it best about this painting by Omar Chacon:
It's raining in Toon Town.
Dave McKenzie's "Proposal."
Poet and artist Austin Kleon blacks out the unnecessary words in newspaper clippings to produce pithy poems and aphorisms. Buy his book here.
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Spotted this sign today while walking around my neighborhood.
I'm blown away by Cal Lane's intricately detailed and delicate sculptures which she creates by using a "torch to cut baroque patterns into such mundane objects as shovels, Dumpsters and old oil drums." Find out more about the artist in this New York Times article.
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This 82×82 centimeter square of burned grass equates to the size of one pixel from an altitude of one kilometer. I like the confluence here between technology, art, and the rising surveillance culture in this conceptual piece titled "Dead Pixel in Google Earth" by Helmut Smits (previously).
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"Lust" is from Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese's line of snow globes, each based on one of the seven deadly sins. Buy individually or the complete set at the New Museum.
I'm not sure who built this Robert Indiana-esque SNOW sculpture, but I like it.
Thanks to Melissa for turning me on to these cool collages by Anthony Zinonos.
This witty piece by Robert Wechsler can still be found in room 134 of the College of Creative Studies at UCSB.
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Jerry Pethick, "Le Semeur/Sunlight and Flies."
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Dave McKenzie, "Self-Help Hyperventilation Bag."
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Martha Friedman's sculpture "Waffle" was on display from November 7, 2008 through September 25, 2009 in Brooklyn. I'm mad I missed this.
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Baptiste Debombourg's "Turbo" or the artist's interpretation of Hulk SMASH.
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Artist Michel de Broin had some fun in creating this bike path extension. The artist explains:
On the perimeter of the bicycle path running alongside the Lachine Canal in Montréal, I drew a an extension of the lane. The design of this path is a rupture in the rationality of urban landscaping.