Davide Bertocchi created the most p-i-m-p walker ever. I can't wait to rock this in a few years.
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This piece by Erica Dorn is apropos to my recent return to the Apple family. She created gold plated versions of the " and Z" keys on the Apple keyboard, which triggers the undo command.
Jeff Hamada, Dear Louis Vuitton.
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I really want this 
It was Fashion Night Out tonight so I figured this would be apropos: Graffiti culture jammer Kidult tagged the Hermès store at Rue de Sevres.
Artist Alex Schaefer stood on the corner of Van Nuys Boulevard and Sylvan Street in LA on July 30 working on another oil painting in his series depicting banks on fire as "a visual metaphor for the havoc that banking practices have caused to the economy," which is what he explained to the police who asked if he was a terrorist. Couple detectives showed up later to his house to further question him. This incident caught the attention of the press and blogosphere. In the aftermath, he put the painting up on eBay. It sold today for $25,200 after 70 bids.
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£15 here.
Hotornot.com is an internet service set-up in many different countries where people seek relationships and rank each other according to photos and profiles posted on the website. This magazine project asked students to enter a believable altered persona on the website. The responses were then presented to see what kind of match came up.
Caroline Hirsch posted over at The New Yorker some works of photographers inspired by Haruki Murakami. Here are a few from that collection that I felt nicely captured the author's aesthetic.
Supporters made this Kickstarter project by Steve Lambert happen:
Steve Lambert wanted to build a massive neon sign that asked the very interesting question: “Does capitalism work for you?” He would then take it on a tour of the country, allowing people to vote, and documenting their reactions, thoughts, and interactions with the piece.
The invisible ghostly hand of Adam Smith will ensure that "True" always wins.
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A seriously gross drawing by Russell Weekes. My answer to the world's second smallest, toughest crossword is FU.
Among the photos that The Atlantic posted of damages to The National Cathedral in DC during yesterday's earthquake, I found this particular photo of a crack in the wall poetic. It almost looks like a contemporary installation.
Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay's project "fbFaces" wallpapered a room with profile pictures from Facebook that was created with a "Facebook crawler, built using JavaScript & PHP, that starts at the public profile of any fb-user, saving profile image, facebook-ID and name, and afterwards continuing its way to the public profiles of the user's friends. And so on..." The effect is vertigo inducing to me both conceptually and physically.
My ongoing obsession with trompe l'oeil continues: This milk crate by Matthias Merkel Hess is actually ceramic.
Larry Moss, Mona Lisa.
More balloon interpretations of famous paintings.
Ian Stevenson, Something Great, 2011
Jason Polan, The Color I See When I Close My Eyes, 2011, Unique crayon construction (48 crayons combined).
Filed under "Emo."
Photo by Dan Nguyen.
More street sign and subway hacking and culture jamming in Brooklyn by TrustoCorp.
You would never be able to solve this Rubik's cube with that face. BURN!
By Egil Paulsen.
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778
Before Discovery Channel's week of programming devoted to all things sharks, this is how people in the olden days viewed Shark Week.
Watson and the Shark's exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1778 generated a sensation, partly because such a grisly subject was an absolute novelty. In 1749, fourteen-year-old Brook Watson had been attacked by a shark while swimming in Havana Harbor. Copley's pictorial account of the traumatic ordeal shows nine seamen rushing to help the boy, while the bloody water proves he has just lost his right foot. To lend equal believability to the setting Copley, who had never visited the Caribbean, consulted maps and prints of Cuba.
The rescuers' anxious expressions and actions reveal both concern for their thrashing companion and a growing awareness of their own peril. Time stands still as the viewer is forced to ponder Watson's fate. Miraculously, he was saved from almost certain death and went on to become a successful British merchant and politician.
Relatedly here are the rules to the Shark Week drinking game.
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