Zak Noyle photographed this surfing expedition to Indonesia. Dede Suryana is the surfer in the first photo and Bede Durbide in the second.
Here's a revolutionary idea: we should probably figure out a better way of disposing our trash.
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A statue of Louis Agassiz, a prominent naturalist and geologist, on Stanford's Zoology building fell during the 1906 earthquake that hit San Francisco. This was the reaction on campus:
People came running from the quad with such sober faces, but when they saw him they couldn’t help laughing, and one fellow went up and shook hands with him.
Stanford President David Starr Jordan later wrote, "Somebody-Dr. Angell, perhaps-remarked that 'Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.'"
Amazingly only his nose was broken in the fall.
Today this looks like a contemporary art piece one would find at Art Basel or The Armory Show.
Among the splatter of paint by Jackson Pollack is 
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Nope, it isn't Forrest Gump.
In 1963 designer Harvey Ross Ball was "commissioned to create a graphic to raise morale among the employees of an insurance company after a series of difficult mergers and acquisitions. Ball finished the design in less than 10 minutes and was paid $45 for his work. The State Mutual Life Assurance Company (now Allmerica Financial Corporation) made posters, buttons, and signs adorned with the jaundiced grin in the attempt to get their employees to smile more."
I quite prefer the crudeness of Ball's smiley face over the evolved version that we see today. :)
Street artist 
Photographer Kevin Tachman takes an overexposed approach to capturing Seoul Fashion Week and the end result is cold, yet wonderful.
To promote its online tutoring business, The Tutor Crowd is correcting spelling and grammatical errors on graffiti dotted across London.
The latest in LA from Hanksy, the street artist who shares my love of puns (previously).
With the approval of its owners, an abandoned ship in north Wales has been reborn as a rusty tabula rasa for graffiti artists. Standing seven-story tall and 137-meter long, the "the Duke of Lancaster," a former luxury cruise liner during the mid-twentieth century, has turned what would now be a sore for sight eyes into an artistic draw.
One of my favorite illustrators Christoph Niemann (I used to blog about his works ad nauseam over at Sundance Channel) recently published a wonderful interactive ebook called "Petting Zoo" for the iPad. I may or may not have strong-armed a friend recently into downloading it ostensibly for her niece ostensibly and not at all because I wanted to play with it.
He recently shared with The New Yorker the process and hurdles involved in creating the ebook. It's a worthwhile and humorous read that is also inspiring.
The natural instinct then is to rely on what you know is working. It’s unfair, but this is the surest path to boring and predictable results.
And who wants boring and predictable? Not I said the fly.
Anjan Kumar Kundu captured this perfect photo of two boys and two puppies wrestling with one another "in a remote village in West Bengal, India."
I love this photo by Will Adler of professional surfer Kelia Moniz in Cabo. Will is part of a new photo agency Massif Management which was formed by Jonathan Feldman. This agency is a collection of photographers who also happen to be young surfers.
Another awesome puntastic piece by 
Phil Lucas has been planting fake city planning notices around the town of Brighton in the UK.
A pregnant Adele statue would be pretty amazing.
Photo by Peter Funch.
Remarkable photo by Stephen Wilkes of the Star Jet roller coaster at Seaside Heights in New Jersey that is now submerged following the storm Sandy. Wilkes explains:
As I flew over the area, the ocean appeared dead calm; there were no waves, the water looked as if I was in the Caribbean, not the Atlantic. That contrast in itself was surreal to experience, yet as we left the devastation below, I was reminded of the iconic image in the film Planet of The Apes. Charlton Heston, riding horseback along a deserted shoreline, suddenly sees a charred structure rising out of the water, the torch of the Statue of Liberty. In a strange way this image shares a parallel universe, perhaps a warning from post-apocalyptic Earth.
You can purchase the photo here with the proceeds going to charities.
Spotted in Cape Town.
In related news in case you missed it: Rothko’s "No. 1 (Royal, Red and Blue)" sold recently at auction for $75.12 million.