This risque promotional video for Earth Hour (March 28 at 8:30 pm) parodies Sarah Silverman's "I'm f*cking Matt Damon" song. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqgC8Jr4sgk&fmt=18]
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These obscene denim jeans are a result of a collaboration between Damien Hirst and Levis and can be yours for approximately $27,000 each.
Calling Jeff! Forget business school and get these jeans instead because these will open far more doors for you than any HBS degree.
Menswear company Jos. A. Bank's promotion during these recession times.
Buy a suit now and if you’re fired by July 1, 2009, Bank will refund your money. You can keep the suit.
Relatedly, Jet Blue has been running a similar refund program for laid-off customers.
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Due to popular demand, I'm bringing back the Easy Listening Sunday segments. Enjoy Mun! Here's Dido covering James Taylor's Fire and Rain. She sings, "I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend, but I always thought I'd see you again." I think what she meant to say was "I always thought I'd see you again...at least on IM, Twitter or Facebook."
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I forgot where I saw this, but it made me laugh.
Iri5 created portraits using cassette tapes (remember those?) in this Flickr set called "Ghost in the Machine." You can bid on this Jimi Hendrix one here.
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First introduced at the 1939 New York World’s Fair and an immediate hit, the view-master, a ubiquitous red toy that entertained with its magical 3-Dness, is coming to an end. Except for a few titles, such as Shrek and Dora the Explorer, Fisher Price has discontinued production of the accompanying scenic discs. It leaves behind quite a varied legacy.
During the second world war the armed forces produced training reels for identifying enemy and friendly aircraft and ships. After the war View-Masters became household items, as common as frozen food. Thousands of businesses promoted themselves using custom-made View-Master reels. Recently the University of Missouri football programme promoted its candidate for the Heisman trophy by giving away viewers moulded in the college colours and a reel of highlights from the season. Medical students used View-Master to study a 3D atlas of human anatomy. In all, more than 1.5 billion reels have been produced, every one of them to the same size and format, and usable in every model of viewer ever made.
In related news: If you haven't seen Coraline in 3D, GO SEE IT!
Everyone tries to ride the coattails of the NCAA annual "March Madness" basketball tournament, including urologists.
This melting 1500 pound ice sculpture of the word "ECONOMY" was created by artists Nora Ligorano and Marshall Reese and displayed near City Hall in downtown Manhattan on October 29, 2008 to commemorate the 79th anniversary of the '29 stock market crash. Although it might as well depict our current state of affairs.
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Emerge by William Lamson. I thought this was pretty neat, but don't curse me if you want your 2 minutes of your life back after watching it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb68_EG_vys&fmt=18]
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I really vibe this black and white taken by New York photographer Andrew DiSalvo. I'm constantly impressed by graffiti artists extraordinary ability to tag seemingly impossible places to reach spaces in the urban landscape, which makes this photo so beautifully jarring to me.
I love that his set of tools includes the following analog camera, an Olympus Stylus Epic.
Tim Burke's list of necessary life skills.
How Internet works.
Answer: Easy, "It's a series of tubes!"
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Reenact your favorite horror movie scenes with this macabre shower curtain (£11.99) and bath mat (£14.99). On a scale of one to creepy I'd probably give this a six.
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Aussie low carb beer "Skinny Blonde" has a unique label on its bottles, which feature a pin up model whose red bikini fades away as the beer level in the bottle drops. Sex to sell beer? Gasp!
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Google's first visual designer Douglas Bowman explains his reasons for leaving and critiques the company's over reliance on data and reductive philosophy which he argues handicaps Google, "paralyzing the company and preventing it from making any daring design decisions."
I had a recent debate over whether a border should be 3, 4 or 5 pixels wide, and was asked to prove my case. I can’t operate in an environment like that. I’ve grown tired of debating such minuscule design decisions. There are more exciting design problems in this world to tackle.
It seems to be the classic tension or dichotomy between the quantitative and the qualitative. Anyway, it's an interesting read that pulls back the curtains a bit.
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I missed the memo on this, but apparently charm bracelets, particularly the solid gold one pictured below with the gorilla, "designed by Entourage’s Jamie-Lynn Sigler and her friend, Holly Freeman" is "is quickly joining fast cars, yachts and Malibu beach homes as the latest Alpha-Male accoutrement." It's sooo pre-recession.
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And it's extremely not safe for children.
Relatedly, the "cylindropuntia bigelovii" is more colloquially known as the teddy bear cholla cactus because "from a distance, the stems appear soft and fuzzy."
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This puffy collar shirt and tie combination is perfect for falling asleep at your desk when working late, so long as you don't mind looking like a more dapper version of the Michelin Man.
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