Today's warm weather in the Big Apple reminds me how much I'm looking forward to the arrival of summer and the Sheep's Meadow, BBQs, and beautiful NYC girls in mini skirts that accompany it. I'm also looking forward to the heat putting an end to these offensive hats that Nnamdi is fixated on. "It keeps my head warm" he explains. It's outrageous anti-social behavior. That's what it is. I mean, look at his latest foolishness:
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LA artist Ruben Ochoa's "Collapsed" is showing currently at Peter Blum's Soho gallery through May 9.
Upon entering the gallery, the viewer is confronted by a fifteen-feet high and eighteen-feet long slab of what appears to be a concrete freeway divider propped against the gallery wall at roughly a 45-degree angle. An enormous amount of reddish dirt covers the slanted wall, spilling over towards the viewer and stretching all the way to the other side of the gallery. The structure physically impedes the viewer and blocks his or her path. The only way to reach the back of the gallery and the rear of the sculpture is to walk through the seemingly precarious triangular tunnel created by the leaning concrete wall.
Anyone interested in seeing this?
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The downside to lending friends and coworkers books is that some of them never return it. Cough*CYRUS*Cough. This personal library kit which comes with self adhesive pockets , insert cards, date stamp, and pad will let you tap into your inner librarian. Start stampin' those books and collect late fees!
$20 here.
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If I see the young new mothers in my Park Slope neighborhood carrying their babies in this...contraption (a "peekaru original fleece baby carrier") it's going to be difficult for me to repress the instinctive urge to climb into one of these beasts and go do some work on the alien invasion in my hood:
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Japanese artist Shinichi Maruyama's Kusho series consists of 23 large scale color photographs that captures, "using recent advances in strobe-light technology," black ink and water "colliding the millisecond before they merge into gray." The end result is astonishing.
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Readers remind ESPN's Bill Simmons of other memorable bro pairings he left off his original extensive list of bromances. In his latest column he revisits this topic with part two.
Corleone and Hagen (stepbrothers); Butch and Sundance (cowboys); Crockett and Tubbs ('80s cops); Starsky and Hutch ('70s cops); Muraco and Fuji (unintentional comedy); Wayne and Garth (most catch phrases); Simmons and JackO (long distance); Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle (drunkest); Turk and J.D. (glibbest); Avon and Stringer (most explosive); Bird and Magic (most mutual respect); Hall and Oates (best blend of music and unintentional comedy)
Read rest here.
I'm really stoked today to announce my involvement with SUNfiltered, a brand new blog on sundancechannel.com where my fellow contributors and I will bring you, as the tagline states, "fresh culture daily" right to your computer doorsteps. Mmm, delicious fresh culture. My focus will be on the zeitgeist and memes of our times.
SUNfiltered will cast a wide net across the groovy vastness of the Internet with a focus on art, music, design, film, as well as whatever else that doesn't fit neatly into a predetermined category, but which makes this epoch so freakin' interesting! The word for this is I suppose "zeitgeist" or "meme." See what I did just there, how I brought it back full circle?
If you like what you see here on this blog of mine, check out SUNfiltered for a few of my exclusive entries each day. A few of my entries are already live including a cheesecake calendar of girls on Vespas, this year's student Oscar winner in the animation category, my favorite graphic designer, and a neat animation depicting the journey of an apple seed.
RSS and/or bookmark SUNfiltered!
I went to high school with one of these candidates running for mayor of my home city. In case you can't figure out which one, it's the esteemed gentleman in the yellow glasses, natch. A former news inserter at the Anchorage Daily News under the "great night boss Steve" and also a "self trained scientist and engineer," candidate Jacob Kern promises local Anchorage residents a bright new future under his stewardship thanks to his "technology machines."
Why are you running for mayor? To use the cities budget to make my technology machines so Anchorage residents don't have to pay taxes.
Do you support lowering property taxes by starting a sales tax? mayor kern will pay Anchorage residents taxes from revenue of my technologies.
Would you support changing exceptions that currently keep churches and some non-profits from having to pay property taxes? mayor kern will PAY 4 THE CHURCHES and the non profits.
Should the city support construction of a Knik Arm bridge? Why or why not? mayor kern's new vehicles can fly.
And then there's his video pitch and his batshit insane website where he mentions his intent to run for president in 2016. America, you've been warned.
[Hat tip to Clay and Will]
A photo gallery documenting the production of a wooden Vespa.
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Times UK list of 10 authors "for whom one novel proved quite enough." One of the books on the list is an all time favorite novel of mine:
John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of DuncesThe author committed suicide in 1969, having given up hope of seeing his comic masterpiece in print. Eventually it was published in 1980.
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Fox Sports rank of the top ten worst college mascots. Western Kentucky's "Big Red" is pretty turrible.
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A short interview with Yiying Lu, the Australian artist behind the image, now popularly known as the "Fail Whale" that is displayed on Twitter whenever there is a service outage. Lu originally uploaded her whimsical creation to a stock image site from which Twitter founder Biz Stone purchased it for a few dollars (!!!) and since then it has become "as iconic as any corporate logo, and far more beloved."
1) What was the inspiration for the whale and birds illustration?
It was initially created as a birthday e-card for an overseas friend of mine when I was in my last year study at University - expressing my: Sorry I am failed to be there across the ocean, but here is a little console from my heart. The whale is a self metaphor. Hence the original name I had for that artwork was “lifting a dreamer”.
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This does nothing to improve the world, but wow, what a car! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swaycL6ZLGQ&fmt=18]
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Japanese artist Sakurako Shimizu created this 18 karat old ring from a cast of the original 1981 Atari computer chip. Nerd bling at its finest!
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Stunning test video shot by David Coiffer with his new camera (a Photron SA2...from the future maybe?) is delicious super slo-mo eye candy. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/3830864]
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LeVar Burton will beam down and personally open an intergalactic can of whup ass on anyone wearing these sunglasses.
¥18,900 here...but they are sold out.
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My friend Pooja recently accidentally broke her camera. No worries, she said. She bought a new one. When I saw her new camera I gave her my honest opinion. I told her that I thought it was aggressive, maybe too aggressive and it didn't seem very practical. See:
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The Unemployment Olympics will take place tomorrow, March 31 at 1:30 pm in Tompkins Square Park. Competitive events will include the fax machine toss, which is something I'd like to see. You must be unemployed (proof of unemployment required) to enter. The Microsoft Paint website is hilarious.
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