Photographs of the contents of luggage missing their respective owners like this one:
Note the nurse's costume outfit.
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A 72 cake caravan at Jean Georges. How quaintly pre-recession. [Via] [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/4032046]
Oppositely, visit Cake Wrecks, a blog devoted to compiling professional cakes gone "horribly, hilariously wrong."
[Thanks Kaizar!]
A video comparing scenes from older Disney animated classic films that suggests that animators at the magical kingdom just recycled the same scenes over and over again. Nothing magical about that, just like your childhood. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL6FYxIuJlA&fmt=18]
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New York Mets pitcher Johan Santana appears to have a different unique handshake for each of his teammates. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QtY70y161k&fmt=18]
931 images stitched together created this cool time lapse video of UNC fans on the corner of Franklin and Columbia celebrating their school's NCAA basketball championship. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/4039576]
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I have a friend, a very intelligent and well educated lawyer, who loses all his capacity for coherency, grammar, and spelling when it comes to IM and text messages. He recently upgraded to an iPhone thinking that the full qwerty keypad would make it easier for him. Nope, he hasn't gotten better, and instead now he just sends more incomprehensible texts. I received the following successive texts from him yesterday. I have no idea what he was talking about.
7:29 pm: To at plays with Kumar 7:30 pm: Yo i meant 7:31 pm: Plays I meant 7:32 pm: Fuck I phone playa
Via New York Times blog coverage of the current 2009 New York Auto Show.
“We want to be consistent.” — Stefan Jacoby, president and chief executive of Volkswagen Group of America, when asked why VW had changed the name of its compact car from Rabbit, to Golf, to Rabbit, and now back to Golf.
I went to the MoMA over the weekend (The Martin Kippenberger exhibit was exhilarating). Later that day at home while doodling on the members brochure I came up with this (narcissistic) eponymous result:
Brilliant t-shirt concept by Andrey Lazarev: Yellow sleeveless perforated t-shirt perfect for those occasions, like a big management meeting, when you want to make a Hulkmania entrance. It's aggressive, but you'll certainly get the CEO's attention
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Azumi and David (A'N'D) unveiled these sticky disposable sunglasses for the 2009 summer season. People, throw your Oliver Peoples in the trash and slap one of these stunnas on instead. Get in early before Kanye and his bandwagon discovers them!
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This t-shirt graphic combines two of my latest current obsessions: Hadoukening and a Street Fighter character playing classical piano. Knowing this, ladies: you're probably super attracted to me right now.
$18 here.
Publicis Mojo in Sydney created these typographic posters as a "first of a series of self-initiated projects that will see the agency link up and work with various different artists and designers." Or in other words, for shits and giggles. Here are a few I liked:
I think it's deeply important for companies to foster a certain creativity apropos of nothing that is permitted and encouraged to operate in a vacuum.
The red light actually a neighboring gas cloud, RCW 89, energized into glowing by the fingers of the PSR B1509-58 nebula, astronomers believe.
The scene, which spans 150 light-years, is about 17,000 light years away, so what we see now is how it actually looked 17,000 years ago, and that light is just arriving here.
I said this when I was 8 and I'll say it again: I WANT TO GO TO OUTER SPACE.
Iowa recently became the first state in the Midwest to approve gay marriage following a state supreme court unanimous ruling which concluded that "an old law restricting marriage to one man and one woman was unconstitutional." Huzzah. The moving speech below was made by Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal coolly explaining why he would not co-sponsor a bill with Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinely that would amend the state constitution to block the court's decision permitting same sex couples to marry. This is a must watch speech:
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The heartland of America finally rises up to the spirit of its name.
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Cuff links perfect for James Bond or some corporate coke fiend. $49.95 