A neat LED display by Daniel DeSure. It really is, I swear.
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Makoto Tojiki configured threads of LED lights to form this solitary digital sculpture titled "The Man With No Shadow."
Does this rag smell of chloroform to you?
- Jimmy Carr
Life Savers only work if you’re diabetic.
- Nick Thune
To Gear's James May gets a ride to the outer limits of our planet in the backseat of a U2 airplane. The view is quite spectacular . [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6cZLfK4Zjk&fmt=18]
Every morning I repeat this mantra to myself.
John Baldessari, I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art. 1971.
Artist Somsara Reilly is creating a collage a day for 365 days in "an effort to mark my 35th birthday with something meaningful and explore myself as a designer and artist."
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Hordes of ginormous Nomura's jellyfish invade the waters off Japan. I for one welcome our new jellyfish overlords.
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I was driving and saw this guy texting; I thought, Oh look at this motherfu—, and then I hit a car.
- Kevin Brennan
I need the future to arrive now, because these Japanese robotic ramen chefs are f'awesome. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sVOSlUn7e0&fmt=18]
I like this candid snapshot of a few people who worked at one point with John Hughes.
Some models have natural beauty and others require a cakeload of make up and hair work as evident in the before and after photographs of these Gucci models. It reminds me of the Rita Hayworth quote: "They go to bed with Gilda; they wake up with me." She also apparently changed the color of her hair eight different times for eight movies.
Like: Ai Weiwei's Chandelier. Previously.
Chicago Tribune goes behind the scenes at a Netflix warehouse outside of Chicago, one of 58 secretive warehouses around the world. It's a fascinating read.
Indeed, one of the few things about the building that suggested it was not a meth lab was that, at sunrise, the parking lot was full -- shifts begin at 3 a.m. The busiest time is around 7 a.m., but as I entered, the first thing I noticed was how silent it was. No one was chatting.
This passage from Ian Frazier's two part travelogue recently published in the New Yorker describing his road trip across Siberia made me gag. He describes the maddening onslaught of the ubquitous Siberian mosquito swarms (the bolded text below is mine):
As Volodya cooked meals on the propane stove, mosquitoes attracted by the rising vapors flew over the pot, swooned from the heat, and fell in. When we ate our oatmeal in the morning, there were often a few mosquito bodies in it. Most of them we just ate, but sometimes there were ones that had bitten somebody and were full of blood...
Barf.
Ian Frazier also narrates his sketches from the trip at the New Yorker online.
Trend observers have noticed an increasing number of men sporting leggings or "meggings" in the streets. Despite this look's popularity among star basketball players in the NBA, this blogger will wait for the next bus on this particular fashion line.
Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa's latest concept, the rabbit chair. It's called that because it looks like it has rabbit ears. Got it? Good.
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It's idiotic but the absurdity of Erwin Wurm's The Idiot makes me laugh.
Relive nostalgic memories of your youth at McDonald's playgrounds with this plastic ball covered chair, minus the heroin filled needle.
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