This McBeast or the Mega Tamago is available at McDonald's only in Japan. So. Not. Fair.
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I'm peeing in my artsy pants excited at Urs Fischer's exhibition in October which will occupy all three floors of The New Museum. Guys, he's so "I don't give a fuck what you think" that for an "art piece" he excavated the entire floor of a New York art gallery. All I can say is DO IT AGAIN! DO IT AGAIN!
I'm looking forward to seeing Anish Kapoor's twenty-four ton sculpture "Memory" when it goes on display at the Guggenheim in October.
Its thin Cor-Ten skin, only eight millimeters thick, suggests a form that is ephemeral and unmonumental. The sculpture appears to defy gravity as it gently glances up against the peripheries of the gallery walls and ceiling, and down again to the floor. Its inaccessibility forces viewers to negotiate the work at a remove and to contemplate its ensuing fragmentation by attempting to piece together the images retained in their memories. As such, they are required to exert more effort in the act of seeing. Kapoor describes this process as creating "mental sculpture." As participants rather than as mere spectators of Memory, they become hyperconscious of their own positions in space.
Or a steampunk pea.
Comedian Joe Wong is where amazing happens. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD0s7gfTotk]
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Test drive the pre-beta release of the next generation Google search. The shape looks the same, but the engine is different. One takeaway: It's faster.
Get a wider view of what your Twitter friends and spam contacts are up to with Twitter for Busy People. [Via]
Leandro Erlich's recent piece "Shattering Door" is rather neat. You can view his remarkable swimming pool installation at PS1 through October 24.
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Samuel Arbesman proposes a small new rule for the NFL in which each team's coach gets one time-in per season.
If you’ve ever noticed that football games slow to a predictable crawl at the end of each half, the time-in is the rule for you. The idea is simple: When the clock is stopped, for whatever reason, a coach could call a “time-in,” and force the clock to start up again. Think of it as the antimatter version of the timeout.The time-in is so powerful that I recommend it be strictly rationed: each team would get only one time-in per season. The possibility of a sudden time-in would loom large in every coach’s mind at the most tense points in the game, introducing just enough concern and uncertainty to make the game different. Timeworn clock-management strategies would no longer be a given.
I think it's dynamite!
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Brooklyn based artist Kevin Cyr's "functioning sculptural piece," the absurd camper bike. Also, check out his camper (shopping) cart.
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Bunpei Yorifuji designed this series of amusing posters reminding subway commuters in Tokyo to mind their manners.
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Previously mentioned last year, I checked back in with the Decapitator to see if he was still going around chopping off heads of people on advertising posters. Yup, he's still decapitating away.
Branislav Kropilak takes photographs of billboards from a seemingly ordinary position and yet manages to produce these unique results.
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Steve Sachs captures the unintentional bland brilliance of New Jersey. I particuarly like this shot below.
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Here's another flash mob synchronized dancing, this time at a mall in the Philippines. This is a viral on behalf of a Filipino fast food chain Jollibee. I wish advertising consisted of nothing but flash mobs synchronized dancing in public spaces, and of course, the most interesting man. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-BJSLzAiRo&fmt=18]
I can't find much background on this amazing critical mash up of Shepard Fairey's OBEY Giant.
