Soccer fans will get a kick out of this: Dutch artist Helmut Smits built a scale replica of a football ("soccer") stadium out of "fruit crate boxes, fruit, wood, stands, halogen work lights, [and] grass carpet."
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I'm getting caught up on my blogging for Sundance Channel's SUNfiltered (check out some of my recent entries), but I had a fantastic extended weekend, which included:
- Steak dinner with Kaizar in San Francisco;
- Hookah and dinner with Cy;
- Liquid dinner with Mariya and couple of her friends followed by 675 Bar with Chris;
- VIP tents at Barclays golf tournament with a fun crew;
- And a Monday staycation.
I'll have some photo updates, including a trip last month to Montreal with Stan. In the meantime here's a little animated GIF I created from my Monday Funday in quaint Beacon, New York.
I tapped into my inner Benedict Arnold with this bold jacket discovered at the "Wish You Were Here" fashion exchange program.
I scored both pairs of these metallic New Balance 576 Limited Edition Medal Series sneakers for a total of $50. Just doing my part to stimulate the economy with a frivolous purchase or two.
Designer Raf Simons lends a metallic touch to the 2009 fall Dr. Marten lineup of shoes and boots.
Limousine bike built by Wouter Mijland.
A fascinating A-Z database of celebrities and their real names.
Akon? Aliaune Damala Bouga Time Puru Nacka Lu Lu Lu Badara Akon Thiam.Bono? Paul David Hewson.
Alice Cooper? Vincent Damon Furnier
Daniel Edwards created this quite disturbing silver sculpture of a double fist breast feeding Angelina Jolie. Yay art!
A gallery of celebrities and their less well known twin siblings. Here's an old photo of the Kutcher twins. I'm not sure what Ashton's right hand is doing.
This photo of Michael Jackson out of the former Beverly Hills hotspot Chasen's, was snapped by Brad Elterman. Today would have been Michael's 51st birthday.
Elterman's camera captured the lifestyle of many celebrities during the 1970s and early 80s. Some of the photos are NSFW, like this one from a wild party.
John Mayer tweeted a challenge to Harvey Levin at TMZ that if Levin could unearth a 2001 mugshot taken of him after he was arrested for driving without a valid license, then Mayer would donate $25k to a charity of Levin's choice. The Smoking Gun jumped into the fray claiming they found it first. Sometimes celebrities have way too much money laying around their crib.
DJ AM's final tweet before he died, he quoted a line from Grandmaster Flash song.
A barbecue on a terrace at Google's London office caused a little fire. A picture of it was posted on TwitPic and has been viewed over 12,970 times.
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A fews ago, a Brooklyn art gallery The Laundromat hosted an exhibition-slash-barbeque featuring conceptual hamburgers created by various local artists.
A coin flip apparently isn't quite as randomly unpredictable as we assumed.
1. If the coin is tossed and caught, it has about a 51% chance of landing on the same face it was launched. (If it starts out as heads, there's a 51% chance it will end as heads).2. If the coin is spun, rather than tossed, it can have a much-larger-than-50% chance of ending with the heavier side down. Spun coins can exhibit "huge bias" (some spun coins will fall tails-up 80% of the time).
I also recommend a same-sided coin to achieve the "random" result you are looking for!
To quote Vince Vaughn's character Trent from "Swingers," you "always double down-always." Maybe KFC was inspired by that line when they came up with their "Double Down." This sandwich of bacon, Swiss and pepper jack cheese and Colonel's sauce (...), replaces the bread with two fried Original Recipe fillets. It's like a gorging Atkins dieting person's wet dream. The double down is currently being tested in only Providence and Omaha.
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