Behold, the giant tinfoil ball by Emily Keegin. To those that say, "This is art? I could do that!" Well, you didn't.
Mental Floss lists 31 unusual high school mascots, including the Old Farms Winged Beavers, Awesome Blossoms, Cornjerkers and an honorable mention to "to the Arkansas School for the Deaf Leopards." [Via]
Kottke calls this flag that used to represent the Benin Empire (the "pre-colonial African state of modern Nigeria") the best flag in the world. I'm inclined to agree, although the Mozambique flag featuring a Kalashnikov is a close second.
To my Nigerian friends: Why'd ya'll change your flag?! Your flag today looks like the damn thing for the Republic of Leprechauns. Damn.
Artist Takashi Murakami is (unnecessarily) collaborating with Kirsten Dunst and director McG (previously) for a "video project" that involves Dunst in cosplay singing "Turning Japanese" in the streets of Tokyo. I can't really defend this one: It's just so weird, and paradoxically derivative. For something a bit more inspiring, go see Murakami's new painting "A Picture Of The Blessed Lion Who Stares At Death" at Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea. I saw this a few weeks ago and it was pretty grand.
Interesting super-slow-motion video of bullet impacts against various material. Warning, as one commenter wrote, "...turn down your speakers unless you want to feel like you're in a German nightclub." [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfDoQwIAaXg&fmt=18]
Tim Davis photograph series "The New Antiquity" is currently showing here at Greenberg Van Doren Gallery in New York City.
Hilarious! Language is NSFW. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfprIxNfCjk&fmt=18]
[Thanks Pooja!]
Mae Yokoyama designed a necklace made with solar panels that collects energy to power and illuminate the pearls. Strictly for the fashion-forward alternative-energy geek gal.
Lindsay Robertson describes in New York Magazine what the swine flu feels like after her hellish experience with it.
The worst of it came in slowly on Saturday afternoon: an excruciating, horrifying, unimaginably painful sore throat, the likes of which you haven't experienced unless you've had strep as an adult. But, unlike strep, which quickly improves within the first few hours of antibiotics, this sore throat is caused by a virus, and it will last for a week. It will make you ask yourself questions like, "If I knew I would have this sore throat for the rest of my life, would I choose to go on living?" And the answer will be, "No."
The upside as one commenter pointed out is Vicodin and weight loss. Jokes, people. Lose weight the right way by healthy eating and exercising.
One of the offerings in this year's annual Christmas catalog from Neiman Marcus is a "Customized Cupcake Car" available for $25,000.
Also, if you weren't convinced that Burning Man has jumped the burning shark, then check out the blurb from the catalog:
Launched at Burning ManSM as a cooperative art car project, the Cupcake Car sprang from the fevered mind of Bay Area artist Lisa Pongrace and her less-rules-more-laughs posse of artists and techno geeks. Yours will be tricked out with your favorite topping, so start thinking flavors.
Note the SM or "service mark" after Burning Man. It should say "SO" for sell out. OH! BURRRRN!
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Justify that huge dinner bill with this devious expense report generator that will distribute that amount and produce various "crumpled" receipts! [Via]
I've been loyal and faithful to my BluBlocker shades for the past four years (pre-Hangover Zach Galifianakis thank you very much), but these new wood line of Wayfarers from Shwood is making my eyes wander again.
Tomorrow Now Forever connects webcams from around the world to provide a never ending view of a perpetual sunrise. Right now, I have a nice sunrise view from Chitose, Japan.
Aside from the irony of masked superheroes on Facebook, their status updates are quite comical ← See what I did there?
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Claiming to have been inspired by the economic credit crunch, Viktor & Rolf created some eye catching dresses for da (rich) ladies:
These office chairs made by MotoArt are built from B-52 Stratofortress and F-4 Phantom Jet Fighter seats. Filed under "WANT" and "NEED." Jet over to MotoArt's website to discover other furniture pieces built from airplane parts, such as this conference room table made from the wing of a 727.
Photo bombing is the term for the fine art of ruining someone else's photo and actor Michael Cera apparently is a master of this as evidenced by these photo bombed pictures.
