Watch this ridonculous trick goal scored by 9-year-old Oliver Wahlstrom in a one-on-one tournament. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TxGVSw6Ayw]
I'm digging this new bow tie from Billionaire Boys Club.
In this McSweeney's quiz, can you discern between a line by poet E.E. Cummings from a comment left on YouTube? Examples:
1. loog a his lirow nose
2. there is some shit I will not eat
3. LISN bud LISN
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Intriguing cover of MIA's "Paper Planes" by the Hoodlums. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RNaY9WLomw&fmt=18]
I got asked to share this "viral" video created for Samsung featuring a paint battle royale held in Sao Paulo where weapons of paint destruction included paint grenades, bow and arrows, and a sweet catapult. Players were recruited from various social networks to form the various "armies." Don't worry, no one "dyed" during the fight. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH1vHu9v2YY&fmt=18]
Click here to play a piano virtually online and tap into your inner Victor Borge. [Via]
Every single Kramer entrance into Jerry's apartment in Seinfeld is compiled in chronological order into this single video. Why? I don't know. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXSGV5wEv1o]
It's too late for summer, but I'm digging these shades for Stussy's Fall/Winter line, especially the picnic pattern red ones. They would allow me to "better establish my swagger."
Mystery Google is a Google search will give you the result for what the previous person searched. I searched "Your Mom" and got the return result for "Chuck Norris."
The Kitchen Bitch has this amazing display of various cereal hanging in the kitchen.
I'm really digging this McDonalds pimp cup covered in gold leaf by Dario Escobar. It's currently on display at an art museum TEOR/eTica in Costa Rica.
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Follow up to the previous entry, as Boing Boing highlighted, this particular page is so remarkable it needed its own entry.
While some people nostalgically look back on the 1950s and '60s as the golden epoch in our country, this 1962 textbook "When You Marry" actually is a reminder of how fucked up things were might then! The scans of the book pages also captured notes in the margins by some diligent student.
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Every party needs this Jay Z wood cutout created by LA artist Joshua Callaghan.
ArtReview released their annual Power 100, a list of the top influentials in the contemporary art world. Damien Hirst dropped from the top spot last year to number 48. This year's top 5 as follows:
- Hans Ulrich Obrist
- Glenn D Lowry
- Sir Nicholas Serota
- Daniel Birnbaum
- Larry Gagosian
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Calvin Trillin shares in The New York Times a theory he hears in a bar about why the financial system nearly collapsed this year, which puts the blame on smart guys from MIT and Cal Tech.
"When the smart guys started this business of securitizing things that didn’t even exist in the first place, who was running the firms they worked for? Our guys! The lower third of the class! Guys who didn’t have the foggiest notion of what a credit default swap was. All our guys knew was that they were getting disgustingly rich, and they had gotten to like that. All of that easy money had eaten away at their sense of enoughness."
[Thanks Lauren!]
Eric Rice is the grand prize winner (a custom Xbox) of the Where The Wild Things Are fort contest. His fort was built without any nails or screws, just a lot string. This is certainly a more impressive effort than my fort I built in my parents' backyard in my younger days. My fort, if you can call it that was a single plank nailed to a branch which could only be accessed by climbing a rope.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FZwVjys2bQI&fmt=18] As the weather becomes colder and that post-summer hangover sets in over New York City, the music video for John Mayer's "Who Says" reminds me why I'm so glad, as Simko said to call "one of the best cities in the entire world my home."
Yes, I said John Mayer. So what?
After the jump are photos of some of my favorite random moments, experiences, and memories in New York City.
The entire bar joins an impromptu electric slide line.
Everyone did the Kaizar dance in 2006.
Lots of teeth shown at a fun party at The Delancey.
A random weeknight in 2007.
Late night jumping photos in 2006.
Haha!!
Jazzy Jeff getting down to Talib's performance at the Hudson.
A passed out mime.
Runners in the NYC Marathon running past the front door of my apartment.
Banksy's pet supply pop up shop.
Bottles, bottles, bottles.
At the Beauty Bar.
Crashing another company's party.
Wearing the same V-neck shirts!
Ugly sweater parties.
Red and black and wig parties.
Zombies in Union Square.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP9EFTNGUCk] Chris going dumpster diving, sorta. And then having to return to this place to find his cell phone.
Front row view at Wilco concert in Brooklyn.