Scott Jarvie built this chair made from over 10,000 drinking straws.
This line of Chesterfield-styled furniture from Interesting short essay in Prospect that argues that the distinction between cool and uncool is increasingly irrelevant.
We’re living in a stylistic tropics. There’s a whole generation of people able to access almost anything from almost anywhere, and they don’t have the same localised stylistic sense that my generation grew up with. It’s all alive, all “now,” in an ever-expanding present, be it Hildegard of Bingen or a Bollywood soundtrack. The idea that something is uncool because it’s old or foreign has left the collective consciousness.
I bet Thomas Friedman loved this article.
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Apropos my previous entry, I actually prefer Pharrell's earlier effort titled "Perspective Chairs" from 2008. Unrelatedly, here's Pharrell showing off his custom Hermes crocodile skin hoodie.
The latest chair creation titled simply "The Tank" by Pharrell Williams currently on display at The Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin. It comes in four different colors: Black, pink, baby blue, and transparent.
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7CsuKvo72Y] A (damn lucky) panda and his buddy tear around LA in exotic sports cars and get into general wildness with the sort of hot women that appear straight out of Tiger Woods' Side Piece central casting in this fun promotional video for a luxury car rental company created and directed by my friend Nick Miller (the hit-maker behind the Facebook Gangsta). Watch until the very end of the short for a Hangover-esque ending.
Shameless plug on behalf of my friend: Please Digg this video!
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLk3fPeQuD8] Caught between two fans this paper airplane in Camille Laurelli's installation "Sans Titre (I believe I can fly) by" floats in one place before eventually succumbing to the joint turbulent effects. Or are certain "strings" attached? Anyway, it felt "poignant" in some way. Watch the video. How do you feel?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LkhVeW7VV0] A video clip of Shaolin monk Si Xingsong balancing on just his index fingers, a trick that supposedly only one other person can do in this world. The main risk, the video states is breaking the index fingers. ORLY?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPypWdiC06c] Over 200 beach goers participated in this synchronized dance by a flash mob on Bondi Beach near Sydney, Australia to the tune of Ben Lee. It starts off a little unappetizing, but definitely improves when some of the ladies join in, although this still isn't as good as the flash mob dance in this T-mobile viral ad.
A neat flashy interface that lets you see the demographic and income levels of people in each of the various neighborhoods in New York City.
Federico Fellini demonstrating how to be an ass.
Get this "Erotic Dots" activity book at Amazon for as low as $0.25 so long as you don't mind that it's a USED copy. Nasty.
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I think we can all relate to the message 
Trying on hats for the holiday of course. You gots to love hat stores that are open at 1 am and surrounded by bars.
I can now check off "Getting quoted in the New York Times" off my list of to-do's before I die. I'm mentioned in this article published today.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku8OQPcODEc] Classic arcade video games like Dig Dug, Centipede, Pong, and my favorite, Galaga recreated with LEGO bricks. I love how YouTube is a storage bank for nostalgia. In 20 years will some kid do a similar video for Halo?
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The top 500 most common passwords or in other words, the top 500 worst passwords to use ever. The top 10:
- 123456
- password
- 12345678
- 1234
- pussy
- 12345
- dragon
- qwerty
- 696969
- mustang
It appeared that my friend Nnamdi had settled down with his interest in ridiculous hats , but I was wrong. I was oh so wrong. Here's his latest new hat, a Pikachu ski mask created by DeviantArt's Sugarcoatidli3z.
Gold painted shopping carts were made available to customers at the grand opening of a new gourmet grocery store, Okko in Istanbul.
Watch this video tutorial by Kathryn Borel demonstrating how to open a bottle of champagne with a knife. In short, hold the bottle at a 45 degree angle and use the blunt side of the knife. This is how samurai and pirates typically opened champagne bottles. [vimeo=http://vimeo.com/6567397]