I love this painting titled "Bar Shrine II" by Dan Witz who currently has a show at DFN Gallery through April 3.
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A list of the world's 10 most expensive "homes" (if one can call them that). Number one on the list is Mukesh Ambani's one-billion dollar 27 floor skyscraper home currently under construction in Mumbai. [Via]
Will somebody please make these bacon cheesecake brownies for me? Here is the recipe. That is all. Thanks.
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I'm kind of mad over these upside down logo'd hats in a collaboration between Hall of Fame and Mitchell & Ness.
Why am I not surprised to see Michael Jordan's name appear as a svengali in this ESPN article about how former Celtics star Antoine Walker blew through $110 million?
"They got down about $150,000," Maxwell said. "But by the end of the day MJ told Antoine, 'These cards are gonna change.'"Maxwell recalls Jordan and Walker winning big that night. He calls it "the opening act" and says Jordan's influence on his protégé was considerable.
I'm increasingly belonging to the conspiracy camp led by Bill Simmons convinced that Michael Jordan's "retirement" to play baseball was actually a secret suspension given to him by commish David Stern.
In this New York Times article about the resurgent usefulness of the U2 spy plane in Afghanistan, this tidbit about this plane from the 1950s Cold War era made me go "woa."
Marine officers say they relied on photographs from the U-2’s old film cameras, which take panoramic images at such a high resolution they can see insurgent footpaths, while the U-2’s newer digital cameras beamed back frequent updates on 25 spots where the Marines thought they could be vulnerable.
The U2 can also fly at twice the altitude of a commercial airliner. From that height, you know whose footprints a U2 pilot can spot without the aid of its fancy cameras? Yo momma's.
EPIC LOLZ or ZLOL CIPE.
Stefan Brüggemann's "Make Me See" combines two of my favorites: fluorescent and street art.
It looks like this was shot on Mercer and Houston.Yet another reason for why I need to leave for Japan right now: A professional soccer team takes the field (or pitch?) against 100 relatively skilled kids for an EPIC and thrilling soccer match for some Japanese variety show. The takeaway here is the importance of crosses. Up next obviously: 5 year olds in a fight.
Part 1 (Featuring pre-match analysis and game starts around 5:50)
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3WSpjRXYDE]
Part 2
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DYclLqgtCM]
Part 3
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_NCT6S9rMw]
On Saturday afternoon I went to the MoMA to see Marina Abramovic's exhibition including her latest live piece on the second floor. In short it was stunning and I highly recommend you go see it. Anyway, here are some photos from that visit.
The public is invited to sit across from Marina and gaze at her as she stares ahead silently. Some sit for only seconds or few minutes. On the day that I went this random guy had already been sitting there for 3 hours.
Yin Xiuzhen’s cozy interactive van experience titled "Collective Subconscious."
You can step inside and hang out while soothing music plays from a speaker.
Sophia posing.
Front of the van.
Close up of one of the shirts connecting the two ends of the van.
A neat way to display some photos...
See what we did here?
Ernesto Neto's piece titled "Navedenga," which you could also walk inside of.
But first you have to take off your boots and show to the world your awfully amazing socks.
Sophia strikes a pose.
And I smile way too broadly while standing next to an udder.
We checked in on our friends and yup, they were still silently sitting there staring at one another. World's Longest Staring Contest Ever.
Now you know.
As we were getting ready to leave four hours later, we heard the gallery erupt to applause. We rushed upstairs and saw the man finally stand up and walk away leaving the artist to sit for a few minutes longer before the performance ended. While I admired the guy's endurance to sit under those hot bright lights for eight hours, I was annoyed at his selfishness that prevented me and countless others from sitting there as well.
The End.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx4sOAt2EPM] In a premium blend of geek and joke, this Korean comic's stand-up material consists entirely of doing impressions of various characters from the popular (or in the case of Korea, massive and insanely popular) computer game Starcraft. Yes, Starcraft is so huge in Korea that it can get you wild applause from an adoring audience and get you laid.
[Hat tip: Andy]
Back in the previous century (actually 1999, but saying it that way makes it seem so ancient, rite??) Felix Baumgartner BASE jumped off the outstretched right hand of the famous statue of Christ overlooking Rio de Janeiro. And he saw that the jump was good. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-PsviSStA8]
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Monocle from Warby Parker. At 50 dollars, I say yes.
When I was a kid I was obsessed with the SR-71 which is why I was so stoked to see these scanned pages of the actual flight manual for this imposing and lightening fast jet plane. Now if someone can just find the manual to Firefox. [Via]
Wow, its been awhile since I've done one of these. Without further adieu, here are a few photos from last Thursday when I went to Brooklyn Bowl with a few friends for some Blue Ribbon fried chicken dinner, bowling, beer and watching Rahzel and ?uestlove kill it on stage. Incidentally, someone in the audience and then Questlove Rick Rolled Rahzel. INTERNET BEATS HIP HOP.
Note the beer glass in the middle with like five slices of lemon. Wow, someone (*coughnnamdicough*) likes their beer fruity sour.
Ctoy and Nnam tied while, as expected MRod led the way eventually with a perfect score, which may or may not be true.
We were astonished at what a dude-fest it was that night. Look at this photo. I think the ratio of guys to gals was 100:3.
And here's the human beatbox doing his thing:
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/10167277]
Kim Jong Il examining the piss of the revolution in these series of undated photos recently released by North Korea's state-run (and only) news agency of their decoy stand-in for a very ill if not actually deceased Dear Leader making his rounds and putting the "I will shoot you" in photo shoot.
Why yes, it is Steve Martin ironing a cat. What else is new with you?
My friend Lea sent me this photo she snapped of an MTA service poster that tells the whole truth and nothing but the truf.
