[vimeo http://vimeo.com/35055590] Blogging nowadays feels like one long Human Centipede so you've probably already seen this because its been posted everywhere, but if not here's an impressive supercut from films stitched together to recreate Lionel Richie's masterpiece "Hello."
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Ty_nGqPLkTc#!} Charlie Brown's sad life made even sadder, yet poignant when soundtracked to Vega Choir's cover of Radiohead's "Creep." As a YouTube comment on this video smartly remarked: "SOPA/PIPA would mean this could never exist."
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Jenny Brial, Le monde épinglé, 2010
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Man...Super Soakers have become crazy strong since I last played with them as a kid.
The top voted response to the above headline question on Quora is mind blowing and I guess a testament to the power of love (is that a title of a Bryan Adams song?).
This is the story of Dashrath Majhi
Dashrath Majhi's wife died without any treatment, because the nearest town with a Doctor was 70 km away from their village in Bihar, India. Well that could have been a far shorter distance, if not for a hill in between the village and the town.
Dashrath did not want anyone else to suffer the same fate as his wife. So he did the unthinkable:
From Wikipedia:
Dashrath Manjhi's claim to fame has been the herculean task of single-handedly carving a 360-foot-long (110 m), 25-foot-high (7.6 m) and 30-foot-wide (9.1 m) road by cutting a mountain of Gehlour hills with a hammer, chisel and nails working day and night for 22 years from 1960 to 1982. This passage reduced the distance between Atri and Wazirganj blocks of Gaya district from 70 km to just 7 km. [MR: See photo above]
I once picked up a girl's dry cleaning. Same thing, rite?
Next time you go to an art museum, print out and bring this cheat sheet by John Baldessari with you.
Missing from the list: Compelling. Derivative. I COULD DO DAT.
(Pink Floyed inspired?) 
This trompe l'oeil "marble" chair is actually soft cushioned. It's designed by Maurizio Galante and Tal Lancman for Cerruti Baleri.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLScccenNaE] Who knew Siri had a little gangsta in her?
SiriProxy is used to intercept the communication with Apple's servers. Based on your song request, Notorious Siri then sends your choice of Notorious B.I.G.'s Hypnotize and an a-cappella rendition of Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody to the device (the latter requiring 4 iPhones 4S).
Siri's speech synthesis is synced to the beat using the timestamps obtained from the Echonest API which were then manually tweaked, to smooth out delays in the text-to-speech engine.
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Babes at the Museum: a photoblog honoring babes of all types spotted at museums, such as uber-art-babe Louise pictured above (wow) in front of a Jackson Pollock.
Among my favorite activities is roaming through the MoMA as well as the various Chelsea art galleries where I'm constantly surprised by the number of breathtakingly beautiful women I see. Maybe that's the reason I enjoy my art jaunts so much? I do need to find a better opening line than asking them "So you a-like dis' art, eh?"
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1IYwClBX8bM] A really nice simple cover of Lauryn Hill's "Ex-Factor" by Quadron. The girl's voice is cray-zay.
Crappy beer, crappy president.
Photo by Terry Richardson.
John Baldessari, “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art”, 1971...or an artistic reference at the start of a Simpsons episode.
Once again, New Yorker cartoon is spot on.
I freaking love this: Salida by Gustavo Araujo, snapped by 
Roger Ebert lists his favorite documentaries of 2011. As a junkie of this genre I approve this list.
I went to the opening of Ai Weiwei's sunflower seed installation at Mary Boone Gallery. Other pictures from my weekend jaunt here.
Best skateboarding photos of 2011, including the one above of gravity-defying Tom Remillard.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9obAE2w26Y&feature=player_embedded] Grown ass man "wrestling" a 9-year-old? Sure, why not.