Calm waters off the town of Skerries in Dublin, Ireland.
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In the latest issue of Time Magazine focusing on "The 100 Most Influential People in the World" the above photo of me holding the "Super Lintendo" sign is on page 12. Just saying.
[Thanks to Mariya for texting me that her brother saw this first in the magazine]
Come to Yakutat, Alaska and go surf killer waves in 50 degree temperature water.
Joel Zimmer snapped this shout out by someone who really likes "Total Recall" and also happened to have a Sharpie marker handy.
Mark Jenkins toasts bread in Rome. I think I'll just get the bagel (un-toasted).
While cleaning up Lake Merritt, sixth-graders from the science class at St. Paul's Episcopal School fished out 
Let the backlash begin: Women Against Ryan Gosling. So far it seems to be a small, but highly opinionated minority.
Who is the female equivalent of the Ryan Gosling phenomenon?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=HcYT8TzUarI] I don't like much of Vampire Weekend (Sorry, but it's true), but I do like their cover of Fleetwood Mac's "Everywhere" a lot. The takeaway is I like Fleetwood Mac.
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/39657770] A neat collaboration between Liu Bolin, my favorite urban camouflager and popular street art paster JR.
Dilbert creator Scott Adams shares this juvenile but hysterical comic strip that was rejected by his editor for obvious reasons.
Some photos updates of my life out and about in New York City over at 
USA gold medalist Tommie Smith and fellow bronze medal countryman John Carlos courageously raised their fists in a black power salute on the winners podium at the 1968 Olympics to express their solidarity for the Civil Rights movement and to protest the racial injustices of the United States. The moment and the photos became iconic. Today, a counselor at Palm Springs High School in California, John Carlos speaks about that moment, the aftermath and his feelings on it today.
When he and Smith struck their pose, Carlos feared the worst. Look at the picture and you'll see that while Smith's arm is raised long and erect, Carlos has his slightly bent at the elbow. "I wanted to make sure, in case someone rushed us, I could throw down a hammer punch," he writes. "We had just received so many threats leading up to that point, I refused to be defenceless at that moment of truth."
How many of us would have the courage?
This New Yorker cartoon made me laugh as well as desire a stiff drink.
Side bar: If you haven't been paying attention, I just want to point out that the New Yorker's footprint in the digital and social online space has been impressive lately.
Shoes from Allen Edmonds to coincide with the start of the 2012 baseball season and just like the Red Sox home opener, ugly. Actually a couple of them aren't so bad.
[vimeo=http://vimeo.com/39753148] Interesting 7 minute piece on the enormously talented graphics department at the New York Times that does, in my opinion, an exemplary job of providing visuals and interactives that does a fantastic job of supplementing the news in a more digestible and experiential manner for the public.
We all know about the custom painted designs on the noses of the planes during World War II, but I had no idea that a similar tradition existed with the jackets worn by the crew of the bomber planes. Here's a fascinating gallery of these personalized bomber leather jackets. Coming to a men's fall fashion show near you?
This portrait project by Shizuka Yokomizo from 1998 to 2000 is voyeuristic, totally creepy and I completely love it:
Shizuka Yokomizo left several anonymous letters on the doorsteps of random ground floor apartments that read:
“Dear Stranger,
I am an artist working on a photographic project which involves people I do not know…. I would like to take a photograph of you standing in your front room from the street in the evening.”
The letter specified a certain ten-minute period during which the artist would approach, take the picture, and slip back into the darkness. She would only reveal her identity once her subjects received a print and contact information (so that they could let her know if they objected to their portrait being exhibited).
Yokomizo made sure that when the photos were taken, the light would be too dark outside to see her — it would only allow her subjects to see their own reflections in the window they were looking out of.
Amusing anecdote from Shaq when asked about the time he once purchased three Bentley's at once on a whim.
“I was playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, and there’s a Rolls-Royce dealership in Beverly Hills. I always used to ride by it,” he began. “But one day I just went in. Mike Tyson was in there buying a couple of Bentleys. I had on some shorts and a tank top and flip-flops, and I said to the salesman, ‘Sir, how much does this one cost?’ He said, ‘Can you afford it, sonny boy?’ I was so upset that I bought three Bentleys right there on the spot.”He was too tall, however, to fit into their driver’s seat. “A million dollars gone in 10 minutes,” he added, quite disapprovingly.
Artist Berndnaut Smilde is able to create ephemeral floating clouds in a room by using a (spoiler alert!) fog machine while carefully controlling the room's temperature and humidity. Boy, I would love to see this in person.
Learned about artist Sandow Birk via ub14. I have such a fetish for art subverting and critiquing the CCTV security apparatus state: Banksy and Ai Weiwei's marble CCTV comes to mind.