LolaKicks

dots n' spots

I came across this chick's flickr page while browsing about, and loved her continuous capturing of her thrift-store/vintage clothing.
Not only does she photograph her daily outfits, but she includes the info of where she purchased each item.

Random Screen Random Screen ~ Aram Bartholl"Random Screen is a mechanical thermodynamic screen that the user can’t control and that functions without any electricity. Conventional tea candles illuminate and generate the changes on the 4x4 pixel screen."I would like very much to make one of these... the website has several other genius art ideas, including one of an enormous 'google map arrow' and even more incredibley, 'how-to' instructions for re-creating everything shown yourself...very cool. Thanks goes to Lisz for the discovery.

Random Screen ~ Aram Bartholl

"Random Screen is a mechanical thermodynamic screen that the user can’t control and that functions without any electricity. Conventional tea candles illuminate and generate the changes on the 4x4 pixel screen."

I would like very much to make one of these... the website has several other genius art ideas, including one of an enormous 'google map arrow' and even more incredibley, 'how-to' instructions for re-creating everything shown yourself...
very cool. Thanks goes to Lisz for the discovery.

The face of a supermodel

On self-esteem, and reality...

This is a short, and well done video made by Dove for their 'Campaign for real beauty'

via Sum1

Is there something wrong with the Smuckers?...

The Family Guy - 'Prick Up Your Ears'
In all it's glory...
Starring Adam West, The Griffins, and the The Opal singers
and guest-starring the tooth fairy, Kit, God and Brittney Spears...
One of the best episodes of the best TV shows created.
Relentless hilarity.

The Smoking Room

This is one of the most awesome Trompe l'oeil pieces EVER... oh the possibilities and ideas it awakens... I do not know who is responsible for this gem, but I found it by way of Lisz...
ask her

words to live by

Michael Moore's pledge - Los Angeles Times:

"Thus, here is 'A Liberal's Pledge to Disheartened Conservatives':

1) We will always respect you. We will never, ever, call you 'unpatriotic' simply because you disagree with us. In fact, we encourage you to dissent and disagree with us.

2) We will let you marry whomever you want (even though some among us consider your Republican behavior to be 'different' or 'immoral'). Who you marry is none of our business. Love, and be in love — it's a wonderful gift.

3) We will not spend your grandchildren's money on our personal whims or to enrich our friends. It's your checkbook too, and we will balance it for you.

4) When we soon bring our sons and daughters home from Iraq, we will bring your sons and daughters home too. We promise never to send your kids off to war based on some amateur Power Point presentation cooked up by men who have never been to war."

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...and oh how it goes on... I am a particular fan of #9 and
recommend clicking and reading the remaining 8 'pledges'...

Stone Forest

Stone Forest

via Linkbitch

Bad Religion

Kick ass, Punk rock, 'Bad Religion' wristbands

I found these while looking for stuff on the
Sunday Morning Einsteins...
a punk rock band that I will post about in a minute...

I LOVE

Happy Thanksgiving Mother******s!

MADtv Real Mother****ing Talk: Thanksgiving

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Pissing in the Wind

Badly Drawn Boy - Pissing in the wind

this song is beautiful and the video is as well...
starring the fabulous Joan Collins no less...
The musician - Damon Gough - reminds me of a Magnus i know
thanks to Sean for unearthing it

"I Can't believe What my Psychic Intuition is Drawing Here!"

Insane Psychic

H I L A R I O U S
oh god so funny, Sean you are going to die... I can not watch this without crying
"I feel all flushed... is it hot in here?..."

via YesButNoButYes

RIP Robert Altman

He Needs Me
Robert Altman,
who directed one of my all time favorite childhood movies,
Popeye,
has died

The 1965 Ford Mustang Fastback

I must say... I am also, as it turns out, a big fan of the '65 Mustang Fastback...

publicity at all costs

The Hairy fairy picks up the bill

"He got a few odd looks but if someone is offering to buy you a sausage roll you don’t say no.
He was very friendly."

It is most assuredly the quote that makes this item worth passing along...

...although I also am quite taken with his socks...
via Lisz

Karolina Sobecka's city night Tiger

Wildlife by Karolina Sobecka (CLICK HERE TO WATCH THE FILM) :

"At night projections from moving cars are shone on the buildings downtown. Each car projects a video of a wild animal. The animal’s movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also.
... Projection disappears and flickers as it is supported by the architecture. The city itself is an active partner in creating this alter ego."

via neatorama

CUBA: The Art Revolution

Cuba: The Art Revolution:

"In a nation that prides itself on its government-sponsored public art education and thriving cultural centers, Del Toro discovered that art is at the center of Cuban society. 'In the absence of a free press, the arts have become a space through which people can observe and debate the social issues of the day,' says Del Toro."

This was a really interesting documentary done by my amazingly talented friend Natasha Del Toro. Go check it out, it's an interesting peek into not only the Cuban art world, but a glimpse into the mindset and emphasis of importance, of the Cuban life as a whole...
also, my friend's hot.

The Maybach Exelero

10 Coolest Concept Cars

via Neatorama

This is the ass of my new favorite car.
I love it with all my heart.
There are quite a few amazingly beautiful cars in this list, including a surprisingly gorgeous VW sports car, a stunning Saab, a classic and sleek and yet somehow, modern - futuristic even, BMW, and a scion that I would not be embarrassed to admit I like very much.
There is also a hilariously ugly entry by Mercedes-Benz, whose large staff of
"biologists, bionics scientists and automotive researchers from various disciplines"
thought it would be a good idea to
model their new car on a BOXFISH...
(I had never heard of one either, but if you imagine what a fish called a 'boxfish' would look like, then tinted it a sickly green/gold, you would, indubitably, not be far off...)
oh... and the '360' car is pretty f-ing funny too...
I'll let that one be a surprise...
just look at the 'third seat'....
hahaha... hahahahahahahaha...
I love the thought of certain people being forced to get into this thing...
sean? I am of course, talking of you...
so good... ALMOST as good as my other favorite mode of transportation...
(it is decidedly the HATS that make tears roll from my eyes when I think of cruising down the boulevard in one of THESE bad boys...)

Tsukiji fish market ( 築地市場)

photo by Julio Marcos
I have always been fascinated by this place, and hope one day to make it there in the wee hours of the morn, to watch the auctioning off of the steaming and frozen Tuna.. Here's some sites with pics of this amazing market....

National Geographic: "Tsukiji is a fish market in the sense that the Grand Canyon is a ditch or Caruso was a crooner. Among the wholesale fish markets of the world, Tsukiji ranks at the top in every measurable category. It handles more than 400 different types of seafood, from penny-per-piece sardines to golden brown dried sea slug caviar, a bargain at [U.S.] $473 a pound. It imports from 60 countries on six continents."
(there are some nice pics and good little blurbs at this site)

Wiki: There are two distinct sections of the market as a whole. The "inner market" (jonai shijo) is the licensed wholesale market, where the auctions and most of the processing of the fish take place, and where licensed wholesale dealers (approximately 900 of them) operate small stalls. The "outer market" (jogai shijo) is a mixture of wholesale and retail shops that sell Japanese kitchen tools, restaurant supplies, groceries, and seafood, and many restaurants, especially sushi restaurants. Most of the shops in the outer market close by the early afternoon, and in the inner market even earlier.

pic titled 'keeping warm' by Olya
(taken in the Tsukiji market)

HDR

Stuck In Customs
one of my favorite Flickr 'contacts' and a great practitioner of HDR photography,
and a 'How To' for HDR:

Daily Pete -HDR Tutorial: How to create High Dynamic Range’ images

via Neatorama

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'background' sky to re-take it...

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Other Places

Madagascar~Andilana (click here or on photo for video)

So I stumbled across this great website called OTHER PLACES, while exploring the channels on my Democracy Player. I loved loved loved the short films set to great music. They were of villages throughout Madagascar and Sri Lanka and East Turkestan, and offer a tiny glimpse into another world...

the photography of : Justine Cooper

Justine Cooper:

"Australian artist, Justine Cooper premieres her recent series of large format photographs and video. Over the course of a year she captured the behind the scenes storage areas of the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Using a vintage wood 4x5 camera, Cooper shares rare glimpses into their massive housed collections and reveals a trail of scientific desire that reaches back into the 19th century and across the 4 corners of the Earth."
via Boing Boing

Guenter Scholz caddies

Wine Caddies - by artist Guenter Scholz
(there really are a TON of great ones, click and see)

via growabrain

Dead Marys

dead marys

for next year?...

The Elvi stand approximately 7" tall...

ELVIS|DISEASE

Knuckle Tattoos
"Nerdcore. This is a function for a mathematical singularity. When x=0 this function fails to compute. As x approaches zero from either direction, it aproaches either negative or positive infinity. Cameron had this to say about his tattoo":

"I got the tattoo because I like the idea of math not being well behaved. That sound’s lame and I really don’t mean that in some kind of A is for Anarchy type way. I just think that its kind of nice that something as perfectly fuctional as math can kink up around the edges."

via neatorama

most hilarious

more hilariousness

Hilarious

The Bracero Program

The Bracero Program

About the images: These images show the first waves of Mexican workers traveling to California as part of the Bracero Program (1942-1964). They were headed for California’s fields to replace agricultural workers who had joined the armed services.
from University of California’s Calisphere website (with over 150,000 digitized photos, documents, newspaper articles etc. relating to California history).

Via Neatorama: "With all the hoople surrounding illegal immigration, you may not know that the US Government actually *initiated* the importation of Mexican agricultural laborers into California as part of the Bracero Program [wiki] in 1942 to 1964. Congress enacted the Emergency Labor Program, due to the extreme shortage of farm labor workers due to World War II."

this appeals to me to shameful degrees...

Ananova - Clothing for chickens

via Boing Boing
I can't help but grow fonder for the bird by the day... this one even looks like my 'state bird'!: The RI Red...
...you gotta' give it up to a state that chooses to be represented by a chicken.
the following quote by then Governor Roberts, kind of sums it up:

"The Rhode Island Red has become a symbol of Rhode Islanders all over the world."

and proudly so

oh shush... he's STILL cooler than YOUR boyfriend...

Science Fiction Case Mod Contest: The First Winner!

via Boing Boing

AKA "babe, how much do you love THIS?!"

Dave Devries -The Monster Engine

Dave Devries The Monster Engine

via Boing Boing
this guy has the amazing talent of being able to accurately portray the basic emotion... the vision... of the original child drawer

Kids with Cameras

Kids with Cameras:

"Kids with Cameras is a non-profit organization that teaches the art of photography to marginalized children in communities around the world. We use photography to capture the imaginations of children, to empower them, building confidence, self-esteem and hope. We share their vision and voices with the world through exhibitions, books, websites and film. We are committed to furthering their general education beyond photography either by linking with local organizations to provide scholarships or by developing our own schools with a focus on leadership and the arts."

via Boing Boing

Palindromes

Palindromes

"Mr. Owl ate my metal worm."
A Toyota
A car, a man, a maraca.
Bob, level Bob.
Age, irony, Noriega.
Deified.
Desserts, I stressed!
Do Good's deeds live on? No, Evil's deeds do, O God.
Do not start at rats to nod.
Dumb mud.
Et tu, Butte?
Evil I did dwell, lewd did I live.
Go hang a salami, I'm a lasagna hog.
Go Jews, Allah--oh all!--as we jog.
Go! Desire vagina! Man I gave. Rise, dog.
God: Deified dog.
Golf? No sir, prefer prison-flog.
Harass selfless Sarah!
He did, eh?
I prefer pi.
Oh, no! Don Ho!
Oy! Oy! A tonsil is not a yo-yo!
Pa's a sap.
Raw sexes war.
Step on no pets.
We nap and nap and nap anew.
Wonton? Not now.
Yawn a more Roman way!
Yawn — Madonna fan? No damn way!
"Quid est veritas?" ("What is truth?")

Doctor Reubenstein was shocked and dismayed when he answered the ringing telephone, only to hear a strange, metallic, alien voice say, "Yasec iovn eilacilla temeg! Nartsa raehoty lnoenoh pelet gnig, nirehtde rewsnaehn ehw. Deya! Msid! Dnadek cohssaw nietsne buerro, tcod?

"Are we not drawn onward, we few? Drawn onward to new era?"

and of course...

which leads me to:

essential-architecture

"The architecture of the Da Vinci Code really takes place in four main areas-
Paris, Rome, London, Scotland and New York"

This site has detailed photographic tours of most of the places Dan Brown has
written about in his novel
The DiVinci Code...