As if Coca Cola lovers needed any more reminders about soda’s heart-stopping potential, designer Dzmitry Samal created a new geometric can concept composed of ominous little coffin shapes. |The Dieline|
Have you ever wondered what a miscellaneous school of fish in the Bronx or East River was up to? OK, me neither. But how about José the Beaver? Thanks to some nerds from Columbia and NYU, keeping track of the city’s aquatic wildlife is not only possible, but also remarkably easy. In addition to watching motion activated buoys light up as fish or maritime mammals pass by at Pier 35, the Amphibious Architecture project makes it possible to receive SMS updates from the underwater creatures. Just text “EastRiver” or “BronxRiver” to 41411. So why would anyone care to do engage nature with technology? Read more »
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After a decade of tracking fellow street artists and graffiti writers, Berlin-based photographer and painter JUST is opening his first exhibition. “Just Taking Pictures” will feature photos of BLU, ZEVS, D*FACE and other insider images when it opens at Berlin’s ATM Gallery on October 16th.
Ha! When it’s all said and done, this may wind up being the best pro-healthcare reform piece produced by this seemingly never-ending debate. Here’s Will Ferrell, Jon Hamm, Olivia Wilde, Donald Faison and a host of others going to bat for the poor, downtrodden insurance companies and the beleaguered executives who run them in a very special message from Funny or Die: Read more »
You know what…the Brits are assholes! There, I said it. First they raided our shores wearing stupid red coats and tried to kill us all for being “revolutionary” and refusing to suck the prissy loins of their inbred bunch of “royal” overlords, then they basically told Roger Sterling to go fuck himself on Mad Men Sunday night, and now some dude from the BBC is saying that we humans should just let the totes adorable pandas go extinct because they exist in an “evolutionary cul-de-sac.” Read more »
A London museum is celebrating their new self-proclaimed title: “first public venue to purchase a rare artistic response to the swine flu outbreak.” The Wellcome Collection recently added a glass sculpture of the H1N1 virus by artist Luke Jerram to their millions of medical objects and oddities amassed by pharmaceutical millionaire Henry Wellcome before he died in 1936. The new viral acquisition will go on display this Friday through October 25th when the museum sends “Swine Flu” to Tokyo, where it joins works by Damien Hirst and Leonardo da Vinci at the Mori Art Museum’s “Medicien and Art” exhibition.
The fine folks over at Herobuilders have heard the public screaming their insatiable demand for a talking Joe Wilson doll and have responded. For $39.95 this little guy comes nattily dressed for a joint session of Congress and is equipped with a shouty “you lie” audio track. What a great stocking stuffer for all the right-wing zealots in your family! Previously: Obama-Joker action figure.
The UK’s Drug Kingpins
Meet Johnson Matthey. They sell drugs like heroin, cocaine, and oxycodone, among other substances—their full “product list” is quite impressive. The “opiates firm” also has a monopoly on poppy growing in the UK and routinely produces more dope than many provinces in Afghanistan. Oh and I should mention that they do all this legally and with the full blessings of the government, who just so happens to be a good customer that buys a lot of injectable heroin as part of a national drug treatment program for junkies. Johnson Matthey also appears to be drug facilitators of sorts and makes it seem like anyone can grow poppy plants, if they have the right materials. From their website: Read more »
Look, I don’t watch Dancing With the Stars, and I certainly don’t ever plan on tuning in to watch Texas exterminator turned Republican congressional prick extraordinaire Tom Delay shake his totally not gay ass all over the floor whilst doing the cha-cha to “Wild Thing.” But I have to admit, I found this clip of Delay dancing during last night’s episode horrifyingly compelling. Read more »
Two Brooklynites recently quit their jobs and opened a small business selling home beer-brewing kits, which are apparently selling briskly. Go ahead and punch yourself in the face now for not coming up with the idea. I already did. |New York Times|
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