Today is Friday and time for a bit of folly.
So, on this cold, grey November day, and in honor of my Slavic heritage, I present to you… Russian Dancing Men.
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November 19, 2010
Spraycan Swat Team Covers Entire Train with Graffiti in Minutes
November 18, 2010
Cowboys & Aliens: A New Sci-Fi Movie, Not a Right-Wing Anti-Immigration Strategy
Cowboys & Aliens boldly goes where no cowpoke has gone before. Is it a new spin on the Western film genre, or a new spin on Sci-Fi?
Speaking of a spin… wouldn’t you have just LOVED to see this pitch meeting, if only to watch the skill it must have taken to spin this gold out of a tumbleweed? Imagine the talent of the marketer, so captivating with their presentation, as to attract high-priced talent like Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde and Sam Rockwell, along with the direction and production chops of Favreau, Spielberg and the Ron Howard/Brian Grazer Power Duo.
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November 17, 2010
Nathan Fox: The Frustrated Illustrator
Nathan Fox was born in 1975 in Washington, D.C., and raised from the age of 5 in suburban Houston. An early addiction to cartoons, commercials and video games led to a lifelong exploration of narrative art and the over-stimulation associated with his generation.
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November 16, 2010
10 Centuries in 5 Minutes: Video Map of Changing European Borders Over past 1,000 Years
November 8, 2010
Week’s 5 Most Popular Stories: Nov. 1-Nov. 7, 2010
November 8, 2010
Sweden’s Invisible Treehouse Hotel
Vacancy! One of four room styles at treehotel, a new hotel complex composed entirely of outlandish tree houses, the “mirrorcube” is situated 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle in Sweden. Looking somewhat like a hunting blind for the creature in the Predator movies, the mirrorcube hangs around a single tree trunk, about 30 feet above the ground.
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November 6, 2010
Sharks are Friends, Not Food
With many shark species on the brink of extinction, a new community of conservation-minded divers and videographers are working to change our perceptions of an animal long demonized in popular culture. Like many of my generation, I was scared shitless at an early age by the movie Jaws. I remain to this day inherently fearful of deep, open water. I can, at anytime, cause myself anxiety with a simple thought…
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November 4, 2010
Paris vs. New York: A Tally of Two Cities
Bagel vs. baguette, subway vs. metro, un petit cafe vs. grande frappuccino. Graphic designer Vahram Muratyan, having recently moved from Paris to NYC, shares with us his realizations of the quaint little idiosyncratic iconography that most of us overlook, these cosmopolitan ambassadors of salt, pepper and tarragon.
“Paris versus New York: a tally of two cities” is Vahram’s blog, where you will find the rest of his minimalist depictions and contradictions.
November 2, 2010
Ahmed Alsoudani: After the Attack
In 1995, a 19 year-old budding artist, rambling about the streets of his Baghdad neighborhood, thought it would be a good idea to deface the local mural of Saddam Hussein. Ahmed Alsoudani, saw this as prank, not any sort of political statement. It was a prank he immediately began to regret. Under Iraq’s violent Baathist regime the consequences for such an action were severe. With a growing feeling that his life was in danger, Ahmed hightailed it out of town in the back of a taxi and made his way to Syria, where he lived for four years before being granted political asylum by the United States.
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November 1, 2010
Framework- The Most Iconic Men’s Eyewear of the Last 100 Years
November 1, 2010
Play Digital Spy with Covert USB Drives Hidden Around the City
In a scrupulous world, this would be a really cool idea. As part of his residency with EyeBeam in New York City, Aram Bartholl has created an interesting sociological experiment. An anonymous, offline, peer-to-peer file sharing network. On the sly, he has secreted USB flash drives into walls, buildings and street curbs, in publicly accessible spaces
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Matt Forcey