Daily Archives: Sep 3, 2009

Hamster on a Piano

Sep 3, 2009 – 5:33 pm

Pretty much the best shit I have seen all day.  Enjoy.

By Max Klaw | Posted in Funny, Music | Leave a Comment

1000 Mini Ice People

Sep 3, 2009 – 9:57 am

Brazilian artist Nele Azevedo, working with the World Wildlife Fund created 1000 ice miniature people in a public square in Berlin to draw attention to the melting ice caps in Greenland and Antarctica. The effect of the 40% reduction of the ice caps in the last eighty years has been detrimental to polar bears, whales, [...]

By babysmash | Posted in Art | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

A Little Comic Laughter.

Sep 3, 2009 – 9:39 am

I just found this whole series of pixellated comics called LOLBots. And they are just that, super simple and guaranteed to bring a smile to your face. Updated on Mondays and Wednesdays, they seem to have started recently, but are off to a good start!

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Yuksel Arslan

Sep 3, 2009 – 9:19 am

Returning to his native Turkey for the first time in 40 years, 76-year-old artist Yüksel Arslan ends his self-imposed exile for an exhaustive retrospective showcasing his obscure works at the Santralistanbul Museum in Istanbul. Arslan moved to Paris in 1961, avoiding artistic censorship for his socialist overtones and provocative satires of the inequities in the [...]

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xx

Sep 3, 2009 – 7:59 am

xx are a London based quartet of 20-somethings that craft their songs around simple hooks and gradually build sonic layers on that simple foundation that creates a sound so post-Joy Division it’s practically post-Interpol.   Their songs exist in a kind of airy, nether realm where singer-guitarist Romy Madley Croft seems to fixate on nothing [...]

By lorderic | Posted in Music | Leave a Comment