“Who Shot Rock & Roll”, the sexy new photo exhibit at the Brooklyn Museum reminds us that rock & roll isn’t just music, it’s a lifestyle… open now through January 31, 2010.
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WTF. No, seriously. What is this? For the past month runners through Chicago’s Lincoln Park have been speculating as to the cause of the newly installed grove of painted trees, incidentally painted candy-corn orange and yellow the week before Halloween. Event props? Nope. One month later, they’re still standing. Protective paint to preserve the delicate [...]
Wow. Four members of a gang that specializes in the sale of human fat collected from dead humans and used for commercial purposes [WTF?!] were arrested in Peru. Don’t even wanna know where they got the fat from, but doesn’t seem like they got it from a biohazardous waste facility… via
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This is as awesome as it is useless. That is to say I can think of all the reasons that I need this and it’s the same exact number of reasons that I don’t.
Behold the USB powered Alien which when plugged into a USB port sticks out its illuminated tongue. No storage space, not [...]
These days Ferrari logos seem to appear everywhere: On leather jackets, pens,sneakers, and even cars that aren’t Ferraris. The latest, sanctioned non-automotive item to bear the famed “Prancing Horse” is The Blackbird Rider Carbon Fiber Travel Guitar.
Donning a sticker price of $1,500 and multiple Ferrari accents including a “Ferrari-red” A-string and Scuderia shield, [...]
Since a very small (and very rich) percentage of the population can afford a anything that bears the Rolls-Royce Spirit of Ecstasy, the BMW owned company will be outfitting some special ordered MINI Coopers (which BMW also owns) with Rolls-Royce accessories.
The MINI Coopers will be custom built in the Roll-Royce factory and will feature upgrades [...]
TGIF single serving — Clients From Hell — A collection of anonymously contributed client horror stories from designers.
Funny because it’s true.
Submit your own horror story here.
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Select works from Japan-based digital artist / graphic designer MARUMIYAN.
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San Francisco-based costume designer and artist Monique Motil crafts her Sartorial Creature sculptures from her lifelong collections of “strange pods, sparkly bits, fabric scraps, body parts, beads, and bones”. Her “Curious Monstrosities” are credited as the inspiration for characters in Christopher Moore’s New York Times bestseller, A Dirty Job.
Sartorial Creatures available for sale via
Intricate, upcycled sculptures using altered, twisted cassette tapes.
Created by Atlanta-based artist Brian Dettmer.
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