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Kiki Valdes - "The Cloud" 2007. Oil on canvas/ I recently gave this as a gift to fellas at Primary Fight/Gallery.

I know you are, but what am I?
(greatest comeback of all time)
Doutzen Kroes is a natural beauty for the September 17th issue of weekly Elle France. Lensed by Alex Cayley and styled by Michele Beaurenaul, Doutzen leaves little to the imagination in the enchanting beauty spread.


KROES
Via: Fashion Gone Rogue
Rosi is an eastern gray squirrel who fell out of a tree and into my life ;-) You can read a little more of her story here.
In this pic she is five to six weeks old and still doing great... Eating like a horse and growing like a weed :-) This is how she would often end up after one of her feedings. Growing up is hard work and requires tons of naps :-)


Ain't that the truth? Sick HandMade Fonts. I love these. Check out more at Behance Network
When starting a business or a relationship always remember one thing.

I do know the effect that music still has on me - I'm completely vulnerable to it. I'm seduced by it.

- Debbie Harry
Richard

Burbridge
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for i-D Magazine, September 2004
Your future sucks.

now...pay me.

Disney Catalog Exclusive, 2004. Limited Edition of 1000. Thirteen Halloween-themed pins packaged in "vintage" Trick or Treat goody bags.Some of the pins were designed to perform a simple "trick" with moving parts, lenticular animation or glow-in-the-dark screens, etc. Also this was the very first appearance of the Haunted Mansion's Hatbox Ghost on "recent" Disney merchandise. His head rocks back and forth and his eyes glow in the dark.
TRICK OR TREAT PIN SET
Pins & Packaging Designed by Kevin Kidney
Via: Kevin Kidney
rick

rubin
"I don't know what makes someone hip. The goal is artist achievement and the best work we can do with no limitation."
As of this moment, the video has close to a million views and dozens of copy-cat or spin-off videos; People watch it because they think it is real, and while Mayer's ultimate intentions may be genuine, the production makes it seem artificial, creating an almost unimaginable contradiction which is expressed in the sometimes-angry online commentators. Is it a vlog? Is it music video? Is it a comedic short satirizing the weird new breed of pop stars? It is none of these things, however by placing it in the context of YouTube and exposing it to potentially millions of people who would be otherwise averse to video art, Mayer invites these unlikely questions and, oddly enough, fans.ing from nothing, to offer a legacy, to give birth.

JILLIAN MAYER
I AM YOUR
"I Am Your Grandma" is an autobiographical video diary log (vlog) that Jillian Mayer records for her unborn grandchildren. Envisioned as an authentic solution to fleshing out the detached model of the family tree, Mayer hearkens to bygone times when ancestors could glimpse one another through a locket or lock of hair. However, by placing the video in a public forum she conducts a phenomenological study of why people ultimately share their personal feelings with anonymous strangers, and whether this sharing effects the actual emotional significance of the piece. The work challenges notions of self-perception of mortality, celebrity, even the universal impetus for creation and legacy. At the same time, the packaging of the work as a viral-friendly video, complete with a young female protagonist, catchy song, and short duration creates metaphysical questions of artifice and reality.
GRANDMA
Via: Jillian Mayer

On June 20th, 2010, world-renowned Chinese contemporary artist Liu Bolin camouflaged himself into a popular Kenny Scharf mural for his first live painting/ performance piece in the United States.
The performance was conceived by the New York based curatorial group Wooster Collective and Eli Klein Fine Arts with support by Goldman Properties, the owner of the property and longtime supporters of public art throughout SoHo.
Source: Wooster Collective

Alter is a design studio. They develop brand, campaign and communication strategy across a diverse array of clients and projects both local and international. Alter can distill complex ideas into engaging and intelligent solutions.
ALTER IS COOL
Source: Alter
Some of the nation's biggest corporations make money when peace activists travel to events, using fossil fuels and accommodations provided by big chains. Then there is all of that peace merchandise and books, much of which is manufactured and originally sold by some of the biggest corporations in the world. Michael Moore and other big film makers get rich selling liberal and peace ideas on film.
There are certainly many smaller corporations out there that sell peace. There is the money made by dozens of small companies selling bumper stickers and t-shirts to peace activists.
Police and government officials make money when they get paid for planning crowd control. Politicians use eager volunteers and issues brought up by peace groups to get themselves elected into office, regardless of what kind of change they might actually make in office towards peace.
More subversive may be how the biggest institutions actually control the peace movements. Elite professors are elite universities talk about peace and resisting corporations, while at the same time being paid by those corporations. Every Harvard, Princeton, or Yale professor is paid for out of corporate money.
Most of the ideas of the peace movement are not organic, but instead come out of the corporate elite and a disseminated through shows like Democracy Now. The peace movement is made homogeneous by those national talk radio shows, and websites that define what the peace movement should be.
This is why it is so important for peace activists to think locally and be critical of the national elite in the movement. While there may be a natural dissemination of ideas from corporate elite on downwards, we shouldn't automatically accept what we hear on a national program like Democracy Now. While I agree with many of the things heard on that show, remember it's programming is ultimately dominated by information handed down from the elite's ranks, such as Howard Zinn and Noam Chompsky.
Blue bloods, that went to Ivy League schools that preach peace are no different then those government officials that are warmongers. They share common ideas and beliefs, even if their official ideology presented to the public is different. Howard Zinn and George Bush probably agree on more of the same then they disagree. The elite, regardless of what they proclaim, can not and will never understand the common the man.

PEACE FOR SALE.
Via: Andy Arthur


Via: Flickr
I think these are pretty sexy and sweet. Lounging pictures are the best in my opinion. Lazy days!
The Making of a Coca Cola Sign
(1945)
In the new issue of CR, I talk to Coca-Cola archivist, Ted Ryan, about the history of the brand's 125 year-old identity, explored in a new show at the Design Museum. One of the highlights of the display is a book documenting the design and build of their first neon sign for Piccadilly Circus, in 1954...
When he returned to Atlanta, Ryan kindly sourced some scans of some of the pages from this rare publication, a few of which we used in the print piece in the July issue. The rest we present here as a series, alongside two Technical Data pages, should anyone be interested in how the sign was actually constructed.




The manufacture of the sign is also recorded – here, spray-painting the letters:
The sign begins to take shape on Piccadilly Circus:

The final image in the book, the only one in colour, shows the sign lit-up:
Via: Creative Review
Mmm...Lego Cake.
