Kaws Giant Sculpture at The Standard Hotel NYC
KAWS: PASSING
THROUGH
COMPANION
Yesterday, AM was on hand to catch the arrival of the mother of all Kaws Companions (so far). This Passing Through Companion was hauled over from the backyard of the Aldrich Contemporary Museum, where it was last exhibited and dropped off in the front yard of The Standard Hotel in New York. When we stopped by, the crew was busy creating the platform for the figure, while tourists of the trendy Meatpacking district kept stopping to take pictures of the imposing sculpture. We even tried to play hide-and-go-seek with the companion by hiding out on the overlooking Highline, but by the time we left, it was still counting…
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Model Frida Aasen, Shot by Dennison Bertram
What Happens At a Busy NYC Intersection
NYC Intersection Perfection?
Ron Gabriel lives in NYC and wants "to show our interconnected role in improving the safety and usability of our streets."
Instead of writing some tired editorial, the visual artist pointed a camera at a busy New York City intersection and recorded what happens when cars, bikes and pedestrians come together in one place. I'm not sure what's more impressive — the videography or that nobody got hurt during the making of the film. [Ron Gabriel via Kottke]
3-Way Street from ronconcocacola on Vimeo.
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Stop Playing Games
Boys, stop playing games. girls are not cards.
Millennium Falcon Bed (Star Wars)
Millennium Falcon Bed
Every geeks wet dream is here. The most famous Star Wars ship is coming home, as a bed. Leia model not included.
Designed by Kayla Kromer the Millennium Falcon Bed is a Star Wars geek dream come true. I mean, look at it, it is a bed shaped like the Millennium Falcon from Star Wars. And there is a lady dressed as Princess Leia, for crying out loud. The only thing that would make this dream better is if she was wearing the metal bikini outfit from Jabba’s Palace in Return of the Jedi. Apart from the incredible design, the Millennium Falcon Bed features working headlights, hidden compartments for your every day needs, starfield projection and even cockpit space for you favorite Star-Wars action figures. I’m pretty sure that every Star Wars fan would love to sleep on this bed. Would you love to sleep on it ? Pictures by Heather Leah Kennedy.
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Have You Paid Your Bill?
No, has anyone lately in this economy?
Kira Mazura by Marco Trunz
by Marco Trunz for Fashion Gone Rogue
KIRA MAZURA
It’s Tropical – Marco Trunz heads into the jungle for his latest work photographed for Fashion Gone Rogue. Starring Kira Mazura as a nature loving explorer, the tropical setting serves as the perfect backdrop to stylist Crystal Birch’s safari themed selects from labels such as Diane von Furstenberg, Topshop and Miu Miu. / Beauty by Maiken Ross @ Blossom Management
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Dean Martin was born Yesterday
DEAN MARTIN
WAS BORN
YESTER
DAY
Somebody should have told DEAN MARTIN (Dino Paul Crocetti, 1917-95) that his canary-yellow turtleneck in the Matt Helm movies didn’t flatter a face tanned like saddle leather. Martin was already an established Hollywood and Vegas property when he made The Silencers (1966), first of four campy perversions of Donald Hamilton’s tough, witty spy novels, and subsequent influence on everything from Mel Brooks’s “Get Smart” series to Mike Myers’s Austin Powers franchise. The opening sequence has Helm sliding from a tilting circular bed into a vast bubble bath with his ‘secretary’ Lovey Kravezit then emerging to be buffed with power towels and fitted with silk kimonos dropped from above — the bachelor-pad equivalent of overcomplicated battle-prep assembly lines in Gerry Anderson’s Thunderbirds Are GO (also 1966) or Nick Park’s The Wrong Trousers (1993). The Helm movies are tedious babe-parades loosely draped over supervillian-in-underground-lair-bent-on-global-domination plots, but they mark an important shift in Dino’s long and unstoppable career: from cherished if slightly goofy crooner-comedian of the Martin-Lewis and Rat Pack heydays, to dinner-jacketed hunk of boiled meat. Hosting the Dean Martin celebrity roasts of the 1970s, laboured televisusal festspielen that skewered a gallery of hilo notables ranging from Barry Goldwater and Ralph Nader to Truman Capote and Evel Knievel, Martin reached his nadir. Always in the middle seat, making with the conspicuous guffaw, highball and cigarette reliably in hand, there was tan-tan Dino, cocoa-butter shell of a man. Kick in the head is right.
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I want a Lunar Rover aka moon buggy,
moon buggy
Aeroponics
The Future of Farming....AEROPONICS.....
Something to talk about...
Discoverability new king not content?
Well if one were to evaluate ways to be discovered, this is certainly a new tool that should be investigated. Between the ease of use and ability to create and link to website or facebook page- doesn't get any better than this!
Robert Downey Jr. - The Faker
"I know very little about acting. I'm just an incredibly gifted faker."
-Robert Downey Jr.
No iPhone 5 but something about a cloud?
Apple made their big announcement yesterday... The one we'd all been waiting for the announcement about the brand new.... iCloud? If like me you were expecting a brand new iPhone5 (I imagined it looking something a little like what you see to the right... Yes, right there) you may be disappointed but all is not lost, Apple announced the launch of the iCloud. But what is it?
The basic idea is that now, there is no need to sync your iPod, iPad (2) or even your iPhone. Have you even been fed up just sitting at your computer waiting and waiting for your device to sync? Well, you won't anymore. The idea is that the iCloud holds all of your music, apps and everything else in some sort of mystical wireless portal. This then syncs wirelessly to your device and you don't have to do anything! Update your phone, it saves to your iTunes. Update your iTunes, it saves to your iPod... It's all very clever. It also cross syncs your devices, between iPhone, iPad, iPod and Mac (or PC). So you have all of your stuff on everything! Smart stuff, eh? Obviously, check out the Apply website for more info, or you can watch the 'keynote' speach below.
Edgar Allen Poe Country
Baltimore.
She's Crafty
She's Crafty..
she's just my type..
Nerd Style is Out of Style
Nerd Style? Get the Fcuk Outta Here.
You know how people wear the funny glasses that were considered "nerdy" from 1980's films and now it's considered "cool?" It's actually not nerdy anymore, but it isn't cool either. If you rock this style you are a douchebag tool. Your not original. Your not a hipster. Your a stupid idiot that listens to the radio.. But like bad radio. Radio that my little sisters friends listen to when they drive to Taco Bell..that kind of bad radio.
Jack Davis Monsters
JACK
DAVIS
did Monsters like nobodies business.
True legend in the illustration realm.
you would never guess he is a Georgia man with a Southern soft tone.
Creepiest Video of All Time
What the Hell?
Look, I know you pop music people like your little radio music and your American Idol and your Jersey Shore and whatever else BS you are into. I just saw this, come on! I first thought this was an SNL satire of some sort. The guy reminds me of those 52 year old men you see that are recently divorced and drop 10k in the VIP in South Beach or Vegas. Shit's creepy as hell. Age with grace pop music people...or we are fucked.
This has to be the creepiest video of all time.
Conan O'Brien's Affair on Twitter
"I prefer to have my affairs over Twitter because I usually can't last more than 140 characters."
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Rollin's Band - Liar
And now you're desperate and in need of human contact and then you meet me and your whole world changes. Because everything I say is everything you've ever wanted to hear. So you drop all your defenses, I'm perfect in every way
'cause I make you feel so strong and so powerful inside. You feel so lucky, but your ego obscures reality that you never bothered to wonder why things are going so well.You want to know why?
I'm a liar.
Rollin's
band