Mind=Blown

5.6k Saturn Cassini Photographic Animation from stephen v2 on Vimeo.

1965 Vespa SS

this guy mounted a camera to his chest and is riding in Santa Barbara on one of my favorite Vespa's the 1965 Vespa Super Sport. A pretty shot of how it feels to ride an old scooter.

9 Eyes

more google street view weirdness

the Weirdest Thing I've Ever Seen???

JCPenny Rebrands

the P and E in the new logo fucks with my eye.....I prefer the old logo, JCP BOLD!

Misery Bear Goes to Work

While My Turntables Gently Weep

this is a pretty decent rant on why DJ's are so boring today - and the state of clubs and scenes built around music these days. It goes much deeper than the vinyl vs digital DJ but there is a good arguement there as well.

Rocky Mountain Diner Closes!

man, I love this joint in the famous "Ghost Building". What a shame.

2011 Skateboarding

there is some serious work going on here

Wisconsin Democrats Flee State

Wow! there is some interesting stuff going on in our country. I can't believe that they have left the state in order to hold up a vote. And since there's no money government workers are being asked to cover more of their medical benefits and their pensions. Hmmmmm just like the rest of us!

Caligraphy

R.I.P. Rick Kulwicki

Sad news in Denver today. Read more

Tony Riff Draws a Picture

Tony Riff from itdrewitself on Vimeo.

Obama

This is not right, stop spending money we don't have. How can he run a trillion over budget this year alone but tell us he's saving a trillion over 10 years? Utterly irresponsible - President Barack Obama released a $3.73 trillion budget for fiscal-year 2012 Monday.

We Are the Doorways

new record from RJD2, sounds like a break from his usual stuff..... now onto his obsession with SciFi Movies form the late 70's and Early 80's..... the Insane Warrior you can definately hear RJ though.....

Drawing with Chalk

this chick IS good

Valentine's Angry Birds

oh yeah

Tolstoy's 10 Rules for Living

Get up early (five o’clock)
Go to bed early (nine to ten o’clock)
Eat little and avoid sweets
Try to do everything by yourself
Have a goal for your whole life, a goal for one section of your life, a goal for a shorter period and a goal for the year; a goal for every month, a goal for every week, a goal for every day, a goal for every hour and for evry minute, and sacrifice the lesser goal to the greater
Keep away from women
Kill desire by work
Be good, but try to let no one know it
Always live less expensively than you might
Change nothing in your style of living even if you become ten times richer

50 States in Debt

You can not tax your way out of this.

Sampled Room

I love this!

SPOTS

this is so cool, having myself spent tons of time in parking lots and other ignored concrete areas - - - I can relate brother.

TRAVIS COLLIER 'SPOTS' from Mike McKinlay on Vimeo.

the Beast Publishes it's 50 Most Loathsome Americans

full of gems like this:

34) Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga)
Charges: A Madonna doppelganger with scoliosis and a knack for trite, overproduced and formulaic drivel. Not nearly as controversial as she imagines. She pissed off Jerry Seinfeld? Meh. My heart’s not really in this one. She makes shitty music. Who fucking cares. Probably you. You sicken me. But I’m getting ahead of myself.
Aggravating factor: Excessive consonant repetition.
Sentence: Tracheotomy.

Stars on Bikes

love the old pics..... thanks Coudal!

Stranahan's Sells to an East Coast Company

fuck the East Coast
'tis my favorite whiskey though and I wish them luck!

What Diplo has Been Playing Out this Month

some bangers in here

Jack White - You Are My Hero

Best MashUps of 2010

some good ones in here

I for One - Love it!

Well, Then There's This.......

Muppets with people eyes................

My Top Ten Albums for 2010

I'm not a writer as you probably know by now and I sure as hell hate describing music but we're gonna keep this tradition going. These are my top albums of 2010. Again if it didn't come out on vinyl it doesn't exist. I'm sure I forgot a few but here goes.... in no order:

Forrest Swords - "Dagger Paths" - super trippy dubstep-esque

Grinderman - "2" - straight ahead rock and roll with some good noise

Ted Leo + Pharmacists - "Brutalist Bricks" - I can sing this in the shower, Ted keeps rolling

Spoon - "Transference" - best pop crafted songs, I never get enough SPOON

unFact - "Bleached Valentine" - David WM. Sims experimental bass/guitar project - etherial and dron

Four-Tet - "There is Love in You" - trippy repeative music with vocals as an instrument

Kvelertak - "Kvelertak" - metal album of the year for me, so good, in the same vein as Turgonegro

Coliseum - "House With a Curse" - another good rock record, nothing you haven't heard before but I'm feeling it

Flying Lotus - "Cosmogramma" - sparse beats and all around electro weirdness

Caribou - "Swim" - more electronic goodness

the Roots - "How I Got Over" - just cause they're on TV doesn't mean they don't rip - a solid hiphop chunk for 2010

Black Mountain - "Wilderness Heart" - kinda retro, fun to pull on the influences and I love the male/female lead vocal swaps

SKREAM - "Outside the Box" - king of Dubstep makes a more accessible album, but it still kills

Sharon Jones + Dap Kings - "I Learned the Hard Way" - sweet, sweet soul this album just kills it

High on Fire - "Snakes for the Divine" - crushing metal from Matt Pike and the boys - you know what it sounds like just turn it up

Dead Weather - "Sea of Cowards" - more heavy on the Jack White than the last album but rocky and groovy

Aloe Blacc - "Good Things" - this one hit me from nowhere a solid modern soul record

Flaming Lips - "Dark Side of the Moon" - this doesn't hit the decks too much but I love the effort, "Embryonic" is good too...

OFF! - "First Four EP's" - makes me wanna go skate

Thou - "Summit" - the most brutal sludge Baton Rouge has to offer this one just slays

White Hills - "Dead in Circles" - reissue but killer, wall of sound knock your teeth out space rock

Jan Jones for Versace

The 'Mad Men' actress poses completely nude, covered up by a well positioned hand bag for the Spring/Summer campaign for Versace accessories.

TIME's Top Ten of Everything

in case you're bored and can't make up your own mind

Mona Lisa's Eyes

da Vinci painted letters in the eyes of the Mona Lisa

New Comedy Central Identity

I know this is getting the cranky designers out there talking about about how lame this is, but I disagree. This is great.

the old logo was weak - blue buildings and the talk bubble - I never liked it. This one is clean and simple, AND I like that it looks like the Copyright mark too. Bring on the new. Good job CC designer.

50 Best Juggalo Pics of 2010

as Judge Judy once said - "you all are marginal human beings"

Henry Gets Violent for National Geographic

“During shows, I have been burned with cigars and cigarettes, butane lighters. Keys have been stabbed into me. I’ve been hit with ashtrays, fists, feet, whatever.”

10 Slowed Down Pop Songs

now I can get into Katy Perry

Hairpiece or Herpes

so good

Interesting Article on Airliine Security

FTA:
"A short history of airport security: We screen for guns and bombs, so the terrorists use box cutters. We confiscate box cutters and corkscrews, so they put explosives in their sneakers. We screen footwear, so they try to use liquids. We confiscate liquids, so they put PETN bombs in their underwear. We roll out full-body scanners, even though they wouldn’t have caught the Underwear Bomber, so they put a bomb in a printer cartridge. We ban printer cartridges over 16 ounces — the level of magical thinking here is amazing — and they’re going to do something else.

Take all the money spent on new security measures and spend it on investigation and intelligence.

This is a stupid game, and we should stop playing it."

New Album from Electric Wizard

Black Masses

30 Rock is Really Just the Muppet Show

what a ripoff!!!! - great read!

Hourly Cost to Fly the President Around in AF1

$181,000 an hour I know we gotta protect him and he needs this, but man to hear the actual number is a bummer to say the least.

US Budget

If I had to pick one thing about politicians in this country it would be to ask them to balance the fucking budget. This is a nice interactive graphic that lets you slash budget items and see how they play out in the future. Well done graphic designer, well done.

thee Most Expensive Record Ever!

Double Fantasy - signed by Lennon minutes before he was killed.....

Danny MacAskill

another video from Danny, beautifully shot by RedBull

Finally an Inforgraphic on How to Tell if That Guy in a Beard is Trustworthy or Not

my facial hair lurks around the neutral middle of the scale......

New FingerBoard Ad for Hermes

New Girl Talk Record - All Day

and he opens with SABBATH!

I Miss MY 1966 Mercedes Benz

this is a great story/read

Fifty Stars with Lipdub Kid

this made me wet myself a little bit

Money Don't Buy Happiness

some neat people for sure

Vinyl Wall Clocks

some neat ideas in here....

DIPLO drops a DubStep Remix Today - Free

let's get wobbley!

New MixTape from Mad Decent

love me some Mad Decent, great mix for the onslaught of fall

Caught Dead in That

Indeed

Vote Against

I totally agree with this article, people are not voting for candidates in this election they are voting against candidates - in my opinion this is not a smart course of action. This fully illustrates that the general public has lost all faith in politics, me included. It's a game in which I will not participate, go ahead and vote.....how's that going for you?
FTA:
"More precisely, it is a rejection of a bipartisan political elite that's lost touch with the people they are supposed to serve. Based on our polling, 51% now see Democrats as the party of big government and nearly as many see Republicans as the party of big business. That leaves no party left to represent the American people."

thanks Wes!

Saville's Tombstone for Tony Wilson

very nice, Peter

19th Century Photography Technology for 21st Century Portraits

I like these a lot!

Seth Kills it Again

"Many people in the United States purchase one or fewer books every year.

Many of those people have seen every single episode of American Idol. There is clearly a correlation here."

Deliberately Uninformed.

Killer Product Design

the new Heineken bottle

Simpsons Explains How Banksy Did the Opening Scene

"I think that we should always be able to say the holes in our DVDs are poked by unhappy unicorns."

New Halloween Mix from MAD DECENT

so good, I haven't heard most of these jams in over a decade. 10000 HOMO DJ's doing Sabbath? man that takes me back, I need to find that 12" great shit! Early 90's flashsback!

the Vinyl Conflict

still looking for some of those elusive SLAYER records that have been out of print? Yeah me too - I'm missing a couple. Anyway SLAYER is repressing all of them from Reign in Blood to now as a special box set. Thanks for the tip Colin!

Brooklyn Space Program

these guys launch a camera and an iPhone into space via a weather balloon. This is so cool!

Chipotle Ditched Ad Agencies

Mr. Crumpacker(Chief Marketing Officer) points out that the chain hasn't added a menu item in 17 years and it also does not have a regular cadence of pricing promotions. For those reasons, he said, agencies' experience with other fast food chains is irrelevant.

"We've looked at TV; we've looked at it all," Mr. Crumpacker said. "Chipotle was built on word-of-mouth marketing. We're focused on reigniting word-of-mouth marketing, rather than big advertising campaigns."

Love this kind of attitude, and I still love Chipotle.

Banksy Takes on the Simpsons

nice one!

Biggest Skatepark in the World

Holy CRAP!

Facebook to Become Bigger than Google in 5 Years

Pretty cool read if you're into this kind of stuff.....

FTA:"Even if every single Facebook user performs just as many searches with Google as ever—including Google Instant, mobile search, and YouTube—Facebook will inexorably grow as big as Google is today and maybe bigger, because Madison Avenue’s brands are less interested in targeting than they are in broadcasting to vast mother-loving buckets of demographically correct eyeballs, and Facebook has become the perfect platform for that."

Golf Photo

This shot of Tiger Woods is cool – but check out the dude on the right side of the picture with the turban and the cigar, wtf???

Why Are Records 12 Inches Across?

Around the same time that Thomas Edison was working on recording and playing back sound on cylinders, Berliner was doing similar experiments with flat discs.

Diplo for Blackberry

No way, congrats man! you won't hear sellout from me - I love you!

Overcoming a Bias - You May Have an Opinion!

Signs that your opinions function more to signal loyalty and ability than to estimate truth. #9 - You find it easy to conclude that those who disagree with you are insincere or stupid.

Pantone VISA Cards

these are bloody brilliant!

He's Fucking Dead

Pat Tillman's brothers speech at his funeral. Balls, and the right call.

Guy Puts a 1908 Lens on a Modern Camera

love the tone of these pics man

Joy Division Law Firm

this is a gag right? with the Factory logo and all??

Murakami at Versailles

The Takashi Murakami show features 22 works including 11 site-specific pieces which aim to create a story within a story. Curator Laurent Le Bon states, "The unique experience seeks above all to spark a reflection of the contemporary nature of our monuments and indispensable need to create out own era." Murakami ties the past to the future by placing bizarre brightly-coloured creatures in ornately decorated stately rooms. The show will be running until 12 December 2010.

Free Climbing a Ridiculous Tower

this makes my hands sooooooooooooo sweaty

John Talks Tim Tebow

TIM TEBOW

the FACES of OPRAH

so awesome

Johnny Knoxville hits Detroit

cool quick flick on Knoxville visiting Detroit

Artworks by Leonid Afremov

I love this guy's work, so much paint he's using on the canvas, like frosting.

Tashi Mannox

some killer calligraphy from Mr. Mannox

Hidden Logos of 2010

some nice ones in here

Is It Because?

sweet soul on a Thursday afternoon, check this track from Syl Johnson.

Yahoo Answers

holy cow these are funny

Barry McGee Bombs Houston Corner

Simple red tags all over the wall, a nice bit.

Mad Men - Rolling Stone - Photoshop Disaster

this cover is bloody awful!

This is My New Favorite

Budgie - Breadfan

Big Joe Williams

Of course I was turned onto this by AC/DC as a kid, but man Big Joe was the first to play it and he's playing a 9 string guitar. I bet Matt Pike digs this 9 stringer.

more SLO MO

the Lindy Hop in slo-mo

SLO-MO

tennis pro hitting balls in slo-mo

the Walking Dead

I dig the comic book, and this looks promising.

Bees Under Glass

this is what happens when you cover a hive hole with a glass jar

Tattooed Lego Men!!!

check the work!

Yo-Yo Madness

this guy is so tight, I love the flow and style he throws.

35 Lessons in 35 Years

there's a few gems in here

Digging in the Crates

this is pretty good short essay from Ta-Nehisi Coates of the Atlantic on why Andy Rooney doesn't know music. A friend of mine in college would always argue with me about music, I was into anything outside the mainstream and he was into classic rock. All of our arguments ended the same way - I could talk about any band he knew of, but he could never talk about bands I knew of. Ta-Nehisi breaks it down - "Whatever you think of the music, no self-respecting hip-hop head, at that time, could ever get away with saying, "Man, I don't be listening to no Ella Fitzgerald!" Your friends would have looked at you like you were crazy. Knowledge—not the kind of ignorance Rooney evinces here—was prized."

Women in the Tattoo Subculture

maybe because I have been watching so much Miami Ink on the Wii/Netflix - I've had tattoos on the brain, anywhoo here's a brief photoessay on girls that have some ink. NSFW