July 2011
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More White People Problems: My Oreo Cookie Art...
Seriously, Oreo Cookie art? That is the most badass/cringe worthy thing on the web today. Awful, awesome. Great, bad. And the weird thing is, it makes you want to eat Oreos.
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Aaron Carter goes for it: "Michael Jackson gave me...
Let’s be honest, the world is awaiting the response from Macaulay Culkin: “Oh yeah, Aaron Carter, MJ gave you cocaine at 15, you don’t even want to know what I got from MJ when I was 13.” Use your imagination people. It starts with an S, and ends in a D.
via NME
June 2011
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Escif x San painting in our backyard
This is what happens when you give the artists some room, they get painting again. San and Escif have been in our backyard today painting some panels before they open up a gallery show at FIFTY24SF Gallery. We love the look already. Wonder if these will make it into the show.
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Last Day to get Shark Fin soup in Hawaii
Not sure what your customs are, but today is the absolute last day you can get shark fin soup in Hawaii before restaurants get a $5,000 fine for serving the dish. It doesn’t even look that good. According to the LA Times, “Shark fin soup, which can cost as much as $80 a serving in restaurants, has been a Chinese delicacy for hundreds of years and often is served at weddings and...
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What does one do in Sao Paulo?
Brazil Ready from mrevelli on Vimeo.
When your friend sends this to you while they are in Sao Paulo, you can either be A) happy for them, B) Worried about them, or C) Wondering why every state in the union doesn’t have a man to pump your gas for you.
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First World Problems... aka "White People...
What is really amazing about this list, is that we actually had about 6 of these problems yesterday, including the last one. Is that bad? Not sure, but sometimes it is really hard to have to get up for your charger. That is why we only had 11 posts yesterday.
via geekfill
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Aaron Young on Juxtapoz.com
We like Aaron Young plenty, a great Bay Area artist who has gone onto big things in NYC, but we think we just really like this photo of the performance piece he created with James Franco for their Venice Biennale installation, Rebel. This photo is just epic. There is an interview to read here.
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Morning Ritual: Glancing
That’s all you get.
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A list of things that Liam Gallagher likes. And 3...
Likes
1) Judge Judy.
2) Central Park.
3) Ginger Ale
4) Levi’s 504s
5) The Beatles.
6) Garrett Leight sunglasses
7) Paul Weller
Sort of Dislikes
1) Muse
2) iPhones and/or technology
3) Umbrellas.
via GQ.
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The Pantone Folding Chair
First the coffee mug, now the folding chair. And regardless, if you put Pantone colors on a product, in this style, then you will definitely have a winner. Designed by Selab Studio for the Italian design house Seletti, these aluminum chair will cost you only $65. And you can have a lime green or purple plum chair in your… kitchen.
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Definitely Thursday: "Talk Tonight"
It was hard not to love this song when Noel wrote it between LP1 and LP2, in a fight with Liam, broken from the band, and met some lady in San Francisco and hung out with her. According to Wikipedia (yes, this song has a Wiki), “He stayed with a girl he had befriended during a previous show there. According to the sleeve notes to The Masterplan, she talked a distraught Noel “off the...
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Escif & San: “See You In Croatan”
“We were taught in elementary school that the first settlements in North America failed; the colonists disappeared, leaving behind them only the cryptic message “Gone to Croatan”. The very first colony in the New World chose to renounce its contract with the Empire and go over to the Wild Men. They dropped out. They became ‘Indians,’ ‘went native,’ opted for chaos over the appalling...
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Bummer of the Day: John Lennon was a Reagan fan
Well, this bums us out. The Toronto Sun is reporting that former Beatle John Lennon was, at the time of his death, a Ronald Reagan fan and Republican who loved arguing politics with liberals. Well, shit, why don’t we just vote Romney know for Christ’s sake. This is crappy news. Next thing you know, Thom Yorke is going to enjoy a Palin speech now and again.
Fred Seaman, who worked...
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San & Escif: Day 26 – Raining day through the...
From San and Escif’s blog based on their show/project “See You in Croatan” opening tomorrow at FIFTY24SF.
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Kangaroo in Pajamas
Just a kangaroo in his pj’s. Rest up Lush.
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Alf Alpha at Coachella
This video makes me a) like DJ music b) want to actually go to Coachella c) cry a little harder when i look out the window and realize it’s cold, wet and dreary in San Francisco in June.
Shot and edited by the always amazing Steven Preston
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Tom Petty tells Michelle Bachmann, you are not my...
After Tea Party/Republican presidential candidate, Michelle “Palin 2” Bachmann began using Tom Petty’s classic “American Girl” song as her campaign rallying song, the famed musician gave here a cease and desist letter. He is threatening to sue. After confusing John Wayne with serial killer John Wayne Gacy in a speech this past week, and now the Petty threatening of...
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Daisy Lowe for A Bathing Ape Womens
Somebody in the Tokyo offices of classic streetwear label, A Bathing Ape, decided that they wanted to sell Catholic school girl outfits to Japanese girls by way of a British model by the name of Daisy Lowe. And a bunch of dudes are watching. Go figure.
DAISY LOWE FOR A BATHING APE® LADIES AUTUMN/WINTER 2011 COLLECTION BEHIND THE SCENES from A BATHING APE® OFFICIAL on Vimeo.
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Morning Ritual: Too excited
Almost the holiday, almost out of here once again.
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The Sidewalk Pod Life
This 24-year old architect, Dia Haifei built an “egg–shaped pod on the sidewalk to evade Beijing’s extreme rent prices. Apparently Haifei was inspired to design and build the structure after seeing a conceptual project named ‘City’s Egg’ which was held at the Shanghai Biennale Exhibition. With using bamboo as the frame and wood chips for insulation, one can sleep warm ...
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When beer gets a Beer Archaeologist
Once you get on the topic of a Beer Archaeologist, and then you start touching on Dogfish Head brewpub in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, this is going to be a career path for most of us. We know, from the major New Yorker article on Dogfish Head, they take beer making to whole other level. We just read this article about a guy named Patrick McGovern, a 66-year-old archaeologist, who also goes by Dr....
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Weakness Wednesday: The White Stripes "Hotel...
Remember when you first heard the White Stripes and the music just felt timeless and from another era? And, oh yeah, really damn perfect? “Hotel Yorba” was the first White Stripes we ever heard, and it remains our all-time favorite song from the Detroit duo.
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Blu “Megunica”
When it appeared in 2009, Italian artist Blu’s documentary “Megunica” made it to numerous film festivals and won multiple awards. As you know by now, Blu is one of the leading street and mural artists to appear in the past decade, mixing both politics and locale better than most artist working in his size and stature. After his groundbreaking animation, COMBO, done with American artist,...
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The most amazing Charlie Sheen mask you will ever...
We guess if you are going to be part of a silicone mask convention, you need to bring it. Yes, Charlie Sheen is old, but damn, this mask is incredible.
via AdminSwim.
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F#@ked Up's great new video for "Queen of Hearts"
We don’t know squat about this Canadian band, but in terms of music videos, this is like the heyday of the early 1990s. Some odd looking girl who is probably a model, British kids, singing, a school room, and a bizarre turn of events. Fucked Up, good job.
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Suicidal Carpe Attack
Fishing made easy.
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8,000 Lanterns to the Sky
For the recent summer solstice, the residents of Poznań, Poland gathered in the town square, at least we can assume they did, and let off a record 8,000 lanterns to the night sky. The record is a Polish record, the world record, we have no idea about. But it is quite beautiful.
via http://thisiscolossal.com/
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Morning Ritual: Kicking
Eating an apple, naked on a chair. What most girls do home alone.
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What a Mayan tomb looks like
One of our main goals in life was to see the inside of a Mayan rulers tomb 1,500 years after it was sealed up, because, well, we plan to have our burial resemble this get-up.
According to Yahoo News, “A tiny remote-controlled camera peered inside the tomb of a Mayan ruler that has been sealed for 1,500 years, revealing red frescoes, pottery and pieces of a funerary shroud made of jade...
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The "Butter-Cow Lady" Dies at 81
Norma “Duffy” Lyon was one buttered up lady. She is the one who used to sculpture tons of “U.S. Grade AA salted butter each year into life-size figures of cows, famous people and, once, a diorama of the Last Supper.” Our all-time favorite Butter-Cow Lady sculpture was her Obama bust. If that didn’t the women of Marshalltown, Iowa to vote for the big BO, we...
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Thom Yorke Tuesday: "The Present Tense"
This was one of the Thom Yorke solo songs performed over the past few years that we all thought was going to land on a Neil Young sounding Radiohead LP that ended up sounding like a Flying Lotus LP. “The Present Tense” felt very much like an extension of the In Rainbows sessions, but we have been left wondering if this song will ever get a full band workup. Because it is beautiful...
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A Stroll Through the MoMA
Everyone at least once in their life should walk through a museum by themselves with no rhyme or reason. Everyone should put on some headphones, find a song to loop, and just walk. When you find yourself in a city by yourself that happens to have a nice art museum, you can waste hours upon hours in this practice. We were in NYC this past week, and went to the Museum of Modern Art without looking...
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Universal Everything for Coldplay at Glastonbury...
Pyramid projection for Coldplay / Every Teardrop is a Waterfall from Universal Everything on Vimeo.
Universal Everything has signed off to do all the lightning and stage direction for Coldplay’s 2011 tours, and they kicked off their stage work at Coldplay’s Pyramid Stage headlining set Saturday night at Glastonbury 2011. From the looks of it, the show is going to be a good one to...
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New Favorite Gif
It’s that pause that really gets you in in this cat gif. What is it eating?!
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The iPad kinda sucks
We love Apple. iPhones, iPods, iClouds, imovie, we love it all. The iPad? Cute but kinda useless for now. That’s all we are saying. We want to love it but we need some help.
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Lick my Mayakovsky
Yes, we really said that. From Russian Advertising firm, Stoyn comes, Marilyn Monroe, Darth Vader, Vladimir Mayakovsky, and Donald Duck Popsicles. So suck, er lick it.
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Let's really talk about "The Wiggle"
If you recall, we just mentioned it in the San and Escif post but let’s really talk about San Francisco’s bike route from Market St. to Golden Gate Park. Better yet, let’s go to The Wiggle’s Wikipedia page:
The Wiggle is a one-mile, zig-zagging bicycle route from Market Street to Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, California, that minimizes hilly inclines for bicycle...
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San and Escif Mural in San Francisco
San and Escif managed to paint this new mural near FIFTY24SF gallery at Oak and Scott on “The Wiggle” despite the wind and very drunk Pride goers. Their show opens Thursday.
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Weird Al's 'Another Tattoo'
We didn’t know Weird Al was still making music but here he is with “Another Tattoo”, going strong. It’s kinda cute and we know how much you guys like tattoo posts.
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Morning Ritual: The Wake-Up
The beginning of the vacation season…
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Senior Tory at Glastonbury dies in what is being...
A close ally of Prime Minister David Cameron, Christopher Shale, died at Glastonbury in what is being called a “suicide situation.” According to NME, “Shale, who was chairman of West Oxfordshire Conservative Association, the constituency of Prime Minister David Cameron, was found dead in a portable toilet in the VIP backstage area of Glastonbury at around 9am (BST).” We...
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The perfect dipping cookie: The Dipit
This is genius. You know that crappy scenario where you try to dip your cookie and you get your dirty hands in your milk? This is where Berta Riera Pomés (produced by Papila) comes in with the Dipit, all for a clean experience.
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Madlib Mondays: Quasimoto "Come on Feet"
One of the great productions in the Madlib catalog comes from his alter-ego, Quasimoto, and the track “Come On Feet.” We have said time and time again that The Unseen is one of the great albums of all-time, and this is one of the great tracks from the period. Enjoy.
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The Hottest 100 Yards
We stopped by a really cool exhibition in New York City, “The Hottest 100 Yards,” that was done in conjunction with the new T. Adler Book, “Eighties at Echo Beach: The Photography of Mike Moir.” There was a book launch event and exhibition at Partners & Spade this past month, and we stopped by the Andy Spade spot to check out the work. Great surf touches everywhere,...
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Sunday Shuffle: Wavves "Baseball Cards"
We felt like we wanted some nostalgia this morning, and even though its a newish song from a newish artist in Wavves, the kid knows how to get a good old vibe going. Enjoy summer people.
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Have you ever had a dream like this?
We always like receiving random videos with messages like this one: “I always dreamed of being a public speaker, thanks to acid I now have the courage to do anything.”
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Augustus Thompson, Suzannah Sinclair and Annie...
San Francisco artist, Augustus Thompson (who recently exhibited at FIFTY24SF), NYC based artist, Suzannah Sinclair, and Oakland based artist, Annie Vought are opening at New Image Art Gallery tonight in L.A.
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Karate Lettuce Chopper Knife
For real life Fruit, er, Vegetable Ninja, chop your lettuce with this Karate Lettuce Chopper Knife.
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When Herzog Rescued Phoenix
A cutesy and imaginative animation reenacting the bizarre story of when Werner Herzog rescued Joaquin Phoenix from a car crash.
Animated by Sascha Ciezata, using audio from an interview by Herzog himself.
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Radiohead play Glastonbury 2011. Sadly we weren't...
We were even invited to Glastonbury 2011 by Mr. Donwood. And then, of course, Radiohead played a “surprise” gig at the great English festival.
They played:
‘Lotus Flower’
‘15 Step’
‘Morning Mr. Magpie’
‘Little By Little’
‘All I Need’
‘Separator’
‘Give Up The Ghost’
‘Arpeggi’...
