I can’t imagine doing all those frames of animation. On the street, dood. Pretty badass. The sounds added in post add a lot too.

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This artwork by Takashi Murakami just sold for $15 million. It is difficult for me to really comment on what that says about the commercial art world. On one hand I think “that’s fucked up” and on the other I think “who really gives a shit?” Art is just art and the people that swirl around it that don’t make art themselves are … some adjective I can’t think of. Let’s just go with ‘odd.’ Not that artists aren’t odd but at least artists are productively odd. Art buyers are odd I think because they don’t actually know what the hell they’re doing or sometimes why an art work is even compelling.

This piece immediately spoke to me about that particular subculture of sex and animation that is unique to Japan. Maybe that is also what the buyer thought … I don’t know.

Here’s an interesting quote from Takashi himself:

“When I consider what Japanese culture is like, the answer is that it all is subculture. Therefore, art is unnecessary.” – Takashi Murakami

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(the comments are pretty good)

Nintendo Set, originally uploaded by blueblythemonster.

This is so cool!!

actually blueblythemonster has a lot of cool stuff like this phone:

and this boombox:

haha checkout 1:50 — the bit with the bear

gracias, mudpuddles!

I just ran into too many Animal videos not to post. I love that guy.

Here is his essence:

Here’s interview with Kermit (haha he kisses his drums):

He was the drummer for Dr. Teeth. Here they are rockin out Chopin’s Polonaise In A Flat

And this is not actually a Jim Henson production, but soooo funny (Animal covering a swooning Elvis tune):

Dr. Teeth doing Money Song (no animal in this one):

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“Will You Be Mine” (mp3)
from “So 80′s”
(Somekind Records)

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creeeeeeeeeeepy

Could this become a meme?  We will see…

Call me old-timey but I think I still prefer lolcats and heroin in my advil and … muskets. Rick-rolling was a good break though.

via | craplinks

from Todd Haynes’ Velvet Goldmine (1998)

via | twitter tracker ‘david cross’

This guy dave on livejournal drew the teen version of himself and then a bunch of other people decided to submit drawings of themselves as teens (and some drew a comparison with themselves now). I guess that makes it a meme. Woo! Teen meme stampede!

There are sooooooo many. Here are some of my faves (click through to the original posts if some of the writing is too small to read here):

http://arambulo.livejournal.com/65346.html

http://georgeslymaniv.livejournal.com/119348.html

“lol so randumb” haha
http://seph-hunter.livejournal.com/4820.html

this one is brilliant, no?
http://monstro-draw.livejournal.com/8330.html

ah i miss contentedly oblivious, Yuko
http://dhio.livejournal.com/172525.html

Anyway yeah. Check them all out here >>

via | LiveJournal

robot love – take two by ~m-U-n-s-t-e-r on deviantART

so awesome that the robot has a word bubble but his words are a graphic

via | DeviantArt

Edouard Boubat
Jardin de Luxembourg, premiere neige, Paris
1956
Collection de la Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, Paris

I love the transition of textures from the trees to the people to the chairs and that one random person on the bottom left who’s totally missing it.

via | Moscow House of Photography

Andreas Gursky, Chicago Board of Trade (1999)

From WikiPedia:

Visually, Gursky is drawn to large, anonymous, urban spaces—high-rise facades at night, office lobbies, stock exchanges, the interiors of big box retailers. (See his 1999 print 99 Cent ) in a 2001 retrospective, New York’s Museum of Modern Art called the artist’s work, “a sophisticated art of unembellished observation…It is thanks to the artfulness of Gursky’s fictions that we recognize his world as our own.”^[3] Gursky’s style is enigmatic and deadpan. There is little to no explanation or manipulation on the works. His photography is straightforward. ^[4]

More Gursky like the one below, “99 Cent,” at this Moma exhibit “brochure” >>

sleepless., originally uploaded by ¡ no !.

love me tomorrow, originally uploaded by alice in awkwardland.

Volcano, originally uploaded by Mr. Chompins.

from Mr. Chompkins:

The peaceful mountain instinctually regressed to a more primitive state when it literally blew its top. Oh, and that’s lava, not blood. (Illustration Friday, theme: primitive)

I love that the moon has flaming lava on it. and there’s a bird peeking through from behind the canvas!

Monstruo Infante, originally uploaded by Rey Misterio (Juan Molinet).

Learn about the origins of beer, wine, champage, vodka, rum and more at Neatorama!

Seriously, I’ve been watching documentaries on whiskey and tequila and stuff on the History channel and Discovery and it makes you think about how much work it takes to get it into that bottle so you can pour it down your face. I guess I mean it just makes you appreciate it that much more.

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