Be afraid be very afraid.

I made a donation to a political campaign today. They’re doing some sort of donation matching, where I give $25 and supposedly it inspires someone else to give $25, and then they write you an email so you can pat each other on the back. I got this in my Plastic Explosives inbox:

Like… really? This […]

Brittanie Pendleton: Anthems for a 17 Year-Old Girl

Lost at E-minor is constantly putting good stuff in my inbox when most of it is crap. And the guy from Liars has started writing for them lately, making them that much more awesome.
One of their newest featured artists is Brittanie Pendleton, a 20 year-old photographer from California whose subjects crackle with emotion […]

heysandi.com launched

Sandi’s beautiful new design portfolio is finished and online at:
HEYSANDI.com

I want to make her a cake that looks like that logo.

Google Earth as your real-life Grand Theft Auto map

I’m a big fan of the Grand Theft Auto games - over and over again, I’m surprised at all the little ways in which they mimic real life. 
For instance, your character freely walks/drives from one location to another, meets up with specific friends or business partners and then does things with them (your “missions”). Those […]

Friends With You

Vinyl toy-inspired designers Friends With You have just released a new line called “Wish Come True Wishing Toys,” and I found their animation reel from ‘07 when I visited their site.
So much of what I love about Brooklyn is right here:

Link: Friends With You

bklyn street art

Saw this near Studio B in Greenpoint/Williamsburg after the Modeselektor show.
Anybody know who it is?

(link to hi-res)

The Future of Design: the “Biology Era?”

Found a great site by way of How magazine called 24-7 Design Heaven. I haven’t gotten to look around a lot yet, but the first article that drew my attention was one about “the look of our new era,” or what’s going on in the collective unconscious that will shape the way things look in […]

Adam Stennett

I saw Adam Stennett’s stuff on a friend’s Myspace page awhile back, but I had no idea that they were oil paintings.
Anybody who does oil paintings of bikini models drinking Robitussin is okay by me.
Above: Drink, 2007
Link: The Paintings of Adam Stennett
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