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This artist, Ben Wilson, paints great “miniature pictures on pieces of discarded chewing gum.”
“The Earliest War Photography From Afghanistan” taken during the late 1800s.
These pop-up books are totally nutso. Peep at them!
The internet has so much good stuff.
...moreThis is fun. Is life about having fun? Spot the fake smile.
This website of — I guess — design-inspiration makes for a fun scroll through. An Ambitious Project Collapsing.
Isaac Fitzgerald, of The Rumpus, sent me this tumblr of Hungover Owls.
...moreSome people wait a lifetime to find a website full of cool-looking old cassettes. (via John Gall)
This tumblr collects “funny tombstones from around the world.” (via Jason Arias)
To commemorate the Giants winning the World Series, McSweeney’s is selling a cool limited-edition poster of Giants-related Dave Eggers drawings.
...moreWilliam T. Vollmann’s invoice to Penguin for “four street prostitutes’ modeling time,” from Penguin 75: Designers, Authors, Commentary (the Good, the Bad…).
Larger version here.
...moreHello, today is my final day filling in for Dan. That Dan Weiss of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come at him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve.
Oh hey, here’s the crazy map of botched police raids you asked me for.
A lot of dumb people rank the most dangerous cities in the United States. #383: Gotham City. “With the Joker and Penguin this city is full of criminals”
The great book jacket designer Peter Mendelsund found out that he can successfully apply the cover he made for the book Sayonara, Mr Fatty!
...moreThe Geocities-izer allows us to “make any webpage look like it was made by a 13 year-old in 1996.”
Dan, please come back soon.
I didn’t read this, but a skim reveals that it’s about wooly mammoth hemo-goblins, whatever those are. (via Angela Petrella)
Look at these horses, so tiny and unride-able.
A bunch of pigs take on a deer.
...moreThis might make you cry.
A brief illustrated history of voting. (via brainpicker)
Gather round this internet link to see some of the world’s ugliest statues.
Let’s all quit Facebook (or can I atleast get a poke? Hi-yo!)
...moreTo ring in my final week filling in for Dan Weiss, today is Three-Portfolios-One-Blog-of-Accidental-Dongs Day.
Kelly Blair designs book covers for Melville House Publishing.
Lala Albert draws a lot of evil stuff.
Kevin Van Aelst makes stuff look like other stuff.
...moreDoes the iPad have an app that can simulate this walking bookshelf?
Thing I have never wanted to see: Charles Burns’ Black Hole in real life.
Starlee Kine wants you to cry.
People in infomercials can’t do anything right.
...moreThis guy died doing what he loved. Oh, sorry, that was a typo. I meant to say this guy is dead and his dead body is on display riding a motorcyle.
Boingboing brings us a “gallery of real and imaginary pest killer packaging.”
Look at this whole thing, why don’t you.
...moreNew robot. Or maybe we’re the robots, man. Maybe we’re the robots.
Apollo 11 launch in slow motion.
The Best Show on WFMU gives us Rambocky.
...moreTo celebrate my second week filling in for Dan Weiss, I present this tote bag.
There are drawings in here of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as a jazz combo.
We should leave aliens alone because they are probably “nomads, looking to conquer and colonise whatever planets they can reach,” says Stephen Hawking.
...moreBanksy visited Valencia Street in San Francisco. (You can read the Rumpus conversation with Banksy here.)
Our new hundred dollars bills are so ugly.
Someone out there could probably make them look nice though.
Pictures of people who have sit with Marina Abramovic during her performance at MoMA, The Artist is Present.
...moreI don’t even drink coffee. This is Walter Green still, filling in for Dan Weiss.
“Connecticut mayor donates kidney to Facebook friend.” And I can’t even get poked! Hi-yo!
I would like to get married to this wedding invitation from over two years ago.
...morePulitzer Prize winner Paul Muldoon clears a few things up about Ke$ha.
There are pictures here of: Salvador Dali jumping, Audrey Hepburn jumping, a dressed-up monkey jumping.
The canine as a canvas. Yikes.
Maybe you’ve seen it, but this dude redesigned some Jules Verne books and oh boy are they nice.
...moreApple employee inadvertently reveals the next generation iPhone by losing a prototype in a bar. Also, in future news, did you hear that the guy who lost the new iPhone in a bar was fired and then killed?
Dan Weiss recommends pictures of bikes in Scandinavia.
...moreI’m Walter. I’m going to be doing this while Dan Weiss is on vacation.
But also, Dan Weiss told me to tell you to “look at this dang ol’ ant.”
Last words. “You all brought me here to be executed, not to make a speech. That’s it.”
Designers sure do love to pay “homage.”
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Jason Anderson is a prolific singer/songwriter from New England who has now settled in Brooklyn. He runs around, wild-eyed, singing at the top of his lungs about not giving up, and life’s best moments, and being in love.