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Arts, Funny, Hmmn Interesting, Urban Art Banksy, CCTV, Funny Story, Graffiti, Oxford Circus, Street Art
Despite being watched by CCTV You’re being watched: Despite being observed by CCTV cameras, elusive graffiti artist Banksy managed to create his latest – and biggest – work to date under the cover of darkness Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest […]
Advertising, Design, Fashion, Hmmn Interesting IKEA, Interior Design
From Pink Tentacle: Swedish furniture giant IKEA has converted the Kobe Portliner Monorail into a moving showroom before the April 14 opening of a new retail outlet at Port Island. The redecorated train, which features a colorful exterior, bright upholstery and fancy curtains, will carry passengers in style until May […]
From the BBC: Residents living in a graffiti-plagued village on Merseyside are being asked to consider changing its name to tackle vandals who alter signs in the village. Lunt, which dates back to Medieval times, has been repeatedly targeted by vandals who change the "L" to a "C". However, the […]
Advertising, Design, Funny, Hmmn Interesting
From AdFreak: People in Chicago must be starving after the long, cold winter there, as they have ravaged this bus-shelter ad from ampm convenience stores to retrieve the snacks inside. Ogilvy put the ad up with the idea of slowly taking the snacks away over a four-week period, to reveal […]
Creative, Tech Google, Radiohead, Video
Radiohead launched their new video on Google today. In Radiohead’s new video for “House of Cards”, no cameras or lights were used. Instead, 3D plotting technologies collected information about the shapes and relative distances of objects. The video was created entirely with visualizations of that data. Very cool indeed.
Events, History, Politics, Vintage Assassinations, Commemoration, Events, History, Love, Martin Luther King Jr., Memphis, MLK, Politics
Crowds have gathered in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee, to mark 40 years since the assassination of legendary civil rights leader Martin Luther King. The commemorations focus on the former Lorraine Motel, now a civil rights museum, where he was shot dead aged 39. Presidential hopefuls John McCain and […]
Funny, History, Hmmn Interesting, Politics, San Francisco Bay Area Funny Story, G W Bush, Jokes, Politics
Not George Bush, San Francisco is proposing naming a sewage plant after him! “Looking to honor the forty-third President of the United States of America, George W. Bush, the recently formed Presidential Memorial Commission of San Francisco is looking to change the name of the Oceanside Wastewater Treatment Facility. It […]
Entertainment, Film, History, Hmmn Interesting, Words etc 1969, Animated Short, Film, John Lennon
I met the Walrus. An animated short. In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan snuck into John Lennon’s hotel room in Toronto and convinced him to do an interview. 38 years later, Levitan, director Josh Raskin and illustrators James Braithwaite and Alex Kurina have collaborated to create an […]
Cool Games, Entertainment, Funny, Tech Cool Games, Entertainment, Funny Video, Super Pii Pii
Super Pii Pii Brothers features “amazing realistic pee fluid dynamics, over 100 different peeing environments with multiple toilet and urinal styles,” and the ability for up to two players to “compete with dueling pee streams.” Also, you get a pair of thong-style underwear to connect the Wiimote to. Kudos, ThinkGeek! […]