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PEZ adds some smiles in HACKNEY
Spanish Street Artist PEZ was caught in action adding his trademark ‘smiling fish’ to a wall in Hackney, London...
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Stoke Newington
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Stop motion video of the day.
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Cultural Marxism
The state of the world today is not pretty. It is timely to revisit the works of Antonio Gramsci and his fellow intellectuals on...
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Jason Hull, a photographer based in Oakland, California has repurposed his collection of old film cameras into unique nightlights. (via Cool...
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Art prints by Ashley Percival
available on etsy
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Our pal Mark Lobo had this amazing result in Photoshop when he used the “auto blend” tool by mistake. We think it’s a pretty nice lookin’...
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“The cleanliness of Apple design inspires more than a sense of guilt while snacking on something crumbly while using its products. Like an escape hatch from a world of reality television and rehabilitation center celebrities, most notable about Apple’s brand identity is what is absent—vulgarity. Even the advertisements seem refined—simple product demos on white backgrounds. To return the favor, some Apple consumers practice a kind of Western interpretation of Shintoism, valuing and caring for the products as if they were living creatures. They respect the objects — their painstaking craftsmanship, and the promise of a better, less dirty, less vapid world —by keeping them in just-unboxed condition. This is probably why so many strangers in the city found my broken iPhone offensive. Refusing to repair it in a timely manner appears to be a rejection of the tomorrowland that Jobs and Ive worked so hard deliver to us. I dropped my iPhone a second time, several months after the first blow and the crack deepened. I could no longer slide the unlock button. Now it’s repaired, and looks like the future again.”
“Artist Chris Jordan shows us an arresting view of what Western culture looks like. His supersized images picture some almost unimaginable statistics.”
TED Talk: Chris Jordan pictures some shocking stats (by TED)
