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Via the wondrous NOTCOT, comes the coolest of the bunch of wall decals: Pop Cling. Coming in limited editions from different artists, each piece is an adhesive art sticker, suitable for snazzying up the walls of your abode. Or your windows! Or your refrigerator. (I think the fridge is an oft-overlooked piece of real estate for placement of art. For the record.)
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I've been wondering for days how to do this. (Yes, I have been wondering for days exactly how I can build my own phonograph. With a hand-crank.) And, never fail, those crazy Japanese have gone and fulfilled my whimsical needs-- this DIY Phonograph kit allows you to etch sound into a plastic cup.
(Bonus! Check out Make's bluetooth bananaphone.)
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Go Ape has just launched a new site design with a fistful more shirts. Go. Look.
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The opening lines to the song “Two Sides� by
Controlling the Famous pretty much sums up my current
mind state: “I need food to eat, A girl where I sleep/
money in my pocket so I don’t have to dream.� The mind
reading doesn’t stop there either. The entire album
entitled Automatic City is an extensive study in big
city living in general and Life in Los Angeles
specifically. Once again The Militia Group, whose
roster includes great bands like Tahiti 80, The
Appleseed Cast, The Jealous Sound, The Rocket Summer
and a host of others has done it again. controllingthefamous.com
Controlling the Famous - Two Sides
Controlling the Famous - Detox
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Remember those little play-doh kits, that came with those little contraptions, and you would put play-doh in one end, and push the little handle down, and then spaghetti-shaped play-doh came out the other end?
Yes, I can see you know exactly what I mean.
Well, some enterprising lad undertook the business of making similar contraptions for ice cream. That picture to your left, there? That, my friends, is not spaghetti, no! Oho! It is very sneaky ice cream, posing as spaghetti. Go, see for yourself. (The website is awful, but the idea is fantastic.)
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The fantabulous Oddica has launched their online magazine, featuring work from their artists and a handful of their friends. It's basically one big PDF of eye candy, and you can download it from their site, here.
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xkcd: and it's getting better all the time. (God, I love this comic.)
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Damien Rice's new album 9 will drop on November 6th, and the new single 9 Crimes has begun circulating the interweb. For those who need reminding, Damien Rice is that handsome Irish chap with the terribly sexy voice, often seen crooning alongside the equally magical Lisa Hannigan. (You've probably heard a song or two of his before.)
Here's the new single, as well as a live version of the as-of-yet unreleased Blower's Daughter Part 2. (Get more Mr. Rice on The Hype Machine.)
Damien Rice - 9 Crimes
Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter Pt. 2
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Gallery 1988 is having a week-long show on the theme of Alice In Wonderland's Cheshire Cat. Featuring work by Tokidoki, Anna Chambers, Brandi Milne, Brandt Peters, Kathie Olicas and several fistfuls more, the show opens October 7th. Looks like fun stuff.
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Audrey Kawasaki has some coverage up from Thinkspace's Picks of the Harvest: Batch Three show. Go take a gander, there are links to some great artists in there.
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WayMarkr is for those obsessed with self-documentation. Install the software on your camera-phone, strap it on your body and go-- your phone will continuously take photos as you move about the world, sending them to a website for viewing. I'd like to see this used for strange guerilla documentaries: a day in the life of ______.
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"As long as there is oil in the Middle East we will never have peace." -Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
That astute phrase alone is one of the many things that stuck with me in reading through both books of Persepolis, the graphic novels by Marjane Satrapi. Written in a way that is imaginative and funny, Satrapi paints her memoir of growing up in Iran with a normalcy that could only be seen by its cultural natives. No matter that there are constant threats of arrest for non-conformists, that bombings are happening in the streets, that the list of martyrs dying for their country is growing by the day: Satrapi takes it all in stride, and writes from the perspective of a well-adjusted girl. Sure, there's chaos-- but there are also boys, parties, and punk music.
Anyone who wants a better grasp on the internal climate of the Middle East-- in witty, spitfire comic book form-- should definitely check out these books. And soon, because apparently Sony has picked up the rights to turn the novels into a film-- they've posted stills up on their site. (There's also a good interview up with Marjane over at Salon.)
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