Anonymous Hugging Wall

by Keetra Dean Dixon, via My Modern Metropolis

File under GEEKY

Two Photoshop-inspired picture frames!

For your desk:

available at Photojojo for $39

For your fridge:

available at ThinkGeek for $24.99

Cleverly Placed Street Art

19 more here.

Christina Maria Oswals

by Christina Maria Oswald
from Blow Up (2007)

Ink Calendar

Diaz Oscar designed this ink-and-paper calendar. A continuous paper cutout of day numbers is dipped into a month's supply of ink. The paper then absorbs the ink at a rate corresponding to the passing of days, such that the calendar darkens as the days pass.



Via Fubiz (translated from French)

Pictures

Daniel Augschöll



Hugh Kretschmer



Kristine Thompson

Photorapher unknown, at least unknown to me:

G.I. Julienne

Did you know that the pentagon has its own television channel? Moreover, did you know that they broadcast lifestyle programming, including a cooking show?

I know, right?

Now in its second season, Grill Sargeants "...is a weekly, half-hour cooking show featuring some of the military's top chefs as they guide viewers through step-by-step menu preparation, along with important nutrition and food safety tips." The program is supported by a four-piece navy band called The Tastebuds.

Here's a clip from a first-season episode called -- I kid you not -- "Saving Private Dining."

140 Characters Good Enough for God

Are you there, God? It's me, http://twitter.com/Margaret_Schwartz

According to this article in the Huffington Post, in addition to emailing and faxing them in, you can now tweet prayers to the Western Wall.

Media Goss!

I apologize for the lack of posting. I've been busy doing things like working seven days a week and recovering from minor surgery. Now on with the show!



This has already hit Gawker, so it's obviously old news by now, but still too funny to not report:

A Conde Nast insider says the underpaid assistants now "have incentives to be good assistants because there is an assistant of the month prize of $500. I'm going to be the model assistant, lol. A couple of those and mama can buy herself a chanel bag or some loubs!"

RIP -

Rumor has it Dash Snow died of a heroin overdose last night.

I dunno about you, but I'm going to bone up on him with this New York Magazine profile so that I can act like I know what is going on in the New York downtown art scene.

Jay kay!

Blogs are dumb. I quit.

Cinemashup

Mean Magazine's new digital series Cinemash features celebrity reenactments of their favorite movie scenes.  You can watch them here.  It will be updated weekly through August.  The first one features 500 Days of Summer stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Sid and Nancy.

Celebrity Flashers!!!

New anti-paparazzi device from an NYU grad student is built into a clutch purse and fires an LED light when a photographer's flash fires, thus ruining their photos.

via PDN Gear Guide

Oy, Vey.

While we're on the subject of internet series featuring old people, let us turn our attention to Old Jews Telling Jokes.

Did you hear the one about the "gentile fellow" who married the "ultra-orthodox" woman?




More here. Updated biweekly. Link courtesy of my dad.

Turn Up That Racket

Two of my favorite things in one: indie rock snobbery and diner food!

From Woodshop Films comes this delicious series of the ol' regulars at a Philadelphia diner critiquing contemporary music.

The folks at Sulimay's take on Wilco and The Dirty Projectors:




You can watch the rest here.

HIV Vaccine Updates!

As you may have read a few months ago, researchers in North America are developing an HIV vaccine. After successful animal testing, they are ready to being human testing!

Read more about it at CTV

(...who in their right mind would consent to participation in such a study?!)