Archive for July, 2008

Garden Artists

UK artists Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey are smoking some serious grass with their organic manipulation of light sensitivity, which debuted at this year’s Wimbledon. The process: black and white negatives are projected onto the grass, twelve hours per day, for over a week as the grass grows in a dark room. Different blades get different exposure and the results are mind-blowing photographs like the ones below.

Evan Melnyk: The carbonated artist

Even Melnyk admits his favorite movies are your favorite movies. The part-time carbonated drink drinker and full-time graphic designer has morphed into an extraordinary artist. Things are looking up for the now London-based awake dreamer. Have a portfolio look here.

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Titty City T-Shirts

Who doesn’t want a t-shirt of a boob wearing headphones and sunglasses? Brought to you by Hamburger Eyes and designed by Manik.  Sure to be a classic.

Short Sharp Showers

The creative folks at Partizan-Hibiki Films want us to take shorter showers. You see, showers use a lot of energy turning cold H2O into nice, hot H2O. By trimming just a few minutes off your showering time, you’ll use less water and save CO2 while getting rid of your BO(2).

 

Why Arrested Development was cancelled.

Or…another reason to love David Cross.  Click image.

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Radio a la carte…finally!

The Wall Street Journal reports a tentative deal has been reached by a majority of commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission to approve the merger of XM and Sirius.  Well it’s about time! 

Over hyped?

Went to the midnight showing and gotta say, it was pretty damn good.  Is it me or did Christian Bale always do the breathy Batman voice?  I tried not to play into all the hype but man, Heath Ledger was incredible.

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