Old school hip hop heads will appreciate this classy t-shirt from the folks at Manifest Worldwide. (They kinda left off the legends from the West Coast—folks like Egyptian Lover, Toddy Tee, LA Dream Team, and Too Short.)

Web and Flash designer extroidanaire Joshua Davis has is showing some of his prints at Maxalot Gallery in Barcelona.

This artwork is exclusively available through Maxalot as part of a limited edition series of 25 prints. It was created for the Joshua Davis exhibition “Dynamic Abstractions, Artmaking Machines” held at Maxalot Gallery, Barcelona, December 2005. These are the first ever artworks released for sale by Joshua Davis.

Osama bin Laden’s niece will appear in 2006 GQ. From Yahoo! News:

This photo supplied by GQ Magazine shows Wafah Dufour, the daughter of Osama bin Laden’s half brother, posed for an article of GQ’s January edition. ‘I want to be accepted here, but I feel that everybody’s judging me and rejecting me,’ says the California-born Dufour, a law graduate who lives in New York. Checkout more photos and videos or also checkout videos of Kim Kardashian.

Some funny ass shit—checkout out the Chronic-les of Narnia by the folks at SNL. I like this quote best from Slate magazine:

“If you haven’t seen Saturday Night Live’s Chronicles of Narnia rap, then you don’t have any friends. Or at least any friends with Internet access.”

The two minute SNL video, “Lazy Sunday”, features Andy Samberg (aka Sambery) and Chris Parnell (Parns) rapping about any given day in NYC (if you’re a upper middle class white guy). Anyway, if you haven’t seen it, or you want to some feel good rap to bring you back to the days pre Eminem, pre 50 Cent, pre Lil John, pre manufactured rap, checkout this funny ass Biz Markie-esque vid.

Jeremiah Ketner—A Japanese anime-influenced work by Chicago painter. Ketner’s work is heavily influenced by Japanese and Asian pop culture stuff like packaging design, magazine ads, and grafetti. He’s a graduate of Southern Illnois University and Columbus College of Art and Design. Here’s a quote from Lisa Quatman:

“Jeremiah Ketner puts sugar in his paint. I know because I ate one of his paintings, and it tasted like cake. I was instantly transported to a world full of children, bunnies, kitties, and I’ve even seen some monkeys. Sometimes an animal looks frightened, a child cries, or the wind blows the flowers away, but most of the time everyone’s happy in this place. Ice cubes fall in love and we make origami boxes. Robots play in the garden while tulips fall from the sky. Then the weather cools off, and green and orange make way for blue and grey. The squirrels start hiding things. Children bundle up in caps to play in the snow. It’s usually quiet, but its never boring here. People don’t wear underwear if they don’t want to, and we never go to work. We just frolic in the clouds, run with the bunnies, and chat with the ice cubes in the world of small and round.”

We almost bought Rex Ray’s work from Zinc Design in SF until we saw the price tag. Apparently, we’re just some broke ass parents. Or is it that a new flat screen monitor, treo, digital camera, or a Noguchi table are higher on the priority list. Someday we’ll get it all!

Steven Skov Holt, Fluid Blobs in Motion describes Ray’s work:

“The artwork of San Francisco graphic designer Rex Ray has become a prolific mediation on the abstract and dynamic nature of fluid forms. Begun at night simply as a personal and therapeutic visual antidote to his highly self-edited, computer-based commercial work during the day, his art projects (small-scale paintings and collages now numbering in the thousands) came from humble origins; scissors, paste and fashion magazines. But Ray brings an unusually tight sense of craft and precision to the compositions of these smallish, highly colorful, and always playful artworks. The result is a fusion of art and design sensibilities. Biomorphic-, teardrop-, and nature-based forms comprise the bulk of Ray’s vocabulary. Its immediate communication of the joy of movement is balanced against its momentarily arrested state; the delight of composing just for the sake of composing is immediately apparent. Ray creates forms of indeterminate origins—familiar but not identifiable—that offer the viewer a sense of spontaneous liberation. The question is not why Ray does such things, but why most other graphic designers and painters do not.

This is my fav poster for the folks at m/m in paris.

yugop gots some crazy Flash skills. Checkout his site:

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Insanely good advice from 2 rogue Flash designers.

Insane Russian climber with nothing to do climbs abandoned project-looking buildings. It goes to show how creative you can be when you have absolutely nothing to do.