This was during Body Rock 2006 in San Diego, CA. Soul Sector (now Supreme Soul on the left) vs So Cal Allstars (Phil, Kevin, Gary Kendall RIP from Jabbawockeez and Ronnie from Supercr3w – who is on the show now).
Checkout Kevin at 1:41 (Jabbawockeez) and lil Ronnie at 4:45 (Supercr3w)—kinda siccc!
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“The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief,” a documentary about Issei, the number one “host boy” in Osaka. Issei’s job is to make beautiful young women laugh and feel good and he also gets paid for his services. Sounds like the perfect job, eh?
Giovanny Gutierrez’s video of Lauren Bernat—they’re both employees of Tinsley Advertising. Gutierrez claims this is a “personal” video, but it seems a little suspect. Whatever, it’s a great clip!
This is Playboy’s attempt to jump on the Wii Fit/hot girl doing hot things bandwagon. Jo Garcia, 27, playing the boxing and snowboarding games, in a bra and pants. Garcia is Playboy’s 2008 Cyber Girl of the Year. [Via Wii Kombo]
Classic stashs from avrilloreti on Etsy. Each handkerchief has 4 prints of mustaches inspired by Salvador Dali, Tom Selleck, The Classic Handlebar, and some baseball player from the 80s!!
Jirat Patradoon, a baby of the 80s, born in Thailand, raised in Sydney, Australia loves cartoons, comic books and science fiction movies. Life goals: joining X-Men or becoming Ultraman, Dracula or Lucha Libre!
Tenmyouya Hisashi sold this Gundam painting at a Christie’s auction in Hong Kong for around US$600,000. Christie’s description of his work is a bit long winded, but I like this last paragraph…it’s so…refined:
“Graffiti has become a visual slang, aesthetically yet literally distinguishing complex street culture. In this way, Tenmyouya also encompass rebellion and yet the vandalism/violence that graffiti stands for in the norm. Tenmyouya’s paintings become the visual slang of nihonga paintings, twisted in urban flavor, displaying complex hybridity in combining references to popular culture, cyber culture and manga. Through this convergence of cultural assortment, he questions the notions of originality, implanting deeply engaging extrinsic narratives. His Japanese spirit transpires through his conscientious technical prowess fortifying his loyalty to his traditions and principles, which lies as the core breeder in his profound artistic creation.” [Via Christies.com]
I wish I saved my old TDK metal cassettes!! From the folks at Transparent House.
Chris Jordan: Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006. 60×80”
From Chris Jordan’s web site:
Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
Running the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the role of the individual in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
chris jordan, Seattle, 2007
This is so bad it’s good.
Everyone who loves Twitter hates the Fail Whale. Nao you can wear your hatred for Twitter’s Epic Failure everyday! Here’s the Fail Whale backstory from Wikipedia:
“The Fail Whale is a cartoon character designed by Yiying Lu and popularized by the Twitter social networking system, which displays it with the heading “Too Many Tweets!” when it experiences technical difficulties. The Twitter community now routinely references the Fail Whale by name despite Twitter’s error page not naming the Fail Whale (or, indeed, giving credit to its designer).
The Fail Whale graphic was created by Yiying Lu around March, 2007, with the title “Lifting a Dreamer”. Yiying posted it to iStockPhoto, from which she believes Twitter bought it for around USD$10. Twitter started serving the graphic to its users during server maintenance in December 2007 [1]. It was in regular use during general downtime from around March 2008.”
Read the whole story here or just by an effin Fail Whale t-shirt already!
