Taking pictures is like tiptoeing into the kitchen late at night and stealing Oreo cookies.Diane Arbus (via Hey, Hot Shot!)
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Stamps of Disapproval by Heather K. Phillips
Gone are the days of tearing work from the wall. These days, disapproval often takes the form of ambiguous encouragements. Put the language of critique in your hands with this series of 12 rubber stamps. Each stamp bears of fragment of abridged feedback associated with critique.
(via @robgiampietro)
Get up you lazy bum
(update: the artist is Cary Leibowitz a.k.a. Candyass, thanks Kricket!)
(via murketing)
The Social Network movie.
The 17-year-old king of Tibet spent a week with a family in the West Village during a visit for the premiere of a documentary he directed.
“The hardest thing about being king,” Trichen added, “is that I can’t do whatever I wish, like you guys. You all have lots of — ”
Trichen couldn’t think of the word. But a teenager from the audience provided it: “freedom.”
A team-by-team analysis of the World Cup for people who have no idea who any of the teams in the World Cup are.
Meaning me. Here’s Japan, for example:
Japan is not very good at soccer, but it has the world’s highest average life expectancy.
Written (brilliantly) by Jeff Blum for n+1 (whose new website has a beautiful design, and great use of typography thanks to TypeKit)
Noted without comment: The Art Museum Toilet Museum of Art (via @philaek)
As Seen on TV - a tribute to doing it wrong:
Whenever a TV product commercial plays I bust a gut during the parts where they show us what we’re doing wrong and why we need the product.
This is my tribute to the hilarious work the actors in these infomercials do.
(via marco)
The Canine as Canvas, a slideshow of dog grooming insanity:
Angela Kumpe, who has become the groomer-to-beat at contests like this, spent more than six months turning a poodle into a buffalo, but changed her mind after her mother, Linda Smead, died Feb. 24. A week ago she began grooming Missy, a friend’s poodle. The design, which she called a ”grieving angel for my mom”, included a reclining woman and delicately shaped flowers. Kumpe took home first place.