i want to see these

entertainment

what are the people in the streets of NYC listening to on their headphones?

oh you silly Japanese

i want to visit Japan just so i can sit in front of the tv for hours days, overload on visual stimuli and dumb giggling harajuku whores and have a good, old fashioned American stroke. 

watch a slinky blow some Japanese circuit boards minds.

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enlighten yourself

read this, please: 

PARALLAX: Exploring the Architecture of Human Perception

totally interesting and more enlightening than you think...

he's at it again

so much for new year's resolutions, royal...

dis is yo brain:

dis is yo brain at an unpaid internship:

dis is yo brain on drugs:

tanks two bags and a cat...


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i laugh in the face of boredom

best waste of time game ever: sushi cat

eat everything in your path while you bounce around like a gluttonous japanese sushi enthusiast...and look suspiciously like royal in the process...all...for sweet sweet victory love! obsessed? i know...

jeebus i miss the 90's

LIKE.

summer anthem

love it? hah, thought so...

00000

you're not alone

watch dan ariely's "are we in control of our own decisions?" seminar at the TED Conference.   

The annual TED conferences, in Long Beach/Palm Springs and Edinburgh, bring together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes or less). 

On TED.com, we make the best talks and performances from TED and partners available to the world, for free. More than 900 TEDTalks are now available, with more added each week.

there are dozens more videos with a vast array of topics to watch from TED that are amazing. please check it out.

pixels by patrick jean

watch pixels by patrick jean:

coolness.

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warm & fuzzies

all you need is love kittehs.  

more specifically, maru. 

there would be no war if we all had kittens. fact. 

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i need to get horizontal

tomorrow is pay day, mmmm.

my brain is mush.

poignant i am not. though popped my collar is.

myself with a beard.

more proof of the accuracy in my spirit animal

loads of baggage

i hide behind my shoes, too.

one week.

myself in one week. myself exactly.

being with you will enlighten me.

hangover at hangout.

i will inspire you...well not really, but these will...

look at these sites. they're just too good. hours upon hours of inspiration.

ben trovato for amazing fashion photography

r-e-l-i-c for never ending visual pleasure.

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spring

arcade fire is too good (but you already knew that)

click here for an interactive look at arcade fire's neon bible.

a little dated? yes. still incredible and relevant? yes, again.

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i'm sooo doing this.

Lexington, KY man decorates his entire basement with $10 worth of Sharpies.  this is genius.

you have to see this

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the vizcacha, this week's obsession

sorry carnitas, even though you really are the cutest mini piggy i ever did see, i have moved on to my latest and greatest obsession of the animal world...the vizcacha! it lives in the mountains, is related to the chinchilla and bla bla bla, but most importantly its chubby and cute; the only real criteria i look for in a pet (ahem, royal).  

other than being terribly adorable, cuddly, and soft, the vizcacha is the obvious spirit animal of my friend, alli; cute, little, sleeps a lot, and loves sun bathing. me wants one (and misses alli now)!

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i think its time to move to paris

   Picasso & Bardot

david spriggs

repost from net attic


The work of David Spriggs lies in a space between the second and the third dimension. He is using a technique which he developed in 1999, using multiple painted layered images in space to create unique and most amazing 3D forms. He explores the representation and strategies of power, the symbolic meaning of the colors, movement, and the thresholds of form and perception. These pictures fill the room with space or stormy emotion.


i'm posting videos of david's work rather than pictures because its the only way for you to truly see how the three dimensional optical illusion works. this stuff is amazing. 


[below are some youtube videos, but click here for his vimeo site.]

20 Amazing Artist Inspired Tattoos

some of these tats are amazing.  uh oh, is this inspiration for more ink?

fuck off

i dedicate this to my mother, for being in a particularly bad mood today.

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How to be a 20-Something

EDITOR'S NOTE: ALRIGHT, SO THIS COULD BE PERCEIVED AS ME BEING OBNOXIOUSLY CHEESY AND/OR DESPERATE FOR SOME SALVATION IN THIS ERA WE CALL OUR YOUNG ADULTHOOD, BUT FORGIVE ME FOR CLINGING HELPLESSLY TO THE IDEA THAT I'M NOT ALONE IN WHAT IS SIMULTANEOUSLY A DREAM AND NIGHTMARE; OUR TWENTIES.


DEC. 13, 2010 

By RYAN O'CONNELL

Be really attractive. Your acne is gone, your face has matured without having wrinkles and everything on your body is lifted naturally. Eat bagels seven days a week, binge-drink and do drugs: you’ll still look like a babe. When you turn thirty, it’ll become a different story but that’s, like, not for a really long time.

Reestablish a relationship with your parents. You don’t live with them anymore (hopefully) so start to appreciate them as human beings with thoughts, flaws and feelings rather than soulless life ruiners who won’t let you borrow their car.

Go from eating delicious food at your parents’ house to eating Ragu tomato sauce over Barilla noodles. Develop an eating disorder to save money.

Move into an apartment on the corner of Overpriced and Dangerous. Sleep on a bare mattress with an Ikea comforter. Your mother talks to you about buying a top sheet and a duvet cover but feel like you’re not mature enough to own something called “duvet.”

Read the New York Times piece, “What Is It About 20-Somethings?” Feel exposed and humiliated. Share it on your Facebook with the caption: “Um….” Your friends will comment “Too real” and that will be the end of that.

Work at a coffee shop but feel hopeful about your career in advertising, writing, whatever. Remember that you’re young and that the world is your oyster. Everything is possible, you still have so much to see and hear. You went to a good school and did good things. Figure if you’re not going to be successful, who the hell is?

Date people who you know you'll never be able to love. See someone for three months for no other reason than because it’s winter and you want to keep warm by holding another body. Date a Republican just so you can say you dated a Republican.

Eventually all these nobodies will make you crave a somebody. Have a real relationship with someone. Go on vacations together, exchange house keys, cry in their arms after a demoralizing day at work. Think about marrying them and maybe even get engaged. Regardless of the outcome, feel proud of yourself for being able to love someone in a healthy way.

Start your twenties with a lot of friends and leave with a few good ones. What happened? People faded away into their careers and relationships. Fights were had and never resolved. Shit happens.

Think of yourself at twenty and hanging out with people who didn’t mean a thing to you. Think about writing papers, about being promiscuous, about trying new things. Think of yourself now and your face looking different and your body feeling different and how everything is just different.

Form the habits that will stick with you forever. Drink your coffee with two sugars and skim milk every morning. Buy a magazine every Friday. Enjoy spending money on candles, smoke pot on Saturdays, watch the television before bed.

Move into a bigger apartment on the corner of Mature and Gentrification and finally buy a duvet cover. Limit your drug-use. If you find yourself unable to do so, start to wonder if you have a problem.

Have your parents come to your place for Christmas. Set the table, make the ham, wear a sophisticated outfit, This will all mean so much at the time.

Think about having children when you stop acting like a child. This may not ever happen.

Maybe this is assuming too much. Maybe this is generalizing. Maybe society uses age as an unrealistic marker for growth. Maybe. Still feel the anxiety on your 30^th birthday and think to yourself, “Oh shit, I’m no longer a 20-something.” 

truth.

i dedicate this to my countless friends who are trying to figure their lives out (so pretty much all of you)...  see more silliness at theoatmeal.com...(and, of course, as always, fuck the man)...

book.

For thirty-six weeks, a sketchbook was sent in random order between four artists; two in Brooklyn and two in Belfast.  Every Wednesday, one participant would receive book.  The following Monday it was sent out, giving each artist five days to complete a spread in response to the one that proceeded it.


A small portion of each entry extends on to the following page.  Beyond this, there was no communication between the artists concerning the content of book during its making.

see book here

awesomeness

watch symmetry, a video made by nyc film group everynone:

catch more of their stuff at vimeo or just click on their name above to go directly to their site.

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is it so wrong to love vandalism?

i appreciate graffiti; to me, it resonates as art not vandalism. sooo, pass the spray paint?

here's a little diddy that made me chuckle, and although it didn't make my cheap, burned cup of office coffee taste any better, it felt nice to smile this early.  ahh, positivity.

mmmm, bacon...bacon and positivity.  special.

clearly i'm embarrassingly immature. but still, it's pretty funny, no?

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more kitteh stuff. don't judge me.

GOMA! i love you long time, but now i shares yous.

check out the most epic of kitty blogs, chronicling the life of GOMA(meaning little sesame seed in Japanese...awww), ze cutest himalayan kitteh ever...no really, EVER!

MY CAT GOMA 

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