Draw something on the screen, submit your drawing and receive a random drawing from someone else. Your drawing can be as simple or as detailed as you like.

http://www.sketchswap.com/

THIS IS AN OPEN EDITION OF 366 4X6 PRINTS (2008 IS A LEAP YEAR). I will mail you the prints intermittently depending on how I feel. I may mail you one at a time as a post-card. I may mail you a whole weeks worth in one envelope. By the beginning of 2009 you will have 366 skies. Each print will be stamped with the date on the back. A list of locations with their correlating dates will be printed at the end of the year. I want you to keep them in a pile so that they become a slowly growing sculpture, which I think would look nice. If you are interested in purchasing this, send an email at hikarusaru (at) gmail (dot) com. This will be available for the entirety of 2008. If you purchase this after the first of the year, all the back photographs will be sent in one package.

This is my design for the Threadless Loves Democracy Challenge. The teacup on the left is full of votes for cupcakes, while the teacup on the right only has one vote. Everyone wins when cupcakes win!

Remember when your heart sank just a little when you realized the Pink Panther movie wasn’t a cartoon?

Then, only a few years later, seeing Edward Gorey’s eerily fantastic opening to “Mystery!” capped with Vincent Price’s name on a headstone had your head spinning at the thought of the kind of stories those etchings could tell…if only the show was based on those illustrations.

Well, we want to see more of that. So watch and remember and create. And if you’ve got something to contribute, send it along.

Oh, and would someone please start a petition to get “A Thousand Clowns” on dvd?

Thanks.

http://www.buenothebear.com/

Eleven months later, two days before I was to be married, I was fired. And, although I list the reason I was fired as “general incompetence,” I believe what was actually said to me was “I’m sorry, we can’t help you anymore.” This was a very painful experience for me.

hey fellow bloggers

i thought our blogging expressions could extend beyond this wordpress, and so today, i created a muxtape account for all to share. Muxtape is a great way of sharing music between friends and probably a good time-killer at work too, so start uploading to our dreams music list and maybe someday we could go on to produce our very own label. Or not.

http://dreams.muxtape.com/

username: dreams
password: dreams

Let the muxic begin.

p.s.: i added the link onto the right side of the blog, under ‘links’.
p.p.s: ok i just realised theres a limit of 12 songs -_- …oh well we’ll make another album if this gets filled up fast.

http://www.booooooom.com/2008/08/13/satirical-maps/#more-916

Finally, the Olympics come. And the girl with straighter teeth and longer hair is given a nice red dress. She wonders why no dress has been made for her. But the flashing lights and gymnastics push those thoughts away. It is an honor to be chosen, she remembers. So she sings an ode to her motherland, with all that is within her. And even she knows she has done well. But after the show no body wants her picture. Everyone takes pictures of the other girl. It is the other girl on the newspaper, it is the other girl’s name on the program. But she is content, knowing she was heard, even if she wasn’t seen.Self-doubt will come later. It will come at 13 and unsure. At 14 and curious. At 15 and aware. At 16 and insecure. She will ask the questions later. For now, she will watch Lin Miaoke take the glory, and be content knowing that she was heard, even if not seen.

Unrestricted Warfare (超限战, literally “warfare beyond bounds”) is a book on military strategy written in 1999 by two colonels in the People’s Liberation Army, Qiao Liang (乔良) and Wang Xiangsui. Its primary concern is how a nation such as China can defeat a technologically superior opponent (such as the United States) through a variety of means. Rather than focusing on direct military confrontation, this book instead examines a variety of other means. Such means include using International Law (see Lawfare) and a variety of economic means to place one’s opponent in a bad position and circumvent the need for direct military action.^[1]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrestricted_Warfare_(book)

 http://books.google.com/books?id=ejFV1568hqAC&dq=unrestricted+warfare&pg=PP1&ots=GDel8BsLUs&sig=NR6WQkvCtX2UdLMmMb-Bsp-owEc&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result#PPR8,M1

Lin Miaoke,right, was chosen to mime Ode to the Motherland
because she was prettier than Yang Peiyi.

THE International Olympic Committee has defended the Chinese over the great singing switch at the Opening Ceremony when nine-year-old Lin Miaoke, with her swinging pigtails and a red dress, lip-synched Ode to the Motherland. While Lin mimed the song, another less attractive girl, Yang Peiyi, 7, actually did the singing. It was a case of one face, different voice - something the Beijing Games organisers seem completely at ease with.

Asked yesterday how he would feel as a father having to explain to his daughter that she was not pretty enough to sing in front of the world, IOC Olympic Games executive director Gilbert Felli looked uncomfortable but likened the decision to the tough choices sports coaches must make when selecting the final team for an important match.

read more…

Nelson: It’s interesting how this one gesture reflects deeply the state of China: they rather lie to you than show you something bad. Which makes one wonder if everything else is just a facade, a show put on to impress others. No, i am not against China, and more than anything else, i believe in Chinese people and want to see them grow, but I believe in honesty and if they cannot embrace flaws that come with the truth, then all the progress they have and will make would be meaningless.

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2008/06/07/passive-aggressive-anger-release-machine/

“I got into phone sex because I thought: ‘Why not get paid for talking dirty, instead of doing it for free?’ It brings up my self-esteem so much, knowing guys are looking at my pics and wanting to talk with me. Wanting me to take them to a whole other place, filling their fantasies… painting that picture in their mind for them.”

http://www.themorningnews.org/archives/galleries/phone_sex_operators/

http://www.vincentchow.net/1615/how-beijing-olympic-got-its-logo

CALL FOR 1-MINUTE FILM SUBMISSIONS

Seeking filmmakers who adore seconds, flourish in miniature, and consider a standard minute to be an infinite amount of space.

In our 1st annual 1-Minute Film Festival, Lumen Eclipse seeks all varieties of 60 second films with the democratic proviso: none shall exceed one minute! If big films are the cathedrals of today, we’re looking for your take on what a tiny and beautiful shrine might look like.

This opportunity is unique because the only roof over our arts venue is Cassiopeia’s far off W. This is an outdoor event and your 1-Minute films will screen in an open-air modern day acropolis that would make Sophocles stamp his foot in envy.

The film festival will be an outdoor event at the newly constructed Palmer Street in Harvard Square (Cambridge, MA).

http://www.le60.org/

…Free Culture’s message is different, Lessig writes, because it is “about the consequence of the Internet to a part of our tradition that is much more fundamental, and, as hard as this is for a geek-wanna-be to admit, much more important.” (pg. xiv)

Professor Lessig analyzes the tension that exists between the concepts of piracy and property in the intellectual property realm in the context of what he calls the present “depressingly compromised process of making law” that has been captured in most nations by multinational corporations that are interested in the accumulation of capital and not the free exchange of ideas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.

http://wordle.net/

http://sheriff.at/

The first issue explores the value of an idea. 10 Euros were sent to outstanding artists, designers and photographers, inviting them to create an idea worth the budget enclosed.

Participating Artists: Elisabeth Arkhipoff, Bewegung KOCMOC/Gruppe Gagarin, Frederique Daubal, Delaware, Gelitin, Gayatri Ghosh, Piero Golia, H5, Karlssonwilker inc., Rob Kidney, Katerina Matsoukis, Jonathan Monk, Stephen Powers, Rinzen, Stefan Sagmeister, David Shrigley, Vier5, Vlieger & Vandam.

Participating Magazines: Parnass, Etecé, Pool, Quart, Famous, Numero, Vorn, soDA, The Gap, Massiv, Idea, Bulgaria, Novum, n.paradoxa, Wespennest, Hot Rod, Sal, 50_easy.

Nelson: What’s cool about this is that the ‘magazine’ exists in many other different magazines, requiring you to search and discover the pages amidst other content. The magazine doesn’t exist in its own world, but lives in various environments, giving it a multi-dimensional manifestation.