Know your enemy...

An artist by the name of Pale Horse, recently put this on his blog:Just completed a new piece for“Brand New Day” art exhibit for the Tampa Museum of Art. This illustration is being printed at 36in. x 48in. on canvas and framed for the show. I’m stoked on how perfectly the 5 top oil companies match the Voltron concept down to the colors of the original “Lion Bots”. Coincidence… you be the judge.

Yowzers!

In case if you missed it, and I did, because I don't ACTUALLY watch the View, here is an amazingly aggressive Barbara Walters and her gang questioning Presidential Candidate John McCain. These ladies have some serious gumption.

Click here for Part 2 and Part 3...it's just as interesting.

I'm a nerd. I know.

So as you know, I have been putting up some posts about the new LHC Experiment in Europe. Most of you have no idea what it does, and honestly, neither did I, but I found this and it does an amazing job of explaining it. Watch and learn!

Don't hate. Appreciate.

His ego aside, Kanye West is a true artist in every sense of the word. Everything - from his tour (which was amazing!), to his blog, to his album art, to his songs - is a creative masterpiece. Moreover, his taste in other art and artists is also very respectable; as seen by his blog and his collaboration with artists such as Murakami. And he makes it look so easy and flawless. His latest track from his yet-to-be-released album, "Love Lockdown", which he performed at the VMAs [below], is a departure from super-up-beat, over produced tracks. Kanye also has posted the studio recorded version of the song for free download. CLICK HERE AND GET IT! It's pretty amazing!

DJ Hand

A Dutch hand puppet artist named Lejo creates a unique type of puppet show using his bare hands and a pair of wooden eyes. For more information and videos, you can go to his website. Here is a clip of one of his works:

The First Ever E-Ink Magazine Cover!

Esquire's 75 Anniversary October 2008 issue:

Meet Damien Hirst!

The richest artist alive, Damien Hirst made news in America when he made the diamond encrusted skull called For The Love of God (2007).
The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living (1991):
Virgin Mother (2006)
Here is short biography of the artist taken from Wikipedia:

Damien Hirst (born June 7, 1965) is an English artist and the most prominent of the group that has been dubbed "Young British Artists" (or YBAs). Hirst dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s and is internationally renowned. During the 1990s his career was closely linked with the collector Charles Saatchi, but increasing frictions came to a head in 2003 and the relationship ended.

Death is a central theme in Hirst's works. He became famous for a series in which dead animals (including a shark, a sheep and a cow) are preserved—sometimes having been dissected—in formaldehyde. His most iconic work is The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, a 14-foot (4.3 m) tiger shark immersed in formaldehyde in a vitrine. Its sale in 2004 made him the world's second most expensive living artist after Jasper Johns. In June 2007, Hirst overtook Johns when his Lullaby Spring sold for £9.65 million at Sotheby's in London. On 30 August 2007, Hirst outdid his previous sale of Lullaby Spring with For The Love of God which sold for £50 million to an unknown investment group. He is also known for "spin paintings," made on a spinning circular surface, and "spot paintings," which are rows of randomly-coloured circles.

Iran So Far

Andy Samberg and Adam Levine (Maroon 5) serenade Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

(Props to Adeel-The-Deal-O'Rama for showing me this.)

Bridge to Somewhere

Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion, a pavilion by Zaha Hadid Architects at Zaragoza Expo 2008 that doubles as a pedestrian bridge across the river Ebro in Zaragoza, Spain.

Good job team!

This is being reported on radio and news websites today:

A Pakistani powerlifter has been banned for two years after failing a doping test, the first athlete to test positive during the Beijing Paralympics.

Naveed Ahmed Butt tested positive for the steroid methandienone metabolites, the International Paralympic Committee said in a statement Tuesday.

The urine sample was taken Sept. 4, two days before the opening ceremony.

"In accordance with the IPC anti-doping code, and after a hearing of the IPC anti-doping committee, the IPC ratified the decision to disqualify Butt from the Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games," the statement said, adding that a two-year ban had been imposed.

Candy Man Zardari?

Wow! This was just reported in Pakistan's Daily Times:

On the behest of President-elect Asif Ali Zardari, Population Welfare Minister Neelam Jabbar distributed sweets to prisoners at Camp Jail, Lahore. The minister said, “The president-elect is aware of the inmates’ hardships and wishes to share in them through sweets as a token of goodwill.”

Poor Criminals... 

Are you ready for the end?!!

As mentioned last week (I think?), I mentioned the $8 science project on the Swiss-French border that "some" say might lead to the end of the world. Well, guess what?!

In 5 hours, they are going to turn it on!!! (3Am, Eastern Time)

But relax! Nothing is going to happen immediately. Here is why: (An excerpt from The NY Times)

Failing a collision with an unforeseen asteroid or an invasion from Alpha Centauri, the world will probably not end on Wednesday, but a lot of people will be holding their breath anyway.

At roughly 3:30 a.m. Eastern time, scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, say they will try to send the first beam of protons around a 17-mile-long racetrack known as the Large Hadron Collider, 300 feet underneath the Swiss-French border outside Geneva.

The first collisions, at a non-Earth-shattering energy of 450 billion electron volts apiece, will not happen for another couple of weeks or so. And it might take a month or two to ramp up the proton energies to five trillion electron volts — as high as the machine will go before shutting down for the winter — and collide them.

I hope this flops!

I don't care if it was directed by Oliver Stone. I don't care about the all star cast.

I hope this movie flops.

Off the wall...

Designed by Lila Jang, this piece was recently part of an exhibition called "Parcours, Saint Germain des Pres".

A picture is worth a thousand wordles

The following is an excerpt from wired.com's Sarah Stirland:

It's all over: Years of planning, hours of speech-writing, millions spent on creating the venues to host thousands of Democratic and Republican convention attendees.

What remains are the words that the politicians spoke (or didn't), and the promises they made.

To re-cap those words, we thought we'd create a Wordle gallery of the most notable candidates', spouses', and supporters' speeches.

Wordle is an online application created by IBM's senior software engineer Jonathan Feinberg. Using text entered by its users, it creates visually alluring "word clouds" that show you the frequency at which words occur within that text. The more often a word occurs, the bigger it appears in the cloud.

John McCain

Sarah Palin
Barack Obama
Joe Biden