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photo by Steve Rhodes
photo by Jef Poskanzer
Raygun Gothic Rocketship, the latest public art project by the Black Rock Arts Foundation, is now open on Pier 14 in San Francisco and will be on display until October 7th, 2011. Here are some photos of the opening reception by Steve Rhodes and Jef Poskanzer.
The voices of Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck dubbed over a scene from Pulp Fiction.
via The Daily What
Kory Stamper, an associate Editor at Merriam-Webster, talks about the plural version of octopus.
via reddit
“Monstrous Wildlife”, an educational film about Graboids (aka Landsharks), created by Frank Robnik for his bachelor thesis at the Augsburg University of Applied Sciences.
via mental_floss
Tobias Lunchbreath explores “Maslow’s Hierarchy of Robot Needs”, part of his larger illustration about “Thoughts on Maslow’s Hierarchy”.
via Waxy
An animated overview of San Francisco’s new SFpark parking program designed to improve parking in the city by incrementally raising and lowering parking rates based on demand for parking spots.
Find parking faster. Pay more easily. Avoid tickets. SFMTA’s SFpark project is a two-year federally funded pilot of new parking management technologies and approaches. Less circling and fewer double-parked cars give us cleaner air and safer streets for bicyclists and pedestrians. With less traffic, public transit and emergency vehicles move more easily.
via SF Streets Blog
Chuck Cirino gives us a short history lesson on how marijuana became illegal in the US. The November 2nd ballot in California includes Proposition 19, which if passed would legalize various marijuana related activities in California.
Moma Propaganda just send us the latest addition to their awesome series of retro future ads for Maximidia Seminars. This new ad is for Twitter and it will be running in Brazilian newspapers on Monday.
See Previously: Fake Vintage Ads For Facebook, YouTube & Skype
A clever ad for Drench spring water featuring a man with a Rubik’s Cube head who solves himself.
via Gizmodo
Paul Stender and his Indy Boys team based out of Indianapolis equipped a school bus with a jet engine allowing it to reach a top speed of 367 mph.
via Telegraph
OBJECTIVE: Ministries has some helpful advice for kids in the event that they find an atheist in their neighborhood.
via Fenchurch
Let your friends know what you are up to the old fashioned way with the Paper Tweet notepad by Knock Knock.
via Coudal Partners
Combining motorsports and coffee, IIgar Rustamov designed Racespresso, an espresso machine inside a racing helmet.
via Yanko Design
“The Video Website”, created by Jimmy Kimmel Live intern Jeff Loveness, is a great parody video of the upcoming film “The Social Network”, where instead of the story of the founding of Facebook, it’s about how YouTube was started.
Back in February Jeff made a great video that showed would be like if Wes Anderson directed Spider-Man.
via MetaFilter
As illustrated by this Cyanide & Happiness comic, even zombies have been known to follow the 5 Second Rule.
via Zombify
“Fishbowl”, a beautiful new watercolor painting by Hi-Fructose Magazine co-founder Annie Owens. Limited edition Giclee prints are availble through CoproGallery in Los Angeles, where Annie will be having a solo show in April 2011.
via Hi-Fructose
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