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Give this one a second to lure you in. Seems a little maudlin at first, but I was diggin it about half way in. Tho of course I am a sucker for street messages.

Deserted After Dark gives these details:

This short film, called “Mankind Is No Island” was shot completely on a cellphone by Jason van Genderen, and won top prize at the world’s largest short-film festival, Tropfest.

Thanks to Stephanie for the link!

found on communicadores

So our food activism project, Replate, is nominated for the People’s Design Awards. If we’re gonna win, we need your votes. So give it some love and we’ll be ridiculously, almost disgustingly, appreciative.

My friend Greg Halpern is putting this on. Some big names here. Now’s your chance to own a Misrach.

Wow. You must visit tineye.com.

It’s a new kind of image search. TinEye will look at any image you give it, and then compare it to other images. It can find a wide range of matches, including cropped images and photoshopped images. It actually searches visually, unlike Google’s image search, which uses keywords and image names.

Same keyword, same typeface (Gotham).

I’ve been seeing more and more Gotham, and tons of stuff that seems to be riding on Obama’s communications coat-tails in one way or another. I’m curious if you’ve noticed the same thing.

I imagine that in the case of the Camel ad above, it was a conscious maneuver, but I also have a hunch that a lot of people are doing it subconsciously. And that’s especially curious.

After 2 years of work, our graffiti book, Written on the City, is about to come out, and we’re psyched! We’re extra psyched because it just got an awesome review in Newsweek this week. Page 10 of the print version, or visit the online article and gallery.

And when you’re, done, don’t forget to buy a copy of the book!!!

HBO’s got a new project going that I don’t quite understand, but the promotional website is super interesting. First, it’s quite beautiful. And second there seems to be a number of inter-related stories taking place, all seen from the outside. And the narrative goes on for a while so you get the good stuff without feeling like anything’s required of you. Pretty smart. Go play around with it for a while.

Whoah. The folks over at mental floss found a crazy stunning project.

Just go check it out.

Thanks to TinyGigantic reader Delford for the tip. : )

See more googly-eye street art by Filthy Luker here.

Via woostercollective.

Ah, finally a set of light painting photos that are actually good.

You’ve probably seen his work before, but Ron Mueck’s hyper-real sculpture freaks me out.
Found here.

Lucy and Bart like to get conceptual about body stuff. Their work gives me feelings of vague uneasiness. Check this link if you want to feel uneasy too.

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

via worldwide wall.

Check out the awesomeness of this old Atari game packaging. Note the amazing copy too. There’s a whole bunch more here.

Check out what happens when ferrofluid (iron particles suspended in liquid) is put in a magnetic field (like an MRI). Make sure you watch the second half!!!

What do those shapes look like to you?

So Al Gore commissioned a new logo for his non-profit advocacy group, the Alliance for Climate Protection. You have to applaud the fact that he donated his Nobel prize money and then some to the cause. But mostly, I’m inclined to believe that it’s really fucking hard for a simple logo to spur people to action, without a ton of context (I can’t think of any other than the recycling icon and the peace symbol.)

Still, I’ll reserve judgment for now because I’d like to know what you think about this. So, whaddaya think?

From the Daily Mail article:

“…the ‘Temples of Damanhur’ are not the great legacy of some long-lost civilisation, they are the work of a 57-year-old former insurance broker from northern Italy who, inspired by a childhood vision, began digging into the rock.

The first time the police came it was over alleged tax evasion and still the temples lay undiscovered. But a year later the police swooped on the community demanding: “Show us these temples or we will dynamite the entire hillside.”

Stunned by what they had found, the authorities decided to seize the temples on behalf of the government.”

Link.

via boingboing.

via titaniumdreads.

via weird asia news