At first you’re thinking, the tran’s gonna honk its way through the think and then its a Discovery Channel show about Nature’s Awesome Power®.

benjaminpalmer:

Train vs. Tornado: a live video of a train that goes through a tornado and gets blown off the tracks

For Brighteous.

thedailywhat:

Door Design Concept of the Day: “The Ping Pong Door” by Tobias Fränzel.

This needs to be real and in my life three days ago.

[via.]

thedailywhat:

Andrew DeGraff: Superheroes.

Dear DeGraff, more of this please. Love, TDW.

[more.]

Sarah Hromack, In Print We Trust (The Brooklyn Rail) (via melissa)

All these Tumblr book deals? Direct to Half Price Books and other clearance outlets. Seriously, who’s going to buy them? They’re just novelty/vanity projects.

The Generation M Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org (via benjaminpalmer)

YES. THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN.

Apparently according to iTunes, mine are:

Eilen Jewell - Sea of Tears

Alela Diane - The Pirate’s Gospel

William Elliot Whitmore - Animals in the Dark

Elvis Perkins - In Dearland

Great Lakes Swimmers - Lost Channels

Justin Townes Earle - Midnight at the Movies

and I’ve been out of the loop since mid-May - anything else in this vein I should know about?

sarahspy:

MY FAVORITE/MOST OVERPLAYED ALBUMS OF 2009 SO FAR

Decided this morning I could mess around with the order & which last 3-5 to include for another couple of weeks, or I could just post this already. As with last year’s, I’m curious to see which of these hold up as year-end favorites.

1. Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest (amz|ins|mysp)
2. Bat For Lashes - Two Suns (amz|ins|mysp)
3. Mos Def - The Ecstatic (amz|ins|mysp)
4. Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavillion (amz|ins|mysp)
5. White Denim - Fits (amz|hmv|mysp)
6. St Vincent - Actor (amz|ins|mysp)
7. Crocodiles - Summer of Hate (amz|ins|mysp)
8. Metric - Fantasies (amz|ins|mysp)
9. Here We Go Magic - Here We Go Magic (amz|ins|mysp)
10. Handsome Furs - Face Control (amz|ins|mysp)
11. Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix (amz|ins|mysp)
12. Woods - Songs of Shame (amz|ins|mysp)
13. The Whitest Boy Alive - Rules (amz|ins|mysp)
14. Foreign Born - Person to Person (amz|ins|mysp)
15. White Rabbits - It’s Frightening (amz|ins|mysp)

What are your favorites at the half-year mark??

mediation:

minusmanhattan:

This Cannes award-winning piece from the Chambers Hotel in Minneapolis is an art film disguised as a surveillance video of the hotel that plays on a 30 minute loop in the bar area. Apparently it created a lot of controversy during the RNC. It’s awesome, click through the image to check it out. Warning: NSFW content.

ijyoung:

davidkaneda:

Odosketch is a new online drawing tool from Odopod that creates gorgeous digital illustrations and let’s one interactively view previously created drawings. The drawing tool is a blast to use as well (I’ll refrain from posting any of my terrible attempts…). Every detail, from design to usability, seems extremely considered and polished.

summerpunx:

thebrownshaun:

Mash-ups of actors redoing scenes from their favorite movie.

The Sid & Nancy clip with Zooey Deschanel and Joey Gordon Levitt is up.

July 14
Cheech and Chong cinemash TRON

July 21 Reno 911! and Human Giant cinemash POINT BREAK

July 28
Channing Tatum and Charlyne Yi cinemash DIRTY DANCING

August 4
Milo Ventimiglia cinemashes OLDBOY

August 11
Will Arnett and Xavier cinemash CARRIE
(Will Arnett plays Carrie!)

August 18
Common and Christopher Mintz-Plasse cinemash TRAINING DAY
(Mintz-Plasse = Fogell from Superbad!)

karateboogaloo:

Billy Lee Riley …
one of the remaining original Sun Records artists, Is in VERY bad need of help! Billy has had his share of health problems, and is now battling Stage FOUR bone…

Ladies and Gentlemen,

The phonetic foreign stylings of Nat King Cole!

(Nat did several foreign language albums and was known for just learning phonics, so while they sound romantic to the untrained ear, they sound horrible to the native ear.)

(via onemintjulep)

davidkaneda:

SlickMap CSS (via chrisbowler)

Courtesy of Matt Everson of Astuteo, SlickMap CSS automates the process of illustrating sitemaps.

theabstract:

Robert Bradford makes art from his kids’ old, discarded toys.