I had to check and make sure this wasn't from the 90's. Guess what, it ain't.

Still the best

Nike US Open of Surfing...... √ Check

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The sun comes out, as well as the ladies, after the jump ↓↓↓

Embroidered Canvas'

Here are some amazing embroidered portraits by German artist Nike Schroeder.

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Elvis' favorite fried chicken....the recipe revealed

Former executive chef at Google headquarters, Charlie Ayers, once worked alongside a former cook for Elvis Presley and that cook gave him his special recipe for fried chicken. Apparently he says it's "the best southern fried chicken I [have] ever tasted". I gotta try this sometime. I gotta become like Elvis...

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Films on Fridges

So these people in East London took this site (below), which was the largest refrigerator dump in all of Europe.  ...first of all, the fact that they have dump sites dedicated to refrigerators (referred to as "fridge mountains") all over England baffles me. I didn't realize they were so clean with their "rubbish." Now, let's see them put that same effort into their dental hygiene.....or their food. OH!!!!

Anyways, these people took the dump site....

...which actually looked pretty cool to start with

And they transformed it into this......

An outdoor cinema constructed by using the old refrigerators.

Now, they throw film festivals all summer long and are really helping to push East London to the forefront of the artistic & cultural scene. Supposedly it's like Chealsea, NY in the 60's over there right now. Check out the video below, I think that chick says something about promising to hold your hand and watch a movie if you come to support her, or something like that. It's vague....she's vague........women.



Why "Films on Fridges"? from Tom Huntingford on Vimeo.

It's kinda like Crack

A couple years ago when I lived in Korea this commercial would always come on and the song would always get stuck in my head, kinda like that Lykke Li commercial for Heineken. But here they basically just sing the telephone number over and over again. It's like crack. Not that I should know. But I do.

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Duane Dalton

"I like it aloooowwttt..."

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Vans?

...steppin up the branding, eh?   This is a sick short film done by the LA Art collective What Matters Most, with music by Flying Lotus and Melvin Gibbs to boot!


Vans Syndicate x Luke Meier from WHAT MATTERS MOST on Vimeo.

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One Step Beyond

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Everyday I'm Shufflin'

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Movie Posters

I ran across this cool poster for the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind that I had never seen before and I liked it alot, which inspired me to look for other interesting variations on movie posters. Here's what I found. Warning: you may experience a sever case of nostalgia. There's more after the jump ↓↓↓

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En Quatre Couleurs

Plastic Bertrand was and still is a pretty original guy. I mean he's wearing that jacket in 1978, six years before Michael's Thriller.  That's about all I can say about him...I haven't done much research. But I do love this song. And I love the description of the lyrics, "(they) are totally nonsensical... like "wham bam my splash cat" and "cellophane puppet, chinese hair."

YESSSSS... I am the King of the Divan!!

Yo Yo Ma and 'Lil Buck

I'm not much into performance art, but this Spike Jonze clip of famed violinist Yo Yo Ma collaborating with dancer 'Lil Buck had me completely mesmerized. Is this the future for live art? I hope so....

Ernesto Neto Installations

This guy has some of the coolest art installations I've ever seen. I would love to get lost in one of them for awhile. Check out more after the jump. There's also a video of him setting up one of his installments. Pretty sick... ↓↓↓

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