Oil & Water Do Not Mix

CRCL (Coalition to Restore Coastal Louisiana), a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the Gulf of Mexico's coastal wetlands, is selling this limited edition screen printed with oil from the Gulf of Mexico disaster. Great idea, even better cause.

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OIL & WATER DO NOT MIX from Happiness Brussels on Vimeo.

nip/tuck

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Blinky Palermo and William Eggleston Opening

A week from tonight, I'm going to be lucky enough to attend LACMA's opening of Blinky Palermo's Retrospective 1964-1977 and William Eggleston's Democratic Camera: Photographs and video, 1961-2008. My oh so thoughtful and generous friend and right coast nanook-counterpart was nice enough to get me on the list. It's going to be quite a show.

The 'c' in cake

And now an update from Helms-a-Lee

a :: I've been on a great run with concerts in the last two weeks. Arcade Fire, LCD Soundsystem, The Sea and Cake and Broken Social Scene all put on great shows. I almost don't want to go to another concert and break the streak.

b :: The Mad Men season finale was a total bust. So poorly written and paced. How did that happen? It's always so good! However, I might be in love with Megan's character. Her teeth and everything.

c :: I'm loving this rain. The weather actually matches the season.

d :: Looking forward to bundling up for Fall and Winter sailing.

e :: A fortune cookie told me to embrace the change.

Banksy :: The Simpsons

Graffiti and pop artist Banksy storyboarded and directed this opening sequence for The Simpsons. Pretty great turn :30 in.

Big Bear Weekend Part IV

It's Friday! And I'm leaving it all behind when I drive up to the cabin tonight. Here are a few pics from our first trip up. This time, we'll even have electricity and everything.

Barcelona Globetrotters

equal parts:

+ soccer-influenced basketball team

+ Harlem Globetrotters

+ helpless Lamar Odom

+ confused cameraman

Thanks for the link Alejandro!

happy fb day

and, go lakers

To infinity and beyond

This is amazing. I was slack jawed the whole time I watched it.

A father and son devise a way to send an HD video camera into space.

Homemade Spacecraft from Luke Geissbuhler on Vimeo.

and you can never quarantine the past

Last night was Sonic Youth and Pavement at the Bowl. Quite a show. Good times with the boys.

Hip Hop History

"Hip Hop History" with J Timbo and Jimmy Fallon.

:: When I read the description of this video, I was all "this could be real bad."

:: 1/3 of the way through the video, I was like "ooh, I'm embarrassed. I like this."

:: Then 2/3 of the way through, I was all, I was all "mm mm. Not embarrassed anymore. This is rly good."

They do Seed 2.0! This video took me by the hand through my childhood, high school, college, and then to a frightening place where a big crowd of overweigh white people try to sing and move to Jay-Z.

Bravo Timberlake, Fallon, The Roots!

Collage: the antirational and semi-intentional

Collage is really the practice of a theory of knowledge: antirational and semi-intentional, it takes coincidence and chance materials as part of its method and inspiration. By eliminating transition, it embraces ambiguity, improvisation, speed, and multiplicity of meaning. It is expressive, but not primarily self-expressive. It does not place priority on closure, nor on conventional notions of completeness. In the constant conversation between unity and disunity, juxtaposition plays with omission and collision. It loves the energy of disruption and dislocation. Apollinaire, his contemporaries and their aesthetic heirs were more interested in creating inventive disorientations than in delivering packaged unities.

-Tony Hoagland

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