We’re back folks and I hope everyone had a good few days off. In between stuffing my face with turkey and then changing into any garment with an elastic waistband, I also did a few eventful things. This includes: reading Stuff White People Like, then Stuff Asian People Like, reading some Hunter S. Thompson as well as watching Bum’s Paradise, then visiting the location where the documentary was filmed, the Albany bulb. I didn’t even know this place existed, but what a great discovery.

Basically, the Albany bulb is a stretch of land that extends off of the city of Albany into the bay. Originally it was a landfill, but a group of homeless people created a community living there for about 8 years before being evicted. The best part is the artwork they created while inhabiting the space, utilizing the scraps and trash to make sculptures and paintings, which still exists today and is ever-changing. Now only if everyone could be as resourceful as the homeless. Read more here.

Gobble Gobble. And does cranberry sauce from a can scare anyone else too? eeks. Lovely photography from Christina Maria Oswald.

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Thought of the day: Every week should be 3-day work week. Have a good weekend. Do stuff.

So true. And I still love glitter. Because Studio.

I’m not sure if you’re prepared for the awesomeness you’re about witness. But first, a little background on the Hektor and its purpose. Engineer Uli Franke created a spray-paint device that hooks up to a laptop and uses a software based on Scriptographer to output artwork. “The aim was to make a statement about design by providing a new tool to other designers and artists to experiment with, a tool with an inherently particular and distinctive aesthetic.” This device is nothing less than a stroke of genius. Okay, now you’re prepared. Watch!

Geek out on this article that delves into the process behind the ‘O’. Thanks Ben.

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What a fun, non-dominational, greeting card. And museums stores, especially the MoMA online store, are chock full of some beautiful ones. Even pop-up cards in fact. Check them out here.

Network Osaka. Tasty. Goody.

After All is the Los Angeles based duo of Shaniqwa Jarvis and Joanna Bean. This neo geo piece was created in collaboration with photographer Lydia Burkhalter. I want to go where waves look like this. Google earth will know.

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To promote the premiere of the tv series, Weeds, sent out giant joints! kinda. Bouquets of hemp plants, sans thc, (darn.) rolled up in papers to create a flower gram were sent out. How clever. And tempting.

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Here’s the deal folks. I’ve become pretty fascinated/obsessed with time capsules lately. I think its because I live closer to where I grew up and I distinctly remember putting some epherema in a box and burying it somewhere near my elementary school. Now its pretty uncool if I were to go dig it back up, assuming it hasn’t been dug up by a construction company building a condominum named something along the lines of Cherry Bark. Anyhow, I’m thinking of creating another one, this time, filled with good stuff like porn and a 7-11 Obama cup. Now that’s something people would be excited to find, unlike the Curious George doll I left in my last one.

Nevertheless, in my research of time capsules, I came across an interesting find. Andy Warhol kept ongoing time capsules, basically stuffing everyday and random items into cardboard boxes. He began in 1974 and most never knew of his capsules until his death in 1987. The Warhol Museum has the collection, but their web site has a great interactive piece on the items in certain boxes. Categorized by content, its interesting to see what he felt was significant enough to put into this box.