Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP

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“Man vs Toddler” by the comedy duo Barats & Bereta. Who will win?

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“Vegetables are all your body needs”, a brilliant ad campaign by JWT for the International Vegetarian Union, which promotes vegetarianism worldwide.

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A retrospective art exhibition featuring the work of Tim Burton has just opened at The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and will be on display through April 16th, 2010.

The Museum of Modern Art presents Tim Burton, a major retrospective exploring the full scale of Tim Burton’s career, both as a director and concept artist for live-action and animated films, and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer. On view from November 22, 2009, through April 26, 2010, the exhibition brings together over 700 examples of sketchbooks, concept art, drawings, paintings, photographs, and a selection of his amateur films, and is the Museum’s most comprehensive monographic exhibition devoted to a filmmaker. An extensive film retrospective spanning Burton’s 27-year career runs throughout the exhibition, along with a related series of films that influenced, inspired, and intrigued Burton as a filmmaker.

Tim Burton gives a behind the scenes look at his art exhibition at MOMA.

Here’s a promo for the MOMA art exhibition directed by Tim Burton.

“The Art of Tim Burton”, a new book featuring a compilation of over 1,000 of Tim Burton’s illustrations spanning a 40 year period, has just been published.

The Art of Tim Burton is the definitive compilation of forty years of Tim Burton’s artistry, including film concepts and hundreds of illustrations from his personal archives, edited under the creative guidance of Burton himself. This comprehensive 434 page book is grouped into thirteen chapters that examine common themes in Burton’s work, from his fascination with clowns to his passion for misunderstood monsters, to his delight in the oddities of people. Many of Burton’s friends and collaborators offer their thoughts, insights and anecdotes about Tim Burton’s style and artistic approach to life.

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“Spacious Thoughts” is the latest music video by N.A.S.A., featuring Tom Waits and Kool Keith. The video recently debuted on Boing Boing Video and featured Xeni Jardin doing Q & A with Fluorescent Hill, the art collective that created the video.

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“Blast Off!”, a wonderful documentary short by Sean Donnelly about Sean Orlando and his crew building the beautiful Raygun Gothic Rocketship for Burning Man 2009.

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Curtiss Spontelli created a really great infographic illustrating the Evolution of Storage, broken down by music, photos and data. Here’s a larger version.

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Goodie Bag presents “Hollywood vs. New York”, a musical montage featuring four decades of NYC being destroyed in movies.

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Patrick Moberg, who in 2007 made a drawing of the girl of his dreams on the subway to help find her, recently created a wonderful illustrated series of Internet Vices featuring popular social networks and the drug that might best go with it.

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The food geeks over at Foodie Friday baked up some awesome Periodic Table Cupcakes.

Astute chem majors will notice the color-coded icing for solids, liquids, and gases, as well as the empty cupcake liner for as-yet-undiscovered element ununseptium.

An if that’s not nerdy enough, they followed up with a batch of Watchmen Cupcakes.

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“Crunchy Taco” by Parry Gripp, featuring tacos exploding in slow motion.

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Guerrilla archivist Rick Prelinger, who runs the Prelinger Library in San Francisco, will be presenting Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4 this Friday, December 4th at the Herbst Theatre in San Francisco. Rick’s talk is part of The Long Now Foundation’s monthly Seminars About Long Term Thinking by hosted by Stewart Brand.

Rick Prelinger, a guerrilla archivist who collects the uncollected and makes it accessible, presents the fourth of his annual Lost Landscapes of San Francisco screenings. As in past years, Lost Landscapes 4 will be an eclectic montage of rediscovered and rarely-seen film clips showing life, landscapes, labor and leisure in a vanished San Francisco as captured by amateurs, newsreel cameramen and industrial filmmakers.

This year’s Lost Landscapes will include much new and unseen material from Prelinger Archives and other collections, including newly discovered films shot by longtime San Francisco residents. Unlike most film screenings, Lost Landscapes relies on audience members for the soundtrack — we encourage viewers to interact with the film, shout out questions and identify mystery scenes.

How we remember and record the past reveals much about how we address the future. Prelinger will preface the screening with a brief talk on how historical memory is shifting away from mass culture towards individual expression, and what consequences will arise from the emerging massive matrix of personal records.

Tickets for Lost Landscapes of San Francisco 4 are available through City Box Office.

In the first talk of the series, Rick presented “A Trip Down Market Street”, featuring beautifuly public domain footage of San Francisco’s Market Street in 1905, prior to the big earthquake in 1906.

photo by Jeff Diehl

Jeff Diehl recently interviewed Rick Prelinger on Spots Unknown.

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The latest Improv Everywhere mission “Where’s Rob?” features Agent Lathan, who pretends to get lost at a New York Nicks game at Madison Square Garden and the fans do everything they can to help him find his seat. Here’s the full mission report.

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Surprised Kitty, a 17 second cute explosion.

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Steve G shows off his Handboarding skills, doing skateboard tricks with his hands. The video was shot at Inner Space, an indoor skatepark in Seattle.

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“Direct Line”, a new t-shirt by Glennz Tees. Priority access to either Batman or a pizza, for both kinds of emergencies.

The two priority phone lines were at opposite ends of the building, so it made good sense to have them combined. But user beware – the bat cave does not take kindly to calls for pizza orders.

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Roboexotica poster designed by Anika Kronberger

Roboexotica 2009, an annual festival for cocktail robotics organized by SHIFZ, monochrom and Bureau of Philosophy, takes place December 3-6 at Drinkomat in Vienna, Austria.

Until recently, no attempts had been made to publically discuss the role of cocktail robotics as an index for the integration of technological innovations into the human Lebenswelt, or to document the increasing occurrence of radical hedonism in man-machine communication. Roboexotica is an attempt to fill this vacuum. It is the first and, inevitably, the leading festival concerned with cocktail robotics world-wide. A micro mechanical change of paradigm in the age of borderless capital. Alan Turing would doubtless test this out.

Here’s a gallery of photos and video from previous Roboexotica events.

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