Amy Goodwin

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Abbey Ryan paints one small oil painting everyday and posts them on her blog ryanstudio. All of the paintings are available for sale on ebay. Here is sample of her traditional charming vignettes.

"All around the country, would-be jubilant Democrats are poised in a defensive crouch, voicing way more anxiety than hope about what polls are predicting will be a solid victory for Barack Obama."

- Judith Warner,  Don't Worry, Be Happy

Reverse Graffiti

Reverse graffiti is form of street art that involves carving into the dirt and dust that surrounds us. Artists subtract from a surface in order to create a negative image within the positive, often quite dark layer of grime. They use methods as simple as dragging their finger across a dirty car window or as elaborate as carving elaborate stencils, which they then mount on a surface and spray with a high pressure water hose, to impress a finely wrought illustration or message. Reverse graffiti is a form of activist art, in that the work often draws attention not only to a particular image etched into a surface, but also the extent to which these surfaces - and our cities - are caked with pollution.

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In 2003 Galahad Clark, of the Clark family global shoe empire, started the shoe brand United Nude with architect Rem D Koolhaas. Their objective was to create a shoe collection which expressed the intersection of design and fashion; to create footwear that explored both aesthetics and innovation. 

Tatum said I had to put this picture on my blog

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love this photo of Pee Wee Herman (Paul Rubens)

by David LaChapelle

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Peter Doig The Architect's Home in the Ravine

Obama's loss traced to…me

Alexander Calder’s wire “Elephant,” 1928

Picasso's "Portrait of Lee Miller," left, next to "Madame Ginoux" by Vincent van Gogh.

from the “Picasso and the Masters” show at the Grand Palais in Paris

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Thrill the World

Over 800 people dance to Thriller in Austin, Texas

Last year's world record for the largest, simultaneous, (multiple location) world-wide Thriller dance was 1722. This year that number almost doubled. At the same exact time, 3960 zombies from 9 different countries in 65 different cities participated in Thrill the World (official number still to be verified). via

morning silly

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Robert Hughes: art, architecture and the 1929 crash

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Happy Birthday Hillary

sinking cups

cups in circles

by Kristin Nordhoy

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“What if we had a definition of food that said a food is something that doesn’t just have calories but has a certain amount of nutrients and micronutrients?”…“If your product did not reach a certain threshold of nutrients per calorie, it’s just not food. We’re not even going to call it junk food. We’ll call it junk.”

- Michael Pollan

listen to a 20-minute interview on WNYC

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while the dow plummets let's think of pretty things

here are a few

Illuminated wallpaper Nature Ray Charles by Camilla Diedrich

Anna Sui for Maximo

Camper shoes

trailer for The Dhamma Brothers

to learn more 

this image is from a portfolio of photographs of the military and their families

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Shepard Fairey was in Cambridge, putting up some of his art around Harvard Square ahead of his upcoming one-man show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

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Art lovers have snapped up £100,000 worth of free artworks by some of the UK's leading and emerging contemporary artists at a fair in London.

Some people queued and camped out for two nights to get their hands on work by artists like Gavin Turk and Stella Vine at the Free Art Fair.

The 40 pieces available, which were allocated by a ballot system, were all gone within an hour and 20 minutes.

The most valuable piece given away was worth £15,000.

Interest in the Free Art Fair was so great, its website crashed as people clamoured to log on.

Founder Jasper Joffe said the idea was to provide an antidote to the hype that surrounded the Damien Hirst's recent record-breaking sale at Sotheby's, which raised £111m.

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Sarah Palin inspired street art

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Daniel Freytag

I wonder:

Does Joe the Plumber 

know Joe Six Pack?

work by Gilberto Colao

on myartspace.com

Malcolm Gladwell talks about late bloomers

have a listen

Los Heroes Building

Santiago, Chile

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Lucian Freud's portrait of Francis Bacon

This painting is up for auction today at Christie's.

The auction house hopes it will fetch £7m.

If it doesn't does it mean doom for the art market?

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Danse (dance) from Remyyy on Vimeo.

Stick figures drawn on the bottom of glass bottles.

Smart Girls at the Party

still from an Andrew Sloat film

check out his timely clever short film:

More Perfect Union

thx LuLu

Korean artist Osang Gwon created these sculptures for the music band Keane.

The works have been used as part of keane's promotional material for the release of their new 
album 'perfect symmetry'. Each sculpture is made of anywhere between 1000 to 3000 photographs.

PBS has an online poll asking if Sarah Palin is qualified.

Apparently the right wing knew about this in advance and are flooding the voting with YES votes.

The poll will be reported on PBS and picked up by mainstream media. 

It can influence undecided voters in swing states.
Click on link and vote yourself.

Here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/now/polls/poll-435.html

It felt like summer this weekend

a little girl fight at the shore