“Metropolis”, photos by Martin Roemers.

from BOOOOOOOM! http://www.booooooom.com/2012/01/24/photographer-martin-roemers/

This documentary looks incredible! “Getting Up” is a film about legendary L.A. graffiti artist Tony “Tempt” Quan who was diagnosed with ALS and became almost completely paralyzed. Through the use of some amazing technology Tony is able to continue making art with the movement of his eyes.

Watch the trailer below!

from BOOOOOOOM! http://www.booooooom.com/2012/01/26/getting-up-film-about-tony-tempt-quan/

A wonderfully executed ad campaign by Legas Delaney for Plant for the Planet, using cut leaves symbolizing their ability to absorb CO2. Beautiful work. (via inspire me now and ads of the world)

from Colossal http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/cut-leaf-illustrations-for-plant-for-th...

When people ask me what Vancouver is like, this is the video I’ll show them. Watch the video in all its glory below.

from BOOOOOOOM! http://www.booooooom.com/2012/01/27/vancouver-halloween-leeside-skateboard-ma...

Awesome!

The flip side of the coin is ALWAYS The Queen.  That side cannot be messed with!

returning after a two-year break  

from Waxy.org Links http://typographica.org/2012/features/our-favorite-typefaces-of-2011/

Concept by Hector del Amo.

Via MyModernMet

from Billionaire Boys Club Blog http://www.bbcicecream.com/blog/2012/01/23/ultramodern-zero-personal-helicopter/

from xkcd.com http://xkcd.com/1007/

from Male-Bovine-Perf-Logs http://malebovineperflogs.blogspot.com/2012/01/heh.html

If recent movies like The Hangover, Drive, Inception, and Rushmore had been made in an earlier era, who would have starred in and directed these premakes? How about Dean Martin, Jack Lemmon, and Jerry Lewis in The Hangover?

Or Inception directed by Fritz Lang?

(thx, al)

from kottke.org http://kottke.org/12/01/premakes-new-movies-with-old-actors

These are several of my favorite pieces from a wonderful new series of broken face portraits by Tokyo-based illustrator and collage artist Takahiro Kimura. From his artist statement:

If I hold up the emotion of human being, which is so complicated and elusive, as theme of my work, the work will be unable to catch up with the emotion and the work will be undistinguished. Therefore, in a state of selfless, I command not feeling but solely my aesthetic sense and attempt to create my work. And then if you feel some complicated emotions of human beings are expressed out of my work [faces], it might be projections of what you have inside. The broken faces might be mirrors to reflect your emotions.

See much more over on Behance. (via drinking mercury)

from Colossal http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2012/01/broken-faces/?utm_source=feedburner&...

Jimmy Wales has announced that Wikipedia will join Reddit, Boing Boing, and many other sites around the Internet in going dark on Wednesday to protest SOPA/PIPA, the pending US legislation that would make it impossible to run any website that links or allows commenters to link, by making us liable for copyright infringement on the sites we link to.

Wales used his Twitter account to spread the news, writing “Student warning! Do your homework early. Wikipedia protesting bad law on Wednesday! #sopa”

In place of Wikipedia, users will see instructions for how to reach local members of Congress, which Wales hopes "will melt phone systems in Washington."

He also noted that comScore estimates the English Wikipedia’s web traffic at 25 million daily visitors worldwide.

Wikipedia to Shut Down in Protest of SOPA (Thanks, Marilyn!)

from Boing Boing http://boingboing.net/2012/01/16/wikipedia-will-go-dark-to-prot.html?utm_sour...

Via Randommization

from Billionaire Boys Club Blog http://www.bbcicecream.com/blog/2012/01/14/take-chances/

That’s the fastest feature ever! Produced by Pharrell

Jay-Z Glory (Ft. B.I.C)

from Billionaire Boys Club Blog http://www.bbcicecream.com/blog/2012/01/09/jay-z-glory-feat-b-i-c/