Apparently Olafur Eliasson is installing several waterfalls in New York this summer. Very Cool. I think i might be able to see the one between Pier 4 and 5 in Brooklyn from my roof. Gothamist has more info.

Brooklyn Bridge

Between Pier 4 and 5 in Brooklyn

I just realized that Senator McCain doesn’t adhere to the de facto requirement that an aspiring president’s website only use red white and blue. His banner is black[1] and gold (my high school’s colors).

Gosh John, you maverick, you.

John

Cf. Hillary

Cf. Barack

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[1] I suppose, technically, Barack’s banner has some black in it too…

Not the band (Sorry j.o.), but the store that carries these gorgeous pens I am coveting. The website is a huge tease though. It doesn’t appear that you can buy anything online and they only have stores in Japan.

Yeah… that’s wood.

My friend Lauren is a very talented graphic designer so I was thrilled when she decided to sell her gift cards on Etsy this year.

She is selling three different sets: One for Hannukah (named We Get Eight Nights), one tracking the lyrics to The Twelve Days of Christmas (my favorite) and a holiday collection.

The Twelve Days of Christmas

My friends’ apartment is currently up for voting in Apartment Therapy’s Smallest Coolest Apartments 2007 contest. If you have an account for AT, go vote.

I came across a fun little easter egg on the OddCast website. See the little avatar on the upper left hand corner?

If you click on her she starts protesting:

“Stop it!”

“Keep your mouse to yourself”

The funny thing is, she sounds like she is really upset by the clicking. It actually sounds more authentic than the marketing messages she presents when you load the page.

After several more requests to stop, she gives a final warning and then is replaced with this much less attractive avatar who says in a Frankenstein voice “See what you’ve done. She was much more fun.”

Just in case you were wondering if I was an avatar molester, I was clicking on her because I thought perhaps the avatar presented different marketing messages on each page. When she didn’t say anything on the management team page I thought maybe I had to click her in order to hear the message.

Came across this site which has a wonderful collection of images of posters from live music events. I think it’s cool that one of their submission guidelines is that they won’t accept posters for events that, for whatever reason, didn’t actually occur.

I recently experienced Julian Montague’s Stray Shopping Cart Project at a gallery in Chelsea (the name of said gallery escapes me). Montague’s project is both beautiful and hilarious. Montague has developed a sophisticated classification system for identifying shopping carts in the environments in which they are found. There are eleven types of Class A: False Strays, including the A/2 Plaza Drift and the A/3 Bus Stop Discard. There are twenty-two Class B: True Strays including the B/7 Transient Imposter, the B/21 Naturalization (a cart resituated by natural forces), and the B/10 Plow Crush.

My personal favorite is the B/13 Complex Vandalism, which can be differentiated from Simple Vandalism by the degree of complexity and effort required to resituate the cart (in his example you can see a shopping cart inside an empty pool that is enclosed within a fence).

In addition to the entire classification system, Montague includes photographs of 160 specimens on the project website. Each is, of course, properly classified.

I am not sure which part of Montague’s project was more enjoyable - the informational graphics and photographs or the accompanying text. Something tells me it is the perfect balance of the two that made this work so memorable.

Update: Montague has a special Site Study: Cleveland and Environs Winter 2005 section. Yeah, I know. That is only of interest to me.

(thx jon)

These new ads from Amnesty International are amazingly powerful. I can’t believe any local government would allow them as they look so realistic at first glance.

The tagline translates to “It’s not happening here, but it’s happening now”

Update: The ads were designed by Walker Werbeagentur Zuerich.