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  Lanks

  06.03.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  + It Wasn’t Meant to End Like This (The Glue Society, 2009) I think this image would make great album artwork. “It wasn’t meant to end like this” follows previous artistic explorations via a sculpture of a miniature man defecating on a ten foot pigeon (shown in New York) and their infamous God’s Eye View project…” (via [...]

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  looks like a baby rat

  05.15.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  16 Most Horrific Human Growths of all Time These are disgusting.  This close up picture of a little kid with a tail on his neck makes me want to vomit.  Look at that little coating of fine hair.  Ugh, it looks like a rat tail super glued to his neck.  Does anyone else think the [...]

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  Sorry for these

  05.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Saves the Day at Sonar last Saturday night was kind of a bummer.  $23 bucks a person to get into the show, Saves the Day only played for 25 minutes or so, and we were encircled by a group of bros and their girlfriends that were on the verge of getting fingerbanged (or may have [...]

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  Funky Monk’s Footprints

  04.21.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  “70 year-old Buddhist monk Hua Chi has been praying in the same spot at his temple in  Tongren, China for over 20 years. His footprints, which are up to 1.2 inches deep in some areas, are the result of performing his prayers up to 3000 times a day. Now that he is 70, he says [...]

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  Look Closely

  04.09.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Don’t Judge People According to Their Appearance. Peter Chmela (via Things I Have Learned in my Life so Far)

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  Suggestions: Jonathan Knobel

  04.06.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  This weeks suggestion article is packed full of cool stuff.  Jonathan Knobel tells you about a film featuring burning oil fields, a photographer named Boogie, Nietzsche, an illustrator with a morbid sense of humor, and a graphic novel based in 1980′s Iran. Jonathan is a photographer/artist/musician living in Davidsonville, Maryland.  He plays bass in the [...]

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  First post/Burn Magazine

  04.04.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  So one characteristic both of my jobs seem to share is an abundance of time in front of a computer. Chad has been asking for a while that I start to regularly contribute to stokingtheroots, and I’ve only recently felt like that computer time has amounted to so much that I could attempt to do [...]

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  Danielle Yurchinkonis – Regain/Regrowth Opening

  03.25.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dani’s opening reception is this Friday!  She put a lot of work into making this happen and I’m sure that she would appreciate if you were to stop by. “Only the second official day of the show, I’ve already received a lot of great feedback. The reception is this Friday, where a new MICA photo [...]

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  Suggestions: Danielle Yurchinkonis

  02.23.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  This week’s suggestion article is a bit different from what I normally post.  Rather than suggesting albums for you to download, this weeks focus is on artists that you should check out.  Expect a few more suggestions articles like this one in the coming weeks (including a pretty awesome comics post).   This week’s suggestions [...]

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  Mail Truck Camera Obscura

  02.19.09 | Permalink | Comment?

  + Photographer Shaun Irving bought an old mail truck off of Ebay and converted it into a giant mobile camera obscura by drilling a hole into the side of the truck and outfitting it with changeable lenses.  When asked what makes the Camera Truck so unique Shaun replies that it’s the simplicity of the process. “My lenses are old military surplus. [...]