The C*unt

Some simple YouTube editing give The Count from Sesame Street a slightly different obsession:

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Wild at heart

Carli Davidson takes high-end animal photos (which sounds like an awesome job, but is probably a relentless test of patience). These shots are from her Fetch and Shake series:

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Lapse in concentration

 For Day to Night, photographer Stephen Wilkes took hundreds of photographs over the span of a day (some shots taking up to 15 hours), carefully adjusting the shutter to allow for proper exposure as the sun set. To create the images below, Wilkes blends about 50 images into one incredible large-format panoramic:

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Cut the tape

Some cool, graphic work from tape artist Aakash Nihalani as part of Lisa de Kooning Artist In Residence Program in Long Island, NY:

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Drawing dead

52 Aces is a pack of playing cards, each one sporting a design by a different illustrator:

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Breaking bones

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Insane in the Membrane (Potential)

This is rad – squid chromatophore cells getting funky to the sounds of Cypress Hill:

Well, it’s not quite ‘the sounds’ of Cypress Hill…

Nerve signals, whether they lead to squid chromatophore stimulation or muscle contraction, are essentially electric signals. The same electrical impulses created when audio is converted to an electrical signal, like what happens inside a microphone, can actually be applied to tissues.

So the team over at Backyard Brains hooked up squid cells to a special iPod playing Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Brain and the electrical signals it generated created this awesome camouflage display.

And how did they think to connect a squid to Cypress Hill? Because they’d already connected a cockroach leg to the Beastie Boys.

Frankenstein science is down with the 90s rap.

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Come to a halt

High-speed photography of balloons popping is a bit of a thing at the moment, but this is a bit special.

These magnificent images by young designer James Huse are the result of of his decision to use milk-filled balloons. The project, entitled An Abrupt End was completed as part of his final year at Kingston Upon Thames where he’s studied graphic design and photography. The rest of his work is equally good and snagged him a Best New Blood award at the 2011 D&AD Awards:

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Gum-E-Balls

This is cool – it’s a Gumball vending machine that dispenses eBooks, songs, videos and games…

As an experiment with NFC technology (basically a way for mobile phones to communicate when you bring them close together), the digital agency Razorfish hacked an old gumball vending machine and turned it into a virtual goodie box. When a coin was put in the slot and the lever turned, the machine would distribute the eBook, song, etc. at a tap of an NFC-enabled phone on the release chute.

A charming way to sell and distribute digital content in the physical world:

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Dear leader

I may grumble about pretentious artists’ statements, but occasionally you come across an artist who revels in not taking themselves too seriously, and produces some fun, interesting work.

Phillip Toledano’s Kim Jong Phil series used Chinese artists to recreate dictatorial paintings from North Korea, with the great leader replaced by himself. The paintings are great, and the tongue-in-cheek, crazed self-belief of his statement just adds sugar on the top…

I don’t make work for other people, but as an artist, I need to be in dialogue with the world that exists beyond my overpopulated cranium. I’ve concluded that to be effective-to be functional-I must guzzle an eye-popping cocktail of delusion and narcissism.

It occurred to me that being an artist is a great deal like being a dictator.

Just like a dictator, I must live in a closed loop of self-delusion. A place where my words and ideas always ring true. A gilded daydream of grandiosity. There can be no room for doubt. I must be convinced that I have something vital to say. I must believe that the world is waiting in keen anticipation to hear my message.

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