Stalking Venus

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LOL, this is great. Very cleverly done, and true on a number of levels.

So bad, and yet so good.

New Anti-Smoking Ads Warn Teens ‘It’s Gay To Smoke’

Mad performance art organisers, Improv Everywhere managed to get 2000 people together to do a massive flash-mob. They handed out ‘invisible dog’ leashes to everyone and then they all went through Brooklyn, looking perfectly serious.

For those of you who were not there– we passed out over 2,000 “invisible dog” leashes and had everyone go for a nice Sunday walk in Brooklyn. If you were anywhere within a one mile radius of the Bergen St. stop in Cobble Hill today, you would have seen all types of folks very seriously walking their very silly dogs.

The invisible dog toy was invented in the 1970s in the Brooklyn factory that served as our meeting point today. No Longer Empty and The Invisible Dog art space were nice enough to loan us the vintage dogs for an afternoon of fun.

Check it: Improv Everywhere Invisible Dogs

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

Probably won’t be any good for those who saw the original, but there’s always hope. Trailer’s pretty funky.

Every now and again, I come across someone who doesn’t believe in global warming. They say it’s hype or some sort of scientific conspiracy to um… well, to do something or other. Maybe get funding or recognition or something.

Well, as they say, a picture is worth a thousand words, so check this out. These are photos of the marble-walled multi-million dollar luxury Lake Palace resort in Udaipur, India in 2007:

The palace was used in the filming of James Bond smash hit, Octopussy back in the eighties. Here’s the palace as it is in July, 2009. The entire lake you see in the above photos has completely evaporated…

I’m just saying, you know?