Design mag/site Core77 has a wonderful collection of art made from recycled materials.

A collection of recycled art

Continuing Steve’s Star Wars motif…

Here’s the caption of this photo, which originally appeared in the Ashland, Oregon Daily Tidings:

Marjorie Mather, 91, reacts after splattering paint on a picture of President George Bush using a slingshot apparatus to shoot a shoe with wet paint on the sole.

Priceless.

(h/t: CC)

Steve Lambert at the Anti-Advertising Agency weblog writes:

Our city is read-only. You’re free to read advertising, business signs, and city signs. But dare you write or hang anything of your own; you will be labeled as a criminal – a graffiti vandal. In many cities it’s even illegal to hang a sign for a garage sale on a light pole. If you happen to have a several thousand dollars, you might be able to say what you want – as long as it’s not too political.

But this is public space. You’re free to say whatever you want in public space, but freedom of speech does not extend to the visual environment. The visual environment is pay to play. Public visual space has become commercial space.

The visual environment is read only.

Why is read/write better? Because you can consume, process, and respond. This is how we think critically. This is how we learn. You can talk back. You can express yourself. You don’t just consume expression, you create expression.

Read/write is how democracy works.

IRAQ WAR ENDS and other great headlines in today’s (fake) New York Times (courtesy of The Yes Men).

Check out this cool Japanese water fountain:

Mr. Mul-zany shared this incredible Flash video site with me today via email. Too freakin’ awesome!

This came up as one of the sidebar images on the blog’s home page (it searches Flickr for photos tagged with ‘information’). He calls it a “Life Map,” and it shows his interests, academic and non-academic, apportioned through his life.

Phillip Toledano’s installation America: The Gift Shop is definitely worth an on-line browse. Chilling and funny at the same time. (Pictured above is the Abu Ghraib Coffee Table.)