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09/06/2011
Chicken screen tests by Aaron Rose! From Nowness:
Californian chickens and a charismatic duck mug for the camera in director Aaron Rose’s Warhol-inspired mock screen tests, set to Dean and Britta’s cover of Bob Dylan’s “I’ll Keep It With Mine.” The vignettes were shot during a series of Levi’s-sponsored filmmaking workshops about sustainable lifestyle hosted at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA in Los Angeles, culminating in the documentary Wild Goodness.
One of our dear readers, Michelle, sent this to me. She must have known I love Warhol! STOP STALKING ME, MICHELLE.
The chickens and duck are from a farm in San Pedro, Calif., where I’m sure they were safely returned, never to be eaten or abused. Because a project based on a sustainable lifestyle would know how silly it is to rely on chickens and eggs for food, right?
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07/08/2011
Oreo cameos! Oreos are vegan so this is totally relevant. AND AWESOME. Do you have any Oreo art? Let’s all make Oreo art! Or Tofutti Cutie art! Or whatever! Let’s just do some cool shit for once, jeez.
The artist, Judith G. Klausner, has done other food art, including this awesome vegan egg on toast. I’m in love!
∞ posted at 12:58 by youtalkfunny
06/21/2011
Poster from this year’s Sea Shepherd’s 2011 Sea No Evil Art Show. How dope is it? Hint: SO DOPE. I’m jealous of you Californians who are going to this. Dudes, take pictures and tell me how it is! Or buy me art! Or just get me a poster! I really want one! I will love you forever! (Pish, as if I could love you any more than I already do)
Deets:
2011 SEA NO EVIL ART SHOW
Benefiting Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
Saturday, June 25; doors open at 6 p.m. 3485 Mission Inn Ave, corner of Mission Inn and Lemon in Riverside, Calif.
∞ posted at 08:18 by youtalkfunny
04/27/2011
Happy World Tapir Day! Print some biology postcards to celebrate! »
Maggie Koerth-Baker over at Boing Boing shares two glorious reasons to pause and enjoy the wonders of biology today. First of all, who knew?
It’s World Tapir Day! This tapir is celebrating with a nice, long bath. You deserve it, tapir! It’s hard work, lookin’ like a pig, but being more closely related to a horse.
Even more exciting though, here’s some free art!
This is an axolotl, a type of salamander that is frequently used by scientists trying to study developmental biology. Axolotls have taught about physical regeneration, and how hormones force physical changes between young creatures and their adult forms.
The above awesome pink drawing is just one of 16 Japanese-style biology images that the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology has released under a Creative Commons license. That means you’re allowed to do whatever you want with them as long as you give the artist credit and don’t try and sell them because that would be lame and also don’t modify them because they asked you not to!
Anyway, I’m thinking about printing me up a batch of note-cards to mail to people in an effort to single-handedly ensure the continued operation of the postal service. Axolotl!
∞ posted at 14:52 by reportingrzurer 
04/26/2011
Awesome vegan blog alert: the Vegan Stoner »
The Vegan Stoner is an amazingly illustrated recipe blog. I’m in love! I know I say that a lot but this time I think it will stick! The pictures are great but the illustrations just make it super awesome.
Check it out: “The Vegan Stoner was created under the premise that vegan cooking can be made without extensive ingredient lists and involved recipes, that recipes are only templates and the creativity starts in the kitchen.” THAT’S what I’m talking about! That’s how I like my recipes: easy and creative! Incidentally, that’s also how I like my women.
∞ posted at 15:12 by youtalkfunny
04/11/2011
The beatification of the pigeon »
Hey young world! It’s the art beat! You know I love pigeons so when I read about this art installation in Philadelphia, I was so excited. Then I was so sad to see it closed on Saturday! We missed the show. But! We can still look at the pictures!
Matt Zigler created The Mobile Museum of Pigeon Culture and History, a pigeon museum in a Pod (you know, those storage containers popular with the college set), to venerate the disrespected bird. Along with the mobile museum, the installation included a series of altars, “Five Saintly Pigeons of the Book of Columba,” to various pigeons with a seed dispenser nearby to provide offerings. Zigler is not fucking around; he set out to elevate these birds to saints. As the bearer of so much public disdain, this is just what the pigeons need! You got to make serious moves. No half-stepping for Zigler and the pigeons—they’re like, “bow down, bitches!” Jeez, pigeons, relax.
Hopefully the mobile museum will travel nearby soon, I’ll let you know. In the meantime, be kind to your local pigeon.
∞ posted at 08:05 by youtalkfunny
02/04/2011
Artists, design students: 2011 Design Against Fur poster competition »
Are you a talented student and totally anti-fur? You should enter the 2011 Design Against Fur competition! Above is last year’s Europe and International first-prize winner. Dudes, apparently the bar is LOW because that poster is kind of LAME. It just doesn’t do it for me. What do you think?
The deadline for registration is Apr. 1 and the deadline for submissions is Apr. 15. First prize is 700€! According to my calculations, that’s about $954 U.S. Holler! You could finally take me somewhere nice for a change.
∞ posted at 13:43 by youtalkfunny
01/20/2011
Check it out, kiddies! A plush mollusk anatomy by San Francisco’s I had to dissect a clam in middle school and it was totally GROSS! This, however, is adorable! The pattern isn’t on her etsy store, Wunderkammer, but there are lots of nice patterns on there. Check it out. Fun!
Any teachers looking for dissection alternatives?! This could be an art+science lesson! If you had to crochet a mollusk’s anatomy, you’d remember that shit.
∞ posted at 09:24 by youtalkfunny
