How much does NYC make?

Somebody sent over this link yesterday and I found it quite interesting. It’s called envisioning development, and it’s quite educational and fun to play with as well. It basically shows how incomes relate to different areas of the city, by borough. Now, I really love to visit NYC, it’s an amazing and vibrant place, but I’ve always been amazed at how expensive it is to live there, especially Manhattan. So, naturally I’ve always wondered what a person requires as income to live there. Apparently there are a few brave souls who subsist on paltry incomes even in Manhattan. Who knew?

Ten Lords-A-Leaping

Target’s Billboard in Times Square

If Christmas is the time when “want is most acutely felt,” then this shining image from Target tries to assuage a deep longing. In this beautiful example, a commercial image reinterprets old-world, oral culture — without irony. Here, the fairy tale is revived with modern imagery.

More so in New York than anywhere else on the planet, the businessman is tainted goods. We all know the men of Wall St. are getting coal for Christmas. They have let us down. This image completely ignores that reality and hits us right where we harbor an unfulfilled desire. We want our men to be noble. We want them to climb the white staircase in defense of Justice. Here we see them doing just that, but doing it in sync, not as self-interested individuals. These men are organized for the greater good. They move in the form of migrating birds, telling us there is a change underway. With red ties behind them, they leap upward like latter-day corporate elves, coming to lead the economy north. Well done, Target.

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PrrrrrrRrrrrr.

Meow, meow meow meow.

Everyone loves CSA

Everyone’s oogled a French paper promo at some point in their life. Watch 20 years of ol’ Charles Spencer Anderson’s designs all in a short video. It’s very cool.

Jello shots more relevant than ever.

Andrew Salomone used approx. 1,000 jello shots to create a portrait of comedian Bill Cosby.

Twitter beard.

If you’ve ever seen Von’s work, the guy’s got  some serious skills. We love what he does. Apparently, he’s been teaching a digital illustration class and the assignment was to create a mask. He did one based on his love of twitter, and it’s pretty humorous. Check out people using the mask on his blog and you can even print one out and make one for yourself or your grandma. Assuming she likes that kind of thing.

Opinions of a Mexican Girl

Día de los Muertos. Day of the Dead. All Souls Day. The day that you celebrate all those who have departed this world. The Mexican Halloween. So we decided to have a little celebration and make a random list of  those who sadly have left and those who should stay dead and buried 6 feet deep or just go away:

Sad:

Ricardo Montealban and Tattoo – A simpler time when reality TV didn’t involve looking at people eating pig uterus or showing the entire population just how freaky they really are.

Original VW bugs – This is really old news but Mexico sold the last bug some years ago…sad…so many memories. You could never drive a shiny new, super basic bug off the lot ever again.

Old rain forest that has been cut.

Cuddly stuffed animals you used to tell your dreams to when you were a child (but should probably not sleep with anymore).

Should go:

Hanna Montana – Nobody buys that innocent act anymore…well except 15 million kids.

Shoulder pads – Gooone. American Apparel, don’t even think abut it.

Ballon boy’s dad -  No need to explain.

Parachute pants – When where those in style?

Uggs! – from what I read they are not very loved, except by their owners.

Any product in which material you can print a photo of yourself or your
adorable kids.

=) ; ) – dead.

So the word of the day is trend because everything you think is cool now will probably embarrass you tomorrow, or at least that is probably what Melanie Griffin thinks of her Working Girl’s stylist.

 

UNICEF’s Turn Soldiers Back Into Children Campaign

(Pic) UNICEF’s Turn Soldiers Back Into Children Campaign.

Ever wish you could stare directly into the eye of a whale?

Wish granted.

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Religion made simple.

Too simple, I guess.

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more stache please

ok, ok, ok, I know there’s way too many mustache posts on this blog. Sometimes I just can’t resist.

Lunchmeat identity:

We’ve always thought the guys at Rethink did amazing work. This just furthers our belief. From the Rethink site: “La Charcuterie is a deli/restaurant hybrid well known around Vancouver for serving up sandwiches filled with deli meats. To play off this, business cards were created to look like cold cuts. They were strung in netting similar to the way salami and other cured meats are hung in delis. Finally, we printed the letterhead and envelopes on butcher paper— the same paper they wrap their sandwiches in.”

Even more facial hair fun

Just when you thought we’d scoured the interwebs and found everything related to facial hair, voila!, it’s facial hair bandages. Yay. I think these are fun, and I bet your child will, too. Check ‘em here.

Visualization of Waste

You could say that sometimes art is like a mirror. Artists portray the human condition with fresh, honest eyes. Chris Jordan’s art reflects our obscenely wasteful society with brutal clarity.

This image is from the series called “Running the Numbers II”. It depicts 2.4 million pieces of plastic, equal to the estimated number of pounds of plastic pollution that enter the world’s oceans every hour. All of the plastic in this image was collected from the Pacific Ocean.

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This image depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).

This image depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.

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There are plenty more on his website.

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More neat-o street art

With the growth in popularity and interest in street art these days, we’re pleasantly finding more and more examples of quite clever urban art to enjoy on the interwebs. And this makes us happy. As we at sukle live for ‘the idea’, it’s really satisfying to see graffiti artists starting to use their heads a little more and create urban art that is funny, clever and sometimes quite poignant. Bigtime names like Banksy have led the way for this movement, and we as viewers are indebted to their genre-bending ways and innovative thinking. The artist’s images on this post is SpY, and I saw some interesting works over here at weheartstuff. Check out some more works for yourself.