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Artist Hunter Jonakin creates “Jeff Koons Must Die!!!” Video Game.

“What if you were locked in an art museum overnight, with a rocket launcher, during a Jeff Koons retrospective.” So begins the video preview for the videogame Jeff Koons Must Die!!! MFA candidate Hunter Jonakin‘s 2011 sculpture, is a stand-up arcade cabinet where the viewer can play a video game in which the protagonist walk around an art museum during a Jeff Koons retrospective and is given the choice to destroy the work with a rocket launcher. In choosing the virtuous path by not doing so, they merely wander the museum, see the work, and then the game ends. However, if they do destroy more than one work (and there’s the choice of puppies, basketballs, La Cicciolina paintings, etc.), Koons will appear and the game takes on the more familiar violent nature of popular first-person shooters, with enemy combatants being replaced with museum guards, curators, lawyers and studio assistants. The important action of the game is not the destruction itself, but which decision the player makes regarding whether to destroy Koons’ work. ”Jeff Koons Must Die” clearly pays homage to one of the art world’s entrenched stars while also allowing its player to enact a virtual catharsis if they so choose.
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You know you've made it when you've been moulded in miniature plastic. But you know what children do with dolls - it's a bit scary, actually.

Mark Zuckerberg Doll Goes On Sale -

Presenting the most friendly toy we’ve ever seen: the “Poking Inventor” action figure that is inspired from a man who makes the world more open and connected. How does it feel in our hands? The workmanship standard of this collection item is superb, and it is the next greatest action figure for tech nerds. We really admired the man who is responsible for connecting over 500 million people across the world, helping Egypt’s protesters to spark an uprising, becoming the youngest billionaire and the “Person of the Year”. Being a big fan of the friendly network that everyone is using nowadays, we got the Poking Inventor action figure to show our support to the CEO.

This is it. The Poking Inventor looks smart in a casual brown sweat shirt and comfortable worn-in jeans. He stands on a white rectangular-shaped base platform which is made of hard plastic, with a nice pose of sticking his left hand in pocket with his thumb out. And he holds a ‘Like” or “Poke” button in his right hand. Weight and size? It is heavier than an iPhone, lighter than an iPad. And it stands 7 inches tall.

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When I was a kid my favorite relative was Uncle Caveman. After school we'd all go play in his cave, and every once in a while he would eat one of us.

APARTMENT THERAPY

The home of The Sleeper family (Curtis, Deborah, and their three kids) who live in a cave. Literally. It's a 17,000 square foot gouge in the earth that dates back to a 1930s sandstone mine in Festus, Missouri. Measuring in at 45 feet underneath a forest, this unusual home has to be seen to be believed.

“I Now Have Absolute Proof That Smoking Even One Marijuana Cigarette is Equal in Brain Damage to Being on Bikini Island During an H-bomb Blast.”

Environmental Graffiti

Costa Rica, Cleanest Nation in the World, Environmentally… Costa Rica already has an excellent reputation in the sphere of green issues. It has protected areas which cover more than a quarter of the tiny Central American republic, including national parks and jungle reserves. It already uses renewable energy to generate more than 96 per cent of its energy and it plans to further reduce and offset the emissions created from agriculture, transport and industry. The environment Minister, Roberto Dobles said the state would promote the use of hybrid vehicles and planting of trees through economic compensation. Landowners are paid to grow trees to capture carbon and protect watersheds.

This, according to Esteban Brenes, a conservation finance specialist at the WWF, is the secret of Costa Rica’s success “The fact that Costa Rica has applied the payments on a national scale is what’s innovative.” This is the reason why countries such as Norway are losing out in the race to become carbon neutral. Critics however, point to the fact that Costa Rica has a poor reputation regarding national corruption and that landowners should be compensated for growing crops rather than trees.

Their logic is based on the fact that an already poor country could get poorer through a false economy of tree-planting and that the money could be put to better use, such as improving social justice. Critics are also quick to suggest that this may be part of a larger marketing strategy to put the country “on the map.”

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Do You Realize That If We Played By The Rules Right Now We'd Be In Gym?

Now you can own a peice of Saturday morning movie rerun history. The house(in the above photos) that appeared in the 1986 John Hughes movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, where it was the fictional home of Ferris’ best friend, Cameron Frye (played by Alan Ruck) is up for sale by Sotheby’s.

The house was designed by architects A. James Speyer and David Haid, both students of Mies van der Rohe. The home’s steel and glass International Style shows Mies’ influence, and the floor-to-ceiling windows provide 360-degree views of the surrounding woods. All just for a measly 2.3 million.

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When I See an Adult on a Bicycle, I Do Not Despair for the Future of the Human Race.

In what looks to be a solid combination of Germany’s fixed gear community and stunning cinematography, the latest upcoming video project to emerge revolving around cycling is seen here with Fixed City. The trailer delves into the lives and inspirations of various personalities.

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fixed city | Trailer updated! from fixed city on Vimeo.

I Appreciate Preservation. It's What You Do When You Run for President. You Gotta Preserve.”

WTC Logo Preservation Project by Ji Lee
New York designer Ji Lee has launched a project to collect photographs of logos that show the former World Trade Center in a New York skyline. Lee publishes the photos on the project website; anyone can contribute by uploading their own images. “These logos will not last forever as many of the small business will either update their logos at some point or close their doors eventually,” says Lee.By collecting and publishing the logos, he hopes to preserve the towers’ iconic image. Visit www.wtclogo.com to contribute.

Here’s an explanation from Ji Lee:

After 9/11, I started to noticed the Twin Towers in many logos containing the New York City skyline. These were mostly from small businesses: dry cleaners, delis, movers, and so on. I experienced a strange mix of sadness and joy seeing the iconic Towers standing there majestically, as if nothing happened. These logos will not last forever as many of the small business will either update their logos at some point or close their doors eventually. Thus the Twin Towers would sadly vanish forever. In order to preserve them, I started photographing them whenever I found one – and there are many of them around. Soon it became an enjoyable game every time I was on the streets of New York, like a treasure hunt which never ceases to be rewarding.

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