NYC From the POV of the Empire State Building

For Esteban!

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Steven Foundling created the image of Steve Zissou returning to exact revenge on the Jaguar Shark who ate his closest colleague and senior statesman, Esteban du Plantier. The image shows Papa Steve fearlessly arriving to the battle mounted to a dolphin, weilding a trident, and cocking back to throw a stick of dynamite in the beast's mouth... as promised. 

The Big Lebowski 2: The Dude Goes to Washington

  The Dude, Walter, sadly not Donnie, Maude, Brant, The Jesus ,and others will be making their way back into the long awaited sequel to the 1998 cult classic, The Big Lebowski. The Cohen brothers bring you yet another story centering around Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski and Walter Sobchak.  The two have just learned that their beloved bowling alley will be closed down and destroyed to make way for a new parking garage all at the hands of a corrupt and evil land owner, Bavarian Illuminati, played by Bill Murray

Filming is slated to begin Oct 2012, and shooting for a Summer 2015 release.  Great news for Lebowski fans everywhere, but is there any way the sequel in the saga of The Dude can live up to the expectations left predecessor? I'm sure we'll be far from disappointed.

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Creepy Opposites

Thanks, BuzzFeed.

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Beer Beard

   Hey hipsters. Tired of being shunned to the outer circle of that group that you didn't want to be a part of anyway, because you're way too awesome and you just don't care?  Is that patchy, haggard excuse for a face sweater leaving you cold and lonely with only your skinny jeans to keep you warm at night?  Not to worry. Thanks to this handmade Beard Coozie, now your PBR tallboy will be able to step up and fill in even more of the blanks left by your missing social skills. You're welcome.

Bathroom graffiti done right

A Match Doing Sit-ups

Just for fun video art from Brock Davis

Banana Peel Trucker Hat (for bananas)

       Artist Brock Davis' kids were a bit grumpy recently due to the apparent dorkiness of their breakfast. Thanks to a little quick thinking and an x-acto knife, their bananas were suddenly stylish enough to sit with the cool kids.

Brock's art reminded me of one of my favorite breakfast transformations - giving the Land O' Lakes butter lady boobs! Thanks, Dad, for showing me this awesome trick a long, long time ago.

"My kids were grumpy at breakfast this morning, so I had this idea to make a quick banana peel trucker hat for the banana to wear using the peel of the banana. This cheered them up and it made the banana look relatively hip."
-Brock Davis

How to make:
"Banana: Take 1 or 2 bananas. One to make the hat, one to model the hat. This could also be made using one banana. Carve the shape of the hat using an x-acto knife. Leave one of the banana peel sides longer, to make the rim of the hat. Most bananas come with a little sticker. Use this sticker to serve as the logo on the hat, if you want your hat to have a logo.

Simple project, takes about 5 minutes yet the memories will last a lifetime."
-Brock Davis

Boobs: Take 1 box of Land O' Lakes butter. Cut the label off at the knees. Cut off the knees leaving a little space around them. Cut a flap in the part of the box where the lady is holding the butter on three sides (left, right, and bottom) with an x-acto knife. Tape the knees to the back of the box.  Lift flap and blow your third grade buddy's minds!

Children of Orleans

Please enjoy this short excerpt from the soon to be completed novel "Children of Orleans" written by my very talented and creative friend, Mike Zapata of ANTIBOOKCLUB.  Mike is the hairy one in the picture above.

“The Pope is diseased,” said the old, mad pirate to boy on one of their walks. “Pope John XXIII, who was Pope from 1410-1415, and who was also a pirate, was particularly diseased. He had a disease where he thought he was Pope. All Popes, as it turns out, have the same disease. Poets are also diseased. Most of them have syphilis, which is a sex disease that drives men to dementia. During the Sino-Japanese War, I met a famous Japanese poet who had syphilis. It was said that he hadn’t

Places in Time: Chicago

An amazing timelapse from the artist Chris Pritchard. I highly suggest clicking here to view the video in a larger HD format on the Vimeo site. The small window on Bearded Brain just does not do Chris' work justice.

"All footage for this piece was shot between 2010 and now. My goal was to provide a glimpse into the energy and fast paced life of an average day in downtown Chicago, enhanced through fast motion timelapse. Some of the viewpoints and locations may seem familiar, but I've also tried to showcase the city from a number of different and less common vantage points"
-Chris Pritchard

Fun With Shadows

Not totally sure what to do with that hoard of trash piling up in the alley behind your apartment?  If you're feeling creative (and maybe a little twisted?) like Tim Noble & Sue Webster you can spend the afternoon arranging this rubbish into abstract forms, then shining light onto your heap to display a figurative shadow. Take a look at their entire collection here. Check out "Turning the Seventh Corner", which looks to have you walking through a series of dark tunnels until you stumble upon one of their shadow pieces.  

Photos: http://www.timnobleandsuewebster.com/

Historic Explosions in Cauliflower

            Cauliflower Nagasaki, 1945



Cauliflower Hindenburg, 1937

            Cauliflower Space Shuttle Challenger, 1986


Another great series by: Brock Davis

Make something cool every day

6/1/09 community service

1/6/09 anti-fingerboarding signs

1/05/09 a scene from the fictitious horror film "Honey Bear, Sweet Honey Bear"

1/16/09 can you find the ghost?

11/10/09 ice cubes

5/30/09 stubble self portrait (drawn with toothpick)

Project: One piece of creative work every day for 365 consecutive days.

By Brock Davis

Full project here

Mom hide your bears!

   Brooklyn MFA, Kent Rogowski offers us an inside-out view of of our beloved childhood companions - stuffed animals.  Kent's works are often provocative alterations things we see and use in our daily lives. He uses anything from jigsaw puzzles to teddy bears and transforms them into a vehicle of self expression.

Npr blogger Robert Krulwich takes a moment to talk, "inside-outing" and taking a different perspective on the things you see every day. 

"The point here is to use this exercise to free your mind, to notice the things that over the years you have stopped noticing, or never noticed. The effect can be very liberating and can lead you...well, it can lead you anywhere."

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This Wild Idea

*have you seen this bearded brain*

Theron Humphrey has spent his last 215 days (to-date) traversing the country meeting 1 new person a day. He will continue doing this for another 150 days, and another 150 people. When he has reached his goal, he will have met, photographed, and captured the stories of 365 people across the US. His project, called This Wild Idea, has taken him down 19,145 miles of road, and allowed him to snap 20,940 photographs thus far. An amazing idea, and great adventure.  Best of luck to you, Theron.