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art
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Solid Gold Kate Moss Statue
Culture Buzz A solid gold statue of Kate Moss has been unveiled in the British Museum. The work titled "Siren" was created by artist Marc Quinn and is said to be the largest gold statue erected since the times of Ancient Egypt. Start saving up, the statue will be auctioned off for charity some time in 2009.
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80 Nansecond Mona Lisa
Science Buzz Mythbusters demonstrates the difference between a CPU and a GPU with a little live art demonstration. Parallel processing, dude. Whoa.
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The Burning Blog
Culture Buzz Burning Man's up-to-the-minute blog from the desert. With the annual desert art orgy kicking off today in Black Rock City, Nevada, the Burning Blog should be fun to watch for info, news, happenings, and more! Never before has blogging been so hot.
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Smoke Art
Culture Buzz Photo art made from nothing more than everyday smoke. No one's ever been a big fan of smoke in general, but with the right lighting and a little help from Photoshop, it's making a huge comeback.
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Lego Olympics
Sports Buzz Lego enthusiasts from Hong Kong have created a miniature Beijing Olympics! Made up of 300,000 Lego bricks and over 4,500 Lego people, the miniature Lego city includes the infamous Bird's Nest Stadium, Michael Phelps' Water Cube, and George W. Bush's favorite Olympic hot spot, Beach Volleyball! All in all, it measures an impressive 10ft by 26ft.
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Cuprocking
Culture Buzz Street Artist Andy Uprock creates amazing mosaics by sticking plastic cups in chain-link fences. Uprock was inspired by the way kids stick their soda bottles through fences while they play. The Australian artist typically uses 2,500 cups to make his installations in such diverse places as Barcelona, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and most recently Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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Image: Suspect And Fugitive
A project in which the artist created items from "suspect (questionable) and fugitive (non archival) materials." And that's Bill Cosby made out of pudding. Get it?
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Saving the Bees
Culture Buzz As the effects of Colony Collapse Disorder become more ominous corporations, activists and artists pitching in to save the bees. Burt's Bees is donating a portion of its proceeds to Honey Bee Health as is Haagen-Dazs who have created delicious Vanilla Honey-Bee flavor. An collective of artist called A New Hive is creating amazing artwork involving live bees to benefit the cause.
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Graffiti Snails
Culture Buzz Street artist Slinkachu uses nontoxic paint to decorate the shells of wild snails, pimping their rides. The London based street artist frees the snails after painting them and calls the project "Inner City Snail – a slow-moving street art project".
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Image: Chicken In Front Of Wal-Mart
The Attention Chicken is a large polystyrene foam chicken. Here it is visiting Wal-Mart.
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Image: DeadSee
Artist Sigalit Landau remains buoyant, surrounded by melons in the Dead Sea, in her piece currently on display at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
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Crying Men
Culture Buzz A series of photographs by Sam Taylor-Wood captures tough guys in tears. The series features portraits of Jude Law, Robert Downey Jr., Robin Williams, Paul Newman, Ed Harris, Benicio Del Toro, Hayden Christiansen, Ryan Gosling, Gabriel Byrne, Laurence Fishburne, Woody Harrelson, and Kris Kristofferson. In the words of Jack Handy “It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man.”
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Making Children’s Drawings Reality
Culture Buzz A slew of artists and toy makers are creating real life renderings of children's drawings. Artist Yeondoo Jung's photo recreations of drawings by kindergarteners faithfully capture all the whimsy and skewed proportions of the originals. Kids these days get all the cool stuff: first those Heelys sneaker skates, then gummy vitamins, and now this.
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Couture Car Covers
Style Buzz Six fashion designers uncover the latest couture car covers made exclusively for Intersection Magazine. These are just prototypes developed for some fancy magazine photo shoot, but it seems like something that should exist. Your neighbors will never know that a Corolla is sitting under that Louis Vuitton cover in your driveway.
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Image: Etch-a-Sketch Porn
Boinkology has a round-up of the best of etch-a-sketch porn.
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Wants For Sale
Culture Buzz A site that sells paintings for the price of the things they represent. A genius idea of art-as-commerce: "Each painting shows one thing we want, and sells for the price of the real item. So you can buy 'A Slice of Pepperoni' for $3.00 or 'Dinner at Nobu' for $152.00. When the painting sells, we use the money to go out and buy that thing."
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Tongue Painting
Culture Buzz A teacher from India paints with his tongue. Watching the video makes me feel dirty and creepy, but mainly because he is painting a picture of an old man.
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Li Wei
Culture Buzz Chinese artist Li Wei has produced a baffling series of self-portraits that seem physically impossible. We all know that Asians are really good at computers, but these photographs were actually not created using Photoshop. Which makes it more like a non-annoying form of performance art.
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Bjork 3D
Music Buzz The highly anticipated 3-D video version for Björk's latest single "Wanderlust" will have its nationwide debut on April 20. How fitting that the video would be released on 4.20. You can now watch the video in all its unbridled 3-D glory here.
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