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37 Photos Of Fancy Shoe Porn
Culture Buzz Foot fetish and fancy free! Here are photos of the new exhibit at the Design Museum in London dedicated to avant garde shoe designer, Christian Louboutin.
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President Obama And Elie Wiesel Light Candles At The Holocaust Museum
Culture Buzz Some very moving photos. To mark Holocaust Remembrance Day, the president toured the Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington D.C. with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate — and Holocaust survivor — Elie Wiesel. President Obama took the opportunity to denounce human rights abuses in Iran and Syria.
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Marc Jacobs-Louis Vuitton Exhibit Is Creepy Cool
Culture Buzz A bizarre, fascinating museum retrospective looking back at the work of prestigious fashion house Louis Vuitton and their current creative director, Marc Jacobs. Unveiled yesterday in Paris. High caliber design and fashion porn presented by disco mohawk mannequins and free-floating limbs.
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Mick Jagger Mouth Urinals
Music Buzz Based on the band's classic logo and brought to you by men's room mostly modeled in western Europe. (via latimesblogs.latimes.com)
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Image: I Am Only 6 But I Think I Can Do This Job
An application from Sam Pointon, who was then 6-years-old, for the position of Director of the National Railway Museum of Britain. He can control two trains at once. Might be overqualified.
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Image: Pig Destined For The Butcher Finds Luxurious Lifestyle After Earthquake
This hog survived being buried under earthquake debris for 36 days by eating charcoal and rainwater. Originally weighing 150kg, he only measured up at 50kg when he was finally rescued. They named him “Zhu Jianquiang” (Strong-willed pig) for good reason! The lucky piggy is now living out his days in luxury at the earthquake exhibit in the Jianchuan Museum, and is back up to a healthy weight of 200kg.
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Link: Populism Hasn’t Boosted Brooklyn Museum’s Attendance
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/arts/design/15museum.ht...
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The Brooklyn Museum has invited the neighborhood in, but its attendance in 2009 dropped 23 percent.
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Link: Galileo’s Fingers in Florence Museum
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100608/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_...
Two of Galileo's fingers, removed from his corpse by admirers in the 18th century, have gone on display in a Florence museum now named after the astronomer.
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Link: Paleontologists brought to tears, laughter by Creation Museum
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/ts_alt_afp/scienceus...
What happens when a Paleontologist visits the Creationist Museum in Kentucky. Hilarity.
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Link: Pretty Loaded
A surprisingly interesting and watchable museum of Flash preloaders? What's that? You're not a web designer and you don't know what a Flash preloader is? If you spend much time online, you actually do: It's that usually irritating “Loading” message you're hit with when you visit a particularly large Flash site. This site has collected a bunch of preloaders which are worth seeing in and of themselves. Trust me, it's more interesting than it sounds.
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Obama’s Hope Portrait
Politics Buzz Shepard Fairey's five-foot tall “Hope” portrait is headed to the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, to be hung Inauguration Day. They won't reveal how much they paid for it, which means it cost approximately a butt-load.
