CULTURE BUZZ – Artist Benjamin Verdonck installs a giant bird’s nest on the side of a building in Rotterdam.Pretty dangerous if you don’t know how to fly.

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The Best Links:

1. Video of Artist Acting Like a Bird in His Nest
2. Materials Used To Build the Next
3. Photo of Giant Bird Nest from the Side
4. “Not the act of a sane, rational person”
5. Benjamin Verdonck’s Official Site (Warning: Makes No Sense)

CULTURE BUZZ – In New York’s Union Square (home to protests, skaters, and street performers), a live fight club broke out where ringmasters urged bystanders to challenge an opponent to a momentary brawl.Naturally, some hipsters — clad in skinny jeans and hot-ironed bangs — got in on the fun. And what’s a street fight without ironic uppercuts?

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The Best Links:

1. Read the First-hand Account
2. The First Rule Of Hipster Fight Club Is…Don’t Pull On Each Other’s White Belts
3. No Face Shots? Zzz…
4. “People Not Only Condoned the Rather Out of Place Activities, It Actually Attracted a Healthy Number of Participants.”

CELEBRITY BUZZ – Websites devoted to tracking the weird semi-public figures in a city near you.Taking the character you see on the way to work every morning and elevating him or her to the level of semi-celebrity, tracking local eccentrics via the web is a special sub-genre of internet famous.

The Best Links:

1. Telstar Logistics: 12 Things You Probably Don’t Know About Frank Chu
2. Frank Chu / 12 galaxies interview
3. 23 More of New York’s Most Visible, And Possibly Insane, Eccentrics
4. Though He’s Not Actually Naked, They Call Him the Naked Cowboy
5. Keeping Tabs on Seattle’s Notables, Where’er They May Be
6. Tracking He Man in NYC
7. Local Urban Color Goes 2.0-y
8. Toronto’s Muscle-Bound Zanta
9. Seattle’s “Where’s Slats?” Forum