David Choe talks about how David Fincher hired artists to recreate the art that he painted in the Facbook offices.

Bored of the same tired old rock-paper-scissors (lizard-Spock)? Try Mark Rayner’s variant: “Monkey-Pirate-Robot-Ninja-Zombie!”

Monkey
* Monkey fools Ninja
* Monkey unplugs Robot
Suggested noise: ee-ee-eek!

Robot
* Robot chokes Ninja
* Robot crushes Zombie
Suggested noise: ex-ter-min-ate!

Pirate
* Pirate drowns Robot
* Pirate skewers Monkey
Suggested noise: arrrrr!

Ninja
* Ninja karate chops Pirate
* Ninja decapitates Zombie
Suggested noise: keeee-ah!

Zombie
* Zombie eats Pirate
* Zombie savages Monkey
Suggested noise: braaaaaaaaaainsss!

How to Play Monkey-Pirate-Robot-Ninja-Zombie

How Fire Extinguishers Work, a new Shirt.Woot t-shirt by moonboy. 

Tokyo Times : Waterslide Ruins

One of a great set of photos taken at a resort gone to seed.

Box Man, Amazon.jp Version

Tell me you don’t want this

Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 from Sean Stiegemeier on Vimeo.

Sean Stiegemeier, who created the video embedded above, writes,

So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better. But the flights to get over took forever as expected (somewhat). Four days after leaving I finally made it, but the weather was terrible for another four. Just before leaving it got pretty good for about a day and a half and this is what I managed to get

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Iceland, Eyjafjallajökull – May 1st and 2nd, 2010 (vimeo)

Rebecca Dudeiros had her pastry chef friend Teresa Ulrich whip up this fantastic AT-AT wedding cake and matching Ewok cupcakes — a sweetly nerdy way to begin a long and happy marriage, I’m sure.

Awesome Star Wars Wedding Cake (via Craft)

Trent Reznor has returned in bloody, fiery form with “The Space in Between”, the first video from How to Destroy Angels, his new collaboration with his wife, former West Indian Girl frontwoman Mariqueen Maandig.

“The Space in Between” and first single “A Drowning” will be on How to Destroy Angels’ self-titled EP, due out this summer.

Chuck Close

In 1988, Close had a spinal artery collapse, on the day he was to give a speech at an art awards ceremony. He felt ill beforehand, asked to be first, gave his speech, then painfully went to a hospital across the street. A few hours later he was a quadriplegic and his painting career might have been terminated.

However Close continued to paint with a brush held between his teeth, creating large portraits in low-resolution grid squares created by an assistant.

“An Assortment of Underachieving AT-ATs” by Tobias Lunchbreath