Surreal wallpaper

Custom wallpaper with designs that morph around room features?

Now that's a trip.

Hot Dogma

Hot dog vendor: How you like it?
Tourist: Just ketchup, please.
Hot dog vendor: You not like New York style?
Tourist: Sure, but not today.
Hot dog vendor, reluctantly handing over dog: I think you make very big mistake today, sir, and every day, too.

--Battery Park

Source: Overheard in New York

Don't We All, Buddy

New Indian cashier: I don't have any change. How do I get more change?
Old Indian cashier: Call on the intercom for the manager to come to the front.
New Indian cashier, over intercom: Manager to the front, please. I need change, please. I badly need change.

--Duane Reade, 50th & Broadway

Source: Overheard in New York

Thank God I'm Pretty

Trailer video for PostSecret and PostSecret.com.

Trailer video for PostSecret and PostSecret.com.

Fly

New Maeder

Leandro Maeder modeling for DOLCE & GABBANA 2007.

Uncensored trailer for Shoot Em Up released

"Violence is one of the most fun things to watch."
Clive Owen is sex.

"The Boys"

Dragonette have done a killer remake of Calvin Harris‘ The Girls.

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Some English signs seen on Non-English Speaking Countries:

In a Paris hotel elevator: Please leave your values at the front.

In a hotel in Athens: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9 and 11 a.m. daily.

In a Yugoslavian hotel: The flattening of underwear with pleasure is the job of the chambermaid.

In a Hong Kong supermarket: For your convenience, we recommend courteous, efficient self-service.

In an East African newspaper: A new swimming pool is rapidly taking shape since the contractors have thrown in the bulk of their workers.

A sign posted in Germany's Black Forest: It is strictly forbidden on our black forest camping site that people of different sex, for instance, men and women, live together in one tent unless they are married with each other for the purpose.

In an advertisement by a Hong Kong dentist: Teeth extracted by the latest Methodists.

In a Rome laundry: Ladies, leave your clothes here and spend the afternoon having a good time.

Advertisement for donkey rides in Thailand: Would you like to ride on your own ?

Detour sign in Kyushi, Japan: Stop: Drive Sideways.

In a Swiss mountain inn: Special today - no icecream.

In a Tokyo bar: Special cocktails for the ladies with nuts.

In a Copenhagen airline ticket office: We take your bags and send them in all directions.

In a Norwegian cocktail lounge: Ladies are requested not to have children in the bar.

At a Budapest Zoo: Please do not feed the animals. If you have any suitable food, give it to the guard on duty.

In the office of a Roman doctor: Specialist in women and other diseases.

In a Tokyo Hotel: Is forbitten to steal hotel towels please. If you are not person to do such thing is please not to read notis.

In a Japanese Hotel Room: Please to bathe inside the tub.

In a Bucharest Hotel Lobby: The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable.

In a Leipzig Elevator: Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up.

In a Belgrade Hotel Elevator: To move the cabin, push button for wishing floor. If the cabin should enter more persons, each one should press a number of wishing floor. Driving is then going alphabetically by national order.

In the Lobby of a Moscow Hotel Across from a Russian Orthodox Monastery: You are welcome to visit the cemetery where famous Russian and Soviet composers, artists, and writers are buried daily except Thursday.

In an Austrian hotel catering to skiers: Not to perambulate the corridors in the hours of repose in the boots of ascension.

On the Menu of a Swiss Restaurant: Our wines leave you nothing to hope for.

On the Menu of a Polish Hotel: Salad a firm's own make; limpid red beet soup" with cheesy dumplings in the form of a finger; roasted duck let loose; beef rashers beaten up in the country people's fashion.

Outside a Hong Kong tailor shop: Ladies may have a fit upstairs.

In a Bangkok dry cleaner's: Drop your trousers here for best results.

In a Rhodes tailor shop: Order your summers suit. Because is big rush we will execute customers in strict rotation.

In a Zurich hotel: Because of the impropriety of entertaining guests of the opposite sex in the bedroom, it is suggested that the lobby be used for this purpose.

In a Vienna hotel: In case of fire, do your utmost to alarm the hotel porter.

From a brochure of a car rental firm in Tokyo: When passenger of foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage then tootle him with vigor.

MORE

The video for this song actually isn't original; it wasn't made for this song that is - it's an Academy Award nominated short film made almost 10 years ago, I remember watching it as a kid. It's called "More" by Mark Osborne, you can check it out on IMDB.

WATCH it. Then if you don't understand it, highlight the text under here.

The message of this video and song is that happiness comes from inside you, not material things, and that is what makes the world around you not so bleak, but when you rely on material things to make yourself happy, you lose that happiness inside of you.

Beautiful is Ageless

Famed photographer Peter Lindbergh takes a look at the supermodels of the 90's & photographs them one more time for Italian Vogue July 2007.

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A Fine Frenzy

A Fine Frenzy, consisting of Alison Sudol, came out with her debut album last week on Virgin Records. She's amazing...I love her immediately.

Reading for Prelims Continues

Loneliness

Loneliness has been termed the most desolate word in the English language. It is no respecter of age, race, economic status, or intelligence. Albert Einstein said, "It is strange to be known so universally, and yet to be so lonely."

When a romance doesn't work out we're often put into this state of angst, rehashing what was said, the if's, the maybe's, the goods and the bads. Perhaps the most potent of these is the "missing" we feel for that lost person. How will they remember us? How should we remember them? What could have been done differently, that may have led to a different outcome. The deeper we are able to feel in life, the harder this is. It does not get easier.

But lately, I have realized this "missing" feeling is always the same. Do I really miss him? No, I don't. I miss "it". That elusive, happy feeling we have when we begin to hope again. Different scenarios, but the same feeling, as I turn over another page in my book, and wait for "it" to arrive.

Domination

Knowing yourself is important. The imperfections within yourself should be recognized, and worked on. But unless you allow them to, they are not who define you.

Similarly, I've remembered that simple concerns such as kindness, comfort, compassion, and consideration should not be the exception, rather than the rule. Just as important as knowing yourself is knowing others, and understanding that your connections with them can only grow, change and become beautiful from your flexibility in working with them. Not against them.

In reality, there is no ultimate ruler. There is only compromise.

Siouxsie Sioux - Into a Swan

Siouxsie Sioux of Siouxsie and the Banshees will be releasing a new album September 10, 2007 (World) and September 18th in the States.

"Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street; fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening."
Coco Chanel