My 2 cents

An interesting piece of collaboration with the ten thousand cents project the image is made of ten thousand individual anonymous drawings, each being paid 1 cent for their contribution making a $100 dollar artwork. Have a look at the site for an interactive drawing, Enjoy

Advertising 2.0

Ebay gives people a chance to buy a tv spot for their product and in turn gets 10 original adverts and a ton of press coverage. Clever ebay.

Reprints

To celebrate Esquire magazine's 75th birthday, they asked some of the worlds best and most influential fashion designers to recreate some of esquires most iconic front covers, and the results are brilliant.

Domenico Dolce & Stefano Gabbana photo by julian broad based on Floyd Patterson and Muhammad Ali photo

by Carl Fischer (august 1966 cover)

Karl Lagerfeld photo by Karl Lagerfeld based on Richard Nixon and cultural icons photo by George Lois and Carl Fischer

(june 1969 cover)

sir paul smith photo by nadav kander based on Andy Warhol photo by Carl Fischer (may 1969 cover)

Vivienne Westwood photo by Jurgen Teller based on army portrait of George Lois (december 1962 cover)

Giorgio Armani photo by Alice Hawkins based on Marcello Mastroianni photo by Timothy Galfas (february 1965 cover)

Ohn Galliano photo by Jean-Baptiste Mondino based on Muhammad Ali photo by Carl Fischer (april 1968 cover)

Donatella Versace photo by lorenzo Agius based on Roy Cohn photo by Carl Fischer (february 1968 cover)

Christopher Bailey photo by Bryan Adams based on model and pig photo by Carl Fischer (september 1969 cover)

Miuccia prada photo by Ilan Rubin and 2x4 based on esky cover by Henry Wolf and Dan Wynn (march 1955 cover)

Alber Elbaz (self-portrait) and Luscus Ossendrijver of Lanvin photo by Desmond Muckian based on models

photographed by Carl Fischer (march 1968 cover)

Tommy Hilfiger photo by Douglas Friedman based on Dustin Hoffman photo by Carl Fischer (july 1970 cover)

Melting

Henry David Thoreau ISBN Tag

I really like the idea of this, something so simple which is able (with a bit of digging) to say something so expansive.

From Torontoist:

"This year, a more cryptic stencil has appeared on the Humber Bay Arch Bridge, boldly proclaiming "ISBN 486-28495-6" for all to see and ponder. This International Standard Book Number turns out to be a paperback edition of Henry David Thoreau's Walden; Or, Life in the Woods.

In Walden, Thoreau wrote, "A lake is the landscape's most beautiful and expressive feature. It is earth's eye; looking into which the beholder measures the depth of his own nature."

Photo by Val Dodge.

You think you work hard

If you think you work hard have a look at this:

This is an animation created by the graffiti artist blu it inspiring to see someone put so much hard work into something purely for themselves, the work isn't paid for by anyone, and its not available to sell (because its on a wall) its all really impressive, and you should check out his illustrations n his site.

Fun Adverts

Definitely the best advert I've seen in a while

Red Ken or Blond Boris

Well in the race to see who's going to be looking after London for the next 4 years the BBC have a nice simple web widget click here to see the current results or here for the politics RSS feed.