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RT @giltgroupe: RIP Donna Summer — you were a true style icon and an inspiration to so many!

Facebook Animations

The simple, hypnotic joy of pressing the left & right arrow keys to animate Facebook photos. Now an entire site.  Here.

It’s Elevator Safety Week!*

Aerosmith – New Music – More Music Videos** Someone literally just yelled across my office “I just read a fact about it, in the elevator” and someone else yells “THE ELEVATOR IS ALWAYS RIGHT!!” I work high up in a

Blackwater – Our Very Own Corrupt Christian Crusaders

Well, the shit might be finally hitting the fan for Blackwater – the NY Times released an article today outlining a plot to cover up the Nisour Square massacre by bribing Iraqi officials: WASHINGTON — Top executives at Blackwater Worldwide authorized

Party @ the Art Gallery

Last Friday Popten made it out for Jason Griffin’s screen printing party – the closing festivities to his epic exhibition 80′s Babies: Getting to Know Someone. I had the chance to take a couple of photos, and really focus in

11.09.09 My Top Ten RIGHT NOW

1. ACTING in the film Precious I think I laughed too much during this on-the-nose depiction of horrifying abuse.  Director Lee Daniels seems completely unaware how to emotionally tell a story with any sense of depth or true purpose.  Luckily,

Guess Who’s Still Brilliant? Bilal…that’s who.

Performing a new song “Levels” live at Crash Mansion, NYC. Whoa. Intense…and maybe a bit overwhelming on first listen…but for my musicheads out there…come on. The Sounds of VTech / Bilal: LEVELS

Top 50 Most Popular X-mas Toys Since 1960

Brace yourself for this one.  A wave of nostalgia is probably going to hit you, and it might knock you off those stilettos/crocs.  Don’t rush the photo below.  It’s not for scanning.  Find the year you were born, and savor

Obama Night in Times Square

One year ago today America changed forever.  I was near Times Square when Obama was projected the winner.  We decided to check out the scene.  What I saw opened my heart and made it sing. The universal joy and sense

Obama’s first year…a fair critique

John H. Richardson weighs in on Obama’s first year. Brilliant and thoughtful. (Swipe from Esquire Magazine) I have figured out The Problem With America Today. My inspiration was the recent one-year-later cover of Newsweek, which encapsulates the current conventional wisdom

A Mix of Word Art

I recently stumbled across a Flickr photoset entitled “I Like Your Face” and spent over an hour of my life looking at all 274 items. Mostly, I think I just enjoyed getting lost in the simplicity of presentation of such

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