Banksy in New Orleans??

Rumors and evidence of possible Banksy work (or closely derived from his work) seen in New Orleans, on the 3rd anniversary of Katrina. Small photoset here.

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Holo-Cat Goodness.

iHologram - iPhone application from David OReilly on Vimeo.
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Deconstructed Appliances

Really cool Flickr set of dissasembled household appliances. The above is a coffeemaker. Beautiful.

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Euro Homer.

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'Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love'

New Yorker Matt Kinsey went into the West Side Market in NYC the other day and picked up a container of assorted cheese cubes from the shelf. When he glanced down to see if the ingredients would truly be 'great for snacks,' he was surprised to find some classic rock lyrics instead.

As you can see from the photo, a verse from Van Halen's "Ain't Talkin' 'bout love" was curiously printed on the label. In other words, ingredients = killer lyrics.

No word yet if thousands of mullet haired rock fans have made a pilgrimage to the market in their assless chaps to pay tribute to this one of a kind VH cheese. But In my opinion any cheese that's "been to the edge, And [then I] stood and looked down" is some the best damn cheese ever made. Even if it's rotten to the core.

The work of some rogue stockboy no doubt.

via yesbutnoyes / adage

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Get Your War On.

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Must be a New Orleanian.

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Geauxbama!

Check out the killer Geauxbama shirts & stickers from Dirty Coast!

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Rainbow in Marrero

A Rainbow In Marrero from ballzack on Vimeo.

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Time Stops in Grand Central.

Wow. Funny as hell. Thanks, Vector Living!

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Obey Obama.

Pretty neat new Shepard Fairey prints, found at the Creative Review Blog.

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Old New World Order.

Pretty cool agitprop from Knife Party and Submediatv. Jonah pointed me to this today. Said it was a little dated, but I still dig it.

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Shive on the Scene.

These crazy bastards are too funny. The NSFW Dirty Coast jingle reminds me a little of one of my favorite local NOLA commercial jingles, for Broad Warehouse furniture.

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1 iPhone Per Child.

Good stuff. Thanks Twenty B's!
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One Laptop for Xmas.

This year, my company Annunciation donated 'One Laptop Per Child' laptops on behalf of our clients for the year-end holidays. We ended up with one of them at our offices. Very neat. The attentiveness in engineering is immediately apparent. Couldn't find the hand crank on ours - we must've gotten the domestic model. Great program, and we're excited to watch it progress.
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The Davos Question.

Every year many of the world's top leaders attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss how to make the world a better place.

This year, you get to join them.

First, submit a video answering The Davos Question:

"What one thing do you think that countries, companies or individuals must do to make the world a better place in 2008?"

Then, starting January 1st, watch and rank others' ideas. The highest-rated videos will be screened in Davos (January 23-27), where world leaders will watch your videos and make responses of their own. Your idea could be the start of something big.

Visit The Davos Question website.

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Old-fashioned Vandalism.

The guy across the street got TP'ed over the weekend, and it struck me that this expression of juvenile mischief seems a lot fewer and further between than it used to. I enjoyed the art of heaving Charmin back in the early eighties, but don't see it much anymore. I suppose everyone gets TP'ed virtually on Facebook these days. Yeesh.

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Bush Pointillism

I really like Phil Hansen's work - do a search on his name on YouTube - neat stuff.
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Faub.org Meets the Public

We had a launch party last weekend for the creative group we formed about a year ago here in New Orleans. Lots of fun, see some of the pix going up here. Thanks to all who came out and signed in to keep the independent creative community talking. Special thanks to Andy at Barrister's Gallery for hosting the event space on St. Claude. The weather was perfect, the DJs were rockin, and the hazy recollections suggest people had some fun...

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Rejected Cartoons

My sister Rebecca sent me this. If you watch the whole thing, you'll be my new best friend. This guy cracks me up.

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Mmmmmmn, classy.

From Axe. File under 'subtle advertising".

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Faub.org Party Time.

Faub.org creative Aid and Pleasure Club PARTY!!

Saturday, November 3rd 7pm - til

Barrister's Gallery
2331 St. Claude Ave at corner of Spain St.

DJ Joey Buttons and DJ Brice Nice spinning
Psssst..Pass It On plus other multimedia

For more info, pls visit www.faub.org

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The Kingfish

Who took on the Standard Oil men
And whipped their ass
Just like he promised he'd do?
Ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state
Gonna be run by little folks like me and you

Here's the Kingfish, the Kingfish
Friend of the working man
The Kingfish, the Kingfish
The Kingfish gonna save this land...

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Josh Keyes Interview

This guy's stuff kills me. California artist Josh Keyes is interviewed at ourartsite.com. Take a look. Very cool.

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Faub.org Wants You.

Faub.org is celebrating its official formation and public launch with a bash at Barrister's Gallery Saturday, November 3rd. Food and drinks at 7pm, and DJs Brice Nice and Joey Buttons will fire it up into the night. Multimedia piece Pssst. Pass It On by Grow Design Work's Brian Dougherty-Johnson will be shown, along with Faub.org original works.

Join us, bring some wine, meet working artists, designers, developers, and folks running the creative and tech gamuts. Download the press release.

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QBN's Shepard Fairey sessions.

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Faub.org is Alive.

Kudos to Ness & Erik, who went deep and gave us faub.org. We've graduated from temp splash page to this wonderful and fun interim site, which will someday give birth to the full site, which has been an ongoing labor of love since the early days.

What's Faub.org? A growing handful of New Orleans-based creatives and techies, feeling a bit thrown to the winds post-Katrina, bound together in spirit and spirits. We design. We develop. We drink, and more often than not, we talk a lot. Check it out. Play around w. the site. Dragging stuff around encouraged. We're having some sort of launch party this Fall. More to come.

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Sneaker Pimps.

Check out this photoset from a Sneaker Pimps installation in L.A.

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Billions McMillions

Billions McMillions, a.k.a. Bill McMullen, is a phenomenal pop designer. Love the stuff. Bad Brains, Beasties, Star Wars and Drum Machines. How could you go wrong? Check out the nice site.

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The Napkin iDea.

Check out this brilliant iPhone parody site from iDea. Thanks to Malcolm for sending it this way!

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Voyeur Launch

HBO's Voyeur project launched a spectacular site as a part of a larger campaign that included some really cool projections. Read more about the development and launch here.
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Warp Zone Beauty

Isn’t it great how creativity kicks in when times running out. Take for example this incredible and beautiful installation by artists Dan Havel and Dean Ruck a few months before this house was to be demolished…. I’m guessing they saw any opportunity to do something freaking crazy cool to a space that was going to be destroyed and turned this old house into a trippy wooden warp zone! [more]
from designverb
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TV-B-Gone™

TV-B-Gone™ universal remote control turns off virtually any television! It's the ultimate jammer tool for reclaiming public space. It works at airports, bars, offices... any place that needs a break from the idiot box. Clarity of mind, one click at a time.

Click here for details and how it works.
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Inspiring Adverts

I love these really cool examples of great 'interrupter' communication. These have made the rounds for quite a while, but I still get a kick out of them. Seen any? Send them my way.