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Zach Klein is a freak. He knows it. I know it. And after you watch the absurd, brilliantly self-promotional video above, you too will know it. Fitting then that Klein is the creative brains behind Freakers USA, a Wilmington, North Carolina-based company that hand-makes one-size-fits-all bottle cooling sleeves. (The coolest ones I’ve ever seen.) Freakers already surpassed its Kickstarter goal, but there are about two hours remaining to pledge and a bunch of great swag still up for grabs. I’m most interested in the $2,000 level: a grilled cheese party that Klein will throw for you and your friends from the back of his tricked-out boxcar. How can you not love this guy? Check out three more hilarious videos after the jump. (via Okay Great)
Tomorrow, Wednesday, May 18th, the U.S. government will auction off the former belongings of Ted Kaczynski, commonly known as The Unabomber. The government has a history of selling “ill-gotten gains,” but The Unabomber auction is unique. Unlike the spoils that were sold following Bernard Madoff’s conviction, The Unabomber lived off just a couple hundred dollars a year. The government hopes that the distinctive lots of tools and notebooks will bring in bids from museums. Profits from the auctions go to the families of The Unabomber’s victims, which make them potentially good gifts. For instance, lot 001, The Unabomber’s signature sweatshirt and shades, is perfect for your ironic Williamsburg pal. And lot 025, his checkbooks and bank statements, will thrill minimalist travelers and survivalists. The auction runs from May 18th to June 2nd. The online catalog includes approximately 60 lots of property and will be available on the Web at www.gsaauctions.gov. You can check out previews of most of the items in this Flickr set. Interestingly, the government photographer responsible for cataloging The Unabomber’s belongings did an amazing job. Many of the images have an oddly beautiful quality and others would fit right in at Things Organized Neatly. Click through for a few that stood out.
Rather than providing an opinion on or an explanation of endeavors we share here on The Jailbreak, I find it more rewarding to hear directly from the producer of the content — be that an artist, designer, filmmaker, company or goat — as it provides a glimpse into the person’s (or animal’s, if we’re talking about the goat) process and purpose for creating the featured work. Here’s Belgium-based artist (painter, illustrator, caricaturist and photographer) Ben Heine explaining his series, “Pencil vs. Camera“:
Check out my 10 favorites after the break.
You know that feeling you get when you walk into someone’s house and see they’ve still got magnetic poetry on their fridge? It’s a composite of gentle pity mixed with fear they’re going to infect you with a virus sent from their aol account. I guess Chapman University (as part of the LA Times Festival of Books) thought the magnetic poetry idea could use an infusion of humanity. They invited festival-goers (a large number of whom were children, which is cool) to take a photo of themselves with their word of choice. The rest of us can log onto this website and create nonsensical (or, alternately, deeply philosophical) phrases using their pictures. It’s kind of an interesting study to see which words were chosen the most frequently, as well as which words were chosen at all. If you select “mustache,” from the drop-down menu, you’ll find two spellings of mustache and the word “taco”. If you choose “twinkle,” you’ll find a smiling young boy inadvertently covering up the “le” with his hand leaving just “twink” behind. Most of the submissions appear to be jumbles of words that would fail you out of grammar school, but perhaps cohesion isn’t the point. I’m looking forward to someone who has more time on his/her hands doing something very cool with all of this data. Here’s my best 5-minute effort:
Metro Cards are becoming the new canvas. Guatemalan-born, New York-based artist Juan Carlos Pinto makes Metro Card mosaic portraits of cultural icons like Michael Jackson, Nelson Mandela, Baquiat, John Lennon and Louis Armstrong. If you’re in New York tonight, you can see Pinto’s Salvaged Perspectives at Phantom Audio from 7-10PM. Hopefully the MTA won’t show up to crash the party. Read the rest of this entry » This week I was inspired by “Symmetry,” a striking and beautifully-constructed video produced by Everynone for Radiolab‘s “Desperately Seeking Symmetry” episode. Enjoy your weekend, wherever that may be.
Comedians are real life superheroes because they make us laugh during the toughest of times. The Old Red Jalopy team fittingly gave superhero makeovers to Tina Fey, Steve Martin, Will Ferrell, Eddie Murphy and Bill Murray.
The images were created for Comedy Central’s US Comedy Awards. Click through for the rest of the comics. [via Lost at E Minor] Hipster Animals
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Tuesday, April 19, 2011
in Art, Cartooned, Counterculture, Design, fashion, Hipster Junk, People, pop culture, The Internet
Damn, this is good. Hot on the paws of the previous post about cats and dogs as artists and writers comes Dyna Moe‘s take on Hipster Animals. From “Trust Fund Asshole” to “Full-Time Etsy Crafter,” she nails it. Her description:
In Brooklyn! Naturally, ironic T-shirts are available here. Click through for more Hipster Animals and a constantly-updated Hipster Animal slideshow! Read the rest of this entry »
Alex Pardee has already proven himself quick on the draw when it comes to inking a meme (Charlie Sheen, etc.), so it’s no surpr-eyes, he would take on last week’s viral tumblog, Chicks With Steve Buscemi Eyes. Writes Alex:
Spoken like the hero he is. Download the print-ready version here and the hi-res version here.
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