Tonight is the night, the end of...

This. Fucking. Election.

The fellow behind the canvas.

So we all know the face of Mona Lisa - but how many know the face of da Vinci? See how portrait artist Woldhek cracked that code in this video.

{via Coudal}

Christopher Doyle's Identity Guidelines

Came across this while, coincidentally, in my own mind was mulling over a brand guide I'll be working on with my friend. Would love doing this for myself as I've been doing a huge haulout of my closet and reimagining my "brand" a little. Would be interesting to do this each season as a personal documentary; goodness knows how we look speaks volumes about who we are - or at least who we'd like to be.

3-D is the new 2-D.

Excellent excellent site showcasing the fine work of Amsterdamians (?) Barcinski & Jeanjean. Especially love the concept behind their site for FITC Amsterdam 2008 - it involves cowbells and Brazilian percussion so what more do you need to know? I could link directly to it but then you'd miss out on the fun of tracking it down in their mini virtual Amsteramian world. 

99% fun without 3-D glasses. 127% with.

{via Computerlove}

We have more in common with the Yukon and Nflnd than we thought...

Holy crap! That's a lot of blue! As we beach ourselves back onto the shores of Tory-manned Canada this morning, here's a quick and comprehensive look at how Canada voted (note: the GTA's propensity for Red - man, are we ever products of our environment), compliments of CBC.ca. Nice interactive zoomy map there! 

Kriegsmann on Flickr.

I wish I was the one who found that box in Venice...

A Passion for Fashion and Twisted Ankles

Models, including Canada's own Jessica Stam, literally fell head-over-heels for Prada's, well, heels this past week at Prada's Spring 2009 show. I've never seen anything like this. It's just so blatantly ridiculous to be pushing fashion, even haute couture, to these levels. Below, poor Katie Fogarty one of the many casualties at this show.

{via fashionologie}

'This American Life' tees

Back from a rainy week in the Dominican, and, like most vacations, feeling like saying "oh, Marge, I feel like I need a vacation from that vacation" while crossing my legs and throwing my head back, Starbucks in hand, and what the hell am I even talking about anymore?

In any case, my fine-feathered resorting partner, Michelle, introduced me to that little podcast known as This American Life. As I'm listening to their 'Going Big' episode, I discover the winners of their recent t-shirt design competition. Here: the winners, and some of my personal faves.

DUCK! GUN SHOTS!

It's possible that this video alone will save P. Diddy's career.
Thanks to Justin for this diamond in the rough.

A final, depressing thought on this Friday.

Rickrolled.

During the joy that is my daily commute on the subway this morning, I couldn't help but rip out this ad in Metro today. I was compelled. Fascinated. Unsure if this was real, or just some bad joke, but it just looked so genuinely bad that I couldn't help but follow the link to funcareer.ca. And ah ha! (Insert Giant Corporation's name here) got me good. Kudos to the people behind this prank, because I would otherwise have never bothered to check out their site.

A meal fit for a criminal.

That makes Paul J. Kneale either a genius or a wacko.

NOKIA's Design Manifesto

A corporate manifesto that gives us cynical and internally embattled designers a bit of hope. And hey, though actions speak louder than words, it is commendable for Nokia to at least strive towards their goals here.

{via chroma}

"You won't hear me laughing as I terminate your day."

With help from Nick Hooker (and the PhotoBooth app?), Grace Jones successfully scares the b'geezus out of us with her new single.

More gig posters.

{find and buy pretty well anything at GigPosters, also soom via Well Medicated}

Aesthetic Apparatus

Minneapolis based Aesthetic Apparatus uses their aesthetic apparatus for screenprinting to create dozens and dozen-zos of band posters, art, and (hey, we all gotta pay them bills), Burger King crowns. Check their store for tons of good stuff for your walls.

Now get ready for the most intense screenprinting video ever:

Summer's Ice Cream

Studs that remind me of wistful sun-drenched visits to Summer's Ice Cream in Yorkville. Farewell sweet heat, hello pistachio ice-creamed ear baubles.

T-postman Sam.

This is great. T-shirt subscriptions from T-post based on the latest and greatest current affairs, like the man who woke up from a coma after 19 years (illustrated above, obviously).

TIFF brief

Day -1: On the eve of the TIFF opening, standing in the sweltering sun with makeshift program visor to pickup tickets to Detroit Metal City.

Day 1: TIFF begins! In true spirit I celebrate by going to an unrelated Vice party.

Day 2: Volunteering in English, Cantonese, and French. A bit past midnight (okay, they were behind schedule), enjoys first movie, DMC. Laughs, headbanging, and one Q&A later, home and watching Laguna Beach at 3:30 am.

Day 3: Waiting 2 hours for Lebron James and abandoning that ship for Faubourg 36. Noting how Nora Aboudezer should have ditched the jacket-part of her outfit that afternoon. Volunteering, gets to be a ballot girl on stage, watches Spike Lee introduce Youssou Ndour.

Day 4: Early morning Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist. Different from book but not bad different. Bad cold. Tourists with TIFF questions for me tonight, bring a hanky.

It's almost Christmas again...

And by Christmas I really actually mean The Toronto International Film Festival, where we essentially do the same thing: lots of unnecessary lining up and dreading the end of it and oh my god i think i heard Brad Pitt on the rooftop can I leave him some cookies.
This year, I have the privilege of not only playing attendee, but also volunteer. So far, I have scored tickets to 'Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist' (good book, by the way), as well as 'Detroit Metal City' (movie poster, above). Some other ones I'm hoping to snag tickets for are:

• 7915 km
• Hunger
• Seraphine
• 24 City
• Birdsong
• Achilles and the Tortoise
• Afterwards
• Blind Loves
• Faubourg 36

See you film buffs there! In the buff!