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Zune Arts loves cobras and ice cream, too.

Zune Arts has been kicking around for a while, but luckily for us, they keep the goodies coming. I mean seriously, I do not think there exists a more fun (funner?) scrolling menu. The seemingly endless lists of animated shorts (some collabos between both the designers/artists and musicians) seem to march along a path right in front you, coming alive as you tickle their cute and sometimes scary selves with your mouse. 

OK, I'm getting a little into this.

Stepping back a little - another major plus is that the people behind Zune have made the individual videos really easy to embed into sites, or MyFacebookenoratiStumble.Digg.icio.us. 

One of my faves has to be 'Meltdown', created by Epoch Ink to the soundtrack of Goldfrapp.

Now, back to lineup. Tickle tickle tickle, boo.

Hello, old friends.

The past few weeks, oh my, how quickly they have passed. In the moments that I have had a chance to write, my ridiculously tardy internet connection refuses to allow me to upload anything, and then all the other moments in between I have spent laughing, crying, nursing wounds that have formed into scars (that's real, not just metaphorical. ask anyone who's seen my mess of a knee), and just sitting back and wondering what the heck is going on around here.

But, good news, I have found the most daaahhling coffee shop at a nearby gallery with quick wireless, and will be back in full visual swing soon! In the meantime, I have made a discovery to be shared with you all: boiled egg, grapes, cheese, and avocado all taste damn good together.

If you live in Toronto and need help...

help me help you - August (toronto)
Reply to: comm-797001111@craigslist.org
Date: 2008-08-14, 5:54PM EDT

i made a promise to someone i'd help 100 strangers with BIG things in their life. These things can be how to drive a car, learning a new skill, or figuring out a troublesome personal task in their life...etc.

A taste of things i've done:
i've delivered a lunch and dinner to someones grandmother while they were out of town for a week,
i've shoveled driveways of 2 elderly homes on my street in the middle of the night on the worst and 2nd worst snowfall this past winter
i've help find jobs for a single mother, 2 unemployeed/intelligent/educated forieners who had a hard time getting a job, i've tutored several people in leaning more fluent english. I've personally helped people move from their home, find a new home, install curtains in someones house,help someone with their detailed plans to propose to their girlfriend, proof read resumes and just offer a few kind words of encouragement to someone down on their luck..
So now i ask....how can i 'try' to help you today?...

Oh, Canada.

At the Olympics, while other countries dress in traditional garb and professional suits, we instead embrace the fact that we are so multicultural and hip that there is no one 'garb' or 'suit', and strut out in something decidedly more... urban. And it's green. And made in China. And from HBC. Thus making it a mystery hidden in a puzzle engraved with dichotomy and wrapped in hemp.

Go Team Canada!

A Creative Community

Darnit! 

Crappy wireless internet connection is keeping me from posting those glorious images I so love, so for now, you'll just have to take my word for it when I write that Spraygraphic is a pretty exciting spot for lovers of creativity. Pretty easy to make your own mark, and earn the right to call ultra talented people from Brazil your "friend".

Celebrate 6 with YWFT.

YouWorkForThem is design duo made up of Michael and Michael from Minneapolis. This is their 6th year of doing great stuff out of their shop (I like snagging tees from their site, and it shows up at my door at an alarmingly quick turnover rate). And so, we congratulate them by downloading the 23 free illustrations they're offering on their site. Er, congrats, guys.

I see Saul.

The Coen Brothers' new movie, "Burn After Reading" (set to premiere at the 2008 Venice International Film Festival before hitting theatres on the 12th), and their oh-so-Saul Bass inspired movie posters. However, it is near impossible to find out who was behind these creations. And, oh goodness, I pray that the DVD cover will honour this aesthetic instead of suffering from the "heads blended into the background with epic landscape along bottom instead of kickass movie poster image" formula. Aka, the 'V for Vendetta' effect.

Now, some Saul for the Soul:

Australia.

Having always been a fan of Baz Luhrmann and his no-fear approach to true, over-the-top entertainment and imagery, his upcoming film starring muse Nicole Kidman (as well as Hugh Jackman), looks to live up to his style, and with a dash of old world Hollywood.

Design won't save the world.

Nice notes.

Love Whitelines notebooks, FOB from Sweden. Enviro-friendly with "non-conflict" white lines that make your writings and scribbles the star, without annoying black or blue lines stabbing into them from all sides. My binding of choice? Perfect bound. And did I mention rounded corners? Hoooooo sheeeit. Available in select stores in Canada.

Back and civil...

from a weekend of ostentatiously loud music, thanks to having gained access to A) Robyn's entire discography and B) Rock the Bells 2008. Best hair award goes to Murs.

Screengrabs of some work... part 2.

Some older stuff of mine... maybe the sort of thing I should be doing more of today? This is a mashup of things done mostly for fundraisers, charities, local events. 

The Global Rich List.

Global Rich List from the folks at Poke to a) make you feel better about your financial status and b) guilt you into donating to charity. And it takes me back to that era when everyone loved playing "Oregon Trail" on their beige Apple computers.

Surrealism, fo'real.

The mystical musings of artist Andrea Galvani.

Dyed tips are back.

The 'dos sported by Luke Goss (as Prince Nuada) and Anna Walton (Princess Nuala) in Guillermo's new Hellboy flick tell us that dyed tips actually have great potential to look ethereally fabulous. If I had my way, I'd throw this on the runways immediately. Seriously.

Olive Riley goes, waltzing.

Known to be world's oldest blogger, Olive Riley, 108, passed away, leaving her legacy behind in a little online world called 'The Life of Riley'.

Too bogged down to blog down...

But will return this week with more useless information! Like: did you know that the 'W-D' in WD-40 stands for 'water displacer'?! Brilliant!

Tide-to-Go is so last season.

A renewable dress designed by professor Fernando Brízio @ ex carceri 'le nuove' (The World Design Capital) in Turin. Simple dresses that can be customized each and every time you wear it simply by placing an uncapped felt marker into the individual pockets. Let the ink run in and you have your own, one-of-a-kind dress. Wash, and start over. Interesting idea toying with the idea of reinvention and renewing a single piece over and over... but how about all those markers you need to throw out? All the same, an interesting way to pass the design reigns over to the consumer.
{via design boom}

Make enemies not war.

Thanks, Giv!