Saddest Jesus Ever

Italian painter Antonello da Messina created this masterpiece painting that I should probably gaze at in reverence and awe, but instead it makes me go “awwwwwwwww” for such a sad face Jesus. :-(

Matte Black Cars

These are taken from Flat Black Cars, a website devoted entirely to matte black painted luxury and exotic cars. They all look like something Bruce Wayne would have in his garage. I should have done this to my Toyota Camry. Drats.

Bacon Bracelet

Meaty accessory for your wrist. $32 here.

L in L Train Stands for Love

It reads like a scene out of How I Met Your Mother, but here’s an amusing tale of one New Yorker asking out a New Yorkette on the L train via his smartphone app…

That’s when I decided I had to ask her out, but how to do it without being publicly embarrassed on a packed train? So I took out my phone and wrote “how about a cup of coffee sometime?” on my evernote app.

Find out what happened here.

The Talktorialist

Candid interview with Scott Schuman aka The Sartorialist. Disses on kids! Makes money! Only reads girlfriend’s blog!

Mr. Schuman, nowadays teenage bloggers like Tavi Gavinson are getting flown around the world to sit on the front rows of fashion shows in order to write about them. Isn’t that getting a little absurd?

Well I don’t think her audience is that big. I think her success is a little bit of a conspiracy by established print media that wanted to show that this blog thing is not that important, that it’s done by a bunch of twelve year olds. But a lot of us are serious grown-ups.

Do you make money off your blog or do you make money because of what you have created around your blog?

American Apparel bought advertising for the whole year and then I just got an email yesterday that Net-A-Porter.com is going to buy advertisements for the rest of the year (2010) as well. So those two ads alone are a good fraction of a million dollars: more than a quarter million and less than a half a million.

A friend once told me Scott stopped to look at her while she was walking down the street. He raised his camera. Then put it back down again without snapping a photo of her. I told her this meant that her life is now no longer worth living. I’m a thoughtful friend.

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Training Wheels

Daniel Eatock, Unicycle & Stabilisers, 2011

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Glass Igloo Village

I must visit this resort in Kakslauttanen, Finland that features glass igloos that allows guests to comfortably and warmly view the aurora borealis. Or I suppose I could just go back home to Alaska.

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The Great Mystery of Jake Gyllenhaal’s Height

Rather fascinating article about the ongoing debate online about Jake Gyllenhaal’s height. And in case you’re wondering what the heck this piece is doing in GOOD, don’t worry, it ties back to climate change. Yup.

Friends, the CelebHeights entry on Jake Gyllenhaal runs to 11 printed pages. It spans 21 months. It is the Infinite Jest of Jake Gyllenhaal–height-related discourse: a maelstrom of heated debate, contested recollections, and esoteric theories of mind-numbing potency.

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For Your Consideration

Fact. Barry Manilow’s hit “I Write the Songs” was not written by Barry Manilow.

 

Wealth Distribution in America: Perception Versus Reality

A Harvard business prof and a [Duke] behavioral economist recently asked more than 5,000 Americans how they thought wealth is distributed in the United States. Most thought that it’s more balanced than it actually is. Asked to choose their ideal distribution of wealth, 92% picked one that was even more equitable.

See more infographs that illuminate this massive wealth gap in this country, although I suspect I could count on one hand the number of readers who’ll click on that link. In the meantime, keep calm and carry on.

Update: So far four clicks on that infograph link. True, I only get six visitors a day, but lets make my “count on one hand” assertion a fact!