Sarah Palin Gets Punk'd

From Jezebel.com, "Oh, dear. Looks like Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin totally got punked by a Canadian comedy duo known as The Masked Avengers, who somehow got a hold of the Governor and tricked her into believing that she was actually speaking with French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "You know, I see you as a President someday," the fake Sarkozy says, to which Palin replies, "Oh, I don't know, maybe in 8 years." Palin comes across as a super excited Sarkozy fan girl, and as the phone call goes on, the fake Sarkozy gets more and more obnoxious, ridiculous, and exaggerated, leading one to wonder how in the world Palin could have possibly fallen for such an obvious joke. It's not until the end of the call, when the Masked Avengers reveal the prank, that Palin realizes that been fooled, and the call ends quite quickly after that. Whoops! Update: The Palin campaign has confirmed the call and issued a response."

Racism at its Finest

Unbelievable. How will be racial divide ever be bridged?

Tina Fey is back

I Met the Walrus

This is the recording of a 14-year-old Beatles fan named Jerry Levitan who snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in 1969 with a reel-to-reel tape recorder and persuaded Lennon to do an interview.

The recording has been set to animation by director Josh Raskin and was nominated for "Best Animated Short" in the 2008 Academy Awards.

Some of my favorite lines:

• "Protest but protest non-violently because violence begets violence."
• "Do everything for peace. Kiss for peace or smile for peace or go to school for peace or don't go to school for peace. Whatever you do, just do it for peace."
• "It's up to the people... We can change it. If we really want to change it, we can change it."
• "It's no good standing on the street corner shouting 'we want peace' and then beating up your mates. You've got to try and work your own head out and get non-violent."

Sia's Breathe Me

Sia will be performing at All Points West the three day music festival in Jersey City, NJ. Her video Breathe Me features the clever use of photos/Polaroids. I'll always associate that song with the final episode of Six Feet Under when Claire drives off into her future and sees her life flash by in a photo montage.

I found this version of Breathe Me that's even better than the recorded version.

Bread Body Parts

Since 2006 Thai artist Kittiwat Unarrom (whose family also runs a bakery) has used dough as his medium to sculpt gruesome renditions of hand, feet, heads, torsos and other body parts. The results are unnervingly realistic with eyes, lips and other details constructed out of cashews, raisins and the like. A lack of hair and blood-like glazes make the work all the more creepy. Sold at his family's bakery in Ratchaburi, Thailand, he displays the parts wrapped like food in plastic and hung from meat hooks. Apparently, the art is in fact edible and tastes like regular bread.

Watch the video below to see Unarrom at work and some visitors' reactions.

How to Succeed in Commercial Photography

This is a great video series with Selina Maitreya, author of "How to Succeed in Commercial Photography". If you need help defining your vision and applying it to your portfolio and website you need to view these videos.

The Girl Effect

The powerful social and economic change brought about when girls have the opportunity to participate in their society. Girl + education/opportunity/a fighting chance = change the world.

The Last Lecture

Randy Pausch, 47, the terminally ill professor who inspired many with his 'last lecture', died yesterday. His speech at Carnegie Mellon University after a pancreatic cancer diagnosis became an Internet phenomenon and bestselling book.

There's an abridged version from his appearance on Oprah.