Happy New Year

My favorite holiday.

This Song Touches My Soul

Alphaville - "Forever Song"

Kid Cudi

If you're interested in dude. Download his mixtape A Kid Named Cudi

Two Lovers

This is the trailer for the infamous movie that led Joaquin Phoenix to say "Bye Good" (Good-bye) to acting.

Mr. Hudson (feat. Big Sean) - "Way Out"

Top 10 Buildings of 2008 (The New Yorker)

Olafur Eliasson's New York Waterfalls Project

Walter Sedovic's restoration of the Eldridge Street Synagogue

Gwathmey Siegel's Paul Rudolph Hall

Skidmore partner Craig Hartman's new Cathedral of Christ the Light, in Oakland

Frank Ghery's Art Gallery of Ontario

SANAA Architecture's New Museum on the Bowery in New York

Renzo Piano's California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco

Rem Koolhaas and Ole Scheeren's CCTV (China Central Television) Headquarters

Norman Foster's Beijing Airport

Herzog and de Meuron's Olympic Stadium (a.k.a. the Bird's Nest)

Read the article over at the New Yorker

Simple Economics

Lego Church

As cool or maybe even cooler than the Empire Strikes Back Hoth Battle.

Blagojevich

Quarter-page ad taken out of Thursday's Chicago Tribune

A Heart in the Old Town

People complain about the juxtaposition of the Louvre. But, check out the Kunsthaus Graz Austria by Peter Cook and Colin Fournier. 

Coolest Basketball Shoe Out

The Nike Zoom Kobe IV. It's actually not out yet. And I can't find out online when they will be available.

S I D E B A R:

The monthly release of Nike SB Dunks will include a Dark Knight special Joker SB Dunk. Click here to check it out.

Merry Christmas

It even snowed in Las Vegas.

Nike Commercial

This new Nike advertisement features DJ AM sporting the Air Yeezy's, Comedian Mike Epps running the court with a game of H-O-R-S-E, and reigning MVP Kobe Bryant unveiling the new Nike Zoom Kobe IV.

Reminds me of the good old days of Nike sneaker advertisements. Like Anfernee "Penny" Hardaway and Lil' Penny (Chris Rock).

Artist: Diego "Karramarro" Sanz

Visit "Karramarro's" flickr.

Brooklyn Tourism

"Well I bought this A-rab money scarf with my American dollars. Um, I think it's terribly fashionable to look like a terrorist."

-The girl who sublets her apartment from her sister who runs an organic water store 

S I D E B A R

"Don't be mad. UPS is hiring."

-Christopher Wallace

Watch more of these videos over at itsthereal.com

Lily Allen - The Fear

Her sophomore album, It's Not Me, It's You, is coming out February 9th, 2009

Presidential Pool Party

Which Presidents can you I Spy?? 

Gawker's Richard Blakeley put together this collage.

4 years in the making

4 years. 60,000 LEGO blocks. $3,000. Is what it took LEGO architect Mark Borlase to re-create the Hoth battle scene in 5' x 10' LEGO form. His creation won the Star Wars building challenge. To see more pictures and captions by the artist himself surf on over to Borlase's flickr website.

A Milli, a milli, a milli

Watch Lil Wayne's "A Milli" get sampled by some guy named Exile using an MPC player.

The Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci's easily recognizable painting Mona Lisa gets re-imagined by Meowa Katz over at Aviary.com.

Pablo Picasso

Roy Lichtenstein

The Simpsons

Nickelodeon

South Park

Camille Rose Garcia

Jackson Pollack

Photograph of the Night

The play really went down like that. Read about it and watch the play over at Deadspin.

Back to the Future

Click here to browse the July 4th, 2009 edition of the New York Times. Definitely worth spending the time. The Yes Men who created this site (not the NY Times of course) spent all the time writing articles for all the links.