Photographer Izima Kaoru stages haunting landscapes featuring dead bodies. See more at the Von Lintel Gallery site.

I just read over at Cartoonbrew that the art of the Pixar will be coming to the NYC MOMA at the end of this year. It's the 10th anniversary of Toy story and there is plenty of schwag to go around. For instance these fine postcards and coffeetable books, as well as the fully loaded special 10th aniversary DVD.

Star Wars yearbook photos.

From the official story:

“I've been training for this day since I was 13 years old, and I'm happy with my performance today”

Actually, I generated that myself with the Fake-A-Wish news story generator. Insert the name of your nearest and dearest, and then select from a whole bunch of auto-generated stories guaranteed to win friends and influence people. (via Transbuddha)

(I'm trying to provoke Jellio out of hiding...)

From the Migima Designs website:

Grandparents
(male and female pair of dolls with clothes)
Grandparent dolls are 22“ tall and come with street clothes and underclothes (shorts for men, underpants and bra for women). Male dolls have gray hair on their head, chest, underarm, moustache and pubic area. They have a circumcised penis. Female dolls have gray hair on their head and pubic area. They also have a vagina, clitoris and breasts. Both grandparent dolls have embroidered glasses, oral and anal body openings, breast nipples, tongues, ears, and individual fingers. Grandparents come in 3 skin colors. Washable.

Closer reading reveals these are dolls designed to help educators, social workers and law enforcement officers investigate and prevent child sexual abuse. But that doesn't make it any less creepy. Washable??

During my three-year stint as an A&P cashier, I became friendly with lots of the truck drivers. One guy, who worked for a frozen foods company, used to always mess with his competitor's displays. He'd turn boxes upside down, push stuff to the way back of the freezer case, and make rival products look messy (and inferior). And he knew the competing driver would do it right back the next week.

I bring this up because I just watched the Mindshare/Group M "We Work Hard For Your Money" cover (from Adrants). This could represent "F**king with your competitors 2.0." Instead of messing up a few shelves, your company could create really, really bad viral content and pass it off as your rival's work. If another media buying firm pulled this off, it's brilliant.

A few lyrics, courtesy of Adrants:

"Planning various strategies, buying loads of GRPs," "Group M is the name. Buying power is our game," "We work hard for your money, Reach people with your money. Build brands with your money. So give us your money, your investment will return."

Sadly, I think this was a serious effort on the part of Mindshare. Joke's on them.

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