The Beard Alphabet is a fantastic example of an off-the-wall typeface that works extremely well.
Anyone want to grow these out for real?
[Via: FFFFOUND! Via: Tim Yarzhombeck]
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Though it might not be the first (and it might not be real) a Twitter proposal for marriage has been made (and accepted!) between maxkiesler and emily chang.
Is there anything left that hasn’t yet been tweeted about?
[Via: Mashable]
How do fake fire extinguishers help prevent forest fires?
Simple: The medium is the message.
By installing these wooden fire extinguishers in the Table Mountain National Park, Animal Farm hopes to show that “it is almost impossible to stop a wild fire once it has started”. Thus, “using a real fire extinguisher on one would be as effective as using the wooden one” and “the only way to stop the fires is to prevent them”.
In addition to being a powerful message, the extinguishers were also carved by The Carpenters Shop, a “Non Governmental Organization set up to teach woodwork skills to the homeless and unemployed”; meaning this is an all-around feel good project.
Simple and subtle, yet powerful.
I love it!
[Via: Creative Review]
CO-ED’s “Ladies of MySpace” is a random sampling of some of the sexiness that’s still left on the social networking site.
Since actual people left the network long ago (and were quickly replaced with fake profiles touting porn and talentless bands touting fake music) it can be difficult to find real, live people, but CO-ED seems to have done just that, and has thirteen women to prove it.
Care to give the ‘Space a second shot?
Obscene Interiors “is a collection of real online male personal ad photos” with a “critique of the decorating found within”.
To help you focus on the décor, the “often-nude” figures have been grayed out, leaving nothing but their style and taste to show off.
It’s amazing what a change in focus will reveal!
While I don’t think I will ever understand why people spend $1 to send their friend a virtual Facebook gift, I do like the virtual gifts that Causes is selling.
With over 300,000 members, Causes is one of Facebook’s most popular applications. It allows users to donate to a good cause (any registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit or presidential campaign) and then encourage others to do the same.
To give back something somewhat tangible, Causes now allows you to give virtual charity gifts to your friends. Unlike Facebook’s gifts however, these aren’t just meaningless bitmaps.
Each Causes gift ranges from $10 to $200, and includes everything from a pair of blankets from the American Red Cross to an OLPC laptop from the OLPC Foundation.
The cost of the gift is the cost of the real world item, and each gift signifies an actual giving of that item to a real person.
It’s digital meets donation, and I dig the result.
[Facebook - Causes - Charity Gifts]
[Via: TechCrunch]
“Unsubscribe Me” is an Amnesty International campaign against human rights abuse in the ‘war on terror’.
Instead of PGing the message to appeal to a wider audience, AI instead chose to show the real deal, and put a performance artist through the real interrogation techniques permitted by the CIA handbook.
The first of three films is called Waiting For The Guards, and involves the artist spending six hours in a “stress position”. The pain and anguish that you hear is real, and the emotion is raw.
The end result is a video that may be disturbing to some viewers; but then again, I guess that’s the point:
How much terror are we willing to use to fight the war on terror?
