http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtpdx_benny-benassisatisfaction_music

Benny Benassi.
This is what made me learn to appreciate dance music.
That girl working the tamper devestates me.

http://www.ilovecartoons.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City

Kowloon Walled City. This city was utterly lawless. It was situated in Hong Kong and neither the Chinese nor the Britons claimed jurisdiction, making it the perfect sanctuary for criminals, thieves and generally wicked bastards of all kinds. A handful of buildings grew upwards and outwards and into each other until the original streets became tunnels and newer streets were pretty much elevated hallways. It sort of grew, organically, into a single fourteen story monolith.

Its beyond anything I’ve ever read about. And it was REAL. Thats the amazing thing. The entire city was controlled by the goddamn Triads for chrissakes. People did whatever they did and without being forced to and built a goddamn city! And apparently they got along good enough to make it GROW. There was industry and churches and stores and livelihood of all kinds. It boggles the mind.

Even when there wasn’t an actual concrete ceiling above you, there was bound to be a canopy of cables, pipes, trash, drying laundry, and corpses missing vital organs; making natural light scarce, except for the top levels. Streets were eternally flooded in shadow and had to be illuminated with fluorescent lights.

The population density was about twice that of NYC and everybody stole their utilities! Delightful!

I know it’s a naive thing to say, but its a damn shame that this place doesn’t exist anymore. I don’t know what life was like for the people here, I’ve read a few contradictory accounts of how bad/not-bad it was, but I think the world is a hell of a lot more amazing when, somewhere in it, you have an honest to god city of thieves.

I mean, from a logistic point of view it’s incredible. OK, say you lived here. Now imagine you just got a new apartment across town and you have to move your stuff. I don’t care how much Dunkin Donuts iced coffee you got, I’m not reluctantly helping you move. Imagine schlepping a mattress through that mess.

Well its all gone now. Its become mythology. They leveled it and put a park there. How disappointing. Even though I’m not a kick boxer, and probably would’t last long in those shadowed corridors, I’d have loved to see it.

http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/featuredvehicles/0702rc_1955_ford_bubbletop/photo_01.html

Wicked!
Thanks Kuejon!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seasick_Steve

Seasick Steve.
My new favorite “shoulda-been-somebody”

http://www.frosk.org/

Some of these galleries are hatefully pretentious but the good ones make it all worth it.

http://rjbrijs.stumbleupon.com/

Meet rjbrijss:

Rad indeed! But can’t he throw in a “bodacious” now and then?

http://www.kenart.net/

Ken Wong. When I saw this nothing ever felt so right. Then they told me what I loved was Wong. Well if this is Wong, I don’t want to be white!
Aren’t I just adorable?

http://cartoonphoto.591ac.com/photo/dyr_illust/

Shinobu Tanno. Common subjects include effete vampires and clean-shaven barbarians. Pretty much anything you’d expect to encounter if trapped in a “Choose Your Own Adventure” book.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcastic_fringehead

The Sarcastic Fringehead. The only fish in the world actually capable of looking smug. Unreal!

And “sarcastic” is the actual name too… not just something I tacked on because of this lil’ bastard’s condescending manor. Anyhow, despite their fearsome appearance, they’re only about a foot long and are non-poisonous. Apparently they prey exclusively on the tears of other fish.
They can be found sheltering themselves under the countless human skulls found littering the coasts of southern California and Mexico.

http://poshspice.cgsociety.org/gallery/

Aly Fell. Pin-Up girls from hell. I have a special place in my heart reserved for any artist that sees fit to resurrect good ol’ Bride o’ Frankenstein. The right auricular appendage, for anyone wondering…

P S: While searching for an obscure heart reference to sound intellegent, I happened across this awesome heart diagram… BONUS!

http://pokoa.deviantart.com/

Pokoa.

http://torvenius.deviantart.com/

Torvenius. Gorgeous stuff. Plus, look at the superbly executed butt reflections. Schmanfastic!

http://tommythesquid.deviantart.com/

TOMMYtheSQUID. An artist that gives us answers to questions like:

If Jesus were a voluptuous purple woman with six magical arms, would Tricky-Dick hit that?

Answer:.ʇɐɥʇ ʇıɥ ʎ11ɐʇoʇ p1noʍ ǝɥ .sǝʎ ɥo

http://robotnicc.deviantart.com/

Robotnicc. Another brilliant outsider. For anyone whoes had giant camera-monster fantasies. Also, great use of the “wind lines”. Very unique.