STEPHEN COLBERT CAN ADD AWESOME COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER TO HIS RESUME

Northwestern's most famous alum, Stephen Colbert, returns to campus and delivers one of the greatest graduation speeches. Of. All. Time. It's a great rebound for a school trying to put their f&xk saw past behind them. Good luck, Northwestern Wildcats class of 2011.

Every college institution take note. This is how you inspire your graduates, with someone inspiring— intellectually and humanly.  I don't even remember mine. I think it was a state senator. Needless to say, it was not this. Via Open Culture

CONAN OUTSPOOFS GROUPON ADS

Great parody of Groupon's maligned Tibetan Superbowl ad on Conan this week. Via: Adfreak

"You'll save SA-DDAM much money." -Crabtree & Evelyn

YOUR STOMACH VS STARBUCKS' TRENTA CUP (infographic)

Apparently nobody got the memo at Starbucks that their new cup size is bigger than the average stomach. Not to mention, Trenta = 30 in English. But the cup size is actually 31 oz. Looks like we have a 'cup size' fail. Via:Buzzfeed. Infographic Via The National Post

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PORN IN THE USA by JONATHAN YEO (NSFW,duh)

British artist Jonathan Yeo has been making a statement about the United States culture for a few years now. You can see the whole series of 'Porn in the USA' courtesy of LAZ Gallery @ 320 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills. Show runs through August 8th, 2010.

Yeo masters the art of subtlety of photo collage and incorporates erotic imagery to create what looks like seemingly harmless portraits.   From your attention craving politicians to socialites to the every day, Yeo has caused quite a stir with his subject matter. He has also given this series a nice twist with his foliage collection done with the same erotic composition. Look closely. You may or may not like what you see. via: Jonathan Yeo

^ Above: Detail of George Bush's lip

Jonathan Yeo, the man behind the Porn. At his exhibition (and first in the USA) in Beverly Hills, CA Photo credit: Brandon Shigeta

HOW WORDS TURN INTO CORPORATIONS

Rexgios takes a simple design and a great subject and churns out a searing message on how we live our lives. Are we byproducts of this fast paced world big business has enabled us to thrive or survive in, or collectively testing the limits of a 'bigger, faster, stronger' mindset? Can you dig it? via: Ffffound

M.I.A UNLEASHES A SAVAGE MESSAGE IN BORN FREE

M.I.A.: Born Free
Directed by Romain Gavras

An explosive wasteland of a picture depicting an American society devoid of morality. I'm not sure what to think of this... Blending the artist's music into a short film surely has been done by many musicians, but M.I.A. may have gone a tad too far with this politically charged, and no doubt, amazingly shot video from director Romain Gavras. I won't say anything more except this is NSFW. Contains graphic violence, nudity and lawfully permitted use of narcotics. Let the short film roll.


M.I.A, Born Free from ROMAIN-GAVRAS on Vimeo.

JAPAN-0-GRAPHIC

An eye opening videographic look into the weirdness that is Japanese culture. One fact: 26,000,000,000 chopsticks are used every year in Japan. Of those, 90 percent of these disposable wooden chopsticks are sourced from China. Enjoy!

Japan-The Strange Country (English ver.) from Kenichi on Vimeo.

SATOMI SHIRAI

Environments and their people in constant change. Everyday living places through SATOMI SHIRAI'S camera. Via Boooooooom

HEDI MONTAG WANTS TO BE LIKE CHER

This is the face of 10 plastic surgery operations in one go round. Her new album, Superficial, was just released. How ironic that the site 'The Superficial'(no relation to the album Superficial) has these stunning shots of Hedi fresh out of the bandages. I don't know about you, but she looked pretty fine to me before the pop star special.

 

 

IN MEMORY OF THE MAN WHO WAS KING

 As Martin Luther King, Jr. day comes to a close, let this Atlanta native remind us how far we've come and how far we still have to go.

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Martin Luther King. Jr

JAMES RYANG TAKES A MEAN PICTURE

Pretty cool photographer, James Ryang, takes the moment and exploits it. Via: James Ryang

SHAKESPEARE LEBOWSKI. YES, YOU READ THAT RIGHT

Apparently, there's a Big Lebowski Shakespeare play kicking around with the premise 'What if Shakespeare wrote 'The Big Lebowksi.' Being one of my all time favorite movies, my mind is now completely blown to pieces. See for yourself.

 Via: Run Leia Run

1999-2009 IN THE USA

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What's changed in the past decade? Well, apparently, quite a lot according to onlineeducation.net 

 

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9 Yearolds say the Darndest things about the decade

Just to give you an idea....
A few quotes from the nine year olds

Thoughts On Napster:
Napster? Um, a place that you can nap?

On Fear:
I'm mostly afraid of is turkey.
I'm afraid of the devil, Bigfoot. Especially Bigfoot.

On the sound of dial-up:
A satellite interrupting?

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The decade according to 9-year-olds from allison louie-garcia on Vimeo.

Baby Break Dance

Evian is really going there with their Ads. Props.

AdFreak's Freakiest Ads of 2009. They're 'freaky.'

AdFreak Freakiest Ads of 2009