An excerpt from the primary level of Korean conversation courses with Christine Jang. All this Korean girl wants it to teach her students how to ask for Coke.

Lithuanian photographer and artist Tadao Cern has been working on a series of hilarious wind-pushed portraits entitled, ahem, Blow Job, that depicts individuals enduring gale-force winds directly to the face.

I was absolutely floored watching this enchanting stop motion video directed by Vincent Pianina and Lorenzo Papace for a song called Østersøen that was also written, composed, and recorded by Papace for his band Ödland off the album Sankta Lucia . What strikes me most about the video is the transitions between scenes, as objects change scale or as the camera zooms in to reveal alternate dimensions embedded in the smallest of areas. You’ll watch it two or three times before you see everything.

Lithuanian photographer and artist Tadao Cern has been working on a series of hilarious portraits entitled, ahem, Blow Job , that depicts individuals enduring gale-force winds directly to the face. Say goodbye to the next 15 minutes, he’s taken 100 portraits so far.

” Before I die, I want to…. ” is the brain child of photographers KS Rives as a result of the end of the polaroid era, and Nicole Kenney where they asked the simple question: What do you want to do before you die?

I’m heading out for a week or so on vacation and may or may not have access to the internets where I’m going. I actually intend on posting daily but anything could happen once I’m kicking back on a beach for the first time in a couple years. So, in case I become incapacitated with relaxation, I’ll leave you with some of my favorite art, design and culture blogs as of late

If you have 10 minutes to spare I strongly urge you to watch The Eagleman Stag , a lovely stop-motion short film by UK animator Mikey Please that won the 2011 BAFTA for best short animation. From Jason Sondhi’s review on Short of the Week : Animated through stop-motion, the film incorporates thousands of hand-created models across 115 sets to tell the story of Peter Eagleman

These are Modified Social Benches by artist Jeppe Hein , which are located throughout the city of De Haan in Belgium, for the contemporary art event Beaufort04 . The bench designs borrow their basic form from normal park benches, but are altered in various degrees to make the act of sitting on them a conscious physical endeavour

The lioness was caught trying to devour a child at the zoo at portland, oregon.

If you had to think of a word to describe the portraits of classical musicians and their instruments, what would it be? The one I thought of is: extremely boring. OK that’s two words.