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 just stumbled onto this expertly crafted series of birds found in Britain by DeTomaso Pantera . His use of color and perfect selection of bricks really bring these animals to life. You can see the entire series six birds here , and apparently there are many more to come.

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

Influential children’s book author and illustrator Maurice Sendak , creator of Where the Wild Things Are , has died. You can find his obituary on the New York Times .

This new stop-motion music video for Delta Heavy is pretty incredible. Watch as a cavalcade of classic boardgames from your childhood meet an untimely demise, all for the sake of dubstep

If there’s a theme on Colossal that appears more often than any other, it’s artwork involving ordinary objects and materials that are repurposed or reconfigured to create new, unexpected things. Portland sculptor Ron Ulicny has made a living for himself creating just such artworks.

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.