There’s a fellow out there by the name of Pharrell Williams, and if he seems like just a hip-hop artist to you, or just a guy who likes to get into a bunch of popular art forms, you’ve got one or two of the right ideas – next find yourself in a video of a full orchestra playing a piece called “i am Other” commissioned by him for his next CD. There’s something very attractive about how Pharrell goes about moving through life, starting a handful of year ago when he first started getting powerful in the hearts and minds of young people through his music showing up on the internet and the music television.

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This week the fine folks at BobbleDroids open their doors to the public so that anyone, even you, can drop a little holiday cash with a picture of yourself as an Android so that the team can make a completely unique 3D bobble-head action figure for you and your loved ones! What you do first is pick up the Androidify app from the Android Marketplace, then you make an avatar of yourself on the screen. You take that avatar and you share it to an email, send it over to BobbleDroids, and bam! You got yourself a perfect little desk mate.

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We’re now only months from the release of the third installment in any good cold-blooded American’s favorite RPG video game series of all time: Diablo. The video you’re about to watch is a cinematic from this soon to be released game, it containing footage of what Blizzard says is Deckard Cain’s niece Leah as the pours over her uncle’s writings. Cain appeared in the first two games as a storyline character who bore witness to the horror that was the invasion of earth by the forces of evil. Now its time for Leah to take up the mantel, and although it appears that the top devils from the previous games, Diablo, Baal, and Mephisto are dead, Azmodan, Lord of Sin, lives to murder all.

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Since the hip-hop monster first came into being in the 1980′s there’s been some changes to the tenants living in its house. Rap, graffiti, and breakdancing have always been kings in the kingdom – now pay heed to skateboarding as well. Skateboarding has been synonymous with spraypaint graffiti since its own birth and culmination into a street-worthy activity from all the way back in the 70′s through the 90′s where the many different forms of skateboarding were all at their height. Remember when Tony Hawk first pulled off the 900? That shit was awesome. Now let’s take a look at a project by graffiti artist D-Face that ties skateboarding and graffiti together for a new modern age.

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There’s this fellow named Roger Gastman out there, one of those guys whose work you’ve almost certainly seen even if you don’t know his name, and what we’ve got here today is a set of three prints arranged by him for your consumption. These prints are part of a greater project by the name of “Tools of Criminal Mischief,” a limited edition book to which these prints “The Cans” are a companion. Before you start having a heart attack over how lovely these combinations of ink and paper are, let’s talk for a moment about who this legendary everyman is, and why he loves to hang on to rust-collecting cans of poison so much.

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When it comes to modern street fashion brands, you’re only half the leader you could be if you’ve only got wearable clothing. Instead what makes a unique mark on the landscape (again, aside from the main clothing line,) is accessories, accessories galore. Supreme is a brand with a logo so unforgivingly simple and stark that anything they paste it on essentially turns to gold. What they’ve done for this coming Autumn and Winter season is slap that logo on a radically diverse set of items, everything from dice to knives to floaty keychains. Note also that the following contains the F word in big letters, so don’t let your unforgiving boss look over your shoulder while you peek.

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Shoe group Adidas and their Originals collection continues to get busy with Star Wars related sneakers and top-heavy clothing with several new “Scoundrel” related September releases. What we’ve seen in the past from this Adidas x Star Wars collaboration are such terrifying monstrosities as the R2-D2 + C-3P0 Top Ten Low sneakers which, if you saw someone wearing them in real life, you’d be in danger of swallowing your spit. What we’ve got here is a brand new set of items – two sets of sneakers and a jacket – that should very well bring you back into the fold as far as trust in the two groups creating real wearable clothing, Star Wars and everything.

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What you’re very possibly about to be watching is an hour-long video special made by none other than the notorious multi-medium graffiti artist Banksy. This is a video by the name of The Antics Roadshow, a takeoff of the Antiques Roadshow and a video title Banksy says he though of then worked backward from there. A jerk and A-hole as always. Narrated by Kathy Burke and produced by Jamie D’cruz, this video is free for the watching by all those lovers out there of chaotic public displays of whatever.

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It’s time for posters, everyone, and the posters of the moment are some social networking related glossy posters from Aaron Wood. This fellow is also known as Justonescarf on Etsy and his poster series is about to blow up and sell out. He’s started with the basics: Facebook and Twitter, moving on to Google+ (aka Google Plus) and has now moved on to YouTube, Foursquare, and even the two major mobile operating systems Android and Apple’s iOS. Each of these posters is done in a sort of Russian propaganda style with modern gradients and random-pattern materials.

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The following set of photos is technically four storefronts and a store side, but it’s just as indicative of what the city has to offer as far as symbolic shapes. This set of photos was taken by photographer Erin Colligan, writer for the Times Union and currently a journalism student at SUNY Albany. The following photos were taken as Erin had been searching for a filming locations for an upcoming feature by the name of “Beyond The Pines” but we’re interested in the sweetness of the five photo set she presents here first.

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Beastie Boys are at it again with a set of three fully posable action figures for sale via their own website with proceeds going to charity. These figures may remind you of a similar set they put out back when Intergalactic Planetary came out back around the turn of 2000, and if you’re one of those collector folk who remember such an event and/or OWN said set, you’ll find that, yes indeed, these are the same trio in the same tin. They look so similar because they’re from the same run of 1,000 put out by A Bathing Ape‘s NIGO and produced by his Nowhere Limited production group.

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The Pop Shop, hem to everything Keith Haring, that most excellent fat-line writing graffiti artist from back in the old days has three new bits of baby clothing for their still budding baby-specific collection, all of them now available for purchase. Each of these new bits of clothing is a romper, that being a one-piece full-body piece of clothing for your little one with half-sleeves and no legs – the difference between this and a onesie, incase you are wondering, is the intent and the fit: where a onesie is generally tighter and meant to be worn underneath other clothing, a romper has a loose fit and is meant to be worn by itself.

As the fabric game once again gains steam, it’s all competitors of the Fashion Fabrics Club that had better watch out. Why is that, you sewing champions of the world might ask? Why, because they’ve got a system set up where they can both capture and post the fabrics they’ve got in stock unto the internet, having a site then set up that’ll allow them to sell. How long could such a site exist in this futuristic world of electronics and nonsense? Just about as long as you need to keep wearing clothing because it’s illegal to sleep naked (at least here in Minnesota it is – look it up!) That’s real.

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Multi-form artist and designer Mister Cartoon appeared Monday in the latest OTW (Off The Wall) video from Vans speaking about his coming up as a graffiti writer and living now as a respected fine artist, sign painter, designer, and tattoo artist. The folks at Vans have been releasing this OTW Collection of videos as a cross-promotion for the artists and their shoe brand, not unlike how they do with the Off The Wall Music Tour each summer with both big name bands and up and coming artists alike. In this episode, Mister Cartoon takes the opportunity to speak not only in a brief way about his evolution into a globally known artist, but about a few of his art pieces sitting in MOCA Los Angeles as we speak as well.

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If you’re the sort of person who follows along with the releases of the most wild of all streetwear brands, A Bating Ape, also known as BAPE, the brand represented by silent but loud Japanese celebrity Nigo, you know that a new season of BAPE means a newly emptied pocketbook. What you might not know is that this season not only will you be able to toss that pocketbook aside in favor of a new pouch, but you’ll be able to grab a couple new iterations of the ape face, get a backpack or two with the group’s newest collaboration with Porter Japan, and – oh yes – there’s some inexpensive items as well!

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The following is a post I was supposed to put up on Android Community, but I was beaten to the punch by a coworker. Therefor I’ve got all this slick content and nowhere to stash it, and it IS relevant in one way or another to World Famous Design Junkies – it is lovely and beautiful, after all, so why not? Let’s peek at some fabulous electronic splendor from our friends at NVIDIA!

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I’ll tell you how this project caught my eye: Pharrell Williams. It’s jus that simple. He’s a smart dude, I like basically every little bit of media he releases, and projects he collaborates on are generally worth a glance at least. Here he’s working with Tyson Toussant, founder and CEO of Bionic Yarn. Actually Pharrell is an investor at the moment, appearing here as a Brand Ambassador – makes sense if he’s investing in the group that he’s promote them, yes? Then what is Bionic Yarn? It’s a company, but it’s also a patented process which turns recyclable plastic products into fibers for yarn, that yarn into products. All types of glorious comfortable products, anything you can think of.

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The entire original Star Wars trilogy was conceptualized visually by a man by the name of Ralph McQuarrie. Whether you’ve heard of him before or not, his artwork has almost certainly passed before your eyes, and even if it hasn’t, it’s been used in films so gigantic that it IS impossible that you’ve not been influenced by it. What we’ve got here is a small collection of artworks that had hard and fast influences on the final product that became each of the original three Star Wars movies.

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Whilst creating the album that will eventually hold this song, Lady Gaga noted that she felt the collection oncoming would change the world. It’s clear that she meant in the form of divine influence, she’d act as a conduit for God, God who indeed would be providing her with a way to attach to our psyche the same way we’ve grown accustomed to Madonna, Cher, and Michael Jackson. At this moment, it’s important that Gaga say the hardest and harshest things about the things she wants to change and influence, as regardless of how long an artist commands our respect, there’s only a short period in which we keep what they say as both heartfelt and scripture true. No matter how many tracks Bob Dylan makes, his greatest hits will stay in the past.

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Well would you look at that? I guess I never really considered it – Angry Birds graffiti. There’s been about 20 cakes to be shown off by lucky kids whose parents are very much into them having interest in anything, even if it’s a bird game, there’s been a bunch of official stuff like shirts and plush dolls, but I think this is the very first bit of Angry Birds graffiti we’ve seen. Have a peek at it here, or hit the gallery thumbnail to see it extra large.

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This video is magnificent. It’s a music video that lives up to the legacy of brutality in aesthetics that Kanye West has been building for himself over the past however many years. It’s up there for Hype WIlliams as well, a director that’s brought the world some of the most fantastic music videos of all time. It’s difficult to top videos at this point, we suppose, as there’s only so much you can do inside 5 minutes and the human visual spectrum on a flat screen. Maybe real 3D is the next dimension – we’ve got reports from Mobile World Congress 2011 that assure us it could be in the works.

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In the classic artist trading work for money for kidney work manner, Adam White aka his graffiti name CrazeOne is indeed offering one of a kind drawings in exchange for any amount of money which he will then use to save himself from the brokehouse. He’s got to grab some kidney surgery, and he needs the cash, and you need art, so lets make a deal. Head on over to CrazeOne.com/kidneys/ and toss him at least a couple fives and get yourself an amazing piece of original artwork in return. Win win win win.

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According to renesys, Egyptian Internet providers were allowed to turn the Internet back on at 09:29:31 UTC (11:29am Cairo time) today. Although the entire Egyptian table is not yet re-connected, it’s mostly because of what’s calls “reaggregation” – that being the deletion of small, specific customer routes that are redundant in some way with existing announcements, usually for purposes of traffic engineering. Thusly, Egypt’s internet is technically better now than it was before the big shutdown. This is great news, but the struggle of the people in the streets is obviously not over. Now that the Internet is back, truly the most difficult thing for the Egyptian people will be fighting the urge to go back home for a minute to check their email, Twitter, and Facebook accounts.

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I’m watching Scott Pilgrim on an airplane. It’s trepedacious. Trepidatios? Cheerios? My wife and I are on our way to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Orlando Florida. I’ve got two phone and my keys in one pocket, and a super cool black and blue wallet thing with my iPod Touch in it, and it’s got a Gelaskins skin on it, one with the London map of pixels by Eboy. The phones are a an Optimus… something, and a Samsung Continuum, which is a Galaxy S phone. Does any of that make sense to you? Both of them have Android inside and are totally whacked out with a billion apps because I’m busy reviewing every single app in the app world for SlashApps. We’ve gone through the doorway to the sky and now were in the sky and soon we’ll be eating lots of M&M’s.
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Hooray for chocolate! And science. Pure Nacional has been found in Peru – this is a rare variety of cacao, the plant used to make delicious wonderful chocolate. Before 1916 (when disease grabbed the area in Ecuador where Pure Nacional was known to grow,) Pure Nacional was a fine chocolate known worldwide for its fantastic flavor. Now Willy Wonka – I mean Dan Pearson and Brian Horsley, some fellows who source fruit (I didn’t know that was a job!) were searching through Peru’s Maranon Canyon, they found cacao growing on tiny farmland in a remote horseshoe-shaped canyon surrounded by 6,000-foot canyon walls – this makes this whole situation a total fantasy adventure. They sent a sample to the USDA, who, when calling back with the results, first asked, “Are you sitting down?”

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