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linkaliciousness

• faux porn dvd covers for the butt in ass show
• was monroe raped? (yes the monroe from too close for comfort miss jim j bullock herselvis)
• proof monroe was raped (yes the monroe about which there was a question as to whether or not he was raped)
• not a goth rickroll (i swear)
• totally a goth rickroll (i swear)

[tips from wick'd boy news and heretic sainte]

i get that kate & allie was meant for mostly female (and gay male) audience, but pink credits?

tackiest gay pride liquor display ever

tackiness checklist:

• garish colors - yes
• spinning - yes
• customized text of local gay neighborhood to improve connection to target audience - yes
• part of display (poster) blocking other part o display (pride means) - yes
• extra absolut mini-posters stuck to larger poster - yes
• product, despite color motif, isn't gay yet is pretending to be gay - yes
• misspelling (um, it's absolute, duh) - yes
• manages to be tackier than guitar on top shelf in background - yes
• i'm not visible in the mirror behind it because it's such a huge display - yes
• it never existed and was entirely a group hallucination - yes

big dicks ugly seating

after the jump. the first picture especially is one that would make a gay interior decorator both cringe and drool. the second picture, being on some sort of public transport and again showcasing wonderful cock and legs, can be forgiven its design flaws. though the teal remains problematic.

richard emden is the world's sexiest home shopping pitchman ever

he makes hideous, tacky, overpriced handbags (i.e. victoria beckham is a fan), but damn, richard emden of the bracher emden design team smokes up the screen. yes i watch home shopping sometimes because it's funny as hell, but who knew they'd have the world's sexiest well you know - home shopping guy type person. he had a gentle voice while he ironically robbed pocketbooks of millions. i crave him.

p.s. here's his little facebook pic. he's a hot little 100 pixel square, isn't he? yes i need to get out more.

fierce oprah on a fierce motorcycle on a fierce cake

i feel honored to say i'm friends with the cake decorator who by the way had put the name after the happy birthday but i photoshopped it out to protect the innocent oprah obsessed. only thing missing (though not technically missing since customer hadn't requested it) is oprah's husband gayle in a sidecar. vroom!

is this good or bad interior decorating?

after the nsfw jump. yeah, i know's it's about interior decorating but, well, you'll see...

text sex

through the able robotic assistance suggested by omg blog, here's a picture i instigated (the almost entirely black rectangle) where you won't know what it is until you click it to make it bigger, huge that is.

seriously masculine foreground with frilly feminine background

after the gender neutral jump.

oh my gosh helvetica is a great movie

i so recommend you get helvetica on dvd.  yes it's a documentary about a font. a fine fine fine documentary that designers and non will love.  intoxicating and precious.  did i mention helvetica is possibly the most ubiquitous font in your life?  from corporate logos (american apparel, sears, american airlines, staples) to signs (no pissing on sidewalk, please smoke here, don't stop) to famous as hell posters to magazine titles to the side of the space shuttle, it's so everywhere.  the film is simultaneously about that which defies yet begs observation.  something omnipresent yet unnoticed.

once post wwii optimist modern, then something to rebel against (paula scher of hand illustrated font fame is my favorite in that respect), then something inspiring in both its limitations and possibilities.  the insights from the myriad designers and typographers are fascinating.  you actually get to see zapf of zapf dingbats fame - it's a real guy - as well as those who knew helvetica's creators and pull out original notes and mockups (make the s thicker here).

bet you didn't know it was a modern update of a 19th century german font called (in english) accidents grotesque.  bet you did know that extended montages of uses of helvetica in public life are fascinating.  i saw it so many times today it made a nothing day suddenly seem worthwhile...mary tyler moore theme song anyone?  one of my favorite observations was how those knowledgeable about / obsessed with type can find flaws in historical movies, i.e. "hey the font on that storefront in that pearl harbor epic wasn't invented until 1993, snap!"  helvetica evinces pure fascination and offers surpising visual intrigue.  if font is the same, yet used in so many contexts, is more emphasis placed on content?  the film functions on multiple levels (a doc within a doc about these people who are so obsessed with a font - um, these people are me).  so after it i saw it i had to make this super quick.  i've got to do something between quarters at design school.