We are loving the way UK photographer Mike Stimson has reinterpreted some of the most harrowing, joyful and memorable moments in history for his collection, with the help of LEGOS. I find some of them funny like the Viet Cong Execution both LEGOS in the photo have big smiles, which I don’t remember them smiling at all. You can see the entire photo set at Stimson’s flickr page here.

Lunch Atop A Skyscraper

Viet Cong Execution

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Now let me start with saying I really like Kanye’s music. He is one of the few minds in hip-hop who is still creative and evolving the music industry. With that said he is a complete douche in all other aspects. I don’t like talking shit about celebs because I would probably be acting the same way if I had millions of dollars and access to every party in the world with no repercussions. But when you act like an ass clown 24/7 and have no respect for anyone else, it’s always fun to see that person get worked in one way or another. We here at Zoot put together 5 times where Kanye has got owned by the competition, from Mos Def to President Obama, enjoy.

5. Swizz Beats Owns Kanye at Hot97 Summer Jam
It was over when Swizzy dropped the “Ruff Ryders Anthem”. It was actually over before it started really. I always liked Kanye beats, but when you put them in New York against Swizz Beatz, that’s the all-time set up of the beginning of getting owned.

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Creative photo series by Frederique Daubal, a talented French artist, features models wearing masks created out of pages from fashion magazines. According to the artist, “Hide and Seek” art project is a statement on identity, transformation and what it means to be French today. All I’m really getting out of it is a creepy way to scare the living shit out of my girlfriend around the house, thanks Frederique, ya freak.

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Coming home drunk and then go online can bring you lots of fun, but also lots of problems second day. This is our top 10 list of things you should avoid doing on Internet if you are drunk.

1. Respond to anything work-related
No matter how capable you think you are, just don’t do it. Any mistake will be instantly explained by the 4am reply time. Besides, alcohol breeds carelessness, and ending an email to an attractive co-worker with a pun on how she’s good at “every job there is” with a winky-face is definitely not a good idea.

2. Chat with family members
Just because your weird step-uncle Dale just got off work from the recycling plant does not mean that it’s the perfect time to organize that trip to insect museum he’s always been bugging you about. This will come back to haunt you in the form of a doorbell ring at 6am the following Sunday.

3. Change your password
Of all the things to forget about the previous night, the fact that your email’s new password is “burgerkingroxxx6969” is one of the most costly.
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If your like me you put salt on pepper on everything, and I mean everything. A bowl of cereal, salt and pepper, icecream, salt and pepper, lemonade, salt and pepper. So since salt and peper is used about 8 times a day it would be a good investment to spice up your shakers, no punn intended. Here is a collection of weird and cool salt and pepper shakers we have rounded up for your enjoyment. Don’t give me those salty looks, LAWRYS.

Ants Shakers

Keyboard Keys Shakers

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Jack Conte is a multi-instrumentalist, song-writer, and filmmaker based in the San Francisco Bay Area who lives off of the sale of MP3s online. Conte formed the band Pomplamoose with his girlfriend Nataly Dawn in Summer 2008. The band’s presence is primarily online, having only performed a handful of live shows. Nevertheless, the collaboration has garnered significant fan support.We’re digging the quirky art-school hipster sounds of Pomplamoose, who not only does some awesome pop music covers like this Michael Jackson classic, but some catchy original tunes too. Check out their youtube page for more awesome songs we are sure you will dig. Also below are a bunch of other great songs we included for you, enjoy.

Michael Jackson – Beat It

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Boardwalk Empire is an upcoming American television series from HBO, set in Atlantic City, New Jersey during the Prohibition era. The show is adapted from Nelson Johnson’s book, Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City by Emmy award-winning screenwriter and producer Terence Winter of The Sopranos. The pilot episode was directed by Martin Scorsese and he is expected to continue to be creatively involved in the ongoing production. HBO has stated that the series will debut in the fall of 2010.

1. Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you’re a mile away and you have their shoes.

2. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day.

3. If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

4. If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
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So we have a good friend as well as an avid reader of zoot known as “the kid himself”. He is a stock broker on Wall Street so we get to hear the ups and downs he endures every day. The fact of the matter is you are going to lose money if you invest in stocks. Sooner or later, it’s bound to happen. In fact, it may have happened already and you don’t recognize it because losses can take several different forms. AKA you might not lose your money, but you will lose your hair, about 20 years of your life stressing, and probably your house and kids. So in other words let me take this moment to say invest your money with The Kid Himself, your money is safe with him Here is a collection of people who just got royally fucked in the stock market and have come to the realization that they just flushed their life down the tubes.

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