The latest art installation from Banksy popped up at Brighton Pier in England. The re-purposed child’s ride features a dolphin tangled up in fishing nets attempting to escape a leaking BP oil drum, can you say genius. It’s funny how when something isn’t hot news anymore the American media tends to completely shut it out of the headlines. Since they stopped the oil I haven’t heard one word on how the clean up was going and or the effects it is having. It’s old news so out of sight out of mind, so much so your kids are bound to ride it with a big smile on their face.

This video is pretty rad and almost hypnotizing when watching it. If you enjoy watching this sort of thing, here’s nearly 7 minutes of it for your viewing pleasure! Personal favorites are the Karate Chop and Eggs on Face. The video was shot on the Photron SA1.1, Directed and produced by Philip Heron and James Adair.

Tempus II from Philip Heron on Vimeo.

There are millions of fire hydrants all over the world, but for some reason they are painted red every single time. I get the whole “everyone needs to be aware there is a fire hydrant there so lets paint it red” theory, but come on spice it up a little bit. That is why I have gone around my town and painted every fire hydrant as a penis, there is now 50, 3 foot tall penis hydrants scattered throughout my town, I rule. On a little more creative note, here is a bunch of fire hydrant art found around the country.

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Words cannot describe how very excellent this is: DeviantARTist Suzuran drew 54 Marvel characters in the sprite-tastic style of classic Mega Man. If you wish to weep tears of joy, click the image above to see the full panorama in all it’s glory. Update: For easier (though slightly less awesome) viewing, we’ve sliced the panorama up into five component panels; if you like what you see, check out Suzuran’s DeviantART page for more.

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Talk about bringing new meaning to, “Just the tip”. Many artists have used pencils to create works of art – but Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils. Dalton, who works as a carpenter, has been making his tiny graphite works for about 25 years. A sculpture of Elvis Presley wearing shades, carved from a single pencil.

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These photographs were taken with a Nimslo 3d stereo camera and boy are they awesome. They images are .gif files which allows for the slight movement of the photo that gives it the 3d effect. Yes that is right no funny glasses required for awesome 3d photography. Check out the whole gallery below. UPDATE: if your interesting in taking this kind of photography you can try to find one of these Nimslo cameras on ebay here.

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When you are shopping for new furniture for your apartment, you should be focused on one thing, how cool does it look. That’s it. The main goal aside from getting a good deal is how dope all this new stuff is going to make your pad look. Lets be honest, no girls are attracted to the uniformed college dorm room look. They want something unique and cool. That’s where the Space Invader couch by Igor Chak comes into play. Just look at this thing. It doesn’t say gamer as much as it says class. Its a great design, doubles as an art sculpture, and makes you look like you have some taste in furniture design, of which, of course, you have none. You just read ZootPatrol. So your welcome.

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The marketing henchmen have successfully convinced those in charge of Andy Warhol’s estate to participate in the production of many-hued bottles of Dom Pérignon in tribute to the Pop Art hustler at $150 a pop. In 1981, Warhol wrote something about his stash of 2,000 bottles of the popular bubbly. He wasn’t there to harvest the time capsule in the year 2010, but being dead can’t stop Andy from making paper by association. A toast to hype immortal! POP BOTTLES!

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We posted on artist Jay Shells a few months back, and gave him a ton of love for his subway etiquette campaign he was promoting around the NYC subway system. I ride the subway every day, and I cant take some of the things people do on a regular basis. The thought that these people have no respect for the others they share this public space with is mindblowing. Well Jay is back, and this time with a more visual interpritation of how he plans to accomplish his mission of putting these people in their place.