I think I have voiced how I feel about Facebook, so this is pretty wild to me, the facebook friend sleeve tattoo, BEHOLD. To tell you the truth I am not even going to try to hate on this, I think it is pretty gnarly and definitely original. The tattoo is composed of 152 friends and was designed by Pretty Social and the tattoo artist is Tattoo Dex.

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Here is a pretty bad ass poster, no punn intended, of 50 bad guys by Robert ball. If you are lazy today you can see the cheat sheet below for the answers.
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When was the last time you memorized a cell phone number? Put a picture in a photo album? Created a real, physical invitation for a party? Thanks to Facebook, we don’t have to deal with any of those inconvenient, non-technological, memory-related things anymore. In our opinion, that’s change for the better. With Social Memories, you can document everything that happened on the social network quickly amassing more information about you than even Google. Social Memories takes all your pictures, albums, likes, favorite vocab words, popular status updates and a bunch of other socially important statistics and then aggregates it into a book perfect for your coffee table. Or, if $27 seems a little steep for what’s essentially a narcissistic trip down memory lane, you can make a book for free and share it with all the same friends that are in it. $27

Walt Whitman as “Leaves of Grass”

It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but most authors prefer to do their story telling using words instead of pictures. What if pictures were made using words instead? Well, in some forms of typography based art, pictures are made up of words.

Check out these portraits of famous authors made using words from their own stories and poems.

Ibsen as “Hedda Gabler”

Borges as “The Secret Miracle”

Many more cool author word portraits below
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There are few things in life as serious as a bullet. Most of us don’t have to rely on one of man’s most deadly weapons on a regular basis, so we don’t have use for bullets regularly. Pens are a different story. Signing checks, bar tabs and taking notes will be less of a chore and more of a reason to show off – if you have a Fisher Space Pen that’s made from a real .375 caliber bullet. Getting your point across will never be as easy as it is with this bullet pen. You can buy it here for $25.

There always some situations that call for a word that just doesn’t exist, and here are 8 prime examples of that. I’m sure everyone has encountered these things and wanted to easily describe the feeling to a friend but instead had to give a long drawn out explanation, one word would have been a lot easier. Now excuse me while I go gheegle my hot co-workers ass.

1. Gheegle: (Filipino) The urge to pinch or squeeze something that is unbearably cute.

2. Cualacino: (Italian) The mark left on a table by a cold glass.

3. Sgriob: (Gaelic) The itchiness that overcomes the upper lip just before taking a sip of whisky

4. L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”

5. Pari-pari and Saku-saku: (Japanese) Hard-crispy verses Soft-crispy, i.e. a rice cracker versus fried chicken

6. Stam: (Hebrew) An agreement out of amusement and frustration that something doesn’t have a satisfactory answer among those talking.

7. Forelsket: (Norwegian) The euphoria you experience when you are first falling in love.

8. Pena ajena: (Mexican Spanish) The embarrassment you feel watching someone else’s humiliation.

The brand, labeled Flying Junction, offers 20th century inspired subway and bus rollsigns with a hand-lettered look with iconic locales in New York, London and California. The prints are made from soy ink on archival recycled canvas (paper is available), but our favorite feature is the price: they start at a wallet-friendly $20. Now, about that wall space… Buy them here for $20.

Here is a pretty cool little representation of Superheros in alphabet form. Cheat sheet can be found below if your too lazy to guess.
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Retro fantasticness from Max Dalton — a Ferris Bueller’s Day Off board game. Created for an art exhibit honoring our Gen-X patron saint, John Hughes.