These dumbbells, from Unica Home totally make me want to work out.

And by that I mean...

Work.

Out.

Update: Kanye West blogged these. (But what's up with that url?!)

The Tennent's Mutual is a revolutionary music festival taking place in Scotland that is being paid for by Tennent's Lager, but completely run by "the people".

They are investing the budget they already had for promoting themselves to music lovers, and then they are letting the music fans decide how to spend the budget.

Fans will vote on the location, the line-up, the ticket price, and even which bank to use to finance the gig. All of the money from ticket sales will be reinvested to make the festival bigger and bad-ass-er next year.

Fans take ownership, bands and venues get involved in promoting themselves, and the whole event generates great buzz - all for the same budget that Tennent's was already spending. Genius.

Wowza. I wish I was on this roof with these Jeff Koons sculptures right now.

My relationship to Koon's art has changed throughout the years The first piece of art that I can clearly recall hating was Koon's "The New Shelton Wet/Dry Triple Decker" (1981) at The Des Moines Art Center.
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As an elementary age student, I thought it was so stupid. I still don't really like it. Koons has been through many incarnations as an artist. The art he made with his porn-star ex-wife was too much for me.

It took me a little while to decide how I felt about this balloon art. It's catchy, but I thought maybe it was too pop for me. The red sculpture below is in front of 7 World Trade Center directly in front of Ground Zero, and although I thought it looked like a pile of shiny dog poop when photographed from the 29th floor of 7WTC, in person in allows for a kind of literal reflection that is apropos for it's location.

Seeing the picture at the top (which is from the New York Times and accompanied this article, is on the roof at The Met) I know realize that I just kind of want to hang out with them.

The distance allows for a neat perspective (while not making them look like poo), and the backdrop is stunning. Here's hoping I make it to NYC this summer!

The skeleton is too cute.

A picture I snapped while waiting on the runway at JFK.

It's about time the media started treating air travel as the travesty that it is. After spending countless hours waiting, being treated inhumanly while going through ineffective security lines, and bumped and ignored like we don't exist, people are paying attention.

-->My daughter, five at the time, was sent through explosive sniffers at the Las Vegas airport. She was separated from me with no explanation and sent through this hulking machine. They didn't tell her what was happening or what to expect. Naturally, it scared the crap out of her!

-->After spending $350 *extra* to get my flight from Austin, TX, home moved up a day, I was bumped. Then bumped again. Then was forced to stay overnight in a hotel. Then I had to get up at 5 am to get back to the airport. Then, when going through security for the THIRD time in two days, I was told I couldn't go through because my clear plastic baggie was not *quart* sized. I got kicked out of line, and had to go to the gift shop and spend $.25 to get the right sized baggie, then go through again. I never got the $350 back, even though I paid to get home early.