James introduces us to two fine sites:
Gum Blondes : a portrait gallery of blondes… where chewing gum is the medium.
-and- 
The Tattooed Banana : a portrait gallery… where bananas are the medium.
My dark favorite is the sad banana suicide.

Hey look, it’s the world’s biggest hole.

The FOOD TIMELINE
{ fascinating facts for your afternoon } 

Mid-Summer Music for today: Brazil’s Cansei de Ser Sexy
{ their name means "tired of being sexy," their sound is long-lost party music } 

D.I.Y. Jackson Pollack
{ create your own masterpiece in the style of Jackson Pollack; just move your mouse around & click for various colors. "showing the layperson again that, yes, making art is just this easy…"  ahem. }

Lookie here, a collection of TV Theme Songs for your downloading pleasure.

In music, Mercedes-Benz’s Mixed-Tape #13 is now available (for free download)
{ this time, it’s ALL about Acid Jazz, which isn’t my thing at all… but you might like it. }

A gift for your loved one… that crossed you for the last time. The Horse Head Pillow.

Seamless Paintings visually transition from one world to another. Beautiful & semi-disturbing.

Furniture made from FedEx packaging.

I’m not one to talk, I mean I do have a Museum of Food Anomalies — but this woman has posted an unbelievably exhaustive collection of labels from bananas.

A strangely moving & inspiring video of Matt, Dancing { in various places around the world }

Video of the "falling dominoes effect" using household items (instead of… well, dominoes). The trail runs through an entire home and includes some of the following items: CDs, videotapes, books, shampoo bottles and… toast!

Hanttula.com’s MoFA has been listed on today’s "The 9" from Yahoo.
Have a look at The 9 and, if you like the MoFA, please vote for me (at the bottom of The 9’s page)

{ Mike’s Monday Mornin’ Music }
Another fine EP from [adultswim]: Chocolate Swim
and the mysterious 1.618: a site that posts a track for download along with a pleasing graphic respresentation of that track. { click on the colored squares for the archives }