Mmmm.

I see no problem with this at all.

The Segerstroms want to put in 23-story condo towers across from South Coast Plaza in "Lakes Pavilion", where the Greek restaurant is. First, they have to demonstrate that putting these in won't cause environmental impact in the form of more cars. I wonder how hard it will be to convince their drinking buddies on the City Council that everything will be fine?

http://www.dailypilot.com/front/story/23331p-33245c.html

It's not as bad as the condo-ization of East Costa Mesa, which is just slums in 20 years. At least South Coast Metro is already a sterile collection of malls and corporate plop architecture. But wow, if they start cranking up high-rises everywhere...

Is the severed hand fresh?

Thai Artist Bakes Up Some People Parts.

The place looks like a mortuary or the lair of a serial killer, but in fact, it's a bakery. What appears to be putrefying body parts are the bread sculptures of 28-year-old art student Kittiwat Unarrom.

Along with edible human heads crafted from dough, chocolate, raisins and cashews, Kittiwat makes human arms, feet, and chicken and pig parts. He uses anatomy books and his vivid memories of visiting a forensics museum to create the human parts.

"Of course, people were shocked and thought that I was mad when they saw the works. But once they knew the idea behind it, they understood and became interested in the work itself, instead of thinking that I am crazy," said the fine arts masters degree student.


via robotwisdom

Mr. Lagerfeld, whatever shall I do with this pig?

Annie Leibovitz redoes Alice in Wonderland with Fashion Designers.

I should have realized this!

Now that Flickr is getting very popular, it's almost useless for getting photos from world events. Just a few months ago, getting a tag feed for some newsworthy current event returned pictures from people at the scene. The immediacy and the alternative to the wire services made it interesting.

Now everyone just uses Flickr as a generic photo hosting service and reposts wire service photos to reuse them on their blogs. It's impossible to plow through all that noise to find the gems people are posting that you'll never see on Yahoo! News Photos.