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One of the great American visionaries of the twentieth century, R. Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) endeavored to see what he, a single individual, might do to benefit the largest segment of humanity while consuming the minimum of the earth’s resources. Doing “more with less” was Fuller’s credo. He described himself as a “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,” setting forth to solve the escalating challenges that faced humanity before they became insurmountable…”

Read more about Buckminster Fuller on display at the Whitney exhibit.

A.O. patiently listens to, but will not be controlled by, self-proclaimed “cat fags.”

Regardless of what the thing above turns out to be, we sorta wouldn’t mind it skulking about. It’s like a Dr. Seuss book and a Stephen King novel animated a secret handshake.

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Moral is a graffiti artist out of NYC perfecting a secretive (actually a fire extinguisher full of paint) form of graffiti that gives you HUGE and TALL letters and what have you…

Ah, you know the idea behind this joke about evolution could really work to improve a variety of hackneyed movie plots with ghosts.

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This modern Chinese painter blows us away. In fact, AO’s first post was about Liu Baojun, but now that so many more of you are partaking of the forbidden fruit that is Arctic Oak, we thought we’d remind you how awesome he is.

Go back to the post Skill and Whimsy in Modern China for more information on Baojun/gallery links.

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“The hamster was not dancing - it was shivering.”

I’m sure some of you have that boss/coworker/roommate/civilian-on-duty/neighbor who can’t help but leave you little notes passive aggressively reminding you of a neglected duty.

Send them the link to this funny site, which they won’t think is funny because it hits a little too close to home.

Go ahead. It’s Friday! Get loose. Get passive aggressive.

www.passiveaggressivenotes.com

A friend of mine brought up this find at the bar awhile back while we were boozing and bemoaning the end of Your Daily Awesome (obviously, this was pre-Arctic Oak. A dark, dark age).

If you go to Awesome Tapes from Africa, you can painlessly download and listen to lots of African tapes you’ve probably never heard. For free. None of that iTunes one dollar bullshit.

If your a music lover or culturally bicurious, this is a scoop for you.