art

If you’ve got 10 friends and about 14,000 Post-It notes handy, you, too, could spend five hours and create a scene from Donkey Kong on the windows of a four-story building.

One of the things that has bothered me for some time about the men’s bathroom at my office is that we have no urinals. They are one of the great conveniences of mankind. Toilets are just really sub-par places to urinate. (There’s too much splash and you always try to flush with your foot because, really, who wants to touch the handle way back there?) We have a tremendously large and ornate fish tank with a waterfall and beautiful coral sculptures in our reception area, but I don’t think I’d be able to convince the CFO to invest in the remodeling it would take to install these.

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Even though they allow for high-volume servicing and back-in-a-flash trips to the john, the point-and-shoot-a-stinky-deodorizer-cake oddity known as the men’s restroom urinal has been, for women, a constant enigma. But nothing will prepare you for the men’s room in the newly-designed Virgin Airways Clubhouse in New York’s John F. Kennedy airport, terminal 4: Urinals shaped like a woman’s mouth, dolled up with red lipstick, wide open and ready for business.

If you have a few minutes to spare this morning, take a look at this mind-boggling Flash artwork. It’s hypnotizing and beautiful and entirely captivating. Move the mouse. Try not to fall into the monitor. (Flash required, obviously.)

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Linguasso (for lingual and Picasso) creates totally random works of art, composed of text and based on varying emotions [which have been] put into a small library. It chooses an emotion, then displays associated words and dynamically created sentences in random fonts, sizes and places. It’s quite addictive to watch over and over again, as each design seems to tell its own story.

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I have to agree with Caterina: I’m not happy at all with the results of my art test.

I’m ashamed of myself for bloggin’ it, but this computer-generated sketch page is mildly amusing. Beware: there are 50 annoying pop-ups when you finish …

Little known fact: I am an excellent finger painter …