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We’re loving this work called Cartonlandia by LA-based artist, Ana Serrano. The level of detail is amazing, and the colours are adorable. Don’t you want to live in a world like this? Little colourful cardboard houses. From her site: Her work bears reference to those in low socio-economic positions, with particular interest in their customs [...]

You see, I love all things two wheeled. I love bicyles and I love motorcycles. And you’d think, a small engined bicycle would be perfect as a low/no emission transport for the modern urban person. Unfortunately such mopeds are decidedly ugly. Enter Ridley Motorcycles and their Vintage Bike range. They’ve made a series of beautiful [...]

Tristan linked us to these spectacular photos taken in North Korea and published on the Boston Globe website. These photos were all taken within the past six months – some taken from the borders, peering in, others provided by North Korea itself, and several generously shared by freelance photographer Eric Lafforgue, who recently spent some [...]

With each passing day the US election coverage gets ever more intense and more and more people get ever more frustated and just plain over it. It’s a bit ludicrous that for over half of the current president’s term there has been an ongoing campaign to pick his successor. And modern politics is hardly the [...]

How best to honour John McCain for his time spent as a POW? Something that does suitable justice to his sacrifice would be the obvious choice. And if it can claw back some of Obama’s cool ground, then so much the better. Well, for Orange County Choppers the obvious answer was a fully tricked out [...]

American Presidential elections throw up all sorts of bizarro stuff. From crazy assed attack ads to styling accessories, they’ve got it all, and with good reason. The country is split straight down the middle along an ideological split that posits the lunatic baby jeebus lovers on one side and a conglomeration of whacko  godless anti-capitalist [...]

These guys are handy if you’re in the LA area – Retro metal office furniture from RecycledDesk.Com It’s US$500 for a packages like the one above. While the site espouses the environmental angle going on about the atmosphere, saving whales and other cute cold requiring wildlife, which is all well and good, for me the [...]

Lest anyone accuse DEGOURGET of Obama favouritism* given the recent run of Obama gadgets and designs we’ve run here in the past, here’s a little bit of gadget action for the born again, book banning, foetus protectors amongst you. You can own your very own Sarah Palin Action Figure today thanks to the good folks [...]

This takes balls. Balls the size of which mankind has not seen since William Wallace flashed his ass at the English or Maximus stalked into the arena to take down Johnny Cash. Balls so huge I can’t think of a non celluloid example to describe the cojones involved. Or maybe I’m wrong, maybe it’s pure [...]

I imagine quite a few of you have already seen some of the work Bansky has been throwing up around New Orleans and into the Deep South, but for those that haven’t, we’ve put together a few pics for you. The pieces are a mix of commentary on Katrina, the usual Banksy fair and a [...]

This is an eye opening little video. It’s from an extract of A People’s History of The American Empire (Graphic Novel) by Howard Zinn. Zinn is is a former WW2 veteran and now a historian, playwright, and social activist and author of the seminal work “A People’s History of the United States”. The book was [...]

I’m loving the work of photographer Charles Maraia has posted up on his site at the moment. Titled ‘Unfamiliar Places’ the series documents beauty in the mundane aspects of life. A pretty classic chronicle of the American landscape, there’s a sad beauty to the work that really resonates with me. more photos after the jump [...]

Just recently completed, this 8000 sq ft beautifully designed gallery part of the ‘Skirball Cultural Center’ in LA, is dedicated to exploring the connections between four thousand years of Jewish heritage and the vitality of American democratic ideals. How American democratic ideal’s are connected with an Ark full of animals makes me wonder again about [...]