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An animal rug that Peta would approve of and a sugar fiend would surely indulge.

Created by Ya Ya Chou, “Simon” is a 32×30″ rug made from gummy bears and press-on nails for claws.

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Stressed out? Take a look at this calming collection of nature themed desktop wallpapers to reclaim your inner zen - Desktopography

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Andy Warhol’s Lemon Marilyn, originally purchased for a mere $250, is expected to fetch at least $15 million when it is put on the auction block at Christie’s in New York on May 16.

Christie’s did not reveal the identity of the private collector, who bought the painting at Eleanor Ward’s Stable Gallery in New York where Warhol held his first one-man exhibition.

The 1962 silk-screen of Marilyn Monroe was one of a series of 13 paintings Warhol created following Monroe’s August 1962 death.

Don’t have millions to shell out for a piece of iconic history,

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Missed your chance to snap up one of the four $42,000 Louis Vuitton Tribute handbags offered for sale in the US? Don’t worry! Rosie O’Donnell announced on today’s The View that she spent the weekend creating her own version of world’s most expensive purse and has donated it to the online charity auction site CharityBuzz.com.

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MAiLmeART is a cool collaborative art project where entrants create art on envelopes or packages that must be sent via mail. In 18-24 months MAiLmeART will be holding an exhibition in London in which all of the original submitted work will be for sale. If an entrant’s work is bought, they will receive 70% of the sale.

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“Again and Again” is The Bird and The Bee’s lastest video off their self-titled debut album.

I saw this band perform live on Friday. They are currently touring with Lily Allen and have a fresh sound that Rolling Stone touts as ‘electronics-specked pop that touches on the Beach Boys, Burt Bacharach and bossa nova.’

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Knit and crochet hobbyists from around the globe have stitched a 14-foot wide blanket emblazoned with a Nike Swoosh to act as a petition for fair labor policies for Nike garment workers. The Nike Blanket Petition is made from 4 x 4 inch knitted or crocheted squares, each square acting as petition.

Cat Mazza of MicroRevolt launched the initiative which has brought together hand-made squares and virtual signatures from over 20 countries.

This summer, the Nike Blanket Petition will be delivered to Nike CEO Phil Knight along with a letter demanding that Nike apparel be manufactured in accordance with established International Labor Organization conventions.

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This picture shows a graphic visualization of this webpage using the information from its html source code.

You can tranform any webpage into a piece of graphic art using the Websites as Graphs - HTML DOM Visualizer Applet.

Also, check out flickr for a gallery of other websites as graphs.

The HTML DOM Visualizer is the work of Sala, a conceptual artist living in Zurich, Switzerland.

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UbuWeb - the largest educational resource for avant-garde material on the internet - has converted all of its rare and out-of-print film and video holdings to on-demand streaming formats.

The site offers over 300 films and videos from artists such as Marcel Duchamp, Vito Acconci, Pipilotti Rist, Jean Genet, The Cinema of Transgression, Richard Foreman, Terayama Shuji, Paul McCarthy Jack Smith, Carolee Schneeman, John Lennon and hundreds more — free of charge.

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A cool street art project called Little People - a Tiny Street Art Project has been taking over the streets of London. Miniscule, plastic figurines have been left alone to fend for themselves in public places throughout the big city. The elusive artist behind the project, known only as Slinkachu, says he is trying to recreate typical London life with the tiny blokes.

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