“Fresh Born” is the first single from Deerhoof’s upcoming record, Offend Maggie. Download the sheet music, make your own version, upload it to your webpage or blog, then post the link here. Deerhoof’s version of “Fresh Born” will be shared soon too.

Graffiti for Butterflies:

Monarchs regularly pass through wide swathes of human settlement as they migrate each year from wintering sites in Mexico to summering grounds in the United States and Canada. GFB is the equivalent of a fast-food sign on a highway, advertising rest stops (waystations) to monarchs traveling through the area.

Improv Everywhere does it again. Video of the mission and crowd reactions on YouTube.

For our latest mission, we filled a subway car with identical twins, creating a human mirror.

Also see: Look Up More, Frozen Grand Central, Circle Line Tours, McDonald’s Bathroom Attendant, Slo-Mo Home Depot, No Pants 2k8.

Chronotopic Anamorphosis from Marginalia Project:

This video shows the test of a software developed as a programming exercise.

The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distorsion of the figures caused by their motion in time.

Cue 1:40; I just lost my mind.

Biggest drawing in the world

With the help of a GPS device and DHL, I have drawn a self portrait on our planet. My pen was a briefcase containing the GPS device, being sent around the world. The paths the briefcase took around the globe became the strokes of the drawing.

UPDATE: Sometimes I hate art. Yes, it’s a fake. (via cliff)

In 1890, Alexander Stanhope St George undertook one of the most ambitious excavation projects in all of history: an immense tunnel connecting New York City to London through the earth. But it would not allow physical travel from one end to the other. Dubbed the “telectroscope”, the tunnel would be a “device for the suppression of absence”, enabling viewers to visit the distant city without ever having to leave the island. Unfortunately, the project met a tragic end before completion, and was lost to the winds of history.

Until great-grandson Paul St George came along.

Now, with the help of UK art organization Artichoke (see: The Little Girl Giant), the grand idea has come to fruition. From May 22 to June 15 at Fulton Ferry Landing in Brooklyn or Tower Bridge in London, you can experience the majesty of these sister cities without ever leaving the safety of solid ground.

Oh, yes, it’s free and open 24 hours a day.

SPOILER ALERT: Yes, it is fake. It’s an art project, get it?

In one fateful episode of Full House, D.J. Tanner, summoning the ancient and angry ninja spirits within, yelled at Joey, “You can’t tell me what to do! You’re not my father!” Filled with such raw emotion, the scene was unlike any other.

Performance artist, musician, writer, actress, and director Miranda July has a new book to be released in May: No one belongs here more than you. Along with the book, she has created a website, using only a marker and her kitchen.