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Pidge loveth all things retro and he just discovered a big helping of it at Plan59 via his new fave blog Paintalicious.

Here’s Hunt’s Tomato Catsup….Deliciously Yours……

Friends of mine have created a music/performing arts outfit called Neosonic. From their website:

“Neosonic combine real time live electronic music production with dynamic dance and light performance, creating shows that are both visually stunning and musically moving”

They’re booked out until the end of the year, here’s why:

I recently Stumbled across my new favourite art blog Paintalicious - straight into my Google reader it went. I’ve enjoyed checking out the work of every single one of the artists they list and look forward to browsing past posts.

From their “About” page:

“Paintalicious is a blogzine of exciting contemporary art, designed to make your day a little more esthetically pleasing: by promoting artists and the arts. Painting, photography, sculpture and Illustration will be just a few of the media examined by Paintalicious. But look out for urban art, fashion, design, pop culture, and of course my own art thrown into the mix. Your daily dose of paintalicious will give you a little something to look at with your eyes, and maybe even your mind.”

This is Alpha Girl from DeviantArtist OwaikeO

From Brighton-based Cyriak - a simplistic, retro, 8-bit tune set to crazy visuals. I want more….

Thanks to the previous Strangemaps article I discovered a great new Flickr group - maps drawn from memory. Here’s “Anatomy of the Artist; Drawn from Memory, in watercolour and ink” by Flickr user Nad. Great work!

From Strangemaps via a Flickr group, the New Simplified map of London:

Brilliant stuff ! I guess I live with all the other losers…

Question - which website is run by a single person (actually, it sounds like he’s recently got his first employee), earns $30k a day ($10 millski a year) and boasts 500,000 unique log-ins per day?

Er…..that would be Plenty of Fish, a leading online dating service run by Markus Frind, that looks to do for dating what Craigslist did for classified advertising.

See this ReadWriteWeb article for talk of a $1bn valuation…sweet.

“Cuz you know theres otha fish in the sea, that is, in the sea,
In the sea that is” ….Pharcyde lyrics dontcha know

From today’s Time’s online, the advent calendar that features a serial killer, clutching a meat cleaver, ready to chop up kids skating on the frozen river. The man isn’t just any old serial killer, he’s identified as Fritz Haarmann (name spelled incorrectly by the Times) who killed 24 people in Hanover after the First World War.

I can’t decide whether or not I agree that it should be pulled from shops. Historically accurate - yes. Tasteful? Er….

Either way, it makes a great image-based question for a pub quiz.

A quote that tickled me:

“Waiting for the bus is a bad idea if you turn out to be the bus driver”

(attributed to Michael M. Butler)

True dat