With the stigma that is attached to littering in general, I have always been baffled by the disregard smokers have for disposing  of cigarette butts by just throwing them on the ground. To combat this, local Austin studio, The Butler Bros produced this wonderfully creative spot for Legacy’s initiative to fight this kind of litter. The New York Times wrote an article about the overall fight as well. I recommend a quick read.

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Good friend and great Austin based photographer, Adam Voorhes, has released some photographs from his project photographing malformed human brains. They are part of a collection of human brains collected by the Texas State Mental Hospital about 4 decades ago. Check out the series as well as the explanation Adam did after the jump.

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Right before SXSW, SoundCloud contacted us and asked if we could help them with designing an interactive installation piece for their SXSW Creator Clubhouse. After some brainstorming, our team came up with the idea of creating a massive wall of bungee cords to represent sound. Using a SoundCloud gobo, we projected their logo on it at night. Check out a timelapse and photographs of the installation as well as video of people interacting with it after the jump.

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This Life On Mars video by Lukas Vojir is pretty snazzy. I don’t know about you, but it definitely makes me want to move to Mars. This whole Earth thing is kinda played out. The Red Planet is where it’s at.

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I guessI love two things; Legos and Michael Jackson. This short film combines his awesome solo dance from Smooth Criminal and Legos in to 29 seconds of awesome. Enjoy it over and over. I did.

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Austin folks, if you’re looking to add a bit of  literature and libations to your Valentine’s Day plans, stop by Farewell Books tonight for their opening ceremony. Farewell is a progressive new and used bookshop located at 913 East Cesar Chavez. Sharing space along side Farewell, will be Las Cruxes, Dress Smart Alterations, Schmaltz, and Flat Track Coffee. The party is from 6 – 9 p.m. See ya there!

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Disney’s Oscar nominated short animated film Paperman is a wonderful return to their old hand drawn methods. The description of the YouTube video doesn’t go in to much detail about how exactly it was produced, but it does mention that it’s a blending of both hand drawn sketches and computer animation.

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I have been seeing HTML5 used in increasingly interesting ways recently for the purpose of storytelling. The New York Times’ new piece titled Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek does just that and is simply amazing. Using parallax design, it blends photography, flyovers, and animations to push long-form journalism in hopefully the direction that more stories will go.

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Over the Christmas break I was perusing the internets and stumbled upon an artist named Hanksy who spoofs the street artist Banksy by replacing the heads of his work with the head of Tom Hanks. Like every normal freedom loving American, I love Tom Hanks so thought it was a nice spoof. In addition to that work though, he does a lot of other pop culture referenced street art, which you can see by perusing this Tumblr collection.

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Big thanks to all yall that made it out to our Christmas party on Thursday. The photo booth was a big hit and we raised $450 thanks to your generous donations as well as a generous donation from our friendly neighbors/friends at Marketing Matters. The gallery of images is over on our Facebook page.

If you’d like to get a full sized non-watermarked version of the images all you have to do is make a donation to our East Austin Christmas Donation Fund through PayPal and afterward click RETURN TO PUBLIC SCHOOL to get the link to the images. You can use them however, wherever  you’d like. Donate fifty cents or fifty dollars. It’s up to you. All the money goes towards helping give Christmas dinners and presents to those living on the East Side who might not otherwise be able to afford it.

Merry Christmas yall!

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