This world continues to get weirder and smaller all at the same time. I guess you'd call that Weirdller...

Perfect example - here's a 22 year old American girl (calling herself Magibon) that has some crazy you tube viewership in Japan for her Manga-like physical attributes ( I know what you're thinking there pervs, I'm talking about her large EYES). Thing is, she just sits there and stares at the camera, occasionally eating some pizza and sometimes drinking some soda, occasionally speaking or singing in broken Japanese. She's a small celebrity in Japan currently based on this. WTF? Weirdller.

Here's something that looks a little strange, but is a wonderful invention. This project was started by Michael Rakowitz and is called paraSITE - a project dedicated to making shelters for the homeless, but with an interesting twist. The shelters are inflatable and meant to be hooked to an building HVAC exhaust system.

Brilliant!
 

Not only is he providing a service to the homeless, but he's recycling the wasted, heated exhaust from the building.  Read more about it here on Michael's site.

Here's something that isn't quite weird, just great. Cristina Clausen has made a film called The Universe of Keith Haring featuring one of NYC's most revered and beloved street artists. I love his stuff and would love to see some on a GelaSkin someday...

 Lord of the 8-bit throw up, France's own Invader tells about his wicked new style of street art. It involves using an application for the iPhone called iMatrix that is able to translate a photograph of his art into a message hidden from the cleverly encoded binary in the image. A very slick marriage of art and technology if you ask me! Check out the video...

Ron English has a show starting this weekend at Shooting Gallery in San Francisco featuring his latest series entitled "The Secret History of Kiss". This show features Ron's usual style of messing with the norm to bring you surreality at it's finest. Here's a few selections from the show:

The people over at Meal Exchange have an ingenious plan to actually make a difference in their community. This was something devised by Rahul Raj in 1993, then a 17 year old Wilfred Laurier student, who'd then had a huge balance on his university meal card at the end of the semester.  Instead of letting the balance go to waste he devised a way to put extra money to good use.  Thus was the beginning of Meal Exchange and now almost 10 years after its incorporation it's a nationally recognized program that's dedicated to helping people get three squares a day. Awesome!

There's three amazing core campaigns they run that you can read about in their pdf here, but this time of year it's the Trick or Eat program that's in the forefront. This great notion is based on the idea that people give out candy to dressed up little urchins to rot their teeth, so why not ask for canned foods for a good cause instead?

Of course they also accept good old fashioned cash and you can donate that right here. Please check them out if you have a minute or two - they're good folks doing good things!

While we're on the Halloween tip, I stumbled across this amazing artist who's medium is that delicious gourd so ubiquitous this time of year. Check out Ray Villafane - This spooky ass shit is sure to freak the hell out of even most seasoned trick or treat'r.

I wonder how much candy Amy Winehouse is going to get this year? She's been culitvating on her stinky, nearly dead hobo 'costume' to perfection - I hope it pays off for her...