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While researching this morning’s post about butter sculptures we happened upon another great unexpected medium used by many out there on the Webs for crafting unusual and ephemeral objects: balloons. Now because of their fragile and ephemeral nature, you might think that balloons are poorly suited to the longevity-obsessed art of sculpture, but we would [...]

It’s been about a week since the year’s most venerated, vehemently debated and viscerally detested movie listicle was released, and, not surprisingly, the Interweb’s been abuzz with 2009 Academy Award discussions. Personally we find the whole affair sickening and are completely underwhelmed by the slate of films the Academy has decided to fawn over this [...]