Daito Manabe is a Japanese artist and programer who has figured out a way to make his face involuntarily dance to music: by using electricity. Each beat hits a different part of his face with a quick shock. The result is disturbing, yet highly entertaining.

tags: using electricity, face dance, japanese artist, programer, shock, music

In New York City, Christmas trees are sold along the curb. This is in contrast to many other cities, where Christmas trees are sold in lots. The Christmas trees here are wrapped—no, tightly bound—in silver-colored wire and they lean against either a chain-link fence or slats of wood. The trees seem to lazily look out onto the street. They’re like a gaggle of youths loitering outside, waiting for an opportunity to come their way. No, they’re ...

tags: new york city christmas, christmas trees, new york city, christmas

"Sound Transit HQ," by Seattlest Flickr contributor romulusnr We love the bus. We ride it whenever we can. We try to convince our friends, family, and neighbors to ride the bus. We even offered sexual favors to our girlfriend if she would start riding the 41 from her Northgate crib to her downtown office. (She declined; we broke up. Draw your own conclusions.) Last night, the P-I ran a story about Sound Transit having problems accurately determining ...

tags: absentee ballots, nauto, googles, transit issues, sound transit, excise tax, hovel, car buyer, sammamish, entire city, complainant, car buyers, northgate, issaquah, previous years, friends family, patrons, contributor, hq, conclusions

OBAMA! OBAMA!: No, not that Obama. In fact this event has nothing to do with the President-Elect and everything to do with art--really bad art, to be specific. Spend your Thursday night enjoying (or eviscerating) the Official Bad Art Museum of Art (acronym: OBAMA) at Cafe Racer. Drink some booze, hear a band (called "God's Favorite Beefcake", no less), and enjoy glitter paintings of Elvis...could anything be better? We didn't think so. Band at 8p.m. ...

tags: free membership card, champagne champagne, cocktail lounges, lone argument, stimulus package, roosevelt way, seattle city, president elect, bad art, obama, shaky hands, n12, personal collection, 8p, music scene, booze, art museum, neverything, museum of art, glitter

You know the hackneyed expression, "Oh, no he didn't!"I think that applies here.Oklahoma City, I'm not hatin' on you, honestly. But, man, when you're using stock footage of a group of four people ambling to your arena to show how hyped your city is for the NBA, and when your singer has to read the lyrics from his cell phone, well, maybe you just ought to go back to the drawing board on that one.War ...

tags: hackneyed expression, stock footage, drawing board, oklahoma city, nba, cell phone, lyrics