HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE YOUR NAME?

HowManyOfMe.com

There is 1 person with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

This doesn't shock me because I have a very unusual last name. I still think it's pretty cool that out of 305,741,849 odd people in the U.S. I'm the only person with my name. See how many people have your name!

MOVIES I WANT TO SEE: TELL NO ONE

Francois Cluzet stars in this French thriller from director Guillaume Canet. Eight years after the heinous murder of his wife, doctor Alex Beck receives an ominous email from an unknown source. The message contains a video image of Alex's thought-to-be dead wife in real time.



Reviews here

KINETIC SCULPTURE: THE CREEPIEST ART EVER

Theo Jansen is a Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor. He builds large, movable works of art that resemble the skeletons of animals and are able to walk using wind power. They are simultaneously the creepiest and coolest things I have ever seen.



See more of his freaky sculptures here!

WHAT TO WATCH TONIGHT: WITNESS TO JONESTOWN

Next week marks the 30th anniversary of the massacre at Jonestown, Guyana, where 900 members of a cult led by Reverend Jim Jones died by mass suicide. MSNBC is commemorating the event with the 2-hour documentary "Witness to Jonestown." I think most people know the story of the Kool-Aid, but I personally had never heard about the murder of Congressman Ryan and the men reporting on the cult. An interesting and tragic story.

Here's a preview. It airs multiple times tonight on MSNBC.

LITTLE PEOPLE

Little People - a tiny street art project. Little, handpainted people left in London to fend for themselves.






See more here!

MOVIES I WANT TO SEE: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN

'Let the Right One In' is a stark, chilly Swedish tale of teen vampirism.

Kare Hedebrant is Oskar, a bullied middle-schooler in late ’70s Sweden who lives a life of wounded isolation. His classmates pick on him, his single mom doesn’t seem to know what to do with him, and he’s fascinated by stories of murder in the local paper.

No wonder he’s intrigued when a new neighbor moves in next door in their snow-shrouded apartment block. The man — who quickly covers the windows so no one can see in — has a young girl, Eli (Lina Leandersson), who’s about Oskar’s age.

Oskar and Eli meet one night outside the apartment building, and it’s clear there’s something odd about her. Yet Oskar is intrigued and the two begin an awkward, endearing and ultimately horrifying relationship where he feeds off her friendship and she, well, just feeds off his friends.

[full review from the Star-Telegram]

OBAMAMOSAICS

Obama inspired a lot of artwork during his campaign (see here -- it's awesome). Here are some of my favorites:

Mosaic of 100 Obama bumper stickers. Click here to view them.

Mosiac of people holding Obama signs. There's actually a set of these here and they're all pretty neat.

And this is a little late, but it's still funny:




In conclusion, here's one more piece of Obama art that tickles my fancy and a toaster mosaic made out of toast.

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Picasso's Guernica in 3-D

While living in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II, Picasso suffered harassment from the Gestapo. One officer allegedly asked him, upon seeing a photo of Guernica in his apartment, "Did you do that?" Picasso responded, "No, you did."