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Kitty cosplay - 03/10/2010 08:49 PM

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Widespread support for toilets that separate crap from urine - 03/10/2010 08:38 PM

People in seven European countries have expressed willingness to try "NoMix" toilets that keep crap and urine separate, allowing for more efficient waste processing and less seepage of urine-born pharmaceuticals into the water supply. The study was conducted with 2700 people in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark, with 80 percent supporting the toilets. Even higher numbers were willing to use urine as fertilizer. The article doesn't discuss infrastructural issues, though: would you need a second black-water sewer for the yellow gold? NoMix toilets get thumbs-up in 7 European countries Previously:World's most flushingest toilet Trompe l'oeil ski-toilet mural Rampaging toilet terrorizes children Woman sat on toilet for two years Weed growing inside toilet pipe Airplane toilet gobbles a whole roll of TP Tiny still-lifes in toilet-paper tubes Toilet snake bites man's penis...

Woman imitates Michael Jackson after brushing her teeth - 03/10/2010 08:50 PM

In this weird video, a French comedienne transforms herself into Michael Jackson with just some mascara, lipstick, and scotch tape....

GDC Gallery: How The Indie Fund Could Change Game Dev Destiny - 03/10/2010 08:19 PM

Like UK studio Introversion's indie-rallying clarion call at the 2006 Independent Games Festival, the announcement of an indie-led investment strategy -- simply called the Indie Fund -- could be the next watershed moment for the future of independent gaming. Organized by a consortium of indie devs that've seen breakout success (like World of Goo creators 2D Boy and Braid developer Jon Blow), the fund aims to maintain control of the funding cycle -- keeping it out of the hands of publishers and traditional investors alike -- and keep indies in charge of their own destiny. Opening the 2010 Independent Games Summit, 2D Boy co-founder Ron Carmel took to the stage to explain why the fund was needed, with Braid artist David Hellman illustrating the strange over-complex steamwork behemoth of traditional business models that no longer serve the indies best: the full hi-res gallery continues below....

Little Billy's Letters to famous and infamous people - 03/10/2010 08:14 PM

In the 1990s Bill Geerhart was an unemployed, not-so aspiring screenwriter in his 30s. To pass the time, he channeled his inner child, 10-year-old Billy, and started writing letters to famous and infamous people and institutions. These letters, written in pencil on elementary school ruled paper, asked funny but relevant questions to politicians, serial killers, movie stars, lobbyists, CEOs, and celebrity lawyers. Geerhart saved copies of his letters and the replies he got back. This week, Harper Collins published them in a book called Little Billy's Letters: An Incorrigible Inner Child's Correspondence with the Famous, Infamous, and Just Plain Bewildered. The publisher gave us permission to run some of our favorites. Enjoy! Buy Little Billy's Letters on Amazon | Visit Harper Collins site for Little Billy's Letters The National Hobo Association believes that "unlike tramps or bums, the hoboes are usually very resourceful, self reliant and appreciative people."...

Did Charley Patton play that way? - 03/10/2010 02:34 PM

Over the past seven years, I've had the outlandishly talented country blues singer and guitarist Charley Patton looking over me. (Don't know Charley Patton? Hear him here and then buy what may be the greatest CD box set ever.) For many years, a photo of Patton was as hard to come by as a pic of Robert Johnson, and -- as with Johnson -- the legitimacy of the image has been challenged. For our purposes today, let's assume that this is Patton. I draw your attention to his left hand, how it is posed over the frets like crab legs. Patton's style has always felt a bit eccentric compared to other country blues purveyors, and I wonder whether he might have fingered the frets in an unusual way, too. Now I know there are plenty of other guitarists from the 1920s and 1930s who have posed in similar ways, but I wonder: does this photo reveal something about Patton's style. I know there are a lot of guitarists here (hey, the guy who let me in here builds 'em), so I'm eager to hear any theories, no matter how dubious. And to learn more about the fellow in the photograph, see R. Crumb's comix history of Patton. (The Patton pic above belongs to Blues Images.)...

Art of film title sequences - 03/10/2010 07:49 PM

Art of the Title Sequence celebrates the world's greatest film/TV title sequences, those oft-experimental opening moments of a movie or TV show that really set the mood of what's to come. I've always been intrigued by this art form and it's fun to watch examples from around the globe. The site also features interviews with more than a dozen masters of the media. Art of the Title was mentioned in a New York Times article today about the South by Southwest Film Awards new Title Design Competition. Winners will be announced at the festival next week. According to the NYT, "The modern approach to film titles crystallized, more or less, in 1955 with “The Man With the Golden Arm.” It opened with a kind of jazz ballet in which dancing white lines, over music by Elmer Bernstein, eventually tightened into the contorted arm of a drug addict. From the NYT: The sequence was designed by Saul Bass, who tossed aside a more mechanical approach that had largely prevailed in Hollywood to create story-telling openings for films like “Psycho,” “North by Northwest” and, later, “Goodfellas” and “The Age of Innocence.” (Among the entries at South by Southwest, “Cigarette Girl,” an independent film about a world in which smoking restrictions have murderous consequences, is one that recalls the Bass oeuvre: guns, cigarettes and people flicker between the real and the abstract, over a cool-toned soundtrack.) Before his death in 1996, Bass had been nominated for Oscars three times, winning once, for his short films. But his work on the titles fell through the cracks of a film industry awards system that has given far more recognition to directors "New Honor for the Designs That Get Movies Moving" (Thanks, Jess Hemerly!)...

OK Go leaves EMI, launches their own record label - 03/10/2010 07:39 PM

The band OK Go, blogged many a time here for their wonderful music videos and savvy take on the state of the music biz, is launching its own record label. From okgo.com: The band has left the EMI family of corporations to form their own enterprise, a homemade upstart called Paracadute."...

The Clash, Blondie, and Cobain sneakers from Converse - 03/10/2010 07:50 PM

As part of Converse's "Music Collection," they've issued a variety of Chuck Taylor All Star sneakers themed around The Clash, Blondie, Metallica, and Kurt Cobain. To be fair, they really should have made Cobain-branded Converse One Stars as those were the shoes he was wearing at his death. Now, I do dig The Clash sneakers seen here. But I am aware that Nike selling sneakers co-branded with the name/art of an iconic punk band is... problematic. That said, somebody from The Clash's camp (and Cobain's) had to approve these. Converse Music Collection...

Google maps goes bike-tacular, just in time for spring - 03/10/2010 06:23 PM

"Bicycle" is now an option for mode of transport in Google maps. Ostensibly, the directions given will help you avoid particularly nasty car traffic and particularly disheartening elevation changes, though Treehugger found some kinks in that when they tried to plot a route across San Francisco. There's not enough uphill slogs in Minneapolis (and I don't know St. Paul well enough) to get you a real solid second opinion from the Twin Cities. But it was smart enough to not send theoretical me biking straight up the feels-like-45-degree incline of 14th street when asked for directions to the University of Kansas journalism school (see above). It also shows dedicated bike trails and bike lanes, to help plan the trip. How's this work for your hometown?...

Sex, technology, and diabetes - 03/10/2010 06:02 PM

"A $6,000 insulin pump with an on-board computer chip is not alluring. Neither is the white mesh adhesive patch on my naked abdomen or the length of nylon tubing that connects the patch to the pump. There is only illness, and there is no way to make that sexy. After several years as a medical device wearer, I know." Those are the opening sentences of "Tethered to the Body," an essay the writer and teacher Jane Kokernak wrote about her adjustment to wearing an insulin pump and its affect on her sense of sexual self. It connects disability and sexuality in novel and moving ways (it also introduced me to the term "disability erotica"). The essay, which originally appeared in Bellevue Literary Review, has been reprinted in A Sweet Life, a site for the "healthy diabetic." The story is close to me for many reasons. I'm diabetic, too, although I am not insulin-dependent, and, more important, Jane is my wife, so the sex she's talking about in the essay is with, well, me. You may wish to consider my recommendation with that in mind, but I guarantee you that this will be the only piece you ever read in which the two tags are "Insulin Pump" and "Sex."...

Man marries body pillow girlfriend in Korea - 03/10/2010 06:03 PM

The UK Metro is reporting on a wedding ceremony held for a 28-year old Korean man and his full-sized body pillow girlfriend. The pillow cover supposedly has an image of a character named Fate Testarossa from the anime series Mahou Shoujo Lyrical Nanoha. The story is reminiscent of a New York Times Magazine piece I wrote last year; the Metro article also mentions a story we originally posted on Boing Boing in November about a guy who married a character in his Nintendo DS dating sim. Previously:Love in 2D Man to marry his video game girlfriend this Sunday Video: man in Japan weds anime game character Woman dines with cardboard cutout man in San Francisco My weekend with a cardboard version of my boyfriend...

EU Parliament votes 663-13 against ACTA's enforcement measures - 03/10/2010 04:47 PM

The European Parliament resoundingly voted against the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), in a resounding 663 to 13 tally. The parliamentarians defied the EU executive and threatened to take the issue to the European Court of Justice if the EU doesn't reject ACTA's provisions on disconnection for infringement and other enforcement provisions. A strong majority of MEPs (663 against and 13 in favour) today voted against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), arguing that it flouts agreed EU laws on counterfeiting and piracy online. In addition, the Parliament's decision today states that MEPs will go to the Court of Justice if the EU does not reject ACTA rules, including cutting off users from the Internet "gradually" if caught stealing content. Though MEPs cannot participate in the ACTA talks, without the consent of the European Parliament, EU negotiators will have to go back to the drawing board and come up with a compromise. Parliament threatens court action on anti-piracy treaty Previously:EU Data Protection czar comes out against ACTA; EU analysis of ... Ask your MEPs to support anti-ACTA motion ACTA leak: Now we know who is against transparency - USA, Korea ... Europeans: finally a chance to ask your reps to oppose ACTA ... Biggest-ever ACTA leak: secret copyright treaty dirty laundry ... Danish activists demand to know why their governments block ACTA ... Europeans: finally a chance to ask your reps to oppose ACTA ... Leaked secret EU-Canada copyright agreement - EU screws Canada ......

The international war over exit signs - 03/10/2010 04:44 PM

The sign on the left is familiar to Americans, but other countries think it is a horrible design, preferring the green running man on the right or a variation of it. Julia Turner of Slate has an in-depth article on the 25-year international fight over exit signs. It's one of a terrific six-part series about sign history and design. Fans of Ota's running man point to two key advantages: It's a pictogram, and it's green. The sign's wordlessness means it can be understood even by people who don't speak the local language. And the green color, they argue, just makes sense. Green is the color of safety, a color that means go the world over. Red, on the other hand, most often means danger, alert, halt, please don't touch. Why confuse panicked evacuees with a sign that means right this way in a color that means stop? International designers tend to think our system is illogical and consider our rejection of the running man to be as dumb as our refusal to adopt that other sensible international norm, the metric system. Are the running-man advocates right? This battle over the exit sign has been brewing for 25 years now, and the little green guy is slowly making inroads in the States. But to understand whether he should triumph, we must first understand America's skepticism toward pictograms and symbols, which have long been more popular in the rest of the world than they are here. The Big Red Word vs. the Little Green Man: The international war over exit signs...

LibDem rank-and-file make emergency motion for net freedom - 03/10/2010 04:50 PM

After last week's disastrous news that two LibDem Lords had introduced a web-censorship amendment to the Labour Digital Economy Bill, a group of LibDems have pulled together a pro-net-freedom emergency motion that's being taken to this weekend's party conference in Birmingham. If you're a LibDem or know LibDems headed to the conference this weekend, please urge support for this motion: help the LibDems get on the right side of the net-freedom debate! We condemn a) web-blocking and disconnecting internet connections b) the threat to the freedom, dignity and well-being of individuals and businesses from the monitoring of their internet activity, the potential blocking of their websites and the potential termination of their internet connections. c) the Digital Economy Bill for focusing on illegal filesharing rather than on nurturing creativity and innovative business models. We support a) the principle of net neutrality, through which the freedom of connection with any application to any party is guaranteed, except to address security threats or due to unexpected network congestion. b) the rights of creators and performers to be rewarded for their work in a way that is fair, proportionate and appropriate to the medium. Conference therefore opposes excessive regulatory attempts to monitor, control and limit internet access or internet publication, whether at local, national, European or global level. LibDems Save the Net (Thanks, Obhi!) Previously:LibDem Lords seek to ban web-lockers (YouSendIt, etc) in the UK ... Brits: tell the LibDem Peers not to bring web-censorship to ... Guardian column on LibDem proposal to block web-lockers LibDem candidates come out against anti-web-locker proposal ... Last week's web-censorship proposal shows that supporters of every ......

Why medical research isn't as useful to you as it could be - 03/10/2010 04:29 PM

LA Times health blog: Only 32% of medication studies compare the drug in question to already available treatments, rather than just placebo. And only 11% compared the drugs to non-pharma based treatments, like surgery or lifestyle changes. For evidence-based medicine (let alone cheaper healthcare) to work, stuff like this has gotta get fixed. (Via Steve Silberman)...

Corey Haim, 1971-2010 - 03/10/2010 04:25 PM

Corey Haim, star of "The Lost Boys," is dead at 38. [AP]...

Watch a dissertation defense...LIVE - 03/10/2010 04:10 PM

Do you like prairie voles? Are you curious about the process of earning a Ph.D.? Possibly just a touch of both? Then tune in today, starting at 10 central, for what Science magazine's Science Careers Blog is calling the first live-streamed dissertation defense (at least, that they've ever heard of). The adventurous academic is Danielle Lee of the University of Missouri, St. Louis. The dissertation is entitled: An Investigation of Behavioral Syndromes and Individual Differences in Exploratory Behavior of Prairie Voles, Microtus ochrogaster. There was some talk of live Tweets as well. However, Lee says she won't be Tweeting, herself, during the defense (that would be just a little crazy multi-tasky, wouldn't it?), but she is up for answering your questions once everything has been successfully defended. Just Tweet them with the hashtag #LeeDefense. Good luck, Danielle! Streaming video of Danielle Lee's dissertation defense Pictured: The prairie vole, one of nature's most adorable research subjects. Originally found on the animal behavior Web site of Verna Case, Ph.D....

Girl appears on TV show to identify Star Wars figurines with her mouth - 03/10/2010 04:05 PM

This kleige maidel* appeared on a German TV show where she demonstrated her remarkable talent for identifying Star Wars minifigs by putting them in her mouth. The blindfold is what makes this. And the minifigs. Oh, and the waistcoat. Kinderwette Star Wars (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) *Not actually German. Almost Yiddish. Previously:Star Wars retold by someone who hasn't seen it Giant Star Wars pool toys and kites Star Wars/A-Team intro mashup Star Wars burlesque show (yes, even Jabba's in here) Star Wars galaxy posters Star Wars cupcakes look a little chewy Star Wars sneakers by Adidas Star Wars on Betamax Gadgets...

Robots dance the Nutcracker Suite - 03/10/2010 03:37 PM

Jenise sez, "I work for Kiva Systems, a small robotics company in Woburn, MA, and the bots are amazingly fun to watch. A few years ago, one of our interns shot this video of the bots dancing to the Nutcracker Suite, and I thought it would tickle your ample sense of whimsy." Ample whimsy: tickled. (Aside: Whenever I hear the Nutcracker Suite, my stupid brain insists on supplying the lyrics from the "Smurfberry Crunch" breakfast cereal ad: "Smurfberry Crunch is fun to eat/A Smurfy fruity breakfast treat/Made with crunchy strawberries/They taste so sweet and [garbled]/Very fresh and very true/And very very Smurfy blue!") (Bloody Smurfs.) The Nutcracker performed by Dancing Kiva Order Fulfillment Robots (Thanks, Jenise!) Previously:Dancing robot in Spoon video Dancing robot has an iPhone 3GS for a face TOFU is the best dancing robot Robot dance competition Pole-dancing robot by Giles Walker Gadgets Behind the scenes with Keepon, the dancing robot. Power on Self Test: Breakdancing Robot...

Amy Rigby, "Balls" (Greatest Song of All Time of the Day) - 03/10/2010 03:22 PM

When she's not dropping everything to catch up on Twin Peaks, transatlantic troubadour Amy Rigby sings, writes, and performs some of the funniest and some of the most heartbreaking songs you've ever heard. Sometimes she does both in the same number. "Balls" is an all-out rock'n'roll barnburner that captures the frustration and excitement of desire with anger and several great punch lines. It's nasty, it's welcoming. It's as confusing and wonderful and awful as your life. Did I mention the slide guitar? Did I mention how Amy tosses off the aside "this one's gonna hurt"? Did I mention it's on two great albums: The Sugar Tree (along with "Rode Hard," another greatest song of all time of the week candidate and perhaps the most convincing argument for bad behavior on disc this side of "Dead Flowers") and 18 Again (a terrific greatest hits record, but all her records are greatest hits records)? WARNING: The YouTube clip below, however worthy, is not the version I've just raved about. It's a live solo acoustic version, the only take available on the Interwebs. Rigby's song is great in any context, but you've got to see and hear her as a bandleader to get the full sense of how brilliant she is. Anyone out there got any full-band footage to share? The rest of you: invest 99 cents and buy the song at your favorite online outlet. It'll be the smartest and longest-lasting buck you spend today (do you really need another cup of coffee)?...

Most adulterous professions - 03/10/2010 10:26 AM

A survey of the 1.9 million accounts on AshleyMadison.com, a dating site for people looking to cheat on their spouses, rounds up the most common occupations among the would-be infidelitous: For Women: 1. Teachers 2. Stay-at-home Moms 3. Nurses 4. Administrative Assistants 5. Real Estate Agents For Men: 1. Physicians 2. Police Officers 3. Lawyers 4. Real Estate Agents 5. Engineers Who Cheats? Docs and Stay at Home Moms! (via MeFi) (Image: The Seventh Commandment, a Creative Commons Attribution photo from pasukaru76's photostream) Previously:Woman stoned to death in Afghanistan for adultery Scan of Li'l Abner venereal disease comic strip Vintage sexist coffee TV commercial A year of following all the rules in the Bible Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of ... Political sex scandals: the phenomenon of the "centipede" - Boing ......

Christopher Barazak and Karen Joy Fowler readings in Seattle - 03/10/2010 07:36 AM

Leslie Howle sez, "NW MediaArts is a non-profit organization inviting award-winning speculative fiction writers to Seattle to teach a one-day writers workshop, read at the University Book Store, and speak at schools and libraries. Workshops take place at Richard Hugo House. March 12 - Christopher Barazak, author of 'The Love We Share Without Knowing,' which was shortlisted for the Tiptree Award last year, reads at University Book Store on 3/12 and teaches a workshop on 3/14. Workshop space is still open if you register by 3/10/2010."...

Looking back at the dotcom boom, ten years later - 03/10/2010 07:34 AM

Wired claims that this is the tenth anniversary of the dotcom boom, and in honor of that auspicious overheated bubble, they've put together a long, Web 0.96b layout depicting the most hubristicly hubristic predictions and hype of that golden age. I moved to San Francisco in 1999, and remember the feverish absurdity of it all -- and how hard it was not to feel like all these people must know something if they were pouring all this money and energy into all the odd and improbable ideas (a recurring theme I remember was people explaining how they were going to build shopping malls for the web, which, I guess, is basically what Amazon's Z-shops are). 10 Years After: A Look Back at the Dotcom Boom and Bust Previously:Monkey Calls! Finally a dotcom FIXED Dotcom downturn be damned. Poignant story of a dotcom's First-person account of a dotcom How to avoid the dotcom shakeout: buy a better domain ... A quasi-defunct dotcom is doing...

Cast-art depicting broken-bone X-rays - 03/10/2010 07:22 AM

Casttoo makes decorative decals for your orthopedic casts -- including these ones, depicting the broken bones within. (via JWZ) Previously:Anatomical drawing on a cast Baby goose with homemade leg brace Cat burglar falls off three-storey building across from my bedroom ......

Movie funded by asking for pocket change on Twitter: "At Home By Myself... With You" - 03/10/2010 07:16 AM

Raj Panikkar sez, "We're screening a film called 'At Home By Myself... With You' (directed by Kris Booth, starring Kristin Booth - no relation) at The Royal in Toronto this week. The unique thing about the film is how we raised the financing to shoot. Quite literally, we campaigned for people to contribute their loose pocket change. The strategy took off, partly through an active Facebook and Twitter presence and also frequent video blogs detailing the contributions. By the time we shot the film, we had raised $42,000 (admittedly, one person's pocket change is occasionally another's small fortune - but it did really begin with 15 cents, 43 cents, a dollar 12, etc.) One might be led to assume that with a limited budget, there'd be a matching limitation on production quality. But the film looks gorgeous (Telefilm Canada came on board at the very end to help fund a pro finish), and reviews and comments have been great. We were reviewed by all the major papers in Toronto: The Sun, NOW, The Star, The Post, etc. The film plays at The Royal for the rest of the week, and then gets its TV debut right away on TMN and Movie Central, plus a DVD release on April 6th." Pocket Change Film (Thanks, Raj!) (Disclosure: Raj's mother, Bev, taught me to read) Previously:Get involved in production of community-made SF movie: Artemis ... Loony evangelical claims credit for Canadian film tax-credit ... Check out the sunglasses in this curious Danish sci-fi B-movie ......

Best jobs in America infographic - 03/10/2010 07:07 AM

Paul sez, "We have been putting this together for a week or so and thought you might like it. Looks like I am going back to school to be a systems engineer, haha." I like that they've color-coded for "low-stress," "benefit to society" and "satisfaction." However, on these three counts, I'm unsurprised to see that "science fiction writer" didn't make the cut. When I was 17, the school guidance counsellor got in some software that would help you figure out what career to set your sights on. I completed its questionnaire and hit return, and an instant later was advised to become a "geriatric nutritionist" (that is, someone who prepares meals in an old folks' home). Even today, I sometimes feel like I missed my calling. ("Science fiction writer" wasn't on that list either). Best Jobs in America (Thanks, Paul!) Previously:Hotmail users deemed too dumb for employment at firm California Supreme Court: Non-compete clauses are not enforceable ... Federal temporary jobs in disaster recovery, a HOWTO Restaurant lays off waitress who shaved head for cancer charity ... Cal State U forced to re-hire Quaker math teacher who inserted ... City in Montana requires job applicants to hand over all social ... Lose your job, lose your life: trauma of being laid off can ... Best Job in the World Scary-ass job-loss chart comparing previous and current recession ... Grateful Dead Archivist wanted at UC Santa Cruz Prison guard: better job than journalist, according to "worst US ......

Turn a quarter of Detroit into "semi-rural" farms? - 03/10/2010 06:51 AM

The city of Detroit is proposing to give over a quarter of its land to be turned into "semi-rural" fields and farms, with the surviving neighborhoods standing in "pockets in expanses of green." The proposal is politically charged (serving a death-sentence on a whole neighborhood is bound to be controversial) but the idea of "downsizing" Detroit seems to have wide acceptance. And yes, this entire thing was predicted by David Byrne in 1988 in the song "(Nothing But) Flowers" on the final Talking Heads album Naked. Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural. Near downtown, fruit trees and vegetable farms would replace neighborhoods that are an eerie landscape of empty buildings and vacant lots. Suburban commuters heading into the city center might pass through what looks like the countryside to get there. Surviving neighborhoods in the birthplace of the auto industry would become pockets in expanses of green. Detroit looks at downsizing to save city (Thanks, Rigel!) (Image: Garden grows, a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike image from Payton Chung's photostream) Previously:Prelinger's Lost Landscapes of Detroit now available for download ... Lost Landscapes of Detroit from the Prelinger Archives Buy an inch of land in Detroit Stop robot poverty: i3 Detroit hackerspace fundraiser Pictory's Neighborhood Treasures: Detroit Smile Artists buying cheap houses in Detroit Haunting photo-essay on rotting buildings in Detroit Rotting textbook warehouse in Detroit...

Alexander McQueen's final collection - 03/10/2010 04:29 AM

Many images here, all from his 2010 collection and released today. The iconic fashion designer's work incorporated fantasy and futurist themes familiar to Boing Boing readers. He died earlier this year....

Dalai Lama Has a Posse - 03/10/2010 07:45 PM

Wednesday March 10 is Tibetan Independence Day—and this year will also mark His Holiness the Dalai Lama's 75th birthday. In honor of both, Shepard Fairey collaborated with photographer Don Farber on this limited-edition, signed and numbered 18"x14" print, which goes on sale at this link Wednesday, March 10, at noon Eastern/9am Pacific. Net proceeds divided between Tibet House and LA Friends of Tibet. (thanks, Christal / Tibet Connection Radio)...