When Mike Davidson isn’t busy being the CEO of the online news media company, Newsvine.com, he likes to spend his spare time helping presidential candidates with their Myspace page.

Mike Davidson’s blurbs:

About 20 minutes ago, I singlehandedly changed John McCain’s opinion on gay marriage… at least as far as his MySpace page goes.

If you visit John McCain’s MySpace page (as of 9am PST Tuesday morning), you will notice an interesting announcement from him. He’s apparently reversed his position on gay marriage as well as revealed a bias towards attractive lesbians.

Mike, you are officially now the coolest guy I know - pop!

Found on: Mike’s Newsvine page

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Get the Full Story

Mike’s Myspace page

Mike’s blog

MissMalaprop.com is the brainchild of Mallory, a 23-year-old indie craft enthusiast living in New Orleans.

MissMalaprop is an indie driven, community based blog that showcases independent artists, designers, eco-friendly products and what’s really going on in New Orleans, her hometown.

MissMalaprop’s blurbs:

MissMalaprop.com spotlights the best in independent designers & artists, eco-friendly and sustainable products, New Orleans & Gulf Coast based businesses and issues, and people & organizations who are working to make the world a better place.

I believe that one person can make a difference and that everyone can be that person.

Found on: MissMalaprop Myspace page

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Dismantled Designs

MissMalaprop Stylehive

Tokyo Streets is a DVD entirely dedicated to the urban trends of modern day Tokyo; chalk full of cutting edge fashion, art and music, Tokyo Streets will immerse you into the world of Harajuku and it’s many subcultures.

Tokyo Streets blurbs:

Extravagant fashion, up-coming designers, musicians, painters, acrobats, street dancers and clolorful crowds as seen against the background lights of modern Tokyo, a city wide awake 24 hours a day.

Found on: Tokyo Streets Myspace page

Must reads:

Harajuku Fashions

Harajuku Guide

FRUiTS Tokyo Street Style

If you’re looking for craft kits, DIY-centric accessories or that special something for the Etsy girl or boy in your life, look no further! Plain Mabel represents dozens of independent artists, crafters and designers who produce a wide array of hip and innovating products.

Plain Mabel blurbs:

Plain Mabel specializes in extraordinary craft gear, patterns, and kits, as well as DIY-centric accessories and gifts. Dozens of independent artists, designers, and crafters are represented at Plain Mabel and bring us a wide array of hip, innovative, and stylish products. Nearly all of the items found here are handmade, and each is a result of dedication, clever design, quality workmanship, and lots of love.

I just ordered the Artist Trading Card Kit, the kit contains tiny pieces of mixed-media art that you can collect and trade with fellow artists — anyone want to trade?

Found on: Stylehive Plain Mabel

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Plain Mabel website

Plain Mabel Blog

Miss Malaprop blog post

Pete Fowler is one of my favorite illustrators, he’s probably best know for his work with the band Super Furry Animals and the Monsterism website and designer toys.

Taking the Monsterism concept to another level and literally another medium, “The Sounds of Monsterism Island Vol 1″ is a mix-tape compilation full of yummy exotica, electronica and 60s soft-rock.

TSMI blurbs:

This compilation album serves as a companion to Pete Fowler’s World of Monsterism, and features a range of music from psychedelic sixties rock to modern indie pop.

The “Sounds Of Monsterism Island” is a compilation album that works as a soundtrack to the world of Monsterism, created by the Welsh born, London based artist Pete Fowler. The album features psychedelic music from the ’60s and beyond into the 21st Century, much of it unearthed and put on CD for the first time. Fowler dreamt up the World Of Monsterism sometime between his birth in Cardiff in 1969 and the time the first set of Monsterism toys were released in the autumn of 2001.

Tracks that stand out: Martin Denny’s “Sake Rock” and The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band’s “A Child’s Guide To Good And Evil”.

Found on: TSMI’s Myspace page

Must reads:

Monsterism.net

Fowler Wiki-Bio

Pete Fowler Myspace page

Trophy Queen was founded in 2000 by artist and designer Jenny Parker. Jenny’s passion for hot rods and vintage motorcycles, along with her training in auto upholstery inspired her to create a line of accessories that would carry out the hot rod / kustom kulture theme.

Trophy Queen’s blurbs:

I’m a handbag designer and Hot Rod Show Promoter looking for no bull shit, cool people, who make me laugh and inspire me in one way or another. Dudes looking for chics with big boobs and tattoos need not apply!

Today Jenny continues to live the kustom kulture lifestyle, riding her 1948 Indian Chief Motorcycle, and crusing with her husband John in their chopped 51 Ford business coupe. She vends at dozens of hot rod, rockabilly, and tattoo events, and sells to many countries through out the world, while still keeping that old school craftsmanship.

Found on: Bunny Deuce’s Stylehive

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Trophy Queen’s website

Trophy Queen’s Myspace page

Have you ever had this conversation with your wife?

Wife: Hun, I need your help for a minute — I need you to help me pick out something to wear.

Me: Okay…what do you have in mind?

Wife: I don’t know if I should wear my brian or my liver?

Me: Hmm, let’s see… brian or liver, brain or liver?

Wife: Oh never mind, I’ve decided — I’m going with my UTERUS!

Me: Ah, good choice.

IHEARTGUTS blurbs:

What could be better than rocking a big bloody heart or a happy cartoon uterus on a t-shirt? Cute-yet icky internal organs grace the wares over at I Heart Guts, where organs get love. Next time you chug a beer, be sure to thank the guts that make it happen by wearing “I’m a Liver Not a Fighter.”

Me: Hey hun, I sure do heart your guts!

Found on: IHEARTGUTS Stylehive page

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IHEARTGUTS website

IHEARTGUTS Myspace page

Welcome to Human Anatomy Online

Don’t look now but THE YUMMIES are taking over the world!

Yummies blurb:

THE YUMMIES is an art collective that uses art through paintings, clothes, and performs live as THE YUMMIES characters.

THE YUMMIES has performed with performers such as Kid Koala, MF Doom, DJ Premier, DJP and DJ Idiom.

THE YUMMIES do live painting, rap performances, DJing, break dancing and beat boxing to name a few. Although they’re not the best, people seem to like it through their smiling and laughing.

Mascot Mannie, Sheep Head and Ninja Nate are just a few of my favorite Yummies but there’s always more Yums lurking around the corner, so be sure to frequent their website for updates and keep your Yummies on check!

Found on: The Yummies Myspace page

Must reads:

The Yummies website

The Yummies About Video

Yummies Photo Gallery

A Tribute to Steve Irwin, and THE YUMMIES STORE!! (view more)

With an eye for the yummy and a knack for crocheting, this DIY punk rock maven is redefining the world of accessories with her interpretation of wearable food.

TWINKIECHAN’s blurbs:

I make silly food-themed scarves. I have been crocheting goodies like tiger-head Kleenex cozies, frog hats with dangly legs, and BBQ pork bun plushies for my friends and family since I was ten years old. When my Grandma Wendleton first taught me to crochet in the 80s, I made lots of misshapen brown squares for a long time and called them “mini blankets.” You have to start somewhere!

I have a website at at TWiNKiECHAN.COM, but I’m also kind of bad about updating it, and I need to figure out how to re-organize it!

Remember kids, the key to staying warm and yummy is: accessorize! accessorize! accessorize!

Found on: Twinkie’s Myspace page

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There is currently a small thingie about Twinkie Chan in the lastest issue of Pearl Necklace Zine.

Go to eBay now! And pick up a zine! (view more)

Back in the day a typical sticker collection usually comprised of a handful of “Star Wars” stickers (the blue series if you were lucky), a bunch of “Garbage Patch Kids” stickers and maybe a few “Hello Kitty” stickers that your sister got you from the Sanrio store in the mall…man, have things changed.

Pop Cling blurbs:

Pop Cling reproduces art. All kinds of art. Like adhesive-backed art that you can peel off and stick to any smooth surface. Some people stick our prints on concrete floors, or on sliding glass doors leading to balconies, or right on the walls behind couches. You don’t need a frame, you just need a blank space. Voila, you have fresh pop art on your wall from new, favorite, and cutting edge artists.

We also make skateboards. Crazy skateboards. Digitally-printed skateboards. We get such yummy color density and great resolution that it warms our hearts just thinking about it. Plus, who doesn’t want kickass images from cool artists we personally enjoy hanging out with?

Looks like I may be starting up a new collection…booyah!

Found on: Pop Cling Myspace page

Must reads:

Pop Cling website

Super Fresh Artist Decks . . . Dropping In Mere Days (view more)

Created in a software company in Tokyo, he was supposed to serve as a generic face for software interfaces, a simple non-offensive design but something happened - a group of rogue Designers discovered him and gave him a name, his name is TEEDO.

Teedo’s blurbs:

Before August 13 2006, I was an Icon! Yes! I was trapped in a world of Software. You may have seen me on a Pocket PC, Smartphone, Palm or maybe a chat room; this was my prison, this was my living hell. But then I was freed, giving a real identity and removed from the confinements of digital software. Now I have been unleashed into the world, a place where none of my peers have ventured before a place where I plan to reek havoc and destruction. The corporations that created me now fear me, fear what I might do, fear what I already know. My name is Teedo, I am not an icon.

With dreams of being hit up on walls of every major city on the planet, in the form of street Art, my boy Teedo is well on his way and remember, he’s not an ICON.

Found on: Teedo’s Myspace page

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Teedo’s Flickr Photo Gallery

Bansky “Wall And Piece” Book

“Bexel Studio: The Empire of Pixel” is the brain child of 22 year old Bexel Boy: with an eye for detail and an imagination that’s out of this world, he rocks each pixel as if his life depended on it.

Bexel blurb:

Bexel was founded in 2005 by thailand graphic designer, Best Thongsuk who is studying at Rangsit University. Later on Oat Limp, from the same university joined the group in 2006 as a sound engineer & song writer and “Bexel Art : The Empire of Pixel” is our slogan.

We have produced both visual design and sound which includes Pixel Graphic Design, Motion Pixel, Pixel Character, Pixel Toy, 8-bit Sound, Digital Music, recording, Illustration and Every Thing of Pixel.

I’m not sure what applications and techniques Bexel Boy is using, but whatever they are, it’s working, cause the results are nothing short of pure unadulterated pixel art goodness!

Bexel Studio is located in Bangkok Thailand — rock on!

Found on: Bexel Myspace page

Must reads:

This Island Pixel

YMCK 8-bit Music

Poke Clothing gets it – the best way to stand out from a crowd is just be yourself and represent and if that happens to be all things cool, then so be it.

Poke blurbs:

Poke Clothing is an independant clothing company based in Brisbane. Poke is proud to be 100% Australian made and Designed and is sweatshop free. Poke loves art, design, fashion, toys, tattoo’s all things artistic, creative and cooky. At Poke we want to provide you with creative clothing without the phenonemal price tag…The current spring/summer 06/07 range “i heart the butcher” focuses on sweet love and obsessions of the heart. The cute cuts mixed with twisted dark graphics and trims give you a perfect blend between sexy and cute.

You can find Poke at selected boutiques and online at www.ytba.com.au.

Found on: Poke Myspace page

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Poke website

2007 Spring/Summer Collection

POKE IN FRANKIE MAGAZINE (view more)

Collecting designer t-shirts is a passion of mine and Iloveyourtshirt.com is one of my favorite websites about all things t-shirts.

Initially the site was just a web project launched back in 2004 by David Werbrouck.

Iloveyourtshirt blurbs:

The main objectives of iloveyourtshirt is to centralize and collect relevant informations closely linked to the t-shirt world (design, collector, limited edition, sales, production, trademarks, exchange.

Tees aren’t cheap these days, some going for as much as a 100 bucks or more, so if you’re contemplating becoming a collector, hit up this site and get your head straight before you start your collection.

Found on: Iloveyourtshirt’s Myspace page

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Iloveyourtshirt Blog

Iloveyourtshirt Gallery

Watching last week’s “Project Runway” finale, I thought for sure that they were going to rob Jeffery Sebelia from showing at Olympus Fashion Week, all because of some hubbub another contestant started, but justice was served and not only did Jeffery Sebelia show at Olympus but he won the 3rd season of Bravo’s runaway hit show.

Jeffery’s blurbs:

fashion fag daddy da baby boy tattoo taurus freak free
friend disco rock punk raggae hippy scum homeless dirty
nasty huge acid shrooms dope sugar clean arrogant dead

Jeffery deserved to win, not only for his in-your face “I’m a f***king rockstar, so you should be a f***ing rockstar” line he presented but for the way he carried himself throughout the entire seasson; yeah he pissed people off and yeah, he told certain contestants what he thought of them, but that’s Punk-Rock Karma in a nut-shell: be true to yourself, fight for what you believe in and in the end, it’ll pay off.

Found on: Jeffery’s Myspace page

Must reads:

Jeffery’s Official website

Project Now What Happens?