kickstarter.com – Ever since Obama’s fundraising team popularized the idea of micro-donations, I’ve had my eye out for other charitable organizations that are trying to change up the donation game. “Kickstarter is a funding platform for artists, designers, filmmakers, musicians, journalists, inventors, bloggers, explorers…” that really has to be explored to be understood. I’m currently fascinated by the project/idea called “Choose your own adventure – a robot painting series.“

SlowFoodIndy.com – Last Wednesday I took a couple of new recruits down to the City Market’s farmer’s market and did a little street team work. We handed out a grip of European Design Since 1985 rack cards and were handed a few pieces of literature in return. One such piece was a flier for Slow Food Indy. From what I can tell, Slow is a blog that is chock full of interesting news and resources related to local food production and being green. Slow also turned me on to the Hoosier Gardener blog which I recommend for our readers with green thumbs.

Nose Art – This time of year, seasonal allergies always stir up the hatred my throat feels for my nose. Given sore tonsils and the recent rememberance of D-Day, I recommend Historic Wings for your WWII nose art fix and a cocktail of zinc, vitamin C, and cough syrup to combat post nasal drip.

Monday Music – 1901 by the Phoenix. A definite cubicle hit.

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Bing.com – Over the weekend, Microsoft launched a new search product called Bing. Supposedly, Bing should excel at helping users with “making a purchase decision, trip planning, finding local businesses and researching health conditions.” It looks like Bing can help me the next time I need to find a neighborhood apothecary to sell me a secret syrup that will take care of the cough I picked up on vacation.

Brooklyn Museum Mobile Collection iPhone App – Well done Brooklyn! iPhone users, download this app to browse and search the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. It’s still a young lil’ app so help their developers out and leave feedback on their blog about your experience. As Daniel hinted, we’re working on one of our own.

The 101 Most Important Painters of All Time – One of my favorite parts about the Web 2.0 world has to be the all the lists. And while 101 painters are way too many for this ad man to keep handy on a cheat sheet, this page is a fun rundown of some of the names I should probably know. If you’re into lists, here’s a list of lists…

Monday Music – “Mother of All Funk Chords” by Kutiman. This is incredible. This is incredible.

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but does it float – Another curated blog for your enjoyment. Today’s exhibition is a set of photographs from Ed Ruscha. I like ‘em. Oh, and on a nerdy technical level, the built in autoload feature when you get to the end of the page is super slick.

Twitter Tools for Business – For the time being, Twitter is important to the people on the Internet. If you tweet and are interested in augmenting your tweeting capabilities, check out this top ten list. It’s no surprise to me that Tweetdeck and Tweetie for iPhone are on the list. However, OutTwit is a new one for me and may have my IT guy hook me up.

New Media Round Up – If you like turntables and the possibility of getting hit with virtual spittle from a beatboxing dog, check out Beatbox (thanks Kate). And if you’re into Facebook and political humor, the Atlantic’s own political cartoonist Sage Stossel has combined the two into a brilliant series of potential LOLs.

Monday Music – “Peloto” by Hyperpotamus. More beatboxing. This time from a human.

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YooouuuTuuube – The creative exuberance of the web has touched my brain this beautiful Monday morning. I like this video mosaic creation thing/tool/hack a lot. Try it out for yourself by picking a YouTube video URL you want to mess around with and have this site create your psychedelic amateurpiece. Muppet fans should definitely check this one out of Beaker performing “Ode to Joy.”

BKLYN Designs – About a week ago I went to see the Tara Donovan exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati. Since then, I’ve had my eye out for neat designs made of funky materials. The BKLYN show caught my eye. Speaking of design, we’ve got a design show going on and it’s kind of a big deal.

Storker Project – Mark Jenkins is an artist that is also doing cool stuff with an interesting material. Check out Mark’s often funny and adorable images of little guys made out of packing tape hanging out on stuff.

Monday Music – “New In Town” by Little Boots (Fred Falke Remix).

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Crazy and Funny Art Swine Flu Masks – Swine flu is not funny. However, these masks are neat. Reminds me of the Peter Sarsgaard SARS guard.

Guerrilla Girls – Still got gorillas/guerrillas on my mind. Check out the efforts of this troop. “We’re a bunch of anonymous females who take the names of dead women artists as pseudonyms and appear in public wearing gorilla masks…Dubbing ourselves the conscience of culture, we declare ourselves feminist counterparts to the mostly male tradition of anonymous do-gooders like Robin Hood, Batman, and the Lone Ranger.” Facebook / Twitter

“Stages” Touring Art Exhibition – Turns out Lance Armstrong has got some art passion inside him and is sponsoring an art tour through his “Live Strong” campaign. Names associated with the tour include Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, Shepard Fairey, Tom Sachs, Geoff McFetridge, and Raymond Pettibon just to name a handful. Check out this huge wall mural by your boy Shepard Fairey.

Monday Music – “I Want You To Know” by Dinosour Jr.

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