Chuck Close Self-Portraits 1967-2005: SFMOMA Banners

BetterWall sells museum-approved limited editions of exhibition banners from all over the world. They are currently offering a limited edition of 55 unused vinyl banners from the Chuck Close: Self-Portraits 1967-2005 show at the SFMOMA (which ends on 28 February 2006). The banners are $745 and available from BetterWall Chuck Close previously on Cool Hunting

Pees on Earth

In one of Tom Robbins' famously trippy diatribes, he theorizes that humans were invented by water as a means of transport. The mythology of pee is one way to read New York-born photographer Ellen Jong's photo-essay, Pees on Earth, a document of her worldwide outdoor pissing project. Another is as a practice in the spirit of Duchamp, a giggly, slightly subversive appropriation of public space …

Mounds [Placemats]

Placemats – something kids need to keep from staining the table cloth? Perhaps. But these ones aren't exactly age-appropriate. Introducing avant-garde Brazilian-New Yorker Vik Muniz' special edition placemat set, featuring appetizing photographs of mounds of, well… cat hair, aspirin, headless army men, poison scorpions, rat poison, and even… granola. Shudder. Printed and packaged by the folks at Printed Matter, Inc. in Manhattan, VM has crafted …