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I’ve just had a friendly chat with Tom @ 100ArtWorks.com about their new release for 2009, a series of limited edition works by the infamous Sickboy and I just had to give them some props, even if it’s my birthday and I’m hungover, I mean, I’m forty today so I’m sure you can excuse my over-extended celebrations / commiserations / inebriations. I’ve saved a couple of bottles of champers for tonight just to make sure I put the flame out on 2008 with style, yes even I will push the boat out once in a while. To the Sickboy review… as SocialArrow.com - an ... Read Full Story

Graffiti...Art or Crime? Well whatever you think, in the pictures below are some seriously cool pieces of art. Check out these 3D street art pictures.... Whether it’s in chalk or paint, on walls or the street, represents a new way of combining the mastery of Renaissance art techniques with the gritty, ephemeral qualities of amazing street art. These 3D street artists gives graffiti a whole new meaning – one that departs from the conventional interpretation of graffiti as vandalism in the form of images and letters scrawled on public property. View video of 3D Street Art Artists like Kurt Wenner, Eduardo Relero and Tracy ... Read Full Story

The self defense pepper spray is a natural chemical compound formulated from oils and residue from several varieties of hot pepper plants. The formulations are called OC(Oleo Capsicum) sprays and are the most accessible defense sprays available to the general population. There are at least forty brands in various sizes, spray patterns and formulation concentrations. OC pepper spray is an inflammatory agent and not an irritant like manmade chemical defense sprays. This is very significant because a person sprayed with OC has two things happen to them immediately. Instantly, the attacker’s eyes will clamp shut and clamp shut HARD . Even if the person ... Read Full Story

You find yourself stranded because your car just will not re-start on a stretch of road that immediately makes you feel uncomfortable. It may be desolate; it could be in a bad part of town or it may be in a good part of town. It can be daytime or after dark. Criminals do not need to punch a time clock. Unlike the rest of us, these creeps work is done whenever and wherever circumstances are right. The chances are very high that you or someone close to you will be involved in a crime during your lifetime. This is unfortunate. This is also ... Read Full Story

When I was in San Francisco for Bartmitzvahpalooza back in February, we dined one evening at restaurant where they served a dessert topped with something called Bacon Brittle . You can’t even imagine how delicious this stuff was: all maple and bacon candy goodness. Yum Central. Now you can recreate the joyous taste of Bacon Brittle from fine San Francisco restaurants without ever having to leave your home, in the form of Baconpops , which I discovered on the Internet just this morning! According the tie site, “Each pop is handmade with Vermont maple and honest to goodness real, ORGANIC THICK CUT HEARTY BACON. ... Read Full Story