I stumbled upon the above image while researching a project that I am currently working on for a youth organization based out of Rwanda (Note: the above image is not in the least related to or suggestive of the direction that I am going on that project. Think complete 180°). I guess Boing Boing threw this photo into the blog feedpen a couple of years back causing a bit of a frenzy and inciting a number of very wrongly assumed explanations for why this man is standing in the middle …

Back in March, an article in Advertising Age criticized the hypocrisy of (Product) Red for raising a “meager $18 million” while spending $100 million on marketing. Since then, the project’s CEO Bobby Shriver has responded to this clarifying that the Red Campaign does not actually have a marketing budget (its manifesto states that it “is not a charity.it is simply a business model”) and that the companies that are affiliated with it (Motorola, Apple, The Gap, and since then, Armani, Converse and American Express) are not spending any more …

If you can stand the minute and a half lead in by Paul Reiser –it is amazing to think that he actually had a career after the eighties– this is a rare and beautiful performance of what might be one of the most perfect songs ever written: Brian Wilson singing God Only Knows.

Mike Watt (yes, that Mike Watt) has posted a great gallery of photos that he took in Raymond’s studio a few year’s back as well as a collection of Black Flag gig posters.