Skewville in Barcelona. (Photo by C-M.)

• C-Monster to spend November terrorizing Tommy Trojan. (Interesting fact: USC has a Tommy Cam.)
• The Day in the Surreal: Warmth, Giant Black Tubes by Susan Robb. (Watch the video.)
• A profile of Wafaa Bilal, the artist who created the video game, Virtual Jihadi, where gamers aim to kill the U.S. President, and who subsequently had his exhibits in Troy, N.Y. shut down (twice).
• Blinged-out U.S. Embassy opens in Beijing, with pieces by Jeff Koons, Martin Puryear, Cai Guo-Qiang, Robert Rauschenberg, and others, on view.
• Sotheby’s Asian art auctions to leave NYC for Hong Kong.
• That strange point where Ted Kaczynski’s cabin and the art world intersect.
• Omer Fast’s redo of CNN. (Via Coudal.)
• Wrangler ads by Ryan McGinley and Tim Barber.
• Related: American Apparel ad references Jeff Koons‘ floating basketball sculpture.
• The horror.
• West African barber shop signs. (Via Murketing.)
• Graff of the Day: Henes in Nayarit, Mexico.
• Graffiti side tables (via NotCot) and a graffiti ad campaign.
• Waves of Glass: ArchiDose has some great shots of innovative uses of glass in architecture.
• Italian culture minister to Modernism: Drop dead. More here.
• Zaha Hadid doorknobs. Up next: tooth brushes and tampon cases.
• Like tagging, but far, far geekier: How to write like an architect.
• Please specify your reason for absence. (Via Coudal.)
• Your moment of Otis.