The Digest. 07.28.10.

Part of the series Invented Memory, by Cyrus Karimpour, as featured in the Iranian online arts journal Dide. (Image courtesy of Dide.)

• Facebook, the third most populous nation on earth.
• The Is This Art? iPhone app gets a thorough work-out by Australian public radio. Listen here. Thanks Jeff, for the super nice shout-out! (Don’t have the app? You can get it here.)
• Pacific Standard Time. Next fall, it’s gonna be all about SoCal.
• Regina Hackett picks apart the reality TV enterprise, including #workoFart.
• Speaking of crazy performance stuff, Howard Halle has an interesting take on Marina Abramovic’s piece Seven Easy Pieces on Art Fag City.
• Plus: I miss the uncomplicated James Franco of Pineapple Express.
• Even more: DaddyTypes reviews the actor’s gallery show, ending with the kicker that Franco “may just be the most important artist working in the medium of rockets since William Shatner.” Hilarious. (@gregorg, via @TheLABGallery.)
• New Brandeis president seems to be okay with renting out the Rose Museum’s art collection. (AFC.)
• Mobile homes, flying through the air. (An explanation here.)
• The roller coaster bed.
• A tower-sized LED installation.
• Art windows at Selfridge’s, one of which is comprised of a dismantled motorcycle.
• The nine circles of hell, in chart form. Handy.
• Sorta related: Some super freaky illustrations from Japanese kids books of the 1970s. Perfect if your kid needs nightmares.
• Ansel Adams negatives discovered at yard sale.
• The British Monarchy has a Flickr page. (Culture Monster.)
• Today’s Street Art: Specter’s shopping cart monuments.
• A mass of undulating disposable cups.
• These days, even playground architecture is very serious and expensive: A report on David Rockwell’s latest.
• Lego architecture.
• Call it nostalgia, but I’m a sucker for stories about the Time & Life building. More here.
• Digital orca.