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Glass Skateboard by Dan Carbone at Mark’s Garage in Honolulu. Photo by San Suzie.

• U.S. death toll in Iraq reaches 4,000. See a mosaic of the war dead. (The latter via PDNPulse.) More here.
• Today’s gold star for the use of a graphic (and somewhat incomprehensible) metaphor in a quote: A NY Mag profile about bankrupt gallerist Larry Salander: “He doesn’t see art as a used Tampax moving across a bare wall.”
• We would like to welcome our newest (cult) member here at C-Monster.net: Yvonne Connasse, our brand new Paris bureau chieftess, who informs us that Cecille B. DeMille’s Los Feliz Estate is on the market (a building for which she’d die a million petit morts), and that Time Out London is now publishing comics. Mon dieu!
• In related news: Three writers try comics: Joss Whedon, Jodi Picoult and Percy Carey.
• Takashi Murakami on Louis Vuitton: “When I started with them, I totally didn’t know. ‘What is a Louis Vuitton?’ Now I understand: They make large, very expensive bags.” Um, thanks for clearing that up.
• Photo Essay: Armory Show preview.
• Disarmory.
• Pulse London and Photo London cancel their fairs.
• Make L.A. MoCA bigger, says Tyler Green in the L.A. Times.
• Why Alaska museum directors are so damn cool: they dog mush in their spare time. I’d like to see Philippe de Montebello do that.
• Barnes Collection neighbors don’t want to see it go. (Via AJ.) More here, here and here.
• The Guggenheim Guadalajara franchise: Still alive?
• Photo Essay: Unlikely places where various innovators had their Eureka moments.
• Tony Oursler: Projecting skulls on Pohutukawa trees in New Zealand. (Via SuperTouch.)
• Zombie Strippers. (Via io9.)
• In related news: To all the makers of maxi pads…
• Cool!
• Hi Fructose has a killer new website, which features pics from Swoon’s new S.F. show.
• Graff of the Day: Fafi in Melbourne. More here.
• HDR pics of graffiti. (Via Coudal.)
• Video: Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen on Art:21.
• L.A. has a new arts mag called Fabrik.
• Attack of the super-tall buildings. (Dear Neighborhood Preservationists: Wring your hands all you want about these behemoths, but it’s tall buildings or suburban sprawl. Take your pick.) (Via AJ.)
• It’s gonna be a bumpy one: Architect billings are way down in ’08.
• Gehry to install a glass pavilion in London’s Hyde Park this summer.
• The surrealist object generator.
• Artist-designed wallpaper (Via NotCot). More here.
• My friend Gareth has pointed me to a site called VoiceThread, where you can post an image and then record yourself talking about it. Now get blabbing everyone! I want to see those art theory classes put to good use…
• The Lego phone.
• Your moment of David Sedaris delivering a pizza. (Via Coudal.)