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Robert Downey, Jr: The Pinup Girl

If you ever dream about seeing a union of Robert Downey, Jr and a vintage pinup, you should probably dream a little better. However, this is the Internet and someone out there will be more than happy to make your dreams come true. For funsies, Tumblr user see-globes has used the power of Photoshop to marry the head of People Magazine’s Sexiest Man Alive (2009) and the bodies of old-fashioned calendar girls. Unsurprisingly, the results are hilarious.

See Robert Downey, Jr, the pinup girl after the jump.

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Photograffeur JR Puts His Stamp on Kenyan Slum

Considered the most exciting new “outsider” artist since Banksy, 25-year old Parisian JR is a hybrid photograffeur (which I assume is French for photographer + graffiti artist) who pastes massive black-and-white photographic canvases of eyes and noses and mouths in various urban environments.

His most recent project took him to Kibera, Kenya – on of the largest slums in Africa – where he and 10 unpaid assistants covered 2000 square meters of rooftops with photos of the eyes and faces of the local women. The material used is water resistant to protect the houses in the heavy rain season.

“They don’t understand art just for the love of art. it has to make sense. by helping their roofs to become rainproof, we did made sense and they loved it.”

Full article at Design Boom.