Snoop Dogg Promotes His New Rolling Papers With A Smokable Songbook.

420-friendly fans of hip hop are gonna love this. Rolling Words is a new book that serves as a promotion for admitted stoner Snoop Dogg’s Kingsize Slim Rolling Papers. The Smokeable Songbook was created in collaboration with San Francisco agency Pereira & O’Dell.




Snoop’s greatest songs and lyrics are written on the interior pages in non-toxic ink and can easily be torn out and used. The book's cover is made of twine and has a striker sticker attached to the spine.





The book, and samples as tear-offs on posters, were handed out as special events at SXSW and this weekend, Coachella.






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When You Hunger For Modern Design. Baked Goods Almost Too Beautiful To Eat.

Modern Bite has transformed cookies, cupcakes and cakes into art you can eat. The Los Angeles Bakery combines the design talents of Greg Roth with the baking expertise of Daniel Shapiro resulting in some of the most beautiful and sophisticated desserts you've ever seen.



Flavor options, design options, custom versions and boxed assortments of their baked goods are available both locally and shipped via Fed Ex. If you are looking for a memorable way to satisfy both your eyes and stomachs, Modern Bite bakery is the place.



Their shortbread cookies come in the three design collections shown below or single versions of the nine beautiful options.





Also available are an array of eight gourmet cookies, ranging from classic Chocolate Chip to Tofu Peanut Pretzel Cookies.

Cupcakes are available in three different modern design versions with your choice of chocolate. vanilla or red velvet cake and your choice of chocolate or cream cheese frosting:


Fondant cakes for birthdays, holidays and any other occasion are available in beautiful modern designs or custom versions. Here are a few of my favorites:












Classic cakes include carrot, vanilla salted caramel, chocolate, red velvet, vanilla birthday cake and a dobosh torte.

all images and info courtesy of Modern Bite

MODERN BITE puts an innovative design spin on mouth-wateringly delicious desserts. With a focus on delectable taste and texture and impeccable detail and artistry, the Los Angeles-based bakery brings the highest caliber ingredients and individualized customer service to its uniquely styled baked treats.

Creations from the MODERN BITE kitchen are the culmination of its partners’ passions and backgrounds.

At age 14, Daniel Shapiro parlayed his love of baking into a small business making and selling cakes to restaurants in his native Montreal. After earning an MBA from The Wharton School, he dedicated over twenty years to the branding and marketing of renowned entertainment and lifestyle companies.

As MODERN BITE’s visual tastemaker, Greg Roth draws on his fine art and architecture studies at Brown University and the Southern California Institute of Architecture, as well as two decades of experience designing restaurants and private residences.


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A Mash Up of Banksy's Art and Academy Award Winner Tom Hanks = Hanksy.

above: Banksy's Flower Thrower becomes Tom Hanks chucking Wilson, the volleyball that kept him company in Castaway

Street Art and Graffiti often tends to be tongue-in cheek to begin with. Add another layer of puns and fun and you've got Hanksy's work - A mash up of the street art by Banksy and the movies of award winning actor Tom Hanks.



The street art references Hanks' roles in films such as Big, Catch Me If You Can, Forrest Gump, Castaway, A League of Their Own, Apollo 13 and The Money Pit to name a few. The familiar Bansky stencils are modified to include Hanks' head and lines relating to the movies, infused with puns and wordplays.


above: the Hansky exhibit at Krause Gallery
The images and work of Hanksy have appeared on the streets of New York and Chicago and New York's Krause Gallery featured much of his work on paper in a recent exhibit.

The following images are from that show.













And here are some shots of Hanksy's work in situ:




Tom Hanks isn't the only celebrity in the work by Hansky, check out his street art of Ted Danson, Ryan Gosling (Drive-Thru), Bill Cosby (Jello) and Erkel (Cheese):





The text below is courtesy of the Krause Gallery:
A street artist is doing some amazing new street art in and around NYC.
He goes by the name of HANKSY.
Add the overwhelming popularity of Tom Hanks to the cool factor of the most famous street artist of all time, Banksy, and you get HANKSY. HANKSY has become a social media phenomenon with his imaginative street art spoofs by taking images of Banksy’s work and adding in references from Tom Hanks’ films.

“People have speculated whether HANKSY is just a play on words or perhaps something a bit more, does he hate Banksy? Is it homage to one of the greatest street artists and actors of our time? Maybe it’s an attempt to subvert the subversive or perhaps it plays on the uniquely American pleasure the public finds in trivial imagery. Maybe in the end its much more straightforward? Add a certain ‘sometimes’ vowel at the end of a specific actor’s surname and it sounds an awful lot like the world’s most well-known street artist. (via Krause Gallery)

The Awl has an interview with Hanksy here

You can see several of the Hansky graffiti work in situ here at flickr.