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If you’ve got 12 minutes to spare, I can highly recommend watching this mini-documentary on the artists who still hand paint advertising billboards in New York.

It’s wonderfully filmed, and these guys are unbelievable talented. Enjoy.

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Drainspotting

In Britain, they’re traditionally just left in there orignal state. But in Japan, hundreds of manhole covers serve as works of art, despite their benign function.

In a new book called Drainspotting (Mark Batty Publishing, 2010) – Photographer, urban artist and film maker Remo Camerota documents some of his favorite examples of this interesting art form.

“Designs range from images that evoke a regions cultural identity, from flora and fauna to landmarks and local festivals to fanciful images dreamed up by school children. In Kyoto, a turtle adorns the city’s manhole covers, signifying wisdom and longevity,” he writes.

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I’ll be the first to admit I’m not a big reader. I’ll read a magazine or a newspaper from cover to cover, but give me a book and I just can’t stick with it.

Few authors have made me pick up their book with enthusiasm to keep turning the pages, let alone get to the end and go back to the beginning to read it again. One of those authors is Douglas Adams.

Maybe it is because I had watched the BBC Television series of ‘Hitchhikers’ before reading the book that gave me the interest, maybe it was the enticing book cover?

Maybe it was knowing the idea for the title The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy occurred to him while he lay drunk in a field, that raised my interest in reading his words.

Towel Day has become an annual celebration on the 25th of May, as a tribute to the late author, on that day, fans around the universe proudly carry a towel in his honour.

Here’s a little clip of Towel Day: