This incredibly inspiring piece of graffiti was photographed by Ben Heine in Portugal. I’ve never seen a better reduction of the scariest logo ever created to nothing more than a frightened group of people’s misguided bastion of hope. And yes, I do hope we all get a chance to beat the crap out of ‘em too.

Doing my daily scroll of Web & Patterns, I discovered FontEx. The goal of the site is to whittle down all the free fonts you can easily find on the web so that only the highest quality glyphs remain. I’ve spent a total of 20 minutes on the site and while it may not have the extensive collection of DaFont, this will now be my de rigueur choice for free font selection.

The dot com, www.fontex.org

The Malloys borrow a color palate from the White Stripes, a clan member, one of Reese’s pieces and something called a Jonas brother and shake them into a crunk juice cocktail for Vampire Weekend’s “Giving Up the Gun” video.

The hollow that exists in the upside-down vanilla soft-serve that is the Guggenheim is getting filled up and topped for the building’s 50th birthday. In the artistic imagination, that is. Just under two hundred artists, architects and designers have rendered their visions for the space for the exhibit “Contempating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum.” There’s a full online component to contemplate the contemplation.

Some proposals inhabit the entire space (quite literally in Luzinterruptus’ “A Museum Inhabited 24 Hrs.”) or permeate it with nothing more than a single beam of light (IwamotoScott Architecture’s “LightCone”) or distort the collapsible-cup shape itself (Jurgen Mayer’s “Conspiracy”). Maybe because my first memory of the Guggenheim is of my father making a seat out of his arms so that two-year-old me could get a front-row view of the art in its airy aerie, but my favorite is Pierre Huyghe’s “Proposal for One-Year Parade” that imagines an annual-length parade wending its way from the top down.

As imaginative as the visions are, I have to say I’m glad that Frank Lloyd Wright’s positive negativity is what stands. If that void didn’t exist, after all, there’d be only one possibility to contemplate, not infinite ones.

“Contempating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum” is on view at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum through April 28.

Graffitti artists know their work is Ozymandian - erased by time, urban development and do-gooders. But @149st has set out to immortalize the artists and crews of NYC. With a list that goes from A to ZEPHYR, a glossary and galleries of works in progress, you can buff up on what will inevitably get buffed.

A Wes Anderson/Spiderman parody so good it should be greenlighted.

Directed by Jeff Loveness
Original music composed by Jared LaGroue