We blogged about things to do before we die in the Polaroid Bucket List. One commenter announced his life long ambition to be featured on JoshSpear.com. While we do have an active “send us a tip” button on the top right of your screen, it caught our eye. We had a look and it’s some really good photography. Zip over to Fillmore Photography to see Michael Chen’s work and take part in your fellow reader’s blistering creativity. Keep up the good work — and you can now tick off “be featured on JoshSpear.com” from your bucket list.

It seems like Steven Harrington is always up to something. He’s like our own personal Ryan Adams. The guy is always busy. After pulling off his traveling art show for his Our Mountain book and spending the summer traversing the European continent, the National Forest Design principle is back in the States. That doesn’t mean he’ll be kicking up his feet any time soon. Harrington is set to release Our Mountain domestically, and what book release would be complete without a book release party? Answer: No book release. So in order to celebrate more stellar output, Harrington along with Sixpack France will be presenting their own little shindig at the Subliminal Projects Gallery on L.A.’s Sunset Blvd on Thursday September 4th from 6 to 10 p.m. Steven and book designer John Harrington will be signing copies of their new book. So if you’re in the mood for a good time gathering and getting a sneak peek at some fine work, we recommend being there.

We’ve been talking about a lot of art in politics and war lately. It isn’t an intentional push, but the art collective OBEY (a.k.a. Shepard Fairey) just keeps making amazing stuff. This time it’s an exhibition, but the exhibition is huge. Over a hundred pieces will be hung on at White Walls in SF to give a large complex look at Shepard Fairey’s body of work.

OBEY has made some really great prints over the years, from peace solider images to the Obama prints. In the new exhibition, Shepard hopes to relate elements of optimism and hope of his Obama prints with his remix of war propaganda. “The difference between this show and previous ones, is that now Obama is in the mix,” said Shepard. The exhibition is appropriately titled Duality in Humanity and includes aspects of his message and the contrasting nature of our world. If you are in San Fransisco, the exhibition opens on September 13th at White Walls (and there is an after party you could probably get yourself into).

Tomorrow the extra large San Francisco club Mighty will take a break from the dancing and drugs in favor of something much more addicting: the Internet. The web trends group ROFLcon (ironically named after the mid-90s chat room acronym) is anticipating a crowd of 300 for its first ROFLthing, a night of short presentations and cocktails to celebrate … well … Internet culture, of course. If Upcoming.com creator Andy Baio on the cult of unwilling celebrity doesn't get you in the door, maybe “Microhumor and The State of the LOL” from I Can Has Cheezburger's Ben Huh will.

ROFLcon founder Tim Hwang, who spends his days working in business development for Creative Commons and blogging at the catch-all U.S. Bureau of Fabulous Bitches, says the event should “serve as a nice state of the union for where things are at and what people are talking about.” Hwang (not to be confused with the Google attention-grabbing Korean singer) started ROFLcon in 2007 with a group of friends to address the question of whether it was possible to get the entire Internet in one room simultaneously. Barring that, the annual get-togethers now draw several hundred computer scientists and social media buffs, many of whom are as interested as Hwang in how to aggregate social networks and content, or, as he says, “clean up the mess that Web 2.0 has created.” If all goes well, the Big Apple could get their own ROFLthing this winter, followed by Toronto.

The head artist and founder of the REAS International, Todd James, has a history of creating comic-like statements of his surroundings. When you find out that he began making art as a kid on the streets of NYC, painting simple shapes and characters, it all begins to make sense. His style has evolved into a sort of Bevis and Butthead dream sequence of a political cartoon. Bombs, blood, boobs and creatures fill his illustrations to make jokes about war, death and modern life. It would be ridiculous artwork if the satire wasn’t so evident. The new exhibition titled Blood & Treasure will be in London’s Lazarides Gallery in Soho starting on Friday and running through the September 26. The exhibition features 20 new paintings and one brand new animation.

What do the words Austin, Texas make you think of? Music? Cowboys? Richard Linklater? Okay, fair enough, but what if I told you sushi? Its true, mixed up with all the BBQ, steaks and Mexican food is the amazing sushi restaurant Uchi. We know what you are thinking, “It must be good for Texas sushi standards’, but this sushi bar is amazing. A renovated old house just south of the river and across the street from the landmark Alamo Draft House theater (another Austin gem) provides great interior design to chow down colorful fish. Recent Iron Chef contestant Tyson Cole heads up the creative dishes that look like little pieces of art (and for the price it may as well be art). If you are in Austin and need your Japanese cusine itch scratched, Uchi can do that and them some. Just don’t expect a table when you head down for SXSW.