

Via LifeLounge’s “Derek Albeck’s Skulls and Rainbows”:
As a child Los Angeles-based artist Derek Albeck used to scribble and draw on anything and everything he could. He studied printmaking, painting and art history at California State University and has since worked as a freelancer for clients like Vans, Vapors magazine and Art Prostitute magazine.
Usually working with acrylic, ink and pencil Albeck’s illustrations are crazy detailed and while they often feature rainbows and cutesy slogans like “Have a nice day!” it’s not all sunshine and lollipops. Something’s amiss and we’re not sure what it is exactly. But we know we like it.
More at derekalbeck.com.

Brainpickings covered Peter Menzel and Faith D’Alusio’s Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, a photographic journey to 24 countries, where the authors stayed with 30 different families for a week each, documenting on paper and film what these families ate and how much it cost. Here, we have the Revis family of North Carolina, with a food expenditure of $341.98, and The Mendozas family of Todos Santos (Guatemala), with a food expenditure of 573 Quetzales ($75.70). You can view more photos from the book at TIME. If you’ve never seen a book like this, they can be quite stunning.