Quick hits.

Eolo Perfido is a French-born photographer in Rome who does some fantastic portrait work. All the galleries are worth clicking through but the Propaganda series is the one you shouldn't miss. (via)

Meanwhile, Chris Jordan has been taking surprisingly beautiful photographs of enormous piles of junk for his exhibition, Intolerable Beauty — Portraits of American Mass Consumption.

Flavor crystals!

"It's always the same thing," he told the psychologist, Michael P. Gamache, according to the report. "It's either the CIA or the FBI. They may be implanting my penis with tracking devices. ... They say I used to be in the KGB. ... It's all a big conspiracy, and they are trying to hide me away like the Bird Man of Alcatraz."

Marijuana does not appear to promote lung cancer.

"This wasn't just about a woman drinking a lot of beer. This was a powerful piece of art."

"A 40-year-old resident of Rovna was rushed to the hospital with critical wounds after he had himself shot by his friend in order to prove that a defensive projectile can do no harm to him."