Five for Friday. Signs and symbols that of interest, that are cool, that empower, inspire, and are worth checking out. Five of them. It’s Friday.

1. Garbage Pail Kids – Where Are They Now
Couldn’t resist this pop-cultural throwback to a meandering youth spend in the 80s. It’s a brilliantly conceived fictional series depicting your favourite Garbage Pail Kids characters suffered into their adulthoods, some thirty years later. Gross, depreciating and sublime. Via BeautifulDecay.

2. Shia LaBeouf Goes All Over The Place Green
So there’s this: Shia LaBeouf delivers the most intense motivational speech of all-time
Which is part of this: Shia LaBeouf Is Smashing Teletubbies and Screaming at AI

Screen star (artist?) LaBeouf does the green screen and performs 36 monologues. It’s part of The Campaign Book project. The clips were produced for students at Saint Martins University of the Arts in London, who then used the clips to build their senior thesis.

3. Universe Within
First, take a stroll through Katerina Cizek’s HIGHRISE project. It’s a captivating and inspiring digital storytelling experience that documents and explores the cultural experience of urban living around the globe.

Universe Within is the next (and final?) installment in the soaring HIGHRISE project series. This time Cizek takes us fully into the digital realm, exploring how our urbanity transcends physical space and “the hidden digital lives of highrise residents around the world.”

4. Ernest Hemingway Hates New York

From the prestigious New Yorker Profiles section, Lilian Ross scripted this personal and poignant 1950s profile of the greatest writer ever.

Hemingway poured himself another glass of champagne. He always wrote in longhand, he said, but he recently bought a tape recorder and was trying to get up the courage to use it. “I’d like to learn talk machine,” he said.

5. Seth Hamblin
Visual journalist, Seth Hamblin, passed away this week. Hamlin was a visual team leader in the WSJ newsroom, and instrumental in bringing information graphics and visual storytelling to the forefront of contemporary journalism. A book-worthy body of work appears on Hamblin’s website. Via @VisualLoop.