I asked for a cure for the Mondays, and, because you’re awesome, you came through.

Here’s how to make a Monday better:

From Matt Davis -

From Kelsey Balcaitis-

From Braden Young-

From Sara Dyer -

From Natalie Singer -

From Get Amp’d -

From Cheryl Wiens -

Y’all are my favorite. Thanks.

And you? How do you cure the Mondays?

My good friend Carol Schillios is living on a roof for as long as it takes to raise $1 million to support women and their families in developing countries.

All she’s asking: That you donate $1 to the Fabric of Life Foundation, and accompany that donation with a small act of kindness.

Click here to read some of the amazing success stories from the work Carol and her foundation have already done.

If we work together, each using our own voice and personal network, we can help get her off the roof in a jiffy, before she catches a deatha-cold.

Here’s an idea to help:

1. We each donate a dollar (or more), and perform a small act of kindness.
2. Tweet or update your Facebook status with your one small act, along with this link to Carol’s site http://bit.ly/qQaec and the hashtag #imupontheroof.For example: “Complimented a stranger on the subway. http://bit.ly/qQaec #imupontheroof”
3. Bonus: Change your Twitter location to “Up on the roof with Carol.”

The hashtag #imupontheroof is a nice way for us all to remind Carol that, although not physically, we are up there with her in thought and spirit. It’ll also help us keep up as more people tell their stories. (Click here if you’re wondering “what the heck is a hashtag?”)

Finally, encourage everyone you can to do the same by emailing, tweeting, blogging, Facebook(ing), and on and on.

Most of us are unbelievably connected and use that power to share opinions, jokes, goofy youtube videos (here’s a good one), and so on. This is an opportunity to use it for something much bigger.

Follow along:

• Carol is on Twitter as @schillios.
• She’s also on Facebook.
• Her blog is upontheroofwithcarol.org.

I just found out my friend Trey ordered one of these. He is now the most futuristic person I know.

From illustrator Chad Pugh’s Vimeo page:

This piece inspired the login illustration that vimeo commissioned from me for their redesign earlier this year; it is still in use throughout the site. The video is a condensed time lapse of screenshots over a several month period. Total physical drawing time is close to 40 hours and I’d add an equal amount of time for concept time and readying the print. A screenshot was taken every 5 seconds, which actually results in a full 18 minute video. I’ll upload that for posterity later.

Incredible. Check out more of Chad Pugh’s work at thebigpugh.com.

Thanks to Charlie Trotter , who I can always count on for quality stop-motion, for the link.

I’m completely enthralled by the work of Barcelona-based graphic designer Máximo Tuja, aka max-o-matic.

(via we-make-money-not-art’s review of “ESC: Enter Spanish Creativity“)

Skinnycorp, the brains behind Threadless, has the best business model on the planet.

<embed style=”width:400px; height:326px;” id=”VideoPlayback” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” src=”http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6790186192162586479&hl=en” flashvars=”"> </embed>

Maybe I’m a hippy, but business needs more love. And Awesomeness.