Children of celebrities often inherit something more valuable than, well, their inheritance.

Talent? Diana Ross' son sings like an angel.

Personality? Robin Williams' daughter got his clownish sense of humor.

Looks? Here's a slideshow of the blessed Baldwin women to prove it.

Of course, there are exceptions. Jack Nicholson's daughter turned out exponentially better-looking. Tom Hanks' middle son raps. Not well.

We rounded up the 25 hottest celebrity offspring, 18 and older, who are making waves in entertainment.

Prepare to ogle.

25. Sasha Spielberg

Age: 23

Celeb Parent: Steven Spielberg

What She's Up To: Sasha stepped out of her father's shadow hand-in-hand with adopted brother Theo, creating the soulful alternative-rock band Wardell.

The keyboard and ukulele player lulls listeners into a folksy summer anthem in the debut track, "Opossum."

Last year, the Brown University graduate caught Nicole Richie's eye at a concert and became the face of her bohemian-chic fashion lines, Winter Kate and House of Harlow 1960.

24. Indio Johnson

Age: 18

Celeb Parent: Robert Downey, Jr.

What He's Up To: The "Iron Man" actor's son shreds on guitar and vox in his band, The Seems.

The trio's debut single, "Buysexual," features a bluesy garage sound and edgy, lovestruck lyrics.

The LA-based rocker, brooding like his father and now sporting platinum blonde locks, says he strives to find the sentimental in a world of excess.

23. Billie Lourd

Age: 20

Celeb Parent: Carrie Fisher

What She's Up To: Princess Leia's little princess dreamed of being a comic.

"You have plenty of material," Fisher told her daughter, a New York University student, according to an interview with The Daily Mail. "Your father's gay, your mother is a drug addict and manic depressive, your grandmother tap-dances for a living and your grandfather took speed."

Billie's extra-curriculars include volunteering for the Obama for America campaign in 2008 and interning with HBO Documentary Films.

Unruly Media is a social media-focused company that has cracked the code of what makes videos go viral.

Unruly has tracked 329 billion video views, worked with more than 400 brands (including Coca-Cola, Volkswagen, Microsoft, and T-Mobile) on their viral content, and tracked viewers' video reactions in its Social Media Lab in London for years.

Now Unruly is bringing that technology to the United States.

We took a tour of Unruly's cool New York office, which opened the doors of its Social Video Lab Tuesday, and were impressed with the digs.

Unruly's office swaps cups for beakers, incorporates popular memes into its decor, has a Vine production suite, and even has a facial recognition station to gauge how viewers are reacting to videos.

Unruly's office is located in New York's Flat Iron district. While the exterior isn't impressive ...

... the fourth floor of the building is a cozy space entirely dedicated to all things viral. The waiting area is even decorated with YouTube and Facebook pillows.

Unruly measures the most sharable branded videos on the web, helping companies fine tune their creative content. So its hardly surprising that employees take meetings in Psy-themed conference rooms.

Kanye West gave a ridiculous, gag-worthy, self-important new interview to Jon Caramanica of The New York Times.

In the article titled "Behind Kanye's Mask," Caramanica talks to the rapper about his new album "Yeezus" out Tuesday, his place in the music industry, impending fatherhood and "Keeping up with the Kardashians."

The interview spanned several hours over three days and resulted in a lengthy, revealing piece inside the unique mind of Kanye West.

So you don't have to read through the entire 5-page article, we've pulled out the 20 most ridiculous Kanye quotes (yes, there were that many legitimate ones) that everyone will be talking about today:

1. "If anyone’s reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now."
2. “I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach — some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah — they’re all the same as that coach.”
3. “You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, ‘This is wrong.’”
4. "I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person."
5.  "I am so credible and so influential and so relevant that I will change things."
6. "I don’t have some type of romantic relationship with the public. I’m like, the anti-celebrity, and my music comes from a place of being anti."
7. "[I knew]  I was going to be a big star. At the time, they used to have the Virgin music [stores], and I would go there and just go up the escalator and say to myself, 'I’m soaking in these last moments of anonymity.' I knew I was going to make it this far; I knew that this was going to happen."
8. “I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I’m also in the lineage of a Miles Davis — you know, that liked nice things also.”
9. "I don’t believe that it’s luxury to go into a store and not be able to afford something. I believe luxury is to be able to go into a store and be able to afford something."
10. On "Keeping up with the Kardashians":  "It’s not that I have an issue with the show; I just have an issue with the amount of backlash that I get. Because I just see like, an amazing person that I’m in love with that I want to help."
11. "I don’t want to explain too much into what my thoughts on, you know, fatherhood are, because I’ve not fully developed those thoughts yet. I don’t have a kid yet ... Like, this is my baby. This isn’t America’s baby."
12. On his "Yeezus" album: "This one Corbusier lamp was like, my greatest inspiration ... Like I say, I’m a minimalist in a rapper’s body."
13. On the moment he called out President Bush at the Hurricane Katrina telethon: "Yeah, it was pretty bugged out. When you think about it, I was wearing like, a Juicy Couture men’s polo shirt. We weren’t there, like, ready for war."
14. On his outfits from five years ago: "Yeah, kill self. That’s all I have to say. Kill self."
15. "The idea of Kanye and vanity are like, synonymous. But I’ve put myself in a lot of places where a vain person wouldn’t put themselves in. Like what’s vanity about wearing a kilt?"
16. "If you don’t make Christmas presents, meaning making something that’s so emotionally connected to people, don’t talk to me."
17. "Like, I want the world to be better! All I want is positive! All I want is dopeness!"
18. "Yeah, respect my trendsetting abilities. Once that happens, everyone wins. The world wins; fresh kids win; creatives win; the company wins."
19. On whether his instinct to fight for what's fair has led him astray, as in the instance he tried to take Taylor Swift's MTV Video Music Award away from her during her acceptance speech: "It’s only led me to complete awesomeness at all times. It’s only led me to awesome truth and awesomeness. Beauty, truth, awesomeness. That’s all it is."
20. "I will be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars, because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus."

To read the full NYT interview, click here >

Now read: See what else Kanye says about being the next Steve Jobs

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On May 28, 96 classic cars left Beijing for an epic race that will take them all the way to Paris.

It's the 5th Peking to Paris Motor Challenge, one of the planet's toughest rally races.

The cars in competition are rarely seen on roads today, and span from a 1913 Ford Model T to a 1982 Renault 4.

They're being driven by teams of two, who hail from 26 countries and are made up of spouses, parents and children, and siblings.

Some are doing it just for fun, while others are raising money for charity (causes include environmental conservation and brain research).

Seven cars were forced to drop out within the first week, but the rest are aiming to reach Paris by June 29.

Standing between them and their goal are 7,500 miles of deserts, mountains, gravel and dirt roads, through China, Mongolia, Russia, Ukraine, Switzerland, France, and more.

On May 28, the cars took off from Beijing, starting the 7,500 mile journey.

Things quickly got muddy.

The 1913 Ford Model T is the oldest entrant in the rally. On day two, its oil cap vibrated loose and ended up breaking a fan blade.

Universal Orlando Resort is featuring a new attraction this summer: Springfield, hometown of America's favorite animated family.

That's right. Homer, Marge, and the kids are moving to Orlando.

Parts of the attraction — a new section of the expansive theme park — are still under construction, but areas like Fast Food Boulevard are already open. Visitors will be able to eat a Krusty Burger and even sip on Duff Beer, brewed especially for the park.

Springfield will mimic the same immersive experience that the Wizarding World of Harry Potter brought fans.

Thanks to Ricky Brigante of Insidethemagic.net for sharing these photos of the park with us. You can read his preview here.

The park-in-a-park is an expansion of the Simpson's franchise at Universal.

The pre-existing Simpsons Ride, a virtual roller coaster, anchors the area. A new ride called Kang & Kodos’ Twirl ’n’ Hurl will take fans on an "intergalactic spin."

Photo credit: Ricky Brigante / InsideTheMagic.net

Springfield's brightly colored storefronts mirror the animated originals from the TV show.

Photo credit: Ricky Brigante / InsideTheMagic.net

Controversial artist Damien Hirst has flooded the art market with nearly 1,400 of the same painting.

Well, virtually the same — Hirst's famous multi-colored "spot" paintings have dots ranging from the size of a pin to over five feet across.

But they all have the same industrial uniformity, mainly due to the fact that Hirst has assistants who manufacture the paintings for him.

Hirst has openly admitted that he is only responsible for the first 25 spot paintings, and his assistants have done the rest. But he still told Reuters last year that "every single spot painting contains my eye, my hand, and my heart."

Whether they are the products of assistants or Hirst himself, the artist's name has guaranteed the paintings have sold well at recent auctions — from $53,000 to $1.7 million in the past 18 months, according to The New York Times.

Even so, those numbers are not what they used to be. Hirst's golden boy status in the art world began to tank in 2008 along with the economy, and since then his works of art have resold for 30% less than the original price, according to The Independent.

Perhaps that's why Hirst is now drumming up publicity by revealing exactly how many spot paintings actually exist in a new book by his publisher Other Criteria — 1,365, to be precise.

That number is significantly lower than the rumored 2,000-7,000 paintings in the series, which may increase future auction prices, but it's still a lot.

And despite the market saturation, Hirst is in the process of creating even more spot paintings:

"Damien is working on some spot paintings with very small spots, including a painting with one million spots, which will take number of years to complete," James Kelly, director of Hirst's London company Science Ltd, told The New York Times in an email.

Of course he is.

SEE ALSO: 10 Billionaires Who Spend A Ton Of Money On Art

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Dotcom Distribution, an e-commerce logistics and fulfillment company, looked at the 11 biggest flash sale sites— such as Gilt, Fab, RueLaLa, etc. — and ranked them by customer complaints on Facebook.

The company found nearly half of Facebook comments about these brands was negative, and of those the biggest complaint was shipping.

The good news: Fab.com had the lowest percentage of negative customer comments.

The bad: 61% of Zuliliy's Facebook comments were complaints about the company.

Here's a detailed breakdown of who's winning and who's losing the flash sales battle on Facebook. (It's also worth bearing mind that some of these brands are clients of Dotcom, and some are not.)

The problem for flash sale sites on Facebook is that the companies need the referral traffic that Facebook generates, but customer complaints can be very public.

Shipping is the biggest issue.

Fab.com has the lowest rate of complaints about shipping. Zulilly, HauteLook and Beyond the Rack have the highest rate of complaints.

The way an app looks is one of the most important aspects of mobile development.

When a new user first taps open an app it has to look beautiful, be simple, and work fast. Otherwise, they won't come back.

We've found 15 companies that are dominating the mobile app experience.

Take for example, Yahoo. The company's previous weather app was subpar. Yahoo listened to its users and drastically revamped the app. The changes were so good that Apple basically transplanted the app into its built-in iPhone weather app, for iOS 7.

The rest of these companies are innovating in their own ways and causing imitators to spring up all over the place. 

Sun is a web based weather app that emphasizes a heavy use of gestures.

Company: Pattern.dk

Release date: July 2012

Location: Copenhagen, Denmark

Why you should care: Sun is a web-based weather app that's simple, clean, and beautiful. There's no installation required to use the app. Sun makes heavy use of gestures so you can pinch, swipe, and scroll to stay up to date on the forecast. 

Price: Free

Twitterific 5 is our new favorite Twitter app. It's functional and looks great too.

Company: iconfactory

Release date: December 2012 (Twitterific itself launched April 2010)

Location: Greensboro, N.C.

Why you should care: Twitterific is one of the best looking iPhone Twitter apps around. It's very simple, easy to read, and is great to look at. After the sun sets, Twitterific automatically switches from a light theme to a dark theme. It makes tweets easier to read.

Price: $2.99

Any.Do is trying to defeat procrastination by helping you to remember what you have to get done.

Company: Any.Do

Release date: November 2011

Location: Palo Alto, CA 

Why you should care: Any.do is a beautiful app. It's minimal and beautiful. The app focuses on five principles, capture, organize, sync, share, and personalize.

Price: Free

As a Marine Corps veteran, I would like to point out that there’s more to military prowess than firepower. There’s no statistic for leadership, no metric for the stuff they pump into you at Parris Island.

But firepower matters ... a lot.

In a world rife with global conflicts, the ability to project power and wield that power decisively is an important national security and diplomatic asset.

The folks at Global Firepower have figured out a way to rank who has the most powerful military. 

They measure 40 different stats about a country, including number of aircraft characters, available manpower, and labor force, to produce a  “Power Index,” in which lower numbers equal more firepower.

Note: Nuclear capabilities are not included in this calculation — but Russia and the United States far outpace the rest of the world in nuclear armament, with 8,500 and 7,700 nuclear weapons, respectively.

10. Brazil

Power Index: 0.6912

Defense Budget: $31,576,000,000

Active Military Personnel: 371,199

Labor Force: 104,700,000

Total Aircraft: 822

Total Naval Strength: 106

See the full listing.

9. Italy

Power Index: 0.6838

Defense Budget: $31,946,000,000

Active Military Personnel: 293,202

Labor Force: 25,080,000

Total Aircraft: 770

Total Naval Strength: 179

See the full listing.

8. South Korea

Power Index: 0.6547

Defense Budget: $28,280,000,000

Active Military Personnel: 653,000

Labor Force: 25,100,000

Total Aircraft: 871

Total Naval Strength: 190

See the full listing.

How exactly would the NSA pitch PRISM — the NSA program that was recently leaked — to potential investors?

Angel investor and data scientist David Coallier has created a hypothetical presentation that shows just that, imagining PRISM as a startup seeking seed-stage funding.

It's pretty funny.

By the way, you can follow Coallier on Twitter, or check out his blog.

Reddit is the Internet's "hivemind" in its purest form.

It lets users decide what links from around the Web are most important, interesting, funny, or weird by making a simple decision: do you want to vote this up or down?

Actually submitting a post to the site is a bit more intimidating. What if people don't like it? In moments, a bad post can be shot down by dozens of people, never to be seen again.

Want your Reddit post to go viral? Here are some tips and tricks that have been proven to be hits with the Reddit community.

Everyone on Reddit has an opinion, so posts that encourage discussion tend to do pretty well.

Reddit users love it when celebrities post inside jokes for their fans.

If there's anything that gets Reddit riled up, it's a political post about the war on drugs. This guy gets bonus points for working in religion and science.

In the first quarter of 2013, 9.7 million or 19.8% of all residential properties with a mortgage were still in negative equity, according to CoreLogic's latest negative equity report.

Homeowners are in negative equity when they owe more on their mortgage than their home is worth.  

This is down from 10.5 million or 21.7% of all residential properties at the end of Q4 2012.

Higher home prices helped lift 850,000 mortgage borrowers out of negative equity. But a large part of the country is still deep underwater.

Using CoreLogic data, we ranked the 12 states that had the most underwater mortgages as a percentage of all mortgages. The five states with the highest negative equity accounted for 32.8% of negative equity in the U.S.

Note: Loan-to-Value (LTV) ratio is a measure used by financial institutions to gauge risk before approving a mortgage. The higher the LTV ratio, the higher the risk and the more expensive the loan.

California

Negative equity share:
21.3%

Total mortgages:
6,747,000

Average loan-to-value ratio:
63.4%

Source: CoreLogic

New Hampshire

Negative equity share:
21.3%

Total mortgages:
226,000

Average loan-to-value ratio:
72.1%

Source: CoreLogic

Mississippi

Negative equity share:
22.3%

Total mortgages:
50,000

Average loan-to-value ratio:
77.3%

Source: CoreLogic

As complaints about the placement of New York's new bike share stations have shown, parking bicycles in an urban setting can be tricky.

A company in Japan has found a novel solution: Put them underground.

On the television show Culture Japan, which airs in Japan, host Danny Choo takes a look at the Eco Cycle bike garages at Tokyo's Shinagawa Station.

Each high-tech garage, built by construction company Giken, can hold 204 bikes in a 38-foot deep well beneath the ground.

As the human, all you have to do is get a membership and roll your bike up to the station. Robots park it underground, and fetch it when you want it back.

It's like valet parking, but with bikes and robots.

Watch the Culture Japan video, or click through to take a look.

To park a bike, find a garage.

Each garage has room for about 200 bikes.

As a member, you get an electronic badge to put on your bike.

It's one of the big questions concerning Edward Snowden, the self-confessed leaker and National Security Agency whistle-blower: What next? While legal experts debate whether he will be extradited from Hong Kong, where he's hiding out, and how much jail time he could face? AOL Jobs decided to glean some insight into Snowden's fate by looking at past whistle-blowers. What happened to government officials, corporate execs and lowly clerks who went up against the powers-that-be and revealed secrets? (AOL, like other tech companies, said in a statement it does "not have any knowledge of the Prism program" that Snowden revealed in his leak.)

While some went on to have high-paying careers, many others went to jail or were ostracized, forced to live in obscurity. One famous whistle-blower, Bradley Manning, who handed over classified videos, cables and other documents to Wikileaks, is currently standing trial for the charge of aiding the enemy. He faces life in prison.

Indeed, one thing is clear: the life of a whistle-blower is never easy, even though President Obama himself has signed laws that are supposed to protect them. Read on, and then tell us: What do you think should happen to Edward Snowden?

Mark Felt, the Federal Bureau of Investigation

How he blew the whistle:  As the associate director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the early 1970's, Mark Felt was aware of illegal attempts by the Nixon Administration to spy on political opponents, breaking into offices and reading their mail. So when J. Edgar Hoover died in 1972, and Nixon bypassed Felt and appointed another ally as FBI director, Felt became a critical source to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward, as he and fellow reporter Carl Bernstein investigated the Watergate Hotel break-in and resulting scandal.

What happened: He retired from the FBI in 1973. For years, Felt's identity was kept secret; Woodward and Bernstein only referred to him as "Deep Throat." At his request, his true identity was disclosed in 2005, when he was 91 years old.  He died in 2008.

In 1978, he faced felony charges in connection with FBI surveillance of radical groups like the Weather Underground. He was pardoned by President Ronald Reagan in 1982. During legal proceedings he was the beneficiary of many private donations, including gifts from Nixon himself. Felt wrote several books about his time in the Bureau.  

Daniel Ellsberg, U.S. Pentagon

Mordechai Vanunu, Israeli Government

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Visiting Europe is often composed of a whirlwind tour, during which visitors hurry from one tourist destination to another.

Therefore — in between trips to museums and monuments — finding the time to breathe can be surprisingly difficult.

To help speed along to the moment where you actually find relaxation — you’re on vacation, after all — some of our favorite hotels across the pond are outfitted with top-notch spas designed to get you to that “Ahhh” feeling faster than you can say “Euro Trip.”

Whether all you want is some downtime in the sauna or a deep tissue massage, these properties have you covered.

So sit back and relax—the Louvre will still be there tomorrow.

K West Hotel & Spa, London

K West is a smart and sophisticated option in London, with its main attraction being the beautiful K Spa.

Featuring sleek style and impressive facilities — the hydrotherapy pool and “Snow Paradise” room are particularly noteworthy — the spa is well-regarded throughout the United Kingdom.

The “Snow Paradise” room is meant to follow a hot steam treatment, and is based on Finnish spa techniques of using hot-cold therapy to stimulate circulation and the immune system.

Altis Belem Hotel & Spa, Lisbon

The Altis Belem Hotel & Spa is a 50-room boutique in Belem, a residential neighborhood on the Tagus River.

Belem is slightly removed from the city center, but has several of its own attractions, as well as gorgeous marina views and lovely restaurants lining the river.

Despite its small size, this hotel has many amenities, including a big indoor pool, a fitness center, a Michelin-rated restaurant, and a beautiful spa.

The 1,000-square-meter space features a Thermo Garden with a wide dynamic pool, sauna, hammam, and Turkish bath.

Ashford Castle, County Mayo

The fantasy-like Ashford Castle features a massive historic stone facade, complete with towers and turrets; gorgeous, manicured grounds; a stunning setting on a huge lake in Ireland.

Common spaces that are truly grand, with rich wood paneling, chandeliers, and antique furniture.

The spa at Ashford only has a few treatment rooms, but it also has a lovely neoclassical whirlpool area, steam room, sauna, and a glass-enclosed relaxation lounge with lake views.

With the city's new Citi Bike program in full force, New Yorkers from all walks of life are getting inspired to put the pedal to metal and take their own two wheeled adventures.

Whether you're Tour de France ready or picking up a bike for the first time since elementary school, we have a cool new route for every type of cyclist.

Check out our riding picks for the pretty paths, cool pit stops and fun hang outs that will keep you spinning all summer.

Hudson River Greenway: The perfect option for city cycling newbies and seasoned bikers alike, the Hudson River Greenway treats riders to breath taking river views, cool piers and parks, and plenty of kiosks stocked with gourmet dining and drinking options.

For a long trek, start at at Rockefeller Park on Manhattan's southern most tip and spin up to the George Washington Bridge, on 125th Street. The eleven mile ride will fly by as you gaze at the breath taking scenery. Weary cyclists can stop for a bite at The Creperie on the roof of The Standard, or wait until hitting Harlem before indulging in global soul food at Marcus Samuelson's Red Rooster.

Governor's Island: This concert hot spot offers more than killer music performances- it also boasts one of the city's best bike paths. A short trip on the bike friendly East River Ferry will give you access to the path which wraps around most of the island.

Take in the tree lined trails and old time mansions, in addition to some of the best views of the New York Harbor. Refuel at Picnic Point, where you can easily park your bikes and an enjoy a bite outside or watch the sunset while sipping a glass of wine from Little Eva's, a small vendor located nearby.

Williamsburg Bridge: Cruise through some of the coolest neighborhoods in Brooklyn by starting your bike trek on the Lower East Side's East River Park bike path.

To get over to Brooklyn, you can cycle on the Williamsburg Bridge, which is thought to be one of the most bike-friendly bridges because of its wide pathway and relatively low number of tourists.

Once you arrive in Brooklyn, cruise around the restaurant-dense hood to pick your favorite spot (Some of our top choices are Reynards at the Wythe Hotel for amazing burgers and cool cocktails or Marlow and Sons, an American bistro.) If you happen to take a trip on Saturday, be sure to check out the eclectic vendors featured at Smorgasburg, a Brooklyn flea market on North 7th Street.

There are nearly 1,400 of Damien Hirst's "spot" paintings in existence.

The artist has only painted around 25 of them himself.

So who made the other 1,340 or so paintings, which regularly sell for tens of thousands of dollars?

They were done by Hirst's coterie of assistants — a well-known fact. Even so, he told Reuters last year that "every single spot painting contains my eye, my hand, and my heart."

And they all contain his signature.

Damien Hirst was once the art world's golden boy. His conceptual art was snapped up for millions by art collectors, showcased in museums, and taught in art history classes.

But he has also been lambasted by famous critics like Roberts Hughes, who once said of Hirst's famous shark suspended in a tank of formaldehyde: "One might as well get excited about seeing a dead halibut on a slab."

And for many, his art has become a symbol of selling out, with concepts that either shock or disgust and only appeal to rich art collectors with questionable taste. 

But the real reason Hirst is such a sore spot for many in the art community is that he doesn't physically create most of his own work.

His $78 million diamond-encrusted skull was made by royal jewelers Bentley & Skinner. The artist's stuffed shark was produced by MDM Props of London, a theatrical company. And his famous spot paintings were, of course, painted by his assistants.

Why? Because he couldn't be bothered to do the work himself.

Hirst once said he didn't paint his own spot paintings because, "I couldn't be f***ing arsed doing it," according to The Guardian.

He's even gone so far as to recommend his assistants' work over his own: "The best person who ever painted spots for me was Rachel [Howard]. She's brilliant. Absolutely f***ing brilliant. The best spot painting you can have by me is one painted by Rachel," he once said, according to Artlog.

As one story goes, one of Hirst's assistants asked the artist for a spot painting. Hirst told her to "make one of your own," he wrote in the book On The Way To Work. When she said she wanted one made by him, he responded, "But the only difference, between one painted by her and one of mine, is the money.'"

Hirst sees the real creative act as the conception, not the execution, of art. As the progenitor of the idea, he is therefore the artist.

Of course, he's not the only artist who feels this way. Andy Warhol had a factory. Mr. Brainwash has a factory. Jeff Koons has a team of assistants, too. Virtually all of these men admit to little talent and a bunch of ideas.

But no one is quite as annoying about it as Hirst. "I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it,"he told The Times UK in 2003. "At the moment if I did certain things people would look at it, consider it and then say 'f off'. But after a while you can get away with things."

Since 2009, a third of Hirst's works have failed to sell at auction, and those that have been sold were for 30% less than in 2008.

Turns out, you can only "get away with things" for so long.

SEE ALSO: This Quiz Will Make You Realize How Bonkers The Contemporary Art Market Is

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Chef and restaurateur David Burke is known for his innovative and playful cuisine, from a pretzel-crusted crabcake at David Burke Townhouse on the Upper East Side, to the cheesecake "lollipop tree" dessert at The Garden by David Burke at The James.

But even top chefs need a little inspiration.

We asked Burke, who has also participated in cooking shows including Iron Chef America and Top Chef Masters, to share some of his favorite cookbooks with us.

He kindly obliged.

Charlie Palmer's Casual Cooking

In Casual Cooking, Palmer brings a sophisticated twist to simple dishes. With his instruction, you can impress your dinner guests with Whole Roasted Salmon with New Potatoes and Leeks and Baked Wild Mushroom Salad.  For something more family-style, whip up a platter of Linguine with Eggplant Ragu.

As an added bonus he'll teach you to turn many of his recipes, like his Perfect Roast Chicken, into delicious leftovers like Chicken Noodle Soup or Aioli Chicken Salad.

Buy this book on Amazon for $10

High Heat: Grilling and Roasting Year-Round with Master Chef Waldy Malouf

Whether open-flame grilling or hot-oven cooking, High Heat provides flexible recipes for any season. Malouf teaches you to "maximize flavor and minimize fuss" in recipes like Flank Steak with Rosemary and Roasted Garlic. You can even learn to make Caramelized Cauliflower Soup or Nectarine and Almond Crostadas over the flame.

Malouf's recipes are suitable for the whole family and come without an endless ingredients list, making for an all-around successful execution.

Buy this book on Amazon for under $30

Lidia's Italian-American Kitchen

Lidia Bastianich's book is ideal for novice and intermediate chefs looking to expand their cooking knowledge. She teaches you how to make ravioli from scratch and what you need to perfect a meat sauce.

Recipes range from pasta dishes such as Long Fusilli with Mussels, Saffron, and Zucchini, to her take on scallopine with sautéed lemon slices, garlic slivers, capers, and green olives. Stories chronicling her discoveries as a chef since immigrating to America entertain the reader throughout the book.

Buy this book here for under $30

Damien Hirst's spot paintings are not all the same.

Sure, colorful spots on 1,365 canvases may start to sound repetitive, but don't worry! They're all totally original.

Each work in the series has spots of a consistent size, though some are as big as 40 inches across and some are just a few millimeters. No two colors are repeated on a single canvas.

One thing does set some of the paintings apart — the artist himself only painted around 25 of the works. The rest were done by his assistants. 

Below are the five worst Damien Hirst spot paintings. In the name of fairness, we've also compiled the five best (keep scrolling to see).

The Worst

Lysergic Acid Diethylamide (LSD), 2000

Row, 1988

Edge, 1988

Iodomethane - 13c, 1999-2001

Controlled Substances Key Painting, 1994

And the best:

Abalone Acetone Powder, 1991

Untitled (with Black Dot), 1988

Myristyl Acetate, 2005

Isonicotinoyl Chloride, 2005

4-Nitropyridine N-Oxide, 2006

Could anyone really disagree?

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