Skin + Bones, London.

Skin + Bones is a collection now open at the Somerset House in London displaying work about the parallel practices in fashion deisgn and architecture. It takes an abstract look at design and architecture, showing them in the same light. The exhibit focuses on contruction of volume, structure and movement, tectonic wrapping and other concepts. It's great how two completely different realms of design can be interpreted in the same light. More photos of the exhibit are available via Wallpaper

Installation space at Somerset House

Structure and movement in fashion: Boudicca, Black Lowry ensemble from Invisible City collection, Autumn/Winter 1994-1995.

Structure and movement in architecture: Future Systems, Selfridges Department store, Birmingham, United Kingdom, 1999.

Yamaha Concepts

Yamaha unveiled these prototypes of lifestyle influenced keyboards in Milan at the Silano Design Exhibition. These are supposed to be integrated more readily into everyday life and be a more personal way to play the instrument. Yamaha hopes to "further the bond" between instruments and peoples a spokesperson said. These are definitely some of the best looking keyboards i've seen, more info here

Google Me, The Movie.

A documentary about a guy, Jim Killeen, who Googled himself and then went all over the world meeting others with his name. To all the other Jide Osifesos of the world, here I come. If you have 96 minutes to burn you can watch the whole thing here.

This is insane... Microsoft Surface.

OK this is some bona-fide Minority Report shit. Microsoft has recently unveiled it's "Surface". The Microsoft Surface is a multi-touch software/hardware combination which allows you to manipulate digital content by use of motions, hand gestures of physical objects. Look for this thing to be released to restaurants, hospitals, hotels, the military, retail facilities etc. in the near future. I'm scared. Make sure to go HERE and watch all the video. As amazing as the video is I doubt it could possibly do this thing Justice. There are 5 of these things available to the public right now at the following At&T locations.

New York City
381 Madison Ave
New York, NY 10017

New York City
350 Park Ave
New York, NY 10022

Atlanta
3429 Lenox Road NE
Atlanta, GA 30326

San Antonio
13127 San Pedro Ave
San Antonio, TX 78216

San Francisco
1206 El Camino Real
San Bruno, CA 94066

Before you go make sure you've seen Minority Report.

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, where your drawings are transformed into real objects animated on the screen. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics. I know I say this alot, but I NEED THIS

Crayon Physics Deluxe

Ten Thousand Cents.

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool. The total labor cost to create the bill, the artwork being created, and the reproductions available for purchase are all $100. The work is presented as a video piece with all 10,000 parts being drawn simultaneously. The project explores the circumstances we live in, a new and uncharted combination of digital labor markets, "crowdsourcing," "virtual economies," and digital reproduction.The who story and a detail of every individual piece can be seen HERE

Killing the Monster you made (and then resurrecting him)

GQ has an interesting piece detailing the happenings of the increasingly violent Pakistan. The near future of Pakistan seems to encompass an almost certain civil war, some likely assassinations, and lots of blood... not to mention Pakistan serves as the Taliban's new hang out and is supposed home of the ever so lucrative Osama Bin Laden. Government monitored sermons? Pakistan seems to have all the makings of perpetual strife. yet in the midst of Pakistan's turmoil, an election is going on. Devin Friedman documents it and other current events Here.

Gigantic VW Web Design.

New Volkswagen.co.uk

Braun Woodline Expanding Table.

I need this thing in my House.

Elastico Bookshelf.

Elastico Bookshelf by Arianna Vivenzio. This is pretty creative.

BJ PENN: Calculated Beatdown

This is going to be crazy

Pietro Arosio for EmmeBi.

Pietro Arosio designed these toolbok drawers for EmmeBi. These feature a nice modular system that just made organizing alot easier without neglecting aesthetics. You can see these as well as other interesting pieces of furniture from EmmeBi here.

Kohler Karbon Faucet

Kohler will soon be released the much anticipated Karbon Faucet. It is a fully carbon fiber faucet that can expand and hold almost any position. When not in use it can be folded down to the position seen above. This is crazy ...and yes that is a joystick controller.
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Neighborhood Mag. 5

Neighborhood has released it's 5 installment of it's self titled magazine Including the entire Spring/Summer '08 Collection as well as a details preview of upcoming collaborations the brand will be taking part in. A few of the collaborations include projects with Visvim, Nike, Red Wing, and Stussy amongst others. Available at Japanese booksellers everywhere.

The Irony of Headache Pills.

The good folks at Help Remedies took into account that when you have a headache, you dont really want to be reading extremely small type, with words you've never even heard. They turned down the volume of headache medicine packaging and in it's place have simply labelled their packaging with excatly what you need. Not only is it easy on the eyes, it's also made of 100% recycled paper. Help also offers this equally minimal box of band-aids. Each only 6 bucks.
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Biblical scenes re-imagined through Google Earth

Scenes from the bible have been recreated and portrayed in countless times, but Sydney based creative collective "The Glue Society" have portrayed certain biblical scenes through "god's eye view" via Google Earth. This is amazing at least, the imagery is dramatically real in a way never done before. Above is Moses Parting the Red Sea


The Crucifixion of Christ


Noah's Ark


Adam and Eve at the Garden of Eden

Beautiful Losers Film Trailer

Coming this Summer.

Didden Village by MVRDV

Architecture firm MVRDV were comissioned to design this extension onto a home located in Didden Village in the city Rotterdam, Netherlands. The home sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the monochromatic homes surrounding it. It's odd that the city permitted it. The design is amazing.

This is the amazing floating stair designs, both located in the house

Supreme does Bad Brains

New York based street-wear brand has collaborated with legendary rockers Bad Brains on a collaborative effort which will include, Vans Sk8 Hi's modeled after their banned in DC album cover, 4 styles of t-shirts and a two jackets. You can find these at Supreme New York and Los Angeles on April 24th. You can also find these on ebay for at least double what the shoes/shirt/jacket is actually worth anytime after that.

Fortune: 1000 Biggest Corps.

Fortune just released it's annual list of the 1000 biggest corporations in the United States. You'll never guess who made the top spot. (Yes you will.... on the first try...) Full list of the 999 corporations who came after Wal Mart here.

Shepard Fairey for Animal Farm, 1984.

Shepard Fairey of Obey fame has been commissioned by Penguin Books to create two brand new covers for the George Orwell classics 1984 and Animal Farm. This seems like a perfect fit for Fairey's artwork, it's good to see his work on 2 classic novels such as these. Both books will see release July 3rd.

Transforming Homes.

Well maybe not. These Canadian Single family homes aren't exactly homes at all, they're architecturally-disguised electrical substations, complete with windows, blinds, and landscaping. The official named for these are Bungalow Styled Substations and you can find sbout 100 of them into the Toronto area. These homes (transformers) were designed to look just as the homes in the neighborhood complete with landscaping. Photography by Robert Collyer.

Jonathan Yule x Sans Serif.

Graphic designer Jonathan Yule created these characters completely by using sans serif fonts.

BMW Hydrogen 7

This is the fully hyrdrogen powered BMW 7. You may remember a previous version of this which was a bi-fuel vehicle which ran on hydrogen with a gas reserve, this one is purely hydrogen powered. The best part about this vehicle however is that the car's engine actually CLEANS THE ENVIRONMENT. The exhaust has lower amounts of non-methane organic gases and carbon monoxide than regular air. No joke. A 7 series beemer with a. v-12 that cleans environment? With a luxury automobile powerhouse like BMW producing hydrogen fueled cars with V-12s, OPEC better start rolling back prices. Detroit really needs to step their game up.

Sensitive thugs, you all need hugs.

Probably one of the best thigns I have ever seen in my life. This video is so hilarious I dont even know what to say after it. Hillary Clinton = Sensitive Thug

Barrack '08.

Burton x Playboy

Snowboard pioneers Burton and adult empire Playboy are collaborating on an entire line of snowboards, bindings, and clothing to be released in August. This collaboration will be much more extensive than past burton projects with playboy. Past playboy centerfolds will be featured on prints of boards, board accessories and on the inner lining of jackets. This one is sure to turn heads. More pictures via high snobiety

Gnarls Barkley - elpuoC ddO ehT

Gnarls Barkley have decided to release their "Odd Couple"album online for free download, but with one catch. The entire album complete with artwork is being released backwards. The album begins with the end of the last song and is played in reverse until the beginning of the first song. The entire album will be one 38 long track encompassing all the songs from The Odd Couple. I've never heard of anything like this being done ever. You're sure to hear some AC/DC devil shit on this one. DOwnload this free release here.

The Evolution of Tech Logos

Neatorama has an interesting piece on the evolution of various tech logo's. Imagine if apple would have kept the original logo of Isaac Newton under a tree? Check out the whole thing here

Chanel Mobile Art Container by Zaha Hadid

Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld and Architect Zaha Hadid have unveiled the "Chanel Mobile Art Container". The project is a mobile traveling art gallery modeled after the legendary Chanel 2.55 bag, the building is a work of art in itself. The "Art Container" will travel the glove from now until 2010 displaying artwork by 20 contemporary artists. Amongst the artists scheduled to show are Yoko Ono, Sylvie Fleury, photographers Nobuyoshi Araki and Stephen Shore and the Russian collective Blue Noses. Info via Chanel Mobile Art

"Gucci by Gucci" by David Lynch

Logo design at it's best.

The Martin Agency of RIchmond Virginia recently created this new logo for Al Gore's Non Profit Agency, the Alliance for Climate Protection. At first glance you may overlook this, but there is much theory behind it. This simple logo has a massive amount of meaning behind every aspect of it. Read all about it via NY Times.

Beijing Olympics.

So if you've been watching the news lately, you know the olympic torch for the '08 Olympic games in China is making it's way to Beijing. If you know this, you also know that some people are trying incredibly hard to put the flame out/destroy the torch/hate on China. I am a strong advocate of Tibetan freedom so I really respect these people running the risk of certain police tackles and elbow drops in order to make a statement for the people of Tibet. Info here...

Rolling Bridge UK

Bridge made by Heatherwick Studio on Paddington Basin in London. This bridge completely rolls up when a boat needs to pass. Heatheriwck always seems to be on some new shit. This one's pretty amazing

"Even my gas mask is Gucci."

Nothing says pre-apocalyptic age quite like this. It's things like these that remind us that even if times of turmoil and impending doom, you gotta look your best. Ditto Vilema, Louis Vuitton, and Gucci unveiled these at the 2008 luxury show in Bucharest, Romania. I'm all about it.

Kobe Bryant jumping over an Aston Martin.

Pretty much.

These cities > Your City.

Fortune Small Business and CNN.com have released a feature profiling the 100 best cities to "Live and Launch" in. This means the 100 top U.S. cities in regards to business environment and alluring leisure offerings. They looked at the cities from every angle: local tax rates, natural beauty, restaurants, schools, and much more. Some towns on the list will definitely surprise you, others you've probably never heard of in your life. Check out the list here