Photographer Stephen Wilkes spent a minimum of ten hours taking hundreds of shots to create each one of his Day to Night.

Warning: If you suffer from motion sickness or a fear of heights, staring at the above photo for too long might make you start to feel dizzy. Great shot by Canadian photographer Tom Ryaboi, aka Roof Topper.

South Korean artist Myeongbeom Kim’s work is all about breathing life into inanimate objects by juxtaposing man-made elements with nature.

For his series Mirrors, photographer Tom Hussey paired images of elderly subjects with reflections of the 'younger versions' of themselves. The results were used in an award-winning ad cam­paign for an Alzheimer’s drug.

Melting Point, Stéphane Couturier’s series of 20 large-scale time-exposure photographs depicting a Toyota assembly plant in Valenciennes, France, shortlisted for a 2011 Prix Pictet award for photography and sustainability.

Todd McLellan's deconstructed typewriter is part of his new Disassembly project.

In 2000, the NYC Transit Authority joined the artificial reef building program. Hundreds of stripped/decontaminated subway cars were sent to be dumped in the Atlantic Ocean. Captured in 'Next Stop Atlantic' by Stephen Mallon.

Dr. Kai-hung Fung created this stunning image of a sinus cavity by stacking 200 CT slices from scans of a patient he had examined. Titled 'What lies behind our Nose?'

The desires of old school punks.

This text art installation recently spotted in Wiesbaden, Germany, gets bonus points for involving both a swimming pool and the lyrics to the Pointer Sisters song

If you’re sick of hearing Frank Sinatra tell you that he wants to be a part of it, or Alicia Keys gushing about how these streets will make you feel brand new, then rejoice – here’s an alternative musical history of the Big Apple.

Flavorpill's list of their 10 favorite letterpress studios

The image above may look like some sort of loosely woven rug, but it’s actually a creation of Marcia Nolte, Stijn van der Vleuten, and Bob Waardenburg, the trio behind We Make Carpets.

When Pei-San Ng made her first work from matches, Dollar, she noted how tempted she was to burn it.

It was just announced that J R, an anonymous, 27-year-old street artist from Paris, had been awarded TED’s $100,000 annual prize

In the 1500s, “geek” was just another term for fool. Today, it is often accompanied by the word “chic.”

JBOY, a London-based street art collective, lampoons last night’s Banksy-directed opening of The Simpsons with assistance from Santa’s Little Helper

What would the world look like if Google Maps icons were real? “Google’s World” is a cool series of drawings by Spanish illustrator Alejo Malia.

Parisian street-art photographer JR's Unframed, a collaboration with the Musée de l’Elysée and Festival Images, decorating facades of the Swiss city, Vevey, with giant reproductions of iconic works.

What you see above is a visualization of the top million web sites (per Alexa traffic data) in early 2010, with the area of each icon proportional to the sites’ reach

A bicycle shop in Altlandsberg, Germany advertises their goods with a wall of around 120 real bikes mounted on the building’s exterior

The Morning News’ Can We Date? flowchart is a rather epic response to a reader who wrote in asking if it was socially acceptable for him to date his brother’s wife’s cousin.

Behold the aptly named Surrealistika, which juxtaposes IKEA’s kitchen appliances with a giant birch tree. Part of the Barbican's Surreal House exhibition.

Retro advertising campaigns for YouTube, Facebook, and Skype ~ for Brazilian MaxMidia Seminars - Moma, Sao Paulo, Brazil

Felix Vorreiter’s battery-powered guerrilla tool the txtBOMBER is a machine built for making public political statements — albeit, only in German at the moment. And it’s about the size of an iron.

Gardner Design and LogoLounge.com's Bill Gardner's report on major trends in logo design worldwide for Creative Review. Transparency and brighter hues has become ubiquitous and text is more important than ever.

We’ve reduced Mad Men to its component particles to make this Periodic Table of Mad Men

U.S. Twitter users’ average moods at noon and 11 pm by Alan Mislove of Northeastern University after 3 years/300 million tweets. Most of us are happier at night than at midday and the West Coast is more positive than the East.

We’re not sure who the artist is behind this amazing Superman wheatpaste outside of the Lorimer stop in Williamsburg, but we’d definitely agree that the oft-delayed L train could use some superhuman help most mornings.

Fabian Neuhaus of the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London (UCL) has created interactive “topographic” Twitter maps of London, Paris, New York, and Munich based on the density of tweets in each city.

Our friends at Newmindspace decided to throw a flash mob-style bubble fight in Times Square loosely based on Dr. Seuss’ The Butter Battle Book.

Awesome Infographic: Hipster Fashion Cycle

Queens-born urban artist Nick Georgiou creates organic sculptures out of old newspapers, and then deposits them in random locations around the city.

Happycentro is an Italian design firm based in Verona that has worked with the New York Times Magazine and Nike. Their self-initiated project “Paper Objects” mixes the art of origami with colorful and geometrically complex images.

GOOD Picture Show: The 37 or so Ingredients in a Twinkie by Dwight Eschliman - you may never look at a Twinkie the same way again

Over the course of one week, photojournalist and California Institute of the Arts alum Michael Underwood laboriously documented over 250 local medical marijuana dispensaries.

Take our photo tour of Governors Island's Building 110 — an exciting new studio, performance, and exhibition space from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.

With scraps of muscles, claws, capes and armor, Aaron Noble pieces together super-hero collages. His paintings look as if the characters from comic books were rearranged in an anatomical disarray.

LA as seen from high above in a zeppelin. Photos from Airship Ventures’ Eureka passenger airship that is longer than a blimp, bigger than a 747, but has a cabin that holds a mere 12 passengers.

Leslie Buck who designed the Anthora, the iconic blue, white, and gold "We are happy to serve you" coffee cup, died this week at the age of 87.

Binaire, “an experiment with flour and the kind of light that exists around dusk,” this collaboration of Zak Ryan Schlegel and Marie Hanhnhon Nguyen is mesmerizing.

Guess which country each of these breakfasts come from.

The MAK Center for Art & Architecture commissioned 21 artists to make their marks on decommissioned billboards all over West Hollywood.

In 1958, Nat Mendelsohn purchased 320 square km of desert to turning into "California City," a paradise to rival LA. Mendelsohn’s vision fell flat, and California City is left as a “mirage of suburbia in the middle of nowhere.”