Carlos Owens had handled all kinds of machines as an army mechanic, but he always dreamed of using those skills for one project: his own "mecha,” a giant metal robot that could mirror the movements of its human pilot.

Katie Sokoler cut out human forms from black paper and taped them onto the walls and sidewalks all around Brooklyn. She then waited for people to walk by and took a picture at the exact moment they matched up with the shadow.

I really enjoy these photo comics called 'My milk tooth' by Inhae.

Remarkable patterns that bacteria form when grown in a petri dish. Colors and shading are artistic additions. Image templates are actual colonies of tens of billions of these microorganisms.

The rainy season in Japan brings forth a glimmering phenomenon. Hundreds of fluorescent mushrooms grows in tree trunks and covers the ground with a blanket of little green lights. This rare specie was only discovered recently.

A mind-blowing collection of detailed depictions of micro molds and fungi that grow on plants.

Inspired by his memories growing up in the countryside with his grandparents, Korean designer Kwangho Lee has transformed the leftovers from a typical harvest into a beautiful stool.

Mauro Hernandez did some amazing sketches as part of the advertising campaign for the Amal Film Festival 2009.

Beautiful, ugly, or just plain peculiar according to individual reactions, this pink see-through fantasia is a swimming sea cucumber seen about 2,500 meters deep in the Celebes Sea.

A few of us know that singer Bryan Adams is also a great photographer. His portraits includes the likes of Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mickey Rourke, Victoria Beckham, Cindy Crawford, Heather Graham...just to name a few.

Adam's Lowe's illustration plays with and within the rarefied space that is fashions stylistic trump card, working the push/pull friction of surface and depth, control and impulse, line and shape, romance and sex.

The Anonymous Hugging Wall in London as part of Keetra Dean Dixon ongoing series METHODS & APPARATI for Social Facilitation and Mood Elevation

With “Fairy tales and legends” as the theme, world-class sculptors from ten nations. used around 2,700 tons of sand for this years World Sand Sculpture Festival.

Jan Kempenaers took great photos of Communist monuments in Yugoslavia (built in memory of various WWII battles)

A star-shaped mushroom, called the ‘Devil’s Cigar’ (Chorioactis geaster) is one of the worlds rarest fungi. This fungi had been detected only in central Texas, two remote locations in Japan, and most recently in the mountains of Nara.

Austrian artist Willi Dorner squeezes human bodies into nooks and crannies for his Bodies in Urban Spaces project.

The master of steampunk watches, Haruo Suekichi has been making them for 12 years - pretty much every single day! That makes thousands of unique time-pieces, and still counting! Check them out ...

Gray Organschi Architecture, designed a simple barn structure where the lumber is organized on the exterior of the building, creating a wonderful mosaic-like texture that proves that functionality and aesthetics can go hand-in-hand.

On an artistic level, Lani Imre's lifestyle visually unfolds as a sexually appealing fantasy world depicting elements of the natural world as well as exuding stylistic features of media and urban culture.

Junk sculptures by Brandon Jan Blommaert from Canada.

Novelist Koji Suzuki (author of 'The Ring' has chosen to print his novel called "Drop" on toilet paper. The thing is seriously being marketed as “Japan’s creepiest toilet paper” It seems his publishing house was really itching for a new marketing idea.

Is it a bathtub? Is it an armchair? Is it a bookshelf? It is the new Library Bath by Swedish designer Malin Lundmark!

Swoon’s Swimming Cities of Serenissima, her latest fleet of handbuilt raft sculptures, launched into the Adriatic Sea in Slovenia and floated into Venice in time for the Biennale.

The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art MoCCA's Festival 2009 will be held June 6th & 7th in NY City. The poster brought a smile to my face.

'Bubbleologist', Samsam Bubbleman created the world's largest free-floating bubble

Brilliant never seen before photographs of Pablo Picasso's 'Flashlight Centaur'. Picasso’s light drawings—were made with a small flashlight in a dark room, the images vanished almost as soon as they were created.

I just love everything about artist Nemo Gould's kinetic sculptures. My favourite one is the one of the Praying Mantis.

Robert Bradfort, a father-of-two got tired of discarding his kids’ unwanted toys that he decided to make good use of them, and now sells his creations – each containing up to 3,000 toys – for up to $18,000 each.

Japan recently lauched a blue beer called Okhotsk Blue. The brew is made using water melted from icebergs that float each year onto Hokkaido beaches from the chilly Sea of Okhotsk,

Dutch architects LAM have completed a beautiful sustainable giraffe enclosure for Rotterdam Zoo.

A selection of amazing pictures of beach shipwrecks from around the world.

The latest performance by the French mechanical marionette street theater company Royale De Luxe - with some remarkable pictures of their latest creation.

Princeton University has announced the winners of the 2009 Art of Science competition. First place this year was awarded to Celeste M. Nelson for this gorgeous, bright field micrograph of squid embryos.

Oil Monkey is the creators of this very strange futuristic chair, that is a combination of transparent plastic and wood.

Float by Okooko, designed by David Trubridge, challenges how we sleep. The design elements draw on the idea that a bed is movable. Sleep is…romantic… nomadic… the journey of life…

Inspired by the animals and the sea creatures which were discovered by the famous German biologist Ernst Haeckel in the late 1800's, Lazerian’s latest in jewelry has indeed integrated the same quasi-organic form into his bangles.

Beautiful images of pollen under the microscope

Bizarre titles, even stranger storylines, cheesy effects and dead-serious acting. DRB features a collection of vintage movie posters. It seems that B-movie posters were often much better looking than a movie itself...

Your eyes are not playing tricks on you, This is the Diesel D24160 watch! A Frankenstein timepiece cross-breeding two entirely different watches into one. Love the half leather strap, half metal strap.

Above pic is of the ocean currents in the Bahamas that made a sand-and-seaweed sculpture n much the same way that winds create sand dunes in the Sahara. View NASA's best pics of earth gallery on the National Geographic site.

Here is a little something from wanderingspace.net for your iPhone. 19 of the major bodies of the solar system to swap out that tired of image of Earth that came with the phone when you bought it. Free to download.

Gorgio Biscaro created these colorful Atlas benches. Atlas is a rotational moulded bench designed for Slide Design, intended for indoor as well as outdoor use.

Steamer trays and wooden chopsticks are some of the most ubiquitous trash objects in China – and are thus the perfect candidates to upcycle into something useful and durable like this simple stool – by B.A.S.E

I love how Kyle Bean designed his DIY typo made of cardboard boxes to write his name on index of his portfolio website. He is a great forerunner in 3D design.

Elephants painted as pandas are seen at the Royal Elephant Kraal in Ayutthaya province, Bangkok. The elephants were led on a walkabout to send a message to the Thai public not to ignore its elephants, the symbolic animal of Thailand.

joana vasconcelos is a paris born artist who now lives and works in lisbon. she primarily creates
sculpture and installation pieces. many of her key works apply white crochet patterns to a variety of
objects like computers, sculptures and pianos