Urban Fiber Flotsam turns street debris and vegetation into spun gold. Artist Abigail Doan drifts the streets of NYC this weekend for this urban mapping project at Conflux 2008.

Now that summer is over, it's time to retreat to your private island. Here are the rules: only one house per island.

Spectacular snow board designs by Brazilian illustrator and designer Rubens Lp.

David Aspinall created "Shredding is all about..." as a means of exploring methods of creating 3-D letter-forms from 2-D materials.

Crissy Cook has derived inspiration for this series of clothing hangers from the snotty gobbler, a parasitic vine that is native to Kangaroo Island in Australia. Each one will clamp around anything!

Fascinating story about a gorgeous I.M. Pei-designed church in Washington, D.C. whose congregation has sued the city for declaring it an historic landmark (they want to demolish!)

The Telemegaphone automatically answers incoming phone calls and broadcasts them across a fjord in idyllic Western Norway down to the remote town of Dale. The project addresses preconceptions of what makes a ‘remote’ location remote.

Custom painted mustachioed skate decks by artist Lawrence Melilli. Never has a board been so handsome.

Brittnybadger has a flickr set dedicated to disassembled appliances.

Nurseryworks' Empire Rocker by lawson-fenning ~ one of the 5 new products that just launched ~ looks comfy and is available in a range of colors/materials

Really cool end table designed by George Farkas from 1949. This will be part of an exhibition with a focus on "Tropical Modernism,” opening at the Harn Museum in October 2008.

girlfriend... funny spot for chupa chups... starring chuck... the puppy... created by bbh singapore... [Editor's note: Monster by Monster Factory!]

Vitamin Water London CONCEPT STORE! Genius... fun furniture, a wall of vitamin water and a wall of whiteboards... Little Portland Street

Fernando Akasaka has created the Cowboy Junkie concept stool... Stirrups and all...

Festroia International Film Festival poster made by designer Ricardo Guerreiro.

The world's first sand castle hotel has recently opened at Weymouth beach in the seaside town of Dorset in the UK. The hotel was constructed from approximately 1000 tonnes of sand.

Miss Frank E. Buttolph collected thousands of banquet menus between 1851 and 1930. Now, they're online, thanks to the New York Public Library.

WrecordsByMonkey Vinyl Record Cameos have a great classic look with a music lovers edge.

In a bid to encourage Londoners to spend more time reading, London based design agency Kent Lyons produced this typographic stencil campaign.

Lucha Lib is the Nacho Libre of Ping Pong, really short Student film by Pash*

Art Politic is a group of artists who have come together in order to bring to light social and political issues that they have deemed important. Current issues with amazingly talented contributers!

The new zeixs books are out now! "Think CMYK" is a series of four titles dedicated to working with only one colour of the CMYK-range, plus black.

That is a photograph of a Vodka Tonic under the microscope - See many other popular drinks as well at Molecular Expressions: The Cocktail Collection

Using colorful media such as twisting balloons, party streamers, and artist tape, D. Billy adds visual representations of sound effects to public spaces as a sort of dimensional graffiti.

Cute Ampersand Tees from House Industries

the Brühl’s Terrace in Dresden, Germany uses Bone Conduction technology to take visitors back to the night of the terrible air raid on 13th February 1945

Nastro Azurro presents their UnBEERlievable Collection 2008 filled with winning designs inspired by the beer

Conan O'Brien returned to Harvard in 2000 to give the Greatest Commencement Speech Ever.

Far Cry 2 - For console and PC. Incredible and huge African environment. Free to go where-ever you want, and how-ever you want to complete the one mission; Hunt down and kill the Jackal.

Shibam, a town in Hadramawt, Yemen, is considered to have the world’s oldest skyscrapers.

A list of some of the most famous steadicam shots in movie history.

The beautiful photo diaries of Lina Scheynius are well worth a look.

Unreal beautiful works of the German photographers at Lightmark!

By attaching a camera to the passenger side window of his car, photographer Andrew Bush took photos of his subjects whilst driving beside them in and around LA.

UC Berkeley scientists/artists reveal secret lives of invisible magnetic fields as chaotic ever-changing geometries .

BROOKS SALZWEDEL - i know he receives plenty of love here & on .com, but his work continues to astound. opening reception for his new show "modern soil" at black maria gallery in LA happens june 28.

Great campaign for 44 Degrees North Vodka. Love the Pin-Up Snow Bunny feel to it!

The No-key Keyboard works with a motion capture camera who tracks your finger positions.

Vienna's Museum of Modern Art has an exhibit called Bad Painting-Good Art devoted to bad art. They'll show paintings in various strategies of bad, ugly or malicious painting...that contain elements of irony, protest,trash, kitsch and shock".

One of the worlds last remaining tribes that have never had contact with the modern world were photographed by aircraft and are seen pointing their bow and arrow weapons at the craft in defense!

In response to post #10871, this project was not an 'idealized' fake world draw. The project was a hoax , a big difference.

Suzuki is cutting out on emissions totally and is going green with its Suzuki Crosscage Hydrogen Fuel Cell Motorcycle

"Pergola", created by Montréal urban designer Claude Cormier, is a tribute to Claude Monet - made up of 90,000 plastic balls strung into the trees outside of Le Havre City Hall.

Beautiful, eerie fashion spread from the latest metro.pop, by Tamar Levine.

The Melt candle is 100% beeswax and designed by Harlem based studio SPYE. A percentage of sales are donated to non-profits dedicated to stopping polar ice cap melting.

A street sign in what I think is Estonian or Finish. This was uploaded to "The Big Picture Project", a living mosaic of "what life looks like this second" , See it at
showmethebigpicture.com