Remix of Radiohead's single "Nude" played by outdated hardware.

Ceramic candleholder.

Several rocks, like the one pictured above, were set out in popular San Francisco locations. The hope was to reward people's curiosity by bringing a little joy to their day and a smile to their face.

Could these Sony HT-IS100 Bravia Theatre Micro speakers be much smaller???

'paravent' by mona hatoum at art basel 2008 - a space divider for those who really love their cheese graters... or grating other larger things...

Cool lamp from Spanish Merry, Kawamura & Ganjavian. The lamp, Plug On, comes in different formats such as a column or a table top, onto which the electrical accessories can be attached. And don't miss their solar powered laptop charger...

A proposed design for an opera house and cultural centre on an island off the Khor Dubai. Developed by Zaha Hadid Architects

Giovani Scafuro makes fascinating artworks using primarily forks.

Jan Vormann does incredible work filling in the cracks in your walls with LEGOS!

Beautifully designed French website for Alfa Romeo called experience 159.

Made from 100% post-consumer plastic utensils (yes, that means dirty plastic knives collected from waste-bins), this 'Waste Not' lamp from BVD Collective highlights just how elegant and inspired recycled design can be.

I think it's bubbles. I love the perfection and simplicity of this image. By Spencer Higgins.

Tr8Tool.com is a colorful database with Reuters, Bloomberg, ISIN codes and direct links to Financial Calendars of all major stocks. Simple and useful for those who need it, nice to see for those who don't.

Nice brick work on this house, located in Parque Leoloir near Buenos Aires, Argentina. By Becker Ferrari arquitectos.

My homage to Helvetica.
Happy Birthday Helvetica! Sorry if I'm a bit late!

Got up close with the Veuve Clicquot Karim Rashid Globalight tonight at its LA launch party at the W in Westwood... crazy scene, check out the pics.

This has got to be one of the best looking, if not a little bit morbid, bird houses I have ever seen. Designed by Portland based Esque Studios, this hand blown bird house is just a wonder to look at with its little noose perch.

New Mini figures by Kathie Olivas due to be released on June 20th.

Kacper Hamilton’s theatrically sinful 7 Deadly Glasses - are glassy manifestations of all your favorite sins ~ above you see Sloth...

Turn your iPod Touch into a Mac Mini-Me with RockRidgeSound's iClooly.

Reebee Garofalo's Genealogy of Pop/Rock Music print.

A beautifully designed turntable by Avid that carries a hefty $24,000 price tag.

Music video for the British glam pop band Morton Valence's latest single 'Chandelier'.

Les must de Cartier ~ Cartier sent over a gorgeous book that just opened my eyes to the decadent and playful times of Cartier Lifestyle in the 70s and 80s... wow.

Norways is the country that has most the Sámi. They also have the coolest looking Sámi Parliament. Designed by Stein Halvorsen and Christian Sundby, the building looks like a mix between a traditional Sámi goahti and a concrete fortress.

Bone furniture by Joris Laarman. Taking an aesthetic note from the biological generative process of bones, these chairs mimic skeletal qualities while serving as a functional piece of furniture.

Casa Camino Los Palquis, by Francisco Carrió Arquitecto, is a lovely wood, glass and stone house perched way up in the Andean foothills outside of Santiago, Chile.

Last night in Rome, Italy, over 150 statue and monuments have been "dressed" with anti-pollution masks by the environmentalist group Terra. Obviously, they have been immediately removed by police.

Wonderful mixed media illustrations by Russ Mills, aka byroglyphics. I just love his style and his pieces are so expressive.

A new house in Seattle, Washington. Designed by Pb Elemental Architecture.

Father's Day is coming~ the One and Only Man Can is hilarious, yet useful, if you really have no clue at all what to get him... 15% off orders of $30 or more at Delight, with code: NOTCOTrox (exp 6/20/08)

The cutting-edge green home Orchid House, one of the key homes on a project to turn a disused gravel pit into a beautiful 450-acre nature reserve, has sold for a record-breaking £7.2million.

Adfunture has teamed up with quite the lineup: DITA Eyewear, Staple Design, Suitman, Revelator, Black Cross, GUE and Puma, to create this YOKA SC Edition to benefit the China Red Cross.

gorgeous wallpaper and imagery from emery & cie - and the paint colors and chair are theirs too!

Hairwash is a quirky Internet project that shows before & after hairwash pictures. Anyone can submit and be part of it.

'buch mit amphitheatralischer einrichtung' (book with amphitheatrical furnishings) - 2001 work by the german artist hubertus gojowczyk. Designboom has great coverage of Art Basel 2008

Moonstream is the ultimate space lounge. It's designed to change the public's perception of NASA and make them more interested in future Moon missions.

Speak-er is a playful speaker design by Sherwood Forlee that puts the SPEAK back into Speakers.

Since i've been a bit behind while traveling, here's a super roundup of some of the most popular 100 from NOTCOT, TasteSpotting, and NotCouture from the last few weeks...

Martino D'Esposito Grow Bag - pillow shaped pot for plants made of PVC foam. Exclusively for hydroculture friendly plants.

Mount Baker Residense by Elemental Architecture is a house perched on a hill on Seattle

paper doll... the new ad for rexona skin care... created by vegaolmosponce buenos aires...

Concept Kite-Driver water craft

Cool stop-frame animation by London-based
Marcelo Pena Costa and John Evans.

The New HTC Touch pro Announced!

Love the new Method baby+Kids collection

Easy PB&J jar design ~ two lids! so when its all stuck on the bottom, just flip! Genius? by skforlee

Marthuba has an interesting tee, "Wolfsrudel Weiss" ~ look closely, and you'll see that there are a LOT of black foxes on this one! (also comes on grey and for the ladies)

Harold Ross took beautiful, long-exposure-and-LED-flashlight pictures of working, pulley-driven machinery at the Hagley Museum in Delaware.

Cartier takes on love ~ through film, music, and art ~ and the 12 film pieces by Olivier Dahan are beautifully woven together and worth checking out

Bowl that reads "i love you more than zombies love brains." by foldedpigs

play Smart ~ super cute japanese smart car flash site where you can customize and play with smart cars!

adorably geeky axe ad (i'm amazed they managed to make an ad without boobs in it)...

Ryan Cox made an incredibly happy trippy cartoony wallpaper for the Kitsune Noir Wallpaper Project

Super cute little mic ~ BlueMic Snowflake USB Microphone - "the first professional portable USB mic"

Madrid based architect and artist makes some quirky furniture slahs art pieces - imagine having this chair when you have a flu!

Nike now projected the Chinese artists that they support in the Beijing Olympics onto the Rem Koolhaas CCTV Building in Beijing. Really impressive!

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the rainbow flag, Absolut is releasing a limited edition Rainbow bottle on July 1st.

Tautra Monastery in Norway. Great lighting inside. By JSA.

The Lush Life ~ cocktail bars are all the rage in manhattan (we popped by a few ourselves on the recent trip!) ~ check out this nice list that Mike Arauz has put together

Carbon salt and pepper shakers by Gregory Buntain.

What in the world can stop a G-Class???
a beautiful world made of paper...
new spot for G-Class of Mercedes-Benz... created by Shanghai DGM...

This weekend Euro 2008 kicks off in Austria. Some matches are going to played in Innsbruck. I hope some of the players/spectators take a tour and checks out Zaha Hadid's cool looking cable train stations.

This lovely modern house on the island of Kythira, designed by RC TECH, is directly influenced by the local vernacular and mostly local materials were used in construction.

Raishee Sowa, took upcycling up a notch and created his own self-sufficient island out of 250,000 recycled plastic bottles, just off the coast of Mexico.

I love the bright of the black skin. SOUL by Thierry le Goues.

Tram Stop in Alicante by SubArquitectura - This project was taken as an opportunity to give back to the city a space that had been taken from it; transform a roundabout in a public square. Excelent work.

Krejci’s ‘Let’s Grow Some Balls!’ chair is both a planter and chair all in one. A garden chair that IS the garden, users are brought closer to nature by being surrounded with it.

Afro Coffee is a cafe that has started expanding into other product lines, all with gorgeous African-inspired packaging. This wine packaging actually has a working radio!

House Müller Gritsch by AFGH - Made in prefabricated wooden elements to reach a low budget for an artist couple in Switzerland.

a penguin flying... in the spot for washington's lottery...
everyone’s dreams can come true… created by Publicis in the West, Seattle...

The Clio Grand Winner in the billboard category went to New Zealand... where agency and client blew up their own ad! Check out the video and the Silver winner, another brilliant idea!

Sheepstable by 70F Architecture - A curved sheepstable in he city of Almere with steel girders and wood cladding. A small but very nice piece of architecture

If you don't say "om nom nom" out loud, you're not doing it right.

A high rise residential building in Groningen, Netherlands. It´s part of a municipal project to keep the city compact. By Arons en Gelauff Architecten.

portfolio of brazilian graphic designer - Naíma Almeida

New design for the Rioja Wine Labels

Damien Hirsts End Game is now on view at the MFA Houston. It is the first time the work, questioning the nature of being human, has been on view in the United States.

Parmi Les Vivants! is a short film about 3 young bohemian thieves in early sixties Paris presented as a trailer for a fictitious french new wave film.

Tokujin Yoshioka Little Garden Table - Poetry and magic in a simple yet brilliant design.

5 salts from around the world.

A list of 19 great artists from around the web. Some will be familiar to the NotCot audience, others maybe not.

beautiful chandelier from hudson furniture

Nice Nike Basketball campaign in Europe transforming Maccabi Elite players into comix super heroes.

Brand new poster print by Supermandolini™. "Shooting Target" more than just a fun design carries under the surface a more serious message open to interpretation.

Nike SB teamed up with Concepts to release this awesome Lobster inspired shoes! They even come with rubber bands and butter colored laces.

Lorenzo Damiani Mondo Rug - This rug unites the past and present: the continents, made in pure wool, recall the most classical Persian rug, while the sea, contrasting in viscose, has a more modern image.

Beautiful house by Portuguese Arquiprojecta. The house has huge windows that lets in light from both sides and gives the house a 360 view of the landscape.

Nifty concepts of graphic design for cans of Nestea ice teas, developed by the agency Letters-Numbers, which brings a more sophisticated form and suggestions of new visual identity.

One of the U.K's emerging talent's 'T.Magic' hits up the streets of London with his most recent stencil 'Art Is My Hustle'. I can see some Warhol influence in his slogans.

The ‘Cloud’ Lamp shades are made with recycled paper, they can be flat packed, and sold with a milky white energy saving bulb. Cloud Lamp is a simple and sustainable approach to add magic and intimacy to domestic lighting.

Even the smallest printing flaw can contaminate your whole job. Ad campaign for Mais Printing Services.

Very simple and intelligent idea by italian designer Paolo Ulian for a perfect project that reflects about wood waste

The Campaign for the Government of Catalunya to keep the Mediterranean sea clean by Klas Ernflo is cute and creative, and it gets the message across really well. The rest of his pieces are great too!

The new Peter Dass Museum in Alstahaug, Norway, is placed inside the cut on a big rock over a great view of the surrounding landscape. By Snohetta.

Cool ad by Mango Fashion Awards. The Jean Paul Gaultier puppet kills me. :D

Harvard Graduate School of Design students Kiduck Kim and Christian Stayner have conceived of a Floating City for New Orleans that will “rise safely in an Archimedean liquid landscape.”

I would like the Squirrel do please. Although the Walrus is solid as well. Beautifully executed animal hairstyles.

Polyface Farm ~ once you hear how they run their fully sustainable farm, and you taste their chickens/pork/eggs/etc ~ i dare you to try and eat industrially farmed animals again...

Spear Collective Artist Jefrey Lacson takes playing with toys to some other dimension.