EEP. Sorry to everyone who experienced our downtime late last night ~ had a stats error break the server... fixing it all up now... here's a nice site to check if a site is "down for everyone or just me"

Sia’s Breathe Me (2004) was produced/directed by Sydney-based studio Collider. Seeing how Polaroid announced that it will no longer be manufacturing their cult-favorite film, that makes this video all the more interesting.

Tetris for Wii!

Readycams - Corbis and Readymech team up! Take a break from your computer! Download, print and build your own pinhole camera.

Metroblogging launched a major redesign, and i love their dragon/sea monster.... how very 'hic sunt dracones'

Is your child a tagger? Hahahaha... wow. From the city of Santa Ana, there is a diagram of all the components of being a tagger... from the hoody, to the black sketchbook and fat markers...

Awsome music video for "The Holograms" by Mathematic Studio in France. The style is Anime, but heavily influenced by the 80's

LINC is a sustainable phone concept that reclaims and recycles hazardous e-waste without sacrificing style or functionality.

Poolga - awesome iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers from a selection of designers and illustrators from around the world.

Gehry's Santa Monica Place is getting a remodel! I grew up wandering this one for the last quarter century, and i can't wait for the new more inviting, open, high end space in the works.

The Rainbowmonkey. Very nice portfolio site of Markus Hofko.

Forget up, down, and sideways. Florian Kräutli's Magnetic Curtain forms a plethora of abstract shapes depending on what kind of light you want to let through.

Niels van Eijk and Miriam van der Lubbe's tik tak clock reminds me of old school keys.

Unfortunately this top hat is not a magical item... Although, it will make your trash disappear! By the way, "Cartola" means top hat in Portuguese...

Since 1995 we have this identity card in switzerland. With this passport card, additional to the normal passport, we could travel in every european country. So we have booth, Passport and Identity Card.

Selfridges is pleased to welcome the art of sculptor Richard Sweeney into the new season's window displays

UPDATED! Dan got us some hands on shots of the MacBook Air ~ close ups of all the tiny details i was curious about ~ like the power adapter connection and the ports, etc...

1960s Braun Products Hold the Secrets to Apple's Future. Interesting gallery of Braun products compared to products from Apple.

"What has not been done by using rapid prototyping technique? My answer is making sounds." - Noisy by Jun Murakoshi - via Gizmodo.

Series of wooden elephants, just like the horses made of driftwood. The elephants showed the way to the zoo of Antwerp.

Does a chocolate version of someone as a Mii say ~ "i love you" or "i challenge you to a wii tennis match and winner eats all"? Or is it like a delicious choco-voodoo doll?

as a kid, i definitely carried blankie everywhere. now industrial design student jenny pokryvailo from the bezalel academy fit a stuffed bear inside a recycled retro suitcase.

Curious what fun digital xmas cards we received this year? Where here is a roundup of some of the great designs we saw!

Strong and effective words for this WWF campaign. Creativity by Ogilvy & Mather, Bangalore, India.

Amazing photography and retouching. Made by Grey Paris.

The guys over at Royale created this imaginative short for Flaunt magazine's 9th anniversary. They used subject matter from Diesel's campaign (Sponsor) and mixed them with the pages of Flaunt. Very Cool.

NYTimes has a cute article on the efficiency of UPS' right hand turn only rule...

The Eiffel Tower on your desk, only for Paris lovers !

Latest glossy glowing hard drive design - LaCie Hard Disk, Design by Neil Poulton, with "Surprising blue LED for ambient underside glow" (As if we need one MORE thing in the room with lights)

Tidypack ~ the backpacking bag that is instantly organized and easy to actually live out of.

A beautiful sconce oil lamp. Cylo by Duodesign.

Erase away the post-Thanksgiving weight gain with this Pencil Bench from Boex

A robotic arm that writes calligraphy is programmed to write out the entire Martin Luther bible on a long roll of paper.

The bottles are backordered on the Adiri website, but are available at one step ahead for $12.95. [As seen in #7255 - and now these guys seem to be backordered on all but orange]

Alberto Cerriteno ~ THE ENAMORED WHALE // Digital Illustration - and more work on his site

Podravka's Annual Report contains a smaller book of recipes that initially appears to have blank pages, until you BAKE it for 25 minutes at 100 degrees.

Exclusive Print from Ashley Goldberg

French design student, Jean-Yves Blondeau, has created a very eccentric clothe full of wheels, which allows him to rolls down everywhere from different perspectives and positions [Ed. also seen in #6373]

Philly bred, NY-Based artist Steve Powers Eight day Week installation at Pafa is incredible.

The Macallan 55 Year Old Single Malt In Lalique Decanter

Possibly NSFW ~ but the Suicide Girls background wallpaper pattern with bats is really sweet [Background wallpaper pattern, meaning the websites background]

Do you see the panther? New HELLOVON show at the Espeis Gallery ~ check out the videos of this one and others being drawn... its impressively mesmerizing

The AppleSac. For your MacBook[Pro].
Beautifully crafted from hemp or cotton -I own two, and Love them to death. If not WorkingClassHeroes, then AppleSac.

Really digging this Mantra Birostris (it means Mantra Ray) chair and speakers by Cedri Martini, as well as some other pieces of their futuristic furniture

Narguile by Nedda El-Asmar for Parisian Airdiem - the details of this hookah are just breathtaking.

The fun illustration of Philip Newsom, who makes many monsters on bikes seem like a great idea