ahhh... mind relaxation and calm delight await anyone who comes upon this Dharma Crafts large stone buddha in the garden.

LOST - you've been invited to play this real contact game. Try it. It's a student project that aims to show how 7 million people connect and become the game with the most number of players ever.

This song seems like a homage to the designers ongoing fight against a client's "insightful" ignorance. By Designer Justin Hethcoat.

'Flash Earth is an "experimental application that uses satellite and aerial imagery from online mapping websites without official consent"

Field Notes ~ new notebook brand by Coudal Partners and Draplin Design Co.

Babystrology's Baby Ticker ~ freaky as it looks... you need to see it with the babies moving around... its a really nicely done widget, and fun to up the numbers of babies and change the due dates

18 year old Dominican with a passion for photography.

DESEO LIFESTYLE is a new and very beautiful caravan from EIFELLAND - a german caravan company.

Green roof for your head!! Bamboo motorcycle helmet.

Abacus watches have no hands. Instead, there's just a tiny steel ball that rolls around the face until you hold the watch horizontally. Once you stop flailing your arms about, the orb stops at the current time thanks to a hidden magnetic movement.

The first issue of Antenna is out and i'm in love... also with their website - they love product nearly as much as we do ~ also alphabetizing everything... it's a fun browse

A 65-foot-long bus that can hold 100 passengers will debut on the Los Angeles Orange Line busway next week.

Aaron Hobson constructs his "cinemascapes" using multiple images, stitching them together to create a scene filled with small details that hint at a complex narrative.

Ridiculously adorable JC Penney "Today's the day to get up the nerve" ad.... also it looks like the boys mom was taking random youtube making of videos of this as well

The Duckweed Lounge by Visual Reference Studio creates a multi-sensory experience out of seating with color-changing materials that respond to body heat.

Remember Diem Chau of the incredible carved crayons and pencils? Well check out this super tiny mahjong set up in a tea cup (beware of myspace music)

The Chair-air by Zo Designs takes a classic silhouette and adds a PVC inflatable cushion on the seat and seat back. An inflatable classic, if you will...

vedaPURE has a great logo... and some fun packaging! ~ cute line of products for the whole family (aka perfect gift sets for mom's to be and baby showers)

Love the Cor-Ten rusted steel plates that make Rome's newly designed Dutch embassy look old. Perfect for a city that's 2760 years old.

I haven't even smelled it yet ~ but i'm obsessing over the packaging of the Juliette has a Gun new line of fragrances

Interesting packaging design on this organic eco friendly lube - YES

WOW. Rich Tuzon's pieces at the Guy's Guy show at Gallery 1988 LA are an incredible mix of Greek Mythology, Japanese and Wild West motifs, and his beautiful use of wood. (that's medusa and perseus going at it.)

Great article over at the NY Observer on Tyler Brule and the understated launch of Monocle... and the question of whether americans understand what the "cultured europeans" already do...

Beautiful photos for Lille Boutique, a Portland Oregon based lingerie store shot on location in the Ace Hotel Portland with model Brittany McDonald... images are unedited and uncorrected.

nice pics from abbey drucker, an NYC based photographer, real sexy, real fun!

Justina Bailey is a graphic designer based in London, her illustrations has a hybrid mix of innovation with an old skool flava- the "Hood" illustrations are definitely interesting.

Another art/rapid protoyping project. Geoffrey Mann takes the outline of a bird landing, and extrudes it into these amazing sculptures

BANKSY has finally broken his silence about the recent spate of third-party shows of his artwork, including the current "Banksy vs. Warhol" exhibit?

New Rabbids Video! Rabbids invade the gaming convention at Leipzig

Andrew Bell (the Creatures in my Head) just released his 'Black Lotus' vinyl figure and matching limited edition skateboard deck.

Wish pillow seems kind of inviting right now too ~

At the W store: Tateossian Sexuality Cufflinks - Phrases include: Desperate, Adulterous, Divorced, Married, Available, Swinger, Curious and many others.

Steampunk lightsabre. How rad is that?

A3 bag from Russian designer Tim Pokrichuk.

Jeff Herron is an architectural and design photographer based in South Florida.

Sakuran is the directorial debut of famous Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa. Think Memoirs of a Geisha meets Tokyo Fruits.

I used to love making tiny origami - it kind of blows my mind that over at finger magic they are actually folding these out of mini sheets of silver!

Sweaty Sightseeing - the best workout you can get while blasting past some great street art, vandalism, doors to hell... and more on these 5k runs daily during Århus festuge

The boys of Penny Arcade bring us PHOTOSHOP HERO! You know you'd rule that game...

new york illustrator stephen savage designed these supercute lunch bags for Built NY just in time for school to start!

Video of the V_Bot, a 3-in-1 radio controlled car, dancing robot and MP3 speaker from RC2.

Interiors for a law bureau, by chileans Tidy Arquitectos.

The Envelope Collective is an ongoing collaborative experiment in art that uses the transportation of mail as a medium.

A girl and her tuba: MySpace films promote Elle Macpherson's lingerie line [Editor's Note: The drummer, saucer, and bomb ones are my fav]

Very elegant work on typography and the beautiful photography of Gili Chen. Soundtrack by Imogen Heap!

For some reason, Jason Wishnow makes movies in which the only actors are vegetables. Here's Oedipus as a potato-head in eight and 1/2 minutes.