[toys] - Circus Punk one-off, and more toys from DYZPlastic by Andrew Bell of the Creatures in my Head webcomic. [commercial illustration work at Dead Zebra, Inc (click the stripes. turn off sound bottom left)]
"Klong cannot see or hear you but senses your kindness"
kiss & bajs. blame sweden. (via)
Damon Soule paintings and a kid robot
peter arnell's kid robot
more photos from the Kid Robot Munny show
Michael Lau: 6-inch miniGardeners and Hero 108 Cannon Turtle 075 (via)
I.nsurgent W.ilderness G.ruppo
The Polymer Musings of Meredith Dittmar. also her 22 My Guy dioramas
[video] - Anime life(41mb) by 1st Avenue Machine (via)
noitulovE(6mb) by Framestore
Insanely Twisted Shadow Puppets by Michel Gagné, see also his illustrations.
Hjärnkontoret TV(9mb) from my little eskimo (via)
Mario, Luigi, and Princess Peach take on the marimba (via). see also The Video Game Pianist.
characters in motion book and 3hr dvd - trailer (25mb) - by Pictoplasma (i also want their other 2 books: Pictoplasma and Pictoplasma 2) (via)
[wallpaper] - (previously)
Sensitive Light photography.
the Creatures in my Head illustration and paintings
Domo-Kun (scroll down) (explanation)
Tex Avery illustration
Me Company illustrations, in a popup laden interface.
Image gallery 41 pages of abstract and digital art.
WallpaperStock asst selection.
keaggy has 4 pages of desktops.
[art] - Silicon Gardens
Popaganda, The Art and Subversion of Ron English. 13 pages.
Vincent Di Nguyen illustrations (via)
retrovisor cutoff, insomnia, mnemotecnia, and more. (via)
Remedios Varo painted Personages.
Yuko Shimizu illustrations (some NSFW content, and slithee popup navigation) including another great wave homage.
Tara McPherson soft, bold, illustrations and posters.
[transport] - Saskatchewan Snowmobile
Robotic racers achieve milestone. the first car to successfully complete DARPA's autonomous robot vehicle race. see also the Ghostrider Robot.
whilst i'm highly amused by the variety, and basic concept, of the popemobile (pejorative perturbs prior pontiff) , the newly required buddhist sidecar is quite sad.
Freeline skates - demo movie(6mb)
[play] - bubbles
The 11-Year Quest to Create Disappearing Colored Bubbles - Zubbles
underwater BubbleRings
Tom Noddy's Bubble Magic & Fan Yang, Bubble Scientist
Wikipedia: Soap bubble
Photographing soap film colors
make a frozen soap bubble with dry ice.
Ron Hipschman & Bubble Town & The Bubblesphere
Bubbles - Flash Game, and a gratuitous Foam Party link.
[lists] - List of people known as the father or mother of something.
List of unseen characters (via)
Time.com - All-Time 100 Novels and All-Time 100 Movies and 50 Coolest Websites.
Empire's 50 Greatest Independent Films
Asme's Top 40 Magazine Covers Of The Past 40 Years with explanations and dissections.
Popular Science: Best of What's New 2005
Occupational Outlook Handbook. see also the List of Occupational Titles and Historic Ranks, Professions, Occupations, and Trades (both large)
[art] - Douglas Walker's Modern Delft
Mr. Ween paints an admirer's bedroom
a denim version (click picture for fullsize) of Hokusai's Great Wave.
[photography] - Sally Gall's haunting black and white photographs
Candy Canes for Portraits & Giving Candy to Strangers.
Life Inside a Waterbottle quicktime VR.
New York Changing, by Douglas Levere. comparison shots of the 1930's with the present.
horrendously cute baby squirrels (via)
[design] - Kees van der Westen - Espressonistic works B.V.. The four Mirages, and sixteen under Earlier Work. Suddenly your Gaggia or Visacrem Palanca isnt so top-of-the-line anymore...
Swiss Earthquake Safety Table, and Design for Fragile Personalities in Anxious Times, and Kit for paranoids.
Chirping pillows send soldiers to sleep in Kosovo
20 more pages of the london design festival 2005 at designboom.
Dutch Design Week 2005 at core77
[architecture] - Nakagin Capsule Tower meltdown. see also this 5 page gallery, and click the bottom 2 photos here.
Made In Japan apt building, Reversible Destiny Lofts, by Shusaku Arakawa, creator of The Site of Reversible Destiny Park mentioned earlier.
TWA Terminal, JFK Airport, Eero Saarinen
the Elephant Tower in Bangkok, via this thread on ugly skyscrapers.
[art] - automatic zen
Photos From Banksy's Crude Oils Show. Also a video preview and a few more pics.
mediumphobic illustrations (also old work)
knit: organs, dna, a room, breasts, hyperbolic plane, goth miscellany, and an entire wedding.
Do-Ho Suh, fabric interiors sculptor.
[transport] - 1938 Maserati 8CTF in minty mint condition. Tons more eye candy at atspeedimages.com
1935 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic (more in links) (among my top 5 cars) and more historical Bugattis.
see also the 1938 Phantom Corsair (more)
Suzuki LC concept. more. oh so cute (which never survives through to production..), though it's not quite a Nissan Pao (more more more more) (another of my top 5 cars)
Smart Crosstown concept. (more more more more)
Jeep Willys 2001 concept (more)
Mini Concept Tokyo. yikes. though if they lost the gold tires/grill, and the seat upholstery, it'd be really kinda nifty.
[fashion] - the sequel to the book Fruits just came out: Fresh Fruits. a "collection of Tokyo street fashion portraits from Japan's premier street fanzine". some samples, an overview article, a covershot, and an interview with the author Shoichi Aoki.
Soutien-gorge chamallow *cough*.
Fashion by Hussein Chalayan (more) (collections)
Shoewawa: Ugly Shoes and Manolo's The Gallery of The Horrors. (and of course, Go Fug Yourself, for the full body effect)
[architecture] - city models
city of Cork
London
New York (larger)
Campus Law Enforcement training model
Indianapolis
Los Angeles 1940
Beirut
Munich before and after
Jerusalem
Berlin
Bunker Hill
Shanghai(scroll down 1/2 way) (more more)
Lindholmen (bottom) and project Hamburg (scroll down 2/3s)
cityofsound: Modeling New London and Making models.