Rene's Therapy Garden

Our resident guru production manager is busy on her down time. If she's not kicking butt in karate, Rene finds her inner zen in her beautiful succulent-laden garden featured this week in Apartment Therapy.

Paris 1962

A fantastic Flickr set of Paris in 1962 by photographer Tom Palumbo. The tone and color is awesome. 

Jet Pilot Helmets

In a series titles "Yingxiong (Heroes), Artist Robert Longo created these amazingly detailed and large scale charcoal illustrations. His black and white charcoal work incorporates strong lighting and bold graphic forms which gives his work an almost silver-toned photographic quality.

Shadow Art

Tim Noble and Sue Webster skillfully create intricately detailed shadow imagery with piles of trash or other cast-off objects.

GDI'09

A fantastic visual treat is the 2009 Showcase of BA graduates in Graphic Design and Illustration from the University of Brighton.

Bedazzled Transformer

I have no idea what this is, other than it's some sort of a bedazzled transformer from Taiwan and it's really awesome.

Encastrable

Encastrable is French collective which does guerrilla interventions at gardening and DIY megastores in the Paris area.

Pulp

Pulp is a collaboration between super model Joni Harbeck and photographer Neil Krug that captures quite well the well-worn narrative of pulp as it applies to suspense, intrigue, fiction, gore.

Heidi Klum Vogue Germany

Heidi Klum is guest editing the June issue of German Vogue, the subject of which is none other than, Heidi Klum. The amazing thing about her is not only her lengthy career, but her versatility as a model and her command of "the look" as illustrated in these shots.

@#%&*!!

Lily Allen goes for it and gives a variety of people a serious finger with her new video. Originally it was a song about the anti-immigration British National Party, but Allen says that it just became a general expletive to various people, while part of the lyrics include references to homophobia. While the name of the video may be offensive, it's imaginative and fun to watch. @#%!

Mercabarna Flor Market

Loving this new building for the flower market Mercabarna-Flor in Barcelona, Spain. Designed by Barcelona-based Willy Müller Architects, this new building features a multi-colored outer shell inspired by an aerial view of flower fields in full bloom. (via arch daily)

Floral Experiments

Some nice experiments by artist Stasia Burrington where she incorporates flowers and shapes cut from existing quilt pattern into her forms.

Drum and Bass Street Performer

An amazing bucket drum and bass street performer with a wide range of sounds and tempos.

Rolling Camping Prefab

OSKA Architects came up with an awesome design solution for the owners of a old RV park who wanted to offer a space for guests that was a "step or two above camping." The pods are mobile and can be rolled to various locations.

Man Starts Dance Party

Apparently, all you have to do, if you want to start your own dance party, is work on some shirtless dance moves and the masses come.

Beardfolio

LA Photographer, Matthew Rainwaters, has a great portfolio of beard portraits he titles beardfolio. 

Phantom Image

Developed by Julius von Bismarck, the "Image Fulgurator" covertly intervenes with another photographer's image without them knowing. Triggered by a flash, this device will stealthily project another image onto a source object without any detection. The manipulation is only visible on another's photo afterwards. See sample interventions here.

Wanderlust 333

A nice new piece by artist Clark Goolsby for the Wanderlust 333 exhibit at the Wanderlust Gallery in Northampton, UK June 25.

Audience

Audience is an installation conceived by London-based collective rAndom International in collaboration with Chris O'Shea and consists of 64 head-size mirror objects. Each object moves its head in a particular way to give it different characteristics of human behavior. Some chat amongst themselves, some shy away and others confidently move to grab your attention. See a collection of videos here.

Woofers

Yes. Pun intended. Industrial designer, Sander Mulder's functional kitsch subwoofer elevates the grotesque form to a form of art. 

Plush Taxidermy

San Francisco-based sculptor Stephanie Metz works with felt to create plush forms that resemble taxidermic creatures. Her creatures are curiously life-like, whether they draw inspiration from animals in nature or iconic childhood novelties. Her "Teddy Bear Natural History" is especially clever in its depiction of a teddy bear's biological history.

Gehry's AGO

The new Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) designates Toronto-born Frank Gehry's first building in Canada. See an extensive slide show of the building here. The woodwork is stunning.

Bansky Versus Bristol Museum

Some footage of a few of the pieces at the exhibit as well as Bansky at work (or is it him?). Wish I was able to see this.

Collectible Cameras

New Jersey photographer, John Kratz, owns over 150 vintage cameras and has posted photos of 140 of them in this Flickr set.

Last Dance

Some nice new work by Warsaw photographer Dominik Smialowski.

Secret Banksy Exhibit Opens

The super-ultra-secret Banksy exhibit opened today in Bristol, England's City Museum. Under cover of anonymity (even City Council members were unaware of the planned exhibition) Banksy and crew assembled a one-of-a-kind, free, 3-month show.

Eco Station

I wish I knew who this was. Real nice Flickr set of art and polaroids. The doodles are fantastic as well.

Faile

Some nice new prints and originals from the folks at Faile. Unfortunately they're already all sold out. Keep your eyes peeled for the next batch.

My First Big Break

The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens for Cut Chemist's track "My First Big Break". Choreographed quite well.

What I Do At Work When I'm Supposed To Be Working

Sisyphus Office is an exhibition organized by San Francisco based artist, curator, and co-founder of The Thing Quarterly, Jonn Herschend and based out of Skydive, a Houston, Texas gallery. David Fullarton's work, featured in the exhibit, work has a refreshingly unique and urgent edge to it.

Deadline

Wonderful post-it stop motion film by Bang-Yao Liu for Savannah College of Art & Design. 

Hillary The Mammal

Don't know much about her except that she's an 18 year-old from Portland, Oregon who has an amazing eye and a gift for taking amazing pictures. If she's not shooting professionally, she should be.

Best New Blood

London illustrator Louise Zergaeng Pomeroy's career is on a fast-moving upward trajectory. She was just awarded the D&ad Best New Blood Award and just showed at newly opened Gallery Seven in London's West End.

Rural Texan Road Trip

Photographer David Zaitz took some great shots, over a four day road trip, of the crumbling rural Texas landscape. Don't miss his photo commentary.

Signs of American Life

Some nice work by photographer Stephen Tamiesie. Love the sparse geometry and subtle palettes of his compositions.

OFFF 2009 Main Titles

Fantastic opening title sequence for OFFF 2009 produced by Prologue who seemed to tap into Mad Max, H.G. Wells and THX1138 for some retro-scifi inspiration. (via zerovision)

Masked Out

Some real nice stuff by street artist Buss Diss who uses masking tape, not paint. I have to say the' unpermanentness' makes it all the more fleeting, urgent and intriguing. (via The Post Family)

Glue Society

Not only do I love the huge classic ipod-esque site interface, but the work of creative collective The Glue Society proves worthy of the creative spin. Check out the 42Below spots under Advertising.

Living Furniture

Pooktre Tree Shapers, molds growing trees into living furniture. Peter, a jewelry maker, planted an orchard in his 20s. Then the idea dawned on him, "I wonder if I can grow chair." The rest is history. (via Apartment Therapy)

Utility Vehicles

Brooklyn based artist Kevin Cyr's preferred subject matter is the vast array of utility and cast-off vehicles dotting the US roadways for centuries. A wonderful palette of texture, color and form. I'm glad someone finally recognized the beauty of these workhorses. (via booooooom)

Fourstar SF

Fourstar Clothing, makers of functional and stylish skate-centric attire has a great day in the life video featuring Mark Gonzalez. Also check out Fourstar SF for some great skate footage around SF.

Hyper

Some nice work by French photographer Denis Darzacq.

Two Weeks

Grizzly Bear does it again with an another odd video for their song Two Weeks. Directed by Patrick Daughters and produced by Karen Lin it sticks to the basic Grizzly Bear formula - subtle weirdness.