Sustainable Dance Floor

Sustainable Dance Club™ is dedicated to proving that having fun and taking responsibility for our environmental impact can go together. The energy produced by movement is converted into electricity that is used to make the dance floor react to the dancer in an interactive way.

It's Marble.

I still can't believe these are sculpted entirely out of marble. Who would think to replicate as mundane a material as styrofoam with such a coveted stone? This is the work of Italian sculptor Fabio Viale, who sculpts everything from paper airplanes and car tires to a fully functional motor boat out of 100% marble.

Lucy and Bart

"LucyandBart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess described as an instinctual stalking of fashion, architecture, performance and the body. They share a fascination with genetic manipulation and beauty expression."

The Varini Perspective

Swiss artist Felice Varini has been painting perspective-localized geometry on spaces and architecture since the late '70s. Completed last summer, his latest installation "Cercle et suite d’éclats" in Vercorin, Switzerland is very impressive in scale and perspective. You can see some nice panoramic shots here.

Paper Cut

The Museum of Art and Design's newest show, "Slash: Paper Under the Knife", focuses on contemporary artists' use of paper – cutting, tearing, burning, or shredding to delight and surprise. In all, the show features 50 artists and a dozen installations made just for the show, including Andreas Kocks's Paperwork #701G, shown here.

Saturn at Equinox

Some really amazing images of the Saturnian system at equinox have been posted on The Big Picture. The images were taken during Cassini's orbit of Saturn, funded to orbit through September 2010.

Hubless Chopper

The Hubless Monster chopper by Amen Design is the world's first fully functional motorcycle with two hubless wheels. (via toxel)

Glugbot

Jim Darling and Eugene Good spent 4 days gathering the detritus of an old coal refinery and shaping it into an oversized drunken robot, or Glugbot. "Our goal for this piece was to create an idea that would look like it lives in this space."

WaterCar Python

Probably a better investment these day's is sinking $2Gs into a Python. A serious amphibious recreation vehicle, this thing hauls on water and can peel out when you ascend to a dry road. A perfect Spring Break accessory (see pics). 

Slow-Mo Attack

The music video for Nujabe's song Luv(Sic) will keep you glued. (via BOOOOOOOM!)

Soviet Land Signs

Crop circles vs. Russian forest signs? Discovered via Google maps, these giant Soviet signs have been cut into forests with propaganda such as "100 Years to Lenin", "Glory of Communist Party", or "USSR 50 Years". Whether they were meant for extraterrestrial life, propaganda, advertisement, or land art is unknown. What is known is that some of these date back to 1967. (via Strange Harvest)

Face Plant Galore

Darn it. I forgot about the annual Cooper's Hill Cheese Roll. Missed my opportunity for some serious face planting for Gloucester cheese. Apparently this tradition dates back some 200 years. Why do people do it? Who knows. But rest assured, those crazy Brits keep running at that rolling cheese's beck and call. Here's some great photos from Boston.com's "The Big Picture." 

The Piano Speaks!

A player piano for the new millennium. This piano speaks!! Austrian composer Peter Ablinger digitized a recording of a child speaking and then programmed a mechanical piano to replicate the sounds. The culmination of all the complex timbres sounding the voice of a child is both amazing and spooky. (via Neatorama)

Imagine

Fantastically designed mini site for HBO wich employs quite elegantly Flash's 3D properties. An engaging and simple little tool allows the user to explore a story line from various angles and figure out the plot organically.

Regretsy

The folks over at Regretsy cull through the vast array of crafty gems at Etsy and bring you only the most repulsive or politically insensitive items to be found. Hurry before the Baby Rat in Altoid Tin goes!

Xtra Normal

"If you can type, you can make movies." This is what Xtra Normal claims, a site where you can create drag-and-drop animations based on scripts you type directly into the web or desktop app. Caution: Severe time sponge!

Long Live Analog

Some awesome 'analog' illustrations by Chad Kouri from Chicago. His illustrations for the O&M Sharpie pitch are fantastic.

The Quiet Revolution

Claire Scully is The Quiet Revolution. Working out of London, Claire keeps busy illustrating for a wide array of clients and collaborating with furniture maker D.H.Painter and fellow illustrator Susie Wright. Really nice stuff.

Kup Kup Land

I just framed some wonderful art for my home by Kup Kup Land, the moniker of Kima Casas Bo. Based out of Athens, Greece, Kima creates charming felt objects, illustrations, softies, brooches, and even miniature pastries (my favorite). Her luscious color palette is especially sweet. One-of-a-kind pieces are available from her etsy shop.

O-No Sushi

A great vinyl toy set created from Andrew Bell's "Never Look Back" print. I want one.

Foreshortened Space

Ron van der Ende creates wall mounted bas-reliefs constructed from found wood. The original color and texture of the wood is used to form a sometimes photorealistic mosaic. The realism is further enhanced by the perspective built into the relief.

Kyle Pellet

Some fantastic illustrations by San Jose's own Kyle Pellet. 

Star Wars Uncut

Choose one of 472, 15 second scenes from the original Star Wars movie and "redo" it however you want. A lot of fun - a lot of time! The trailer is great.

A Glorious Dawn

A brilliant mashup by John Boswell, aka colorpulse, using auto-tuned Carl Sagan with a dash of Hawking.

2501

Some great new work by street artists 2501.

James Dawe Collages

James Dawe is an illustrator and image maker who grew up and still operates out of East London. He specializes in photo collage, working both digitally and analog with a tendency toward portraits.