Diederick Kraaijeveld - Old wood

There's no paint here. Each line and colored area are created with separate pieces of found wood.

Description from artists site:

Used Wood, passion materialized in vintage reclaimed wood...
Diederick Kraaijeveld (Oudhout/Oldwood, The Netherlands, 1963) builds classic and modern icons in vintage reclaimed wood; an Airstream trailer, a Porsche 911 or a pair of Chuck Taylors (All Star sneakers)...With sometimes century-old painted planks, salvaged during intensive trips along dumpsters, old Amsterdam canal mansions, run down farms and faraway coasts, Kraaijeveld "paints" photo-realistic images... His palette is not filled with paint in all its different colors: a huge warehouse full of old wooden planks forms the base of each work of art.

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Artist: Erik Natzke

Game Is Over from Erik Natzke on Vimeo.

Adobe Motion Graphics Research Project

Interactive Video Object Manipulation from Dan Goldman on Vimeo.

Canadian Meteor caught on Police Dash cam

ILoveSketch

ILoveSketch from Seok-Hyung Bae on Vimeo.

This looks like something you would see some kid playing with in a future-set scifi movie. An electronic 3d sketchbook.

Virtual, mechanical, little, big calculator

This virtual, mechanical calculator was created with the level editor of the upcoming PS3 game Little Big Planet. Be sure to keep watching til the end to see how mind-bogglingly incredible this really is.

Robots and Monsters for Charity

Robots and Monsters is a website founded by illustrator Joe Alterio
to raise funds for a quartely changing charitable cause. The way it works is simple: You supply $50 and three words - any 3 words, and in return you get a 6"x6" original signed piece of art that more or less interprets your three words. In the form of a robot and/or monster that is. The example below was imagined from the words - cowboy, eyeballs, jaunty. Works for me.
The current cause is the Electronic Frontier Foundation
a group dedicated to to defending citizens rights in the ever evolving digital age.Link

Franc Grom

"Music is Math" - Glenn Marshall

Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.

More Processing goodness

Antec Skeleton

From the website...

Think

Beyond The Box

The Antec Skeleton is a truly revolutionary enclosure. With a unique design that allows for unprecedented airflow, a front 92mm fan, and a top three speed 250mm fan with multicolor LED customization, the Skeleton goes utterly unmatched in stylish cooling. Factor in the layered component trays for top-notch convenience, as well as the rackmount quality side rails, and you have a case truly without equal

No price yet, coming soon!

RED Camera Makers working on a DSLR!!??!!

This was posted on the Red user forums by the company's founder Jim Jannard-

The primary advantage to RED is REDCODE. Compressed RAW at over 23.976 fps. This is a core invention of RED that's full effects have not been seen yet. The secondary advantage of RED is our sensor program. Some could argue that this is number one. Mysterium "Monstro" is a sensor program that pushes the envelope past anything on the horizon. It will go into Epic, and another camera aimed squarely at the DSLR market. Epic ships with Mysterium-X and has a free upgrade to Monstro. Scarlet has been talked about extensively. It is a 3K, 120fps camera with a built-in 8X zoom that starts at 28mm (full frame still 35mm) wide angle. The T-stop will be "at least" as published. We have a couple of other "tricks up our sleeves". The important message is that we are just getting started. Jim

Which is very interesting coming right on the heels of Nikons release of the D90 which can shoot 720p HD video.

Oribe Tea House

Oribe Tea House, Tajimi, Gifu, 2005. Photographer: Daici Ano.

Imagining the Tenth Dimension

This is a short video describing the main concept behind Rob Bryanton's book "Imagining the Tenth Dimension". There is some truly mind-twisting ideas here presented in a surprisingly understandable fashion.
There's more info, blogs, songs, videos and a forum here.

PAC TXT

Pac-Man redone as a text adventure. Yes, really. Link

Styrobots

Michael Salter creates these robot sculptures out of Styrofoam packing material. They've been shown in galleries around the world. I wonder how he packs them for shipping :) Link

Image Fulgurator

Ha! This is a very cool idea.
It's basically just a film projector that can shine words or pictures on walls or whatever. But the cool part is that it's powered by a camera flash. The type, like many, that can be set to go off when they sense another flash going off.
So what you do is point this at something that people will be taking flash pictures of and when they take the picture the image fulgurator projects something for justa few milliseconds. The person taking the picture never sees it because it happens so fast, but their camera captures it. Brilliant! See a longer explanation and a video of it in action at checkpoint charlie here

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fragment.series by tim borgmann

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MODOFLY

Modofly collaborates with artists to create beautiful, unique moleskin sketchbooks and journals.

Motu- an ambiguous animation painted on public walls

MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo.

Photographer Mark Tucker

Little Big Planet

Chris Scarborough

Festo Airjelly

"Boots" featured on JPG Magazine Blog

"Boots"

ZombieURL

URL shortener with a twist

Greg Simkins

Jessica Joslin:Strange Nature

Yes there's more! Go see them. Link

Photorealistic Papercraft

Bert Simons creates realistic paper sculptures using the texture mapping methods of 3D computer programs. But then taking those texturemaps into the real world by printing them on carboard and paper. Link

Hadar Metal Design

Josh Hadar creates conceptual bicycle designs, developing techniques as he goes to achieve the design he envisions. No computer guided tools or hydraulic benders are used, making each truly unique. Link

Incredible live stage design

Etienne De Crecy Live 2007 Transmusicales de Rennes from Clement bournat on Vimeo.

para-sites

Edit individual notes in a polyphonic recording

Celemony, maker of Melodyne, software for pitch-shifting and time-stretching music have made a new breakthrough with their product. Polyphonic recordings, a guitar chord for instance, can now have each individual note within that chord be editable.
Major chords can become minor etc, not just shifted up or down in pitch. A whole song could potentially be created from one chord sample. Watch the video that shows this amazing technology in action.

Key facts

	Access individual notes in chords and polyphonic audio: see them, grab them, edit them
	Audio, not MIDI! while editing single chord notes is common for MIDI, it is a world premiere for audio recordings. Patent pending.
	Examples of use: tune a guitar after recording, correct harmony vocals that are out of tune, or fix their timing, turn major chords to minor (and vice versa), switch tone scales, mute single notes, remix volume levels, etc. – all after the performance is already taped!
	All Melodyne tools available: pitch shifting, time stretching, formants, amplitude – you name it ...

Flamed Fish

Fish airbrushed like hotrods....this is strangely appealing to me. Link

Bat Cave wedding photos

One of the coolest most original wedding shoots I have seen. Check out the site for many more great shots and a "making of" video. Link

The Surreal Underwater Photography of Zena Holloway

Cooling computer chips with heat

MSI is working on on a cooling fan for computer chips that would run off the heat generated by that chip. The concept, already in the working prototype stage, uses a Stirling Engine to power a fan instead of using an additional power tap. It's part of their green initiative. Cool :)

1000 Demons

This project is based on an ancient drawing exercise in which an artist attempts to illustrate 100 demons. Here, the idea has been merged into a blog and expanded to create a bestiary blog of 1000 things I find irksome, vexing, infuriating and wrong. It is more than just an exercise in drawing 1000 demons; it is a beautiful excuse to rant.Link

Singing Ringing Tree

One of four futuristic sculpures in East Lancashire, England. Imagine being in the vicinity of this on a dark windy night. Via

Interview with Antony Hall

We-make-money-not-art has an interview with Antony Hall. Among Antony's interests are making music by lathing wood, making people happy by connecting their brains to fish and searching for the illusive moss bears among many others. How do you end up with a life like that?

How to clean your DSLR gear

Lighting Mods has one of the most thorough guides to cleaning DSLRs I've seen. I've yet to clean my sensor despite having my camera almost 2 years now. Maybe if I shot more landscapes I'd notice the spots more but they rarely are ever noticeable.
If you do plan on trying be sure to have a very good guide such as this on hand as you can really trash your camera if you do it wrong.

Bonsai Tree Table by Anke Weiss

This table was created from 150 bonsai trees that took 7 years to grow.
One of the more interesting aspects of this design is how it was received on the site where it was featured. Most of the comments condemned the artist for killing to make art. Umm...I wonder what the furniture in these peoples houses are made out of.
Maybe its that this table looks so much more alive? Link

Craig Ward

A1 paper cut illustration. Took 11 hours to complete.

Wildlife Photos by Nick Brandt

It's not often you see this type of postprocessing of wildlife photos, and so well done. That along with perfect compositions and timing give alot of these photos a very illustrative feel.

Gorgeous Motion Graphics by Robert Hodgin

Solar, with lyrics. from flight404 on Vimeo.

Seems to have been created with a programming language called "Processing". I wonder how difficult it is to learn.

Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production. It is created to teach fundamentals of computer programming within a visual context and to serve as a software sketchbook and professional production tool. Processing is developed by artists and designers as an alternative to proprietary software tools in the same domain.

Raveonettes Black/White Sound of Color music video

62 free music loops or 4,915 for only $50

AcidFanatic is running a special on their loops library. These are the type of loops used in such programs as Sony's Acid, Garageband and many others. 12 libraries normally selling for 9.99 each, for only $50. Thats almost 5000 loops. The libraries included are:

Ambient Sphere V1, Ambient Sphere V2, Big Ass Beats, Dream of Shadows, Electro-Chemical Grooves, Kaos Guitar V1, No Right Turn, Subconscious Programming, Techno Collection V1, Techno Collection V2, Twisted Beats and Urban Assault Beats.

They are also offering a sample pack of this collection comprimising 62 loops for free. They sound pretty decent if your looking to make electronica type music.

Adobe Lightroom Wiki

Unphotographable

Apparently, since 2004 Michael David Murphy has been posting the photos he didn't take. Michael describes his site like this:

Unphotographable is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren't meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I'd taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.

In the place of these mistakes he writes a short description, often vivid and moving in their own right.

Beautiful, hand-made, cheap band posters

Wow, hand-screened limited edition rock band posters from Hero Design Studio The one pictured here is :

16" x 20" Three color silkscreen printed on 100# cover, French Dur-O-Tone Paper in Steel Gray. Grey color is a super sparkly awesome silver. Signed and numbered edition of 100.

$30

There's many more beautiful designs as well.

Bunny-the book of random

Strangely entertaining comic blog