monkey's have accents

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,17413711-13762,00.html

What a strange idea. Via Fark.

visualize your dreams

http://www.solaas.com.ar/dreamlines

Enter a word from your dream and see it visualized.

Templates for Sale for Websites

http://allwebcodesign.com/

society burning

http://watch.windsofchange.net/paris_burning.htm#view

"
Picture shows a warehouse bruning in the early hours of 04 November 2005 in Aulnay-sous-Bois on the seventh consecutive night of violence on the ouskirts of the French capital. More than 1,300 police were deployed to again do battle with groups of stone- and bottle-throwing youths that have torched hundreds of vehicles and vandalised buildings in rampages in low-income, high-immigrant districts since 27 October following a reportedly accidental electrocution of two teenagers who had hidden in an electrical sub-station to escape a police identity check in the suburb at the epicentre of the troubles, Clichy-sous-Bois.

"

(Photo credit JACK GUEZ/AFP/Getty Images)

13 things that don't make sense

http://www.sixside.com/13_things_that_do_not_make_sense.htm

Very interesting article/blog on odd ideas that are scientifically true, like the placebo effect. Very personable and fast read.

flight as light

http://www.aaronkoblin.com/work/faa/

Beautiful quicktime movies of flight patterns by Aaron Koblin. Via Kottke.

The blobular one is so strange and cellular.

the world from above

http://www.damnfunnypictures.com/html/Amazing-Aerial-Photography.html

polor ice melting, satellite proof

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2005/2005092820527.html

polor ice melting, satellite proof

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NasaNews/2005/2005092820527.html

waiting for the phone to ring

http://us.gizmodo.com/gadgets/gadgets/bluetooth-vibrator-brings-joy-to-techsavvy-ladies-133325.php
From Gizmodo:

Bluetooth Vibrator Brings Joy to Tech-Savvy Ladies
READ MORE: Bluetooth Vibrator, Gadgets, The Toy

See, as a woman, I knew there was a reason I learned about technology. Not so I can report on all the fabulous things going on in the industry, but because now I can enjoy things like a Bluetooth vibrator called The Toy that, incidentally, is linked to your cellphone and controlled by SMS messages. I mean, sure, we’ve seen techie love toys before— like the G5 Massager / Vibrator / Apple Lawsuit—but this one, well, it’s different. Basically, it’s “worn internally” (let’s leave that one alone, shall we?) and when an SMS is sent from the phone it’s linked up to, it turns into vibrations, depending on what has been written (each letter has a different effect). Again, I’m going to leave that to your imagination. Oh, and in case you’re worried that your Bluetooth Vibrator is going to show up on everyone’s list of bluetooth devices, don’t fret. It will only show up on the one phone it’s linked to. Of course, it can also be used manually (thank goodness) with a rechargeable battery.

The toy - Bluetooth vibr

quirky sculpture

http://www.shaynedark.com/index.htm

bush floundering around

http://www.planetdan.net/pics/misc/georgie.htm

fill in the bubbles

This is a pretty interesting project. The guy put blank talk bubbles on advertising and passersby added the text. Some is very funny.

http://www.thebubbleproject.com/

pink dot /green dot

http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html

very interesting how our eyes handle color.

http://www.patmedia.net/marklevinson/cool/cool_illusion.html

vast garbage

chris jordan photographs discarded objects in mass quantities.

http://www.chrisjordan.com/

orange puffs that move!

http://www.schuelke.org/nervous.html

oops, try it again.

http://cgi.ebay.com/DKNY-Mens-Leather-Pants-I-Unfortunately-Own_W0QQitemZ8335653541QQcategoryZ57989QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

funny writter on ebay

http://cgi.ebay.com/DKNY-Mens-Leather-Pants-I-Unfortunately-Own_W0QQitemZ8335653541QQcategoryZ57989QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

not eye food at all: it's resume advice

http://www.craigslist.org/about/best/sfo/101949754.html

But it's terrific advice.

agent double illustrations

This is from the illustrator Seb Jarnot's portfolio. But the rest are all good too.




http://www.agentdouble.com/home/home.php

Woven Glass

I can't imagine how this is possible.

http://mocoloco.com/archives/001552.php

above katrina

The site is in german so I have no idea who the photographer is. But the images don't feel scary like I expected just huge.

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/0,5538,PB64-SUQ9MTExODAmbnI9Mg_3_3,00.html

sound drawings

This is what the sounds of the song living la vida loca look like. Click on the image to see it larger. The lines are so lyrical. The link below is for all the songs that have been converted to drawings.



http://structuredsound.net/popsketchseries/images.html

using the earth

nice ecologically aware photography. this image is from the urban mines section inside the tires porfolio.

http://www.edwardburtynsky.com

Tomaselli

Ok. I have no idea who Tomaselli is. But I like this piece and the story is funny too.

http://www.artsjournal.com/man/



Tomaselli
Originally uploaded by julietred.

shimmer

Emerging artist show at new moca. Nice piece in the image and love the name of the show too.

http://www.newmuseum.org/now_upcoming.php

Germans with their weapons

http://www.frankrothe.de/photos/weapons/

pixels that shadow movement

http://www.setpixel.com/content/?ID=ghostlymirror

water sculptures

dna art

http://www.popgadget.net/2005/09/dna_art.php#trackbacks

information aesthetics

I love the name of this site, "information aesthetics."

http://infosthetics.com/archives/2005/09/gnom.html



I also like "visual poetry"

gnom
Originally uploaded by julietred.

catalog of fears

I like Jules Greenberg's projects. Simple concepts done nicely.

http://www.julesgreenberg.com/html/facing_fear.htm




fears
Originally uploaded by julietred.

night photography like strange days

This guys website is a bit slow to slog through but the photos have such a strange and beautiful quality it's worth it to take a look.

http://www.imagesofnight.com/



splash
Originally uploaded by julietred.

visualize a city of cell phone usage

http://senseable.mit.edu/projects/graz/graz.htm#rtgraz

Beautiful.

monstercrochet.com

try this url for the crochet vegtables: monstercrochet.com

crocheted vegtables

check out this site: http://www.monstercrochet.com/VLA.html

she's crocheting vegtables!

A self sustaining city!

http://www.inhabitat.com/entry_487.php#body

rubber band art

These are so lovely. The costumes though, are strange.

from popgadget

definitely buying it

http://www.colorcalm.com/

It's a dvd of relaxing videos. A little new age-y. But after the week I've had I could use some ohm time. I did the preview in green. Aparently there is a lot more to it. For more go to mocoloco

a film that feels scultptural

http://www.anthonymccall.com/pg2.html

so totally and completely true

Via DailyKos

SUBTLE SAFETY RING

It's brass knuckles for women. Cooool.

http://www.redstartdesign.com/SubtleSafety.html

making slick looking books for cheap

Nice paper, nice binding and a clean layout design. All for cheap:

http://www.qoop.com/

If you create a free flicker account and upload your photos you can have books or posters made very cheaply through qoop.

Flickr:

http://flickr.com

Flickr is very handy for putting images online. It's easy to use. And free.

having ideas

http://www.ideagenerationmethods.com/

A catalog of ways of generating ideas. Nice.

mia friedrich

http://www.miafriedrich.info/index.html

very photoshop. nice though. moody.

how long will you live?

Ok. This is another one that isn't for the eyes. But it is interesting.

http://gosset.wharton.upenn.edu/~foster/mortality/perl/CalcForm.html

Answer the questions and learn how long you will live. After you get your score you can analyze your problem areas to know exactly how much life you are loosing to them. Interesting.

recycled materials as art (for sale)

http://www.elsewares.com/commerce/index.php?cPath=4_163

collective nouns

This isn't imagery but it strikes me as being visual.

Posted by Pete Cleppe on the CSUSB bulletin board:

You know about a covey of quail & a herd of buffalo otherwise known as collective nouns. But what collective nouns do we use for a group of taxi cabs, computer mice, lawyers, etc. Here are some suggestions:

a whatever of teenagers
a spider of webmasters
an objection of lawyers
a brief of lawyers.
a circle of geometricians
a wildcard of hackers
a monica of sins
a clutch of mechanics
a stoppit of parents
a drove of taxi cabs
a wad of gum-chewers
a clique of computer mice
an imelda of shoes
a grab-bag of purse-snatchers
a ______ of nihilists
a giggle of girls
a somephony of music critics
an ear of colonels
a duke of URLs

stereo speakers like sculptures

http://mocoloco.com/archives/001380.php

A zoomed-in view of words related to flowers

http://loop.aiga.org/resources/loop/loop9/colorproject/index.html

Someone scripted a code to collect what color each word was given on the internet and averaged the results to give 33,000 words their own color.

It took a really long time to run, even with a broadband connection, a fast processor and lots of ram. But there is a image gallery of some results.

an alphabet of logic

A very interesting article. Of course anything that starts, "...a journey of wonder and obsession that would eventually lead to the invention of a radically new notation for logic," has got to be good.

http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/18/crystal.php

airport carpet like from above

http://www.gizmag.com/linktous/4219/

The carpet design comes from aerial photos of the area. So perfect for an airport.

friction and gravity

Tara Donovan
Untitled (styrofoam cups)
http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/001293.php

I really like the styrofoam cups, so light and voluptous. But I found a nice discussion of her work. See quote from Art Moco:

"Donovan has used materials as banal as plastic drinking straws, fishing wire, paper plates, tar paper, Styrofoam cups, wooden toothpicks, tempered glass and steel pins in her fascinating installations, quite often relying on friction and gravity to keep the piece together."

Linda, she has a light effervescent touch like you.

so so so so cool

http://www.elsewares.com/commerce/index.php

a site where you can buy artist created items. so each artist doesn't have to have a commerce site. a great idea and a good looking site.

walker art center website

http://www.walkerart.org/index.wac

nice clean design. personable. not a bunch of fancy flash, just one flash element at the top.

picasso for sale

http://www.costco.com/Browse/Productgroup.aspx?prodid=11048740&whse=BC&topnav=&cat=21527&hierPath=20162*21525*

I found this link on Tyler Green's art journal blog: http://www.artsjournal.com/man/

He's pretty funny about it.

Art at Costco

So... Next time you're at Costco, pick up a case of toilet paper and a Picasso. A 1958 drawing by Picasso can be yours for just $129,999.99.

My favorite things:

The Costco-ization of the price.

The text is hilarious: Picasso is "most renowned for pioneering the Blue and Pink Period." Really. So who exactly followed him into this Blue and Pink Period?

Important, historical and collectible, the art presented here is museum quality fine art created by the greatest masters of the past century." Really. Masters? What 'Masters' helped Picasso with this drawing.

On Picasso's daughter Maya: "She is the world's utmost authority." Really. So let's ask her where in Iraq the WMD were. And about cold fusion, too.

What makes me happy is that Costco is truly selling everything now. Cars, coffins and picasso. Good for them. They pay their workers well, treat them decently. The CEO only makes 10x the average employee's wage rather than 1000x like at walmart. And their stock prices are solid.

I am in the 98%

I can't figure this out. Can you?

http://www.coudal.com/thefish.php

I found this on the coudal site. Here's their text:

Whose Fish?
By Albert Einstein (maybe)

This brainteaser, reportedly written by Einstein is difficult and Einstein said that 98% of the people in the world could not figure it out. Which percentage are you in?

There are five houses in a row in different colors. In each house lives a person with a different nationality. The five owners drink a different drink, smoke a different brand of cigar and keep a different pet, one of which is a Walleye Pike.

The question is-- who owns the fish?

Hints:
1. The Brit lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green house owner drinks coffee.
6. The person who smokes Pall Malls keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhills.
8. The man living in the house right in the center drinks milk.
9. The man who smokes Blends lives next to the one who keeps cats.
10. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
11. The man who keeps horses lives next to the one who smokes Dunhills.
12. The owner who smokes Bluemasters drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Princes.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blends has a neighbor who drinks water.

There are no tricks, pure logic will get you the correct answer. And yes, there is enough information to arrive at the one and only correct answer.
If you get the correct answer, congratulations, you are one of the exclusive group of 121,348,731 people in the world who can.

zoom

This zooming swoop through space made my jaw drop. I just loved it. Don't read anything about it just watch.

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/scienceopticsu/powersof10/

natalie jeremijenko

"a straw story"

this flexible plastic honecomb was born in an independant reserch project with Jeremijenko at the yale school of architecture.

for you linda

I thought you'd like the piece and also the title.

Janice Caswell

"Big sky open road" (detail)

http://www.artnet.com/artwork/424105104/janice-caswell--big-sky-open-road-detail.html

via artnet

we are family

Patricia Piccinini

Some nice installation pieces. One I especially liked on breathing.

http://www.patriciapiccinini.net

via conscientious

photo's with text removed

An interesting idea. Photo with text removed on left, the text which has been removed on the right. It's called "The Untitled Project."

http://www.siberart.com/untitled%20pages/untitled22.html

link from typographica

interesting interactivity in website

Very graphic. Follow the projects link. Then, I'm not sure if I like the way you close each portfolio item. I don't think it's quite intuitive. It stays gray with the word "close" covering it until you move the cursor off the image. What do you think?

http://www.basitkhan.com/