Olivo Barbieri.

Seitz, has created a high resolution high-speed panorami digital camera, for which size is everything. The Seitz 6x17, scanner captures and assembles fragments of the whole, it takes roughly one second to scan an entire image at full resolution. The images aare 7,500 pixesl vert. by 21,250 pixels horizontal. The camera creates a 160 million-pixel image in 6x6, 6x15, 6x17. It only cost 29,270 euros! Start saving now.

Lounge chair designed by Viteo, Ash with dark brown glaze. Very cool, beautiful lines. It would look great on your fire escape.

In conjunction with Kid Robot, Frank Kozik has created the Smorkin' Labbit Giant Stool. Measuring 30 inches long and 17 inches wides the labbit's seating area is 15 inches off of the ground. buy it here

via, high snobiety

Phil Frost makes paintings and sculptures that usually are a result of collaging and layering of images, along with the formation of hand-made, often symmetrical black and white patterns. These patterns, which are created with painstaking detail and using correction fluid as a medium, offer an appearance that oscillates between modernist designs and primitivism, abstraction and representation.

Frost's intensive approach toward every object he works on, whether it is the surface of a white canvas or a found object in the streets of New York, invariably result in a dense layering of forms and tightly knitted designs that conform richly complex compositions that engage and change before the eyes of the viewer. Frost's patterns often appear as arcane codes and a language of its own, composed of symbols such as letters, hearts, dots and mask-like forms.

In 2005 Frost's work was shown along side that of Picasso, Dali, Magritte and Warhol in a New York show tracing the History of the written word in works of art during the last century.

Available now are three prints (16"x20") in an edition of 100 each for $375. Get them here

I have been sleeping on these, but here is a nice t-shirt from nexus vii, available at figure in japan

The first picture of Cate Blanchett as Bob Dylan in I’m Not There, Todd Haynes’ bizarro Dylan bio-pic that will premiere at Cannes in May.

A montage of Oh! from the Soprano's, almost like a retrospective of the show.

Body modification gone wrong. What more can I say.

Hansgrohe, has created twbe shower head. In their words, "Experience Shower Fun XXL in an entirely new way!

Architecturally integrated into the room design, with easy wall-mounted shower control. Enjoy water in its most natural forms: as a soft rain shower enriched with air, a massaging downpour or a clear and powerful waterfall." What actually is "most natural forms"?

"In a new initiative to generate more exposure for the artists in Your Gallery and Stuart, and to spotlight their work to as wide an audience as possible, we have created SHOWDOWN." -Saatchi Gallery

SHOWDOWN is for all registered Your Gallery and Stuart artists to enter their works for visitors to score. The winner of the final head-to-head vote will receive £1000 and the runner up will receive £750. The winning work will go on display at the new Saatchi gallery.

Any visitor to the site can rate and vote for artworks in SHOWDOWN.

All visitors are free to vote on all artworks, scoring them from one to ten (one being the lowest score and ten the highest).

Although visitors can vote for as many artworks that have been entered as they like, to prevent multiple voting by one person for one work, only one vote per individual artwork will be accepted from each visitor.

The artworks are displayed randomly and constantly rotate. Each time an artwork is rated by clicking on a star to register a vote a new random artwork is displayed. To see more images please click on the ‘Click here to see more images’ displayed on the SHOWDOWN homepage.

So get going find the next Banksy!

One of the dopest pieces I have seen in ages. If it was done illegally, all the better. See it all here. via wooster collective

banksy in action (allegedly). ganked from here

Well there is a new, gorgeous print by David Choe out in the world. I am going to be a douche and not tell you where, so it will be like a treasure hunt. Here is what the man had to say...
me and my
Brother jimmy (printing for over 12 years), will create a print every or every other month (me the design and jimmy the printing) the prints will be extrememly limited, under a 100 maybe even under 50, they will be printed on the finest paper using the finest inks, stamped with the choe family crest symbol, I will also embellish and accentuate every print by drawing or painting on each one, so no two will be the same, I’m doing this now for all the people who can no longer afford my original paintings(sorry) or don’t want to wait on the wait list (sorry)and we hope you get these prints to enjoy in your home or office and not to re-sell on ebay, your getting this e-mail now because ,you and me are friends, share some kind of history, or you’ve expressed fanatical interest in my art.

This modular wood floor allows you to swap out pieces with different heights, so that you can make your own chair or table out of, uh, the floor. Created by Dutch designer Klaartje Daamen.

Ricky Gervais with Robni Ince at The Tribeca Performing Arts Center, Thursday May 17th and Friday May 18th. Tickets go on sale Friday April 27th at 12pm!

Premiering at the Tribeca Film Festival this friday, Bomb-it is a graffiti documentary for the 21st century. An art movement that spans the globe, graffiti is getting it's cred once again. I particularly enjoy this quote from Pablo Picasso,
"Graffiti belongs to everyone and no one. On a section of a condemned wall, I put up a graffito... a bank director stopped the construction work, had my carving cut out as a fresco and inlayed it in the wall of his apartment."
Sounds like Banksy to me

Our apology for missing wednesday's muse. CKU (calvin klein underware) promotion, features Russian Supermodel Natalia Vodianova.

Banksy's self portrait went to auction today and we predicted that it would trump its estimate of 30 to 40 thousand pounds. Well it did. We gave a high estimate of 180,000 pounds and even that was low. Banksy's self portrait sold for 198,000 pounds which is some serious english cheddar, this however was quickly beat by a piece "Space girl and Bird" (Think Blur) that went for 288,000 pounds to an anonymous US bidder. Read more here

The video below is an adaptation of friend of The World's Best Ever Richard Colman's artwork. His show the Human Replacement Project just opened last Saturday at Merry Karnowsky in Los Angeles. A near sell out, the show is a must see if you are in LA before the 19th of may when it closes. Above is one of my favorites, 'That Other Place'. Enjoy

Joseph O. Holmes

Releasing today at Shepard Fairey's internet portal will be this Global Grassroots Darfur poster. It looks gorgeous and 100% of the profits go to help the kids out. So give a little bit and get some back. I hope this doesn't make it to ebay.

Through a collaboration between Japanese label Revolver and Ed Banger Records Art Director So_Me comes this crewneck sweatshirt. Perfect for strolling a Jersey Shore boardwalk on a brisk night, it will be available through We Sold Out today

According to news reports, Spiderman 3 has already surpassed tickets sales of Spiderman2. I am not sure if I want to go to a movie with that many crazies!

another gem from pictures of walls

To accompany his amazing 'outcasts' exhibition at Lazarides, Mark Jenkins has released a limited edition book that can be bought through the gallery. Juxtapoz has photos of the exhibition here

Researchers at the University of Warwick's Warwick Manufacturing Group, in conjunction with PVAXX Research & Development Ltd, have created a way to recycle discarded mobile telephones - bury them and watch them transform into the flower of your choice.

Mobile telephones are one of the most quickly discarded items of consumer electronics. Rapid changes in technology and taste means customers constantly upgrade their phones leaving behind more and more discarded phones.

A special formulation of PVAXX Research and Development Ltd's biodegradable polymer range was developed in conjunction with materials researchers at Warwick, that produces a high quality finish but which also biodegrades easily in compost.

Secondly the engineers at the University of Warwick have created a small transparent window in the case or cover in which they can embed a seed. The seed is visible to the environmentally aware mobile phone user but will not germinate until the phone cover or case is recycled. The researchers have drawn on the specialised seed expertise of researchers in the University of Warwick's horticultural research arm - Warwick HRI - to identify which types of seeds would perform best in this situation. For the first prototype telephones they have used dwarf sunflower seeds.

For more information about PAVXX check out Warwick University

Scott Walker is often referred to as the most reclusive (living) man in rock music, and has inspired the likes of Radiohead, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Johnny Marr, Jarvis Cocker, Neil Hannon, Brett Anderson and countless others. A new film brings many of these musicians (and Mr. Walker himself) together for a 95 minute peek into his life and recording processes.

Scott Walker 30th Century Man makes it's North American debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on May 2, 3 and 5th. Tickets to the screenings can be ordered here.

So this morning I was looking for what "brush the dirt off your shoulders" really meant and I was directed to the rap dictionary. And I plug to you the rap dictionary for all of your rap/slang queries. Enjoy

Nice Chocolate design,When in New York, try Alice Chocolate at Bblessing (181 Orchard Street). "Perhaps you’ll be able to taste the glacial waters of the Alps or the herbs of the Amazon rainforest, as both are apparently used to make the chocolate near Bern, Switzerland. Or maybe you, the shallow consumerist that you are, only notice the beautiful packaging". Via thecoolhunter.

the stuff you huff t-shirt by crownfarmer makes me think of the old days where I would be making stickers with my pilot and sucking in the fumes gloriously. On sale and available at umbrella market

GQ.Uk, 2002-2003, Mario Testino

Fusionware™ dishes brings a little extra to the table. Fusionware is a simple set of everyday dishes that brings a little extra to the table: a subtle ridge in the plates and bowls to keep the peas out of the gravy, an oversized mug with room for extra cream. Down home cooking... experimental cuisine – Fusionware will stand up to your craziest compulsions. Available at Vessel.

The 27 club, famous people who died during the 27th year of their life. I still got four months (fingers crossed). via yesbutnobutyes

Freewilliamsburg spotted a whale in the Gowanus Canal. "Given how polluted those waters are, it will soon be spawning some creature that will battle King King on the streets of Manhattan." Via AP

Coe & Waito, have created some products check out these small narrow cylinders made out of porcelain with clear glaze and enamel decals.