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FebruaryFeb 12 Thursday 09

The floating island project

When a mysterious force rips chunks of land from the earth and sets them adrift, what are the miniature people who live there to do?

The builders keep building, the painters keep painting, and the rest concern themselves with other situations - possibly involving …

Concept art for Lost, the game

Speaking of islands, we stumbled across this concept art from Montreal's Herve Grossin for the Lost video game.

Beach-scapes, jungle-scapes, the no-longer-seaworthy Black Rock, and four different kinds of machetes.

When you're hiking in polar bear country, it's good …

FebruaryFeb 11 Wednesday 09

Paper on a pedestal

If you like papercraft, there's plenty to goggle at in a stellar portfolio of paper illustration, added today by Veer Ideas member People Too.

But wait - there's more! The four featured portfolios this month include skate decks by Fazrul Reza, identities by Tomas …

FebruaryFeb 7 Saturday 09

Story from North America

"What if he did? What if he didn't? What if the world is made of pudding?"

There's a lot going on in Story from North America. Giant spiders, pudding references, the devil, and half naked men crouching with knives.

Garrett Davis and Kristin Lepore's musical vignette

FebruaryFeb 5 Thursday 09

Lindsey Baker, photo taker

Where will we send you, for The Skinny's 2000th post?

The answer lies within. The walls, that is. Flickr's drinkableyes is Veer's own Lindsey Baker. Photo retoucher by day, Lindsey's off-hours have her behind the camera, indulging a penchant for capturing friends, …

FebruaryFeb 4 Wednesday 09

There can be only wonderful

Illustrator Mitch Ansara has taken an unlikely selection of over 20 movies - like Pretty in Pink, Highlander, Ernest Goes to Camp, and Face/Off - and rendered them as reader-worn 60s-era paperbacks.

That's a full shelf of awesome. Not that we'd commit to reading …

JanuaryJan 29 Thursday 09

The exquisite corpse

Artists Jimmy Roberts and Brian Christopher have found inspiration by getting back to back-room basics, with their collaborative project Exquisite Corpse.

"The technique was invented by Surrealists in 1925 and is based on an old parlour game in which players write in …

JanuaryJan 23 Friday 09

The best of the year, Netdiver style

The 7th edition of Netdiver's Best of the Year has been announced -- now with 10% more interweb wonderfulness. Since this year's compilation features 110 delicious, visual sites to peruse, where does one start? Anywhere you like, my friend. It's pretty much guaranteed …

Fifty Londoners, one question

How about a lovely video to close out the week?

The folks from Fifty People, One Question are back, asking a new question on the streets of London: ''Where do you want to wake up?"

Like the earlier installments, the answers, expressions, and hesitations from passersby …

JanuaryJan 20 Tuesday 09

Wooden you like a wooden Vespa?

Fashioned out of laminated hardwood by Portuguese craftsman Carlos Alberto, this scooter is based on a vintage Vespa that had fallen into complete disrepair. A new body was constructed out of steam bent veneers and carved wood. Even the seat is wood. Beware of …

Holga takes on Crawford

Reuters photographer Jim Young writes about experimenting with a modified Holga in a town soon to be considerably less famous.

The Book Cover Archive

The entirely self-explantory Book Cover Archive launched this week, thanks to collaborators Ben Pieratt and Eric Jacobsen.

Search for books by title, author, designer, art director, photographer, illustrator, genre, publication date, or publisher to find the tome …

JanuaryJan 16 Friday 09

Is this your future?

At a glance, Dunne & Raby's bear-shaped blood bag seems destined for a children's hospital, but the art project it belongs to tells a different story.

Is This Your Future? zigzags along and blurs the line between a utopian and dystopian future. One where your children …

Scott Listfield, astronauts and dinosaurs

While we're on the topic of the future, check out Scott Listfield's site Astronaut Dinosaur. His astronaut paintings feature an anomalous spaceman in earthbound, pop culture-heavy situations. When he's not painting, it seems he spends his time tracking a dinosaur. …

JanuaryJan 15 Thursday 09

Olly Moss' simplified cinema

On the heels of last year's exhibit of re-imagined movie posters, UK designer Olly Moss is getting in on the action with his own series of reinventions.

Moss chose imagery that might befuddle the uninitiated, but evokes strong scenes and plot points for those familiar …

JanuaryJan 13 Tuesday 09

The king of household design

Okay, he's not really the king of household design. But writer Rosser Clark purports to be in the latest curiosity to grace McSweeney's Internet Tendency.

"Yes, I dominate design. I conquer it. I capture it with my lasso and keep it in a corral of my own elaborate and …

JanuaryJan 10 Saturday 09

Faking Antarctica

How do you stage Antarctica in the springtime? Canadian photographers Roth & Ramberg share the secret behind what may be the coldest looking photo ever taken.

via the birdhouse

JanuaryJan 5 Monday 09

Lightboxing's newest champ

Adelle Charles swept December's Lightboxing round against Donna Holesworth in a community voting landslide that would make any mountain town nervous.

Many thanks to both boxers for a spirited bout, and congratulations to Adelle! She'll receive a $250 gift certificate …

Unusual Suspects contest winner

Meanwhile, over at the Unusual Suspects celebrity face building challenge, there were some amazing entries. Tom Waits, Albert Einstein, and Alfred E. Neuman, to name a stellar few.

In the end, it was the prolific Nick Seabrook (aka Yaki Niku) who - amongst his 38 other …

DecemberDec 25 Thursday 08

Toboggan or not toboggan

Innovations in sled design have been pretty quiet since Clark Griswold supercharged his saucer with that new kitchen lubricant his company was working on. But coast-to-coast snow has changed that, just in time for the holiday sledding season.

You can punch it like Han …

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