chat roulette : the last exorcism
oh chat roulette, i'd forgotten about you. but this is quite a cool use of it.

a music video controlled by the weather
the latest interactive project from sony music's phil clandillon and steve milbourne is an interactive music video that reacts live to the weather for young singer/songwriter lissie's single cuckoo. it runs on her site and is 'controlled' by live weather data. the singer and her band were shot against five different types of weather to create this.

the tale of the invisible monkey (told my taiwanese animation)
the original, by w&k, portland.

and thanks to peta...

an explanation...

puma salutes the ' after hours athlete'

indian pole gymnastics
this is insane! loving the indian music choice, go johnny, go!

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graffiti on the streets of new york

brazilian artists otavio and gustavo pandolfo (also known as 'os gemeos') and graffiti legend futura have just completed an 80-feet-high mural on the wall of a new york school. the project was driven by new york-based creative studio akanyc and street art website 12oz prophet with support from nike (tying in with its world basketball festival) and paint company mtn colors.

arno piroud

piroud's art is most at home on city streets, unashamedly amusing passersby... from his ephemeral seats that recondition the trunks of chopped-down trees (some of which have lasted up to two years before being removed), to the heart-shaped filters he applies to traffic lights, piroud is not afraid of creating amusing art. a favourite piece is the tennis court he painted onto a neighbouring roof (above). he is, he says, attempting to "put fiction in reality" in his pursuit of making "contemporary art about the city". more of his work is at starnocity.com.

water-bottle jet pack fail
i love the japanese. ouch.

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between bears, by erin hilleli

Between Bears from Eran Hilleli on Vimeo.

troika v&a palindrome

beautiful posters from telegramme

new wave editorial 'machinist'
shot by kate friend.

how to hail a london cab using twitter (article from the guardian online)
next time you're in london and need a cab, you might like to try tweeting @tweetalondoncab for one. richard cudlip, karl james and a small circle of tech-inclined cabbies have spent the last year building up a black cab service on twitter, and while cudlip says they don't handle more jobs than in their street-hailing days, it's the data the service generates that is the really interesting part.

there's now 100 cabbies using tweetalondoncab and nearly 7,000 followers, which means they are nearing a critical mass where the service starts getting really useful with enough cabs to match the number of punters. the drivers are self employed and tweetalondoncab is a voluntary, cooperative project, but the founders want to build it into a business and are looking for funding. they've already met channel 4's 4ip.

so what's the real advantage? the account acts as an aggregator for requests, and cabbies can also flag up their location. interestingly, isn't too far away from the courier update service idea started twitter in the first place.

"we're getting more and more bookings, and the quality of bookings is better, with longer trips," said cudlip, who says a few minor celebrities use the service because they find a direct message more discreet than flagging down cabs on the street. all the drivers are full licenced black cab drivers with 'the knowledge' - and they now have a tweetalondoncab sticker in the window.

the surprise has been the real-time data, and the value of aggregating and sharing information about demand or surplus around the city - a tube line down for an hour, or too much of a queue at st pancras. "we didn't even think of that when we started,"said cudlip. "in two years, i'd like us to rival the black cab circuits like comcab and radiotaxis. We want more information to come in so we can share it with more people, and that information might be useful to other people in the same way tfl's data is shared."

the data challenge is quite a temptation for developers - three have already approached the team and suggested a mobile app - but there's a problem compiling data between a few hundred sole traders that has put developers off so far. twitter has been the best solution to date, although a couple of developers are experimenting with foursquare - setting themselves up as a virtual taxi rank and checking in when they are on duty.

that's pretty smart, but with clued-up, gps smartphone-enabled cabbies spread across the city, surely that's just the start. It's a classic business ripe for disruption. is anyone up for helping with the challenge?

city parkor
wow.

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dalton ghetti
incredible artwork from dalton ghetti. unfortunately he doesn't seem to have a website working yet, but the craftsmanship and patience it must have taken to create each of these is amazing.

mail me art exhibition
mail me art at south london's red gate gallery, curator darren di lieto asked for illustrators and artists to post envelopes adorned with artwork to the same address - over a period of a year...

queen bee waxing
this made me smile this morning.

pilot : extra fine

the pen story
another beautiful stop motion.

on your bike london
i was back in london at weekend and saw the new 'velibs' dotted around town. i can't tell you how excited i am about using these. i love them in paris. it is the only way i get around (well in the summer - if only they invited brollies for them for the winter months). i will definitely be signing up my johnson! well done.shame about the branding, but i guess someone had to pay for it?!

anchor butter : made by cows
chi commissioned illustrator paul Slater and hand lettering artist alison carmichael to work with designers dan beckett and suzie hydon to create the ads - which all hark back to a time when advertising slogans were painted direct onto the walls of buildings in towns and cities. the idea is that this old style helps reinforce the fact that the anchor has been producing butter since 1886 - which was the golden age of hand painted wall mural advertising.

die hard battery vs gary numan

old spice : advice to the president
please me obama do this. monocle smile!