Folk artist Martin Sanchez transformed almost an entire city block in Riverside, California into an art installation/house/chapel built from, and filled with, found materials, curiosities, and oddities. Seen here is… Read the rest of the article: Martin Sanchez's found-object house

The Australian gents behind Of The World TV, creators of the 3D logo animation seen in Boing Boing TV, have launched a new beta service to showcase videos that have… Read the rest of the article: Of The World TV

Last week, skate/design boutique Supreme issued a series of skateboard decks designed by Japanese superflat art pioneer Takashi Murakami and his otaku-inspired assistant Mr. Murakami's designs are seen here at… Read the rest of the article: Murakami & Mr. skateboard decks

Our friends at Telstar Logistics took a special tour deep in the bowels of an immense Airbus A380 Superjumbo airliner, the largest passenger plane in the world. This bird has… Read the rest of the article: Inside an Airbus A380 superjumbo plane

In 1945, pioneering designers Charles and Ray Eames created a playful molded plywood elephant. The legendary elephants never went into production but now, in honor of Charles Eames's 100th birthday,… Read the rest of the article: Eames Elephant film

COOP scanned an entire Matchbox Collector's Catalog from 1969. It's filled with terrific illustrations of the diecast toy cars. These people sure were having a grand old time playing with… Read the rest of the article: Matchbox car catalog from 1969

Surrealist clothiers and thinktank The Imaginary Foundation have released their latest series of wonderful t-shirts. Seen here is Parallel Universe, which reads "Possible parallel universe one millimeter from here." Also… Read the rest of the article: Imaginary Foundation

Canned Peaches In Syrup is a new post-apocalyptic comedy play about the survivors of a global environmental catastrophe who have divided into two, er, polarized groups: cannibals and vegetarians. This… Read the rest of the article: Post-apocalyptic comedy play opening in Los Angeles

Originally an April Fools' Day gag, ThinkGeek is now selling their nerdcool 8-Bit Tie. It's a clip-on, 'natch. Link

This extraterrestrial spacecraft Benthocodon jellyfish was spotted near undersea mountains. The photo is in a new book titled The Deep that features more than 200 photos of the insanely strange… Read the rest of the article: The Deep: The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

Biologists from Delhi University discovered this darling frog that when fully grown is just 0.3937 inches or 10 mm. From Loren Coleman's post at Cryptomundo: Delhi University Systematics Biologist S.… Read the rest of the article: Tiny new frog discovered

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik, IEEE Spectrum interviewed science fiction author and futurist Arthur C. Clarke. In the October 1945 issue of Wireless World,… Read the rest of the article: Arthur C. Clarke on Sputnik

Artist Mike Leavitt hand-makes custom action figures in limited editions of no more than ten. Each one is hand-sculpted from synthetic polymer clay, wood, and elastic. Leavitt's Art Army is… Read the rest of the article: Mike Leavitt's pop surrealist artist action figures

I saw Ryan McLellan's magnificent work for the first time in the current issue of Juxtapoz. I think his acrylic on paper paintings of wildlife are absolutely lovely. He'll next… Read the rest of the article: Ryan McLennan's wildlife paintings

Not only do molecules in birds's eyes enable them to sense the Earth's magnetic field, but the nerve fibers lead to a region of the brain responsible for processing visual… Read the rest of the article: Birds "see" magnetic field

BB pal Chad Phillips of Kidrobot is in Toronto finishing up the Kidrobot room in Peter "Studio 54" "Tunnel, Palladium, Limelight" Gatien's new mega nightclub CiRCA, opening this weekend. Chad… Read the rest of the article: Sneak peek at Toronto club's Kidrobot room

Avant-garde architecture and design group Minimaforms created a system to project SMS messages on plumes of smoke. Installed in two Bristol locations last month for the OFFLOAD festival in Bristol,… Read the rest of the article: SMS smoke signals

The journal Science and the National Science Foundation have announced the winners of their fifth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. Seen here is one of the tied first place… Read the rest of the article: Winners of 2007 Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge

Just before John Waters gave a recent talk at Duke University, the Independent Weekly ran an article featuring the filmmaker's hysterical and brilliant take on such topics as gay culture… Read the rest of the article: John Waters interviewed in Independent Weekly

MIT quantum computing researcher Scott Aaronson reports that the actors' lines in an Australian TV commercial for Ricoh Printers were lifted right from one of his physics lectures available online.… Read the rest of the article: Physics lecture cribbed for TV commercial