A few days ago I happened upon a rather unique art project called Last New Year in the Austin American Statesman , showing photos of a dilapidated home recently transformed with a number of installations by a small arts collective called Ink Tank . The premise for the project was fascinating: the ensemble imagined a fictional group of people living in the home who would react to the prophesied end-of-times 2012 date. One of my favorite pieces from the show is a giant installation called The Purge by artist Chris Whiteburch who decided to imagine how the house itself would confront the impending doom

Last week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory satellite captured this stunning video of magnetically captured plasma moving like a tornado across the sun’s surface.

Whatever font you prefer, one thing can be agreed on cats making silly faces or wearing clothing is freakin’ adorable.

Extreme junkie Devin Graham went to Moab, Utah with some friends, set up a rope swing over a cliff. It’s quickly going viral, already nearing 1 million views in just two days.

A Swiss man has installed a wood-burning stove in his 1990 Volvo 240 station wagon.

On January 19th, Apple made a huge announcement: The introduction of iBooks 2, which would include high school textbooks, and iBooks Author, which would allow anyone to create them. Many think that Apple’s foray into education could revolutionize it.

Created by Yale-graduates Caspar Lam and YuJune Park of Synoptic Office , Alphabet Topography is a physical examination of letterforms as it relates to usage frequency. Vowels and consonants like “R” and “T” were given more vertical prominence while lesser-used letters like “W” and “G” hardly make a blip. Of the creation process YuJune tells me: I modelled the letters individually in Rhino and exported sections of each letter to AutoCad and based this alphabet on word frequency as defined by the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, which interestingly enough, is almost identical to word frequency as defined by old linotype machines

Coup de coeur pour la série de photographies de Remi Chapeaublanc . Intitulée “Gods and beats”, ce français a vécu un périple de 4 mois en Mongolie. S’y rendant en moto, il a pu ramener du matériel et constituer cette magnifique série dont 18 visuels sont dévoilés en exclusivité.

Voici Wally Ace Yacht , un bateau luxueux de la marque internationale Wally.

This is almost too good for words. A wonderfully clever video directed by Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films , in which hovering roller coasters fly through the streets of Buenos Aires, completely untethered to tracks. I can’t help but wonder if the video somehow had its genesis in the green screen High Wheel video from last year