Pei-San Ng makes incredbile art from matchsticks.

(via Chairman Ting)

Anyone who has been keeping up with the changes at Facebook will no doubt have heard about the influence and input of Nicholas Felton (aka Feltron). Apparently while he wasn’t busy helping out with completely re-imagining the Facebook profile he has been helping one of his relatives, an Australian winemaker, with some unique, beautiful, and fascinating labels. The labels are data driven, displaying data about the process behind making that particular vintage. Things like heat of fermentation, the time the skin is left of the grapes, and the ripeness of the grapes. These are all things that contribute to the final complex flavour of the wine.

You can read more of the story behind them, and check out the labels in more detail on the Between Five Bells site.

Photographer Sam Gellman went on a four day trip to North Korea and took some incredible photos of their annual ‘Mass Games’. Apparently the image in the background is made up of 20,000 ‘pixels’ – each a Korean child holding a coloured card which they frequently change.

(via MyModernMet)

Archie Out of Context (the brainchild of Ashleigh Rajela) does exactly what it says on the tin, and is very funny. Who doesn’t like a good double entendre?

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• This beautiful short documentary was shot during the making of the Ritual Project, an incredible large-scale, hand-painted, stop frame animation that was commissioned by Stella Artois. Up There tells the story of the fading art of hand painting billboards, and the people that are keeping it from disappearing entirely.
  

  UP THERE from Jon on Vimeo.

  via FormFiftyFive

• Guido Tamino wants you to print stuff in his room, via the Internet.
• Finally, someone is curating a collection of white people rapping poorly, like our man B-SHOC here.
  
• Ishac Bertran has created a whole series of beautiful images like this one using Processing, in what he calls ‘generative photography‘. The technique he is using is fascinating, and produces some pretty unique results that look more like drawings or paintings than photographs.
  
  via Creative Applications
• Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz offers sage advice about getting your sitcom cancelled.
• Portuguese artist Pantonio is not only incredibly talented, he also has a fantastic sense of humour. He transformed this wall, the victim of a car accident, in downtown Lisbon into a scene from a comic book.
  
  via Designboom
• Watch as Bienve Aguado attempts and lands the first ever double front flip on a mountain bike. This dude is determined.
  
• Thom Thom is a French artist doing some amazing work deconstructing this one billboard spot in Paris. Click through to see the different variations.
  
  via TodayTomorrow

• Another great little documentary, this one covering an old art form enjoying a sort of resurgence right now. Sean Walling, the owner of Soulcraft Bikes takes us through the process of crafting one of his beautiful hand made steel bikes.
  

  FROM STEEL: The Making of a Soulcraft from michael evans on Vimeo.

• I am loving the trend toward more and more high profile generative identities, and the new one for the MIT Media Lab by The Green Eyl (in collaboration with E Roon Kang) is fantastic.
  

  MIT Media Lab Identity from thegreeneyl on Vimeo.

  via Creative Applications

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• John Kenn is a Danish guy that makes kids television. He also has an incredible talent for drawing monsters on post it notes
  (via Elly)
• Wooden sunglasses, why not? Check out the hotness from Schwood. About to put my pair on order
• This is a beautifully shot little slide show of some guys ripping at Whistler that makes me wish that I was back in Canada.
  
• More Whistler, this time helmet cam action from the incredible second place run in the Crankworx slopestyle competition.
  
  (via Spoke Magazine)
• Choi + Shine Architects recently picked up the Boston Society of Architects award for this project re-imagining high voltage pylons. Unfortunately the Icelandic folk who were running the competition in which they were entered didn’t like them enough to run out and build them. I would love to see these carrying the national grid here in NZ, imagine these set against the rugged central plateau landscape.
  
  (via designboom)
• A couple of awesome retro-photo collections: IBM catalogue photography from the 60′s & vintage interiors
• If, like me, you a appreciate a good Venn diagram check out the remix Venn from Olly Moss & the you + me = awesome Venn
  
• This multi-touch DJ interface, a senior degree project from Greg Werk, looks pretty neat. Think he may be overstating the problem a little (given any club worth its salt has gear already – never have I seen a DJ have to do a full gear set up while another plays), but still nice to see people pushing the boundaries a little.
  
  (via oneplusinfinity)
• If you are a marketing-or-advertising-type-person then you should read this letter, laugh, then actually sit down and think about it. If you aren’t, just read it, nod sagely, and feel free to point and laugh at us marketers.
• This image is awesome. I wish I could find out who is responsible for it, but haven’t been able to figure it out. That is all.
  
  (via Feltron)
• One day I want to live in this Japanese tree house.
• Telephoneme is a hybrid live-action/animated short film about the alphabet carrying secret meanings, based on ‘The Alphabet Conspiracy’ an educational film from the 60′s. Head over to the Telephoneme website and download the press kit to get the full background, or just check the super stylish film itself below.
  

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• The Big Caption is a complement to (Boston.com’s always amazing) The Big Picture, wherein jokes and statements are made using typography. For example:
  
• Incredible title sequence for the Typophile Film Festival 5. Amazingly this is all real, no CG what-so-ever. You can get the full story behind it here.
  
  via Ugmonk.
• While we are on the subject of typography, Typography for Lawyers looks like a great practical guide for non-desingny folk who want to make their long written documents look swish.
• Some great desktop wallpaper for bike lovers like me from Jennifer Daniel.
  
• The Radio 1 Essential Mix is an institution. Over time they have basically hosted every major DJ there has ever been. Now you can listen to and rate (almost) every Essential Mix since 1993 online, anytime at essentialmixes.net. An amazing archive of recent electronic music history. Great for folks like me out in the colonies.
• Diplo & Switch (aka Major Lazer) team up with La Roux to deliver the massive (free!) Lazerproof mixtape. It is a pretty crazy experiment, as you would expect, and well worth a listen.
• Nike (& Weiden+Kennedy London) brilliantly illustrate that if you make amazing, remarkable content then there is no need to buy any media (even though I am sure there is a large accompanying media buy for this one content, you know, just to make sure). This content was run in the seperate vignettes over 3 consecutive nights in the sports news segment of our national television news here in New Zealand (I am sure we weren’t the only country), as well as clocking up untold views across the web. Powerful stuff. (Of course it helps if you have a budget of 5 trillion dollars to produce said content).
  
• A couple of tumblr’s I stumbled across to keep you amused: Micheal Buble being stalked by a Veliciraptor & White People Throwing Gang Signs. Hours of entertainment. Word.
• Came across a couple of great recruitment ideas recently. Check out ‘Comic Sans Destroyer‘ for a great little recruitment campaign for agency Happiness Brussels (who wouldn’t want to work at a place called Happiness?!).
• And for some creative job seeking you can’t really go past Alec Brownstein’s fantastically clever Google Job Experiment. Kudos also to the creative directors who weren’t too embarrassed to get in touch and try to hire this guy.
  
• Need a great example of a brand building an immersive experience? How about the Pantone Hotel? It is part fo their new ‘Pantone Universe’, a collection of “colourful, design driven” products from the world authority on colour communication. Not sure about the Universe, but the Hotel looks pretty awesome.
  via FormFiftyFive.
• I am mildly obsessed with Kingswood Skis right now. Handmade in Lyttleton (a tiny little seaside village here in New Zealand), they look incredible. I am definitely lusting after a pair. Check out this great video of the ski making process from start to finish:
  
• In more amazing handmade in New Zealand, check out Rob’s Woodgrain Bikes. Rob will hand paint your frame in one of three different beautiful woodgrain finishes right here in Auckland, New Zealand for the princely sum of $1500USD. Expensive, but man are they beautiful.
  
  via Jamie McLellan

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Tyler Thompson got sick of looking at ugly, confusing boarding passes, so he had a go at redesigning them. He also put the call out for others to do the same. The results are excellent, hopefully the airlines are listening (although our own Air New Zealand actually does a reasonable job in comparison to the Delta one that Tyler started with)

It is also well worth checking out Dustin Curtis’s well thought out redesign of the American Airlines homepage that was part inspiration for Tyler’s efforts.

It has been around for a while now, but Slinkachu’s Little People Project is rad. It must be incredible coming across one of his installations “in the wild”.

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• Incredible photos of the Bombay Beach & the Salton Sea here & here. The largest inland body of water in California, once touted as the “American Riviera”, now a polluted ghost town.
  
• Math tells us 3 of the saddest love stories…
• Absolutely beautiful illustration work from Johan Thörnqvist
  
• I am not an artist is a project collecting little animated gifs celebrating/commiserating the paranoia of non stop design workers from international contributors.
  
  
• Wait What has mashed up The XX with Notorious B.I.G. and the result is a full album released as a free (albeit 128kbps – ewww) dowload, The Notorious XX. On first listen a little disappointing, but something you might like to check out anyway. (You can also preview the whole thing over on Soundcloud if you don’t want to commit to downloading it)
• Miroslaw Swietek captures sleeping insects covered in dew at 3am, making for some otherworldly photos. Apparently he is married. I wonder how his wife feels about his hobby?
  
• The Hobnox Audiotool looks like a pretty powerful piece of audio production kit. Definitely something you could spend a few hours playing with.
• Michael Najjr has an awesome set of images that visualise stock market indexes by creating mountain ranges from photographs he has taken (via information aesthetics).
  

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He has just produced this amazing Tilt-Shift video of Hulkamania in Melbourne – Hulk Hogan taking on Rick Flair:

It is definitely one of the coolest pieces of Tilt-Shift work that I have seen so far.

You should also check out all of his other video stuff on Vimeo (and thanks to Amber for giving me a heads up on Keith’s awesome work last time I wrote about Tilt-Shift).

I wonder how long before we see some Tilt-Shift work in a big advertising campaign? I find it pretty fascinating, it would definitely get my attention.

via FlyLyf

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My brother Jason is (kind of) a hippy that lives in a tiny town in the South Island called Greymouth. For those who don’t know that is almost completely the opposite of me, the city-dwelling (allegedly) metro sexual corporate dude. Despite this we are actually pretty similar in a lot of respects, he just showers less and wears ponchos more. He is also a really talented photographer, so hopefully he will also share some of his work via his blog (come on Jase). He has really only just begun his blogging exploits, no doubt there will be many passionate rants to come.

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Sergei is a great photographer who kicks around Auckland taking some killer gig photos (among other things). He is also one of the nicest people who you will ever meet.

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Ed is truly a man of many talents. He hangs out down in our fair nations capital, and sporadically writes some super quirky, interesting stuff that makes me laugh, a lot. He is also the brains behind the Pasta Man phenomenon – get on board if you are a pasta fan. As if that wasn’t enough he is also a ridiculously talented musician, featuring in bands such as the lovely Ed Zuccollo Trio. Ed is going to go far.

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Scenes from a rooftop from Paul Johannessen on Vimeo.

Via whitezine.

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