A great, short profile directed by Spike Jonze

Justin Hopkins AKA Rarebit is also a visual artist.

Kickstarter cofounder responds to Clay Johnson's inaccurate statistics and conclusions about Kickstarter out-funding the NEA this year.

A rounded look at Björk's latest, and just what it is she’s doing.

Liz Harris (the musician Grouper) beautiful line drawings.

“Simple, lightweight WordPress themes for graphic designers, arists, architects, photographers, agencies, bloggers and other creative professionals.” Priced $30-$100.

Draw diagrams with ASCII tools. Drag boxes, make arrows, add text. As art or as mockup diagramming tool, this is really neat.

“Photobook by Jan Kempenaers of the monuments of former Yugoslavia, with a text by Willem Jan Neutelings.”

Artist does concrete sculpture installations in the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico. Excellent.

Photos of all of the artwork for the deluxe Newspaper Album package.

Beautiful, haunting, gigantic sculptures.

“There are hundreds of them scattered throughout villages and rural landscapes in the former Yugoslavia. Once the site of pilgrimages by schoolchildren, military veterans, patriots, and mourners who had lost family in WWII, these Spomeniks (monuments) are today rarely visited. Often built out of concrete in a style dubbed Brutalism, these secular totems were meant to endure, impervious to the mere march of time—a testament and continuous witness to the new unity of the historically fractious Balkan states—the unity of all the Slavs, YUGOSLAVIA.”

“Criticism is only useful when it helps us see something we are having difficulty seeing on our own; it’s not helpful when it tells us to stop looking.

‘But what if everyone pays attention to the wrong things? We have to guide them to the right things!’ Well, eventually everyone stops paying attention to everything: time is pretty effective that way. With that in mind, we should only worry about pointing the good out, and not worrying about the bad. And in the age of the Internet, this dictum takes on added force. Think of it as the Paris Hilton effect: talking about the bad just encourages the bad. No one has ever cured a celebrity of anorexia by posting photographs of her on the Internet, or has helped Charlie Sheen get off alcohol by getting exasperated at his stupidity. Trashing bad people and bad art does not make you a good person.”

Beautiful, fragile paintings by David Lynn.

The creator of 'Passage', that life-story game-as-art Flash game.

Another ‘response album’ from Marc Weidenaum's blog minions, this a collection of recordings that use a human sigh as their source material. The response is to the grumpy, narrow-minded art critic Richard Dorment, who questioned the integrity and quality of artist Susan Philipsz’ Turner Prize-winning ‘Lowlands‘, as well as a number of other artistic endeavors that he considers unworthy of anything more than a ‘long low collective sigh’.

"Commercial concerns are both implicit and invisible in the consumption of content."

"The Auerglass is a two person pump organ created by Tauba Auerbach and Cameron Mesirow (AKA the musician Glasser). The instrument cannot be played alone. Each player has a keyboard with alternating notes of a four octave scale. Each player must pump to supply the wind to the other player's notes."

A video by fiilmaker Andrea Dorfman and poet/singer/songwriter Tanya Davis.

"Society is afraid of alonedom, like lonely hearts are wasting away in basements, like people must have problems if, after a while, nobody is dating them. but lonely is a freedom that breaths easy and weightless and lonely is healing if you make it."

"But all of a sudden, for a brief time at least, she's the only real pop star around."

Great, of course.

Nice bleedy exposures.

Great, modern, hip photography.

Playful and ironic photos and little installations.

This is absolutely beautiful. "Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies."

"A collaborative music/spoken word project." A collection of YouTube videos of people playing various instruments all in the B-flat key. Start and stop and fade them each in any way at any time. This is awesome.

We do love trouble.

A beautiful set of photos from a land artist. Leaves, twigs, stones, and thorns. This stuff is so excellent.

This is beautiful. "Mutsugoto is an intimate communication device intended for a bedroom environment. Mutsugoto allows distant partners to communicate through the language of touch as expressed on the canvas of the human body. A custom computer vision and projection system allows users to draw on each other's bodies while lying in bed. Drawings are transmitted 'live' between the two beds, enabling a different kind of synchronous communication that leverages the emotional quality of physical gesture." Thanks for the link, Ara.

A Flash game in the vein of Jason Rohrer's 'Passage'. It sort of picks up where Passage leaves off. Minorly challenging, stylish, and a dark, fun story to play.

Another one of these "How to Be Productive and Creative" lists, but they're good as inspiration/affirmations.

Audio Visual Arts is a gallery in New York. Christian Joy, fashion designer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and friend of my fashion-designer friend Leah, has a costume installation there. I hope to go there someday.

Beautiful photographs to demonstrate words.

Excellent photos of quirky things and suspended objects.

This is fun to browse through. "From an initial gift of eight prints and one drawing, The Museum of Modern Art's collection has grown to include 150,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 22,000 films, videos, and media works, as well as film stills, scripts, posters and historical documents. The Museum's Library contains 300,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, and the Museum Archives holds approximately 2,500 linear feet of historical documentation and a photographic archive of tens of thousands of photographs, including installation views of exhibitions and images of the Museum's building and grounds."

Cute and well-done.

"Technically, these photographs are beautifully constructed and each one shows us a distinctive human personality underneath the costumes. Does the objective gaze of the camera necessarily leave us trapped outside or is it possible for us to see some of ourselves in these people? Do these images estrange us from these Furries (featured today) or Cosplayers (featured next time)? Or do they allow us to recognize the creativity and craftsmanship of their work, the ways that they draw together personal mythology to move beyond the more mundane aspects of their everyday lives? What do you see when you look at these images?"

"The art of Robert Boynes has often used the city as its source. The urban environment has spawned a variety of images and themes from the beginnings of the artist’s exhibiting career in the mid-1960s to his most recent work as evinced in the present series."

A heady analysis of Greg Gillis' place in the musical landscape.

"We had an idea. Go to a place. Ask fifty people the same question. Film their responses."

I knew this was inevitable! "We aim to re-start production of analog INTEGRAL FILM for vintage Polaroid cameras in 2010. We have acquired Polaroid's old equipment, factory and seek your support."

"Adaptable, minimalist interfaces." Oh. My. God.

What to do. Illustrations by Gorey.

Simply a collection of beautiful book covers.

A painting from 1968. I have no idea. (My personal homepage used to be driftingembers.com, a domain name I found incredibly rad in high school.)

"'Garden of Eden', 2007 by Wollle shows eight pedestals, each of which is covered with an airtight Plexiglas box. Via the internet, the latest air pollution levels in the capitals of the G8-countries are obtained. The system reproduces these levels artificially inside these boxes, each of which contains a lettuce that serves an indicator of the quality of the air inside the capsules."

"Inspired by The Books' song of same name, Be Good To Them Always is a collection of four postcards and a stamped envelope, all Gocco printed. Made to send out as a humble thank you to people who've inspired me over the past couple of years."

Filip Dujardin is an architect who in his spare time puts together photographs of buildings to form new structures.

On art which extends the present, and tickling yourself. This is what I love so much about music.

Beautifully stark architectural photos. I love this stuff.

Who are these people?

"Grab Change by the Stem!"

A design studio. Keep refreshing the homepage.

"Happily in love you step down the decaying corpse, through the wound, now small like a maggot, over woolen kidney and bowel. "

The lost art of laser-informed portraiture. Plenty to like here. Especially the guy with the ladder.

From the guys who brought you the Diet Coke and Mentos experiment.

Brilliantly dark, saturated, spotted, and moody paintings of animals, humans, and other creatures in dreams and danger.

In which album covers become an extension of reality, and vice versa.

A nice scrapbook. "...we’re wading through a sea of lame to mediocre ads, photographs, illustrations, and websites. What can we do but start collecting the worst of it and shame it until it disappears? Of course there’s the other end of the spectrum, too. The beautful uglyiness of urban decay and childish drawings and David Bowie. I hope that stays, and I will do what I can to add to it."

Billboards from below. Reminds me of walking around Tokyo and Boston at night, looking up.

"Nick Veasey uses x-ray technology to create mesmerizing and intriguing art. In a world obsessed with superficial appearance it is a refreshing change to be able to look beyond the surface."

"This is the best invention of all and I can’t even hardly believe someone has finally taken the time to invent this. You’ve probably seen this at any local pizzeria located within an audioanimatronic aviary."

Excellent and quirky nature paintings.

Nice, quirky line drawings. Also a musician: see the 'Little Wings' and 'Be Gulls' links in the impossible navigation.

Beautiful paintings of city spots at night.

Excellent and impressively expansive studies of the human form in space, lead, terra cotta, steel... The "Fields" and "Quantum Clouds" projects are a good place to start, but you could spend hours here.

Spectacularly awesome homespun sprite-anime disco gore apocalypse. With happy metal hardcore soundtrack to boot.

Check out "things for sale i will mail you" and everything else. Cute and creative and solemn and exuberant. Wonderful.

How to survive the long tail.

"Best known for touring the country spreading the good word of D.I.Y. electronics with uniquely playful performances and Circuit Bending Workshops."

The University of Hawaii's alternative arts online magazine.

"Songwriter John Darnielle wrote descriptions of each song on the album," and Jeffrey Lewis illustrated them all into a three-page booklet. Read along!

A huge collection of excellent drawings, realist (and surreal) photography, painting, collages, and more. Good for wasting a few hours and wishing you were cooler.

A sort of painting with tape. "I work on the light easel, applying translucent brown packing tape on clear Plexiglas panels, the layers built up to create degrees of opacity."

Good pictures, good overview of his work, and, of course, sage words from the designer himself.

Watercolored badge pins and stickers. Excellent!!

A great collection of unique and beautiful business cards.