Hollis Brown Thornton

Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe
oil on canvas
24 x 30 inches

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Amazing video/sound installation by Haroon Mirza

Stage Fright
In collaboration with Laura Buckley & Dave Maclean, 2009
3"25'

Karl Hyde/John Warwicker
Digital Print mounted on aluminum panel, 4' x 8', 2008.

Caribou new release..

The latest album release from Caribou's Dan Snaith (formerly Manitoba) extends his electronic music explorations into sub-aqueous territory. The results of a self-described attempt to make ' dance music that's liquid in the way it flows back and forth', Swim reveals shades of Scandanavian disco, post-rave sonics, and ambient techno, in a cohensive yet dynamic pop recording.

Video: The Solar Dynamics Observatory's first videos include a wave on the sun that sent matter hurtling towards Earth (Courtesy of NASA)

Fiery rings of ionised gas erupt from the sun in the first videos taken by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory. The satellite is delivering unprecedented views of the star, which could help untangle the mysteries of its magnetic field and improve forecasts of solar storms on Earth.

The observatory, which launched on 11 February, takes ultra-sharp images of the entire disc of the sun – previous high-resolution satellites could see only small portions of its surface at once.

"It is the most comprehensive view of the sun," Madhulika Guhathakurta, the mission's programme scientist at NASA, said at a press briefing on Wednesday. "When you see the whole sun, it is showing connections we have never seen before."

One of the probe's instruments, the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA), uses four telescopes to study the sun's surface and atmosphere. It caught a giant gas loop called a prominence shooting out from the sun on 30 March (first part of video). Prominences are confined by the sun's magnetic fields, whose origin and behaviour are not well understood.

Jessica Stockholder

Andrés Sobrino

Installation from 2009 by Andrés Sobrino.

Octopus vs. Sea Lion

Sadly, neither is "giant" or "mega", but it's still pretty interesting.

Todd Selby is a portrait, interiors, and fashion photographer and illustrator. His project The Selby offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces with an artist's eye for detail. The Selby began in June 2008 as a website, www.theselby.com, where Todd posted photo shoots he did of his friends in their homes. Requests quickly began coming in daily from viewers all over the world who wanted their homes to be featured on the site. The Selby’s website became so popular—with up to 35,000 unique visitors daily—that within months, top companies from around the world began asking to collaborate.

These joint projects have included a large ad campaign and web project with Nike 6.0, a solo show at colette, an international ad campaign for Habitat, work for the New York Times T Magazine, and frequent contributions to Vogue Paris and Architectural Digest France. Todd’s first book, The Selby is In Your Place, will be released in May 2010 by Abrams.

Before working on this project full time Todd worked as a translator and Tijuana tour guide to the International Brotherhood of Machinists, a researcher into the California strawberry industry, a Costa Rican cartographer, a consultant on political corruption to a Mexican Senator, an art director at a venture capital firm, an exotic flower wholesaler, a Japanese clothing designer, and a vermicomposting entrepreneur. Todd currently lives in New York City. His pastimes include eating four square meals a day, planning vacations, breaking his computers, and working on his tan.

Sixpack France

Some might know where this image is coming from.

Back in the days Sixpack was a shop, we kept the motivation. We spent our teenage spraying on the yards and at the record store...whereas some say we wasted our time, we would rather say we made ourselves.then, using our skills as media, we eventually found out we were not alone. A common culture, but different inspirations: that is what made collaborations happen. Now Sixpack is a Brand, we keep the motion. We communicate by all means. Art is to be transmitted, through our own codes and cues. That is what we work for. Our t-shirts and collections make our visions of art reachable. As we like to say: "Every step is the first: we'll sleep when we are dead."

Sixpack website and Blog well worth a browse - so click me!