Chris Jordan is turning the uncomfortable and all too often ignored statistics of our culture into amazing and expressive large pieces of photographic artwork. His new series; An American Self-Portrait, is inspiring but the subject matter is our sad reality and begs the question: how do we slow this down?

Vault 49 never fails to produce amazing work. I first read bout them in the book "Maximalism" which was released in 2004...so they have been around for quite a while now. Check it out and enjoy!

What a great idea...this rocks!

Gas Design Group, made up of Gregory Polletta and Sung Jang, with Clino Castelli, have designed Topiade, an "overlay facade," for existing Louis Vuitton stores. It appears to be a new kind of intermixing of living walls with topiary. This is wonderful because everything Louis Vuitton does gets knocked off instantly.

FriendsWithYou is an artist collaborative founded by the two Miami-based artists, Sam Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III. Since its conception in 2002, FWY has continued to promote the two artists' common message of magic, luck, and friendship, through its popular designer toy line, public art installations, new-form playgrounds, published works, live performances, and various animation, motion picture, and multimedia projects.

I am truly in awe over this. Dutch artist Theo Jansen demonstrates his amazingly lifelike kinetic sculptures, built from plastic tubes and lemonade bottles. His "Strandbeests" (Beach Creatures) are built to move and even survive on their own. The video is about 8 minutes long but is definitely worth watching. You will be amazed!

Cassiano Prado started at Brazillian studio Lobo, in 1999, and since then has been free-lancing for the UK creative industry. During this period, he worked for clients such as Adidas, MTV, TMF, BBC, Edinburgh Film Festival, Nickelodeon, British Gas, SonyEricsson, Vodafone, Ministry of Sound and British bands ‘Keane’ and 'Gorillaz'.

ACCENT.TV IS THE ON-LINE WORK PORTFOLIO OF ARGENTINIAN CREATIVE DIRECTOR, LIVE VIDEO ARTIST & ELECTRONIC MUSICIAN, MIGUEL VEGA.

What happens when a mayor decides to ban advertisements in a vibrant city of 11 million people with more than 8,000 billboards? Impossible, insane, absurd, or just plain genius? Well this is what happened this past January when mayor Gilberto Kassabs “Clean City” law was introduced in Sao Paulo Brazil banning any form of advertising throughout the city to rid of “visual clutter”.

The Barnstormers are a collective of New York/Tokyo-based artists who create large-scale collaborative paintings, films and performances. The group formed in 1999 after a pilgrimage to the rural town of Cameron, North Carolina. During the trip, twenty-five artists painted dozens of barns, tractor-trailers, shacks and farm equipment. Consequently, the tiny tobacco farming community became the unlikely Mecca for the urban collective. To this day, the Barnstormers continue to interpret and communicate the visual, cultural, and spiritual awakenings inspired by their trips to the south. The Barnstormers continue to experiment and collaborate, both domestically and internationally, with yearly returns to Cameron to paint new murals.