Another underground/indi film site. I never knew there was this much indi film out there and in two days I've found two huge repositories for it.

You know when yr sweaters get those little balls all over them? Well now rather than send them to the dry cleaners, or try and shave them with a razor you can use this handy product to remove them. AND you can try this handy product for the price of shipping, there giving them away, and since they last 10 years or more 4.99 is well worth it. My is on it's way!

Works on almost all fabrics!

I'm not even gonna go into why Battlestar Galatica is so great, I'll let you read the short article over at WorldChanging after the jump. It's not just the best new SciFi show on TV, it's breaking new ground in it's use of the internet, if you haven't seen it, You must. The best reason to get a satellite dish or cable out there...trust me this is not yr average show.ps-SciFi channel is re-running the 2 part miniseris/pilot on 4/28 at 7pm

Polyphonic Spree fan? Of course you are, this fun little website built in flash lets you travel from screen to screen clicking to figure out what to do while listen to some Spree Tunes. Neato

Looking for the next Spielberg or Lucas? Well student films can be a good place to find them, some of these are very very good, shockingly good, I was gonna post about a couple, but figured it be more fun to just point you at the site and let you find the good stuff yrself. Broadband required, but they do have a modem version, and it's not ONLY for students, anyone can host films here.

File this under silly giggle. I wish there was more to this site, but it's silly enough to mention.

You like kaleidoscopes don't ya? well here's a fun little flash kaleidoscope to play with. That's all it's just fun, it's good for you.

I think right now it should be set into law that every cell phone company, and any other company that puts up antennas should have to do it this way. What way you ask? That tall tree to the left is a cell phone antenna tower, with different carriers on it, that's like 24 little antenna hidden inside a fake tree. Brilliant.

they also do palm trees and cactus

So I've recently found a website devoted to nothing but t-shirts, there is as strong a movement towards the art of t-shirts as there is vinyl toys, this site has both. The T-shirts and printing are really the focus, but you must seek out the toy section too.

FUUUNY! with a capitol F. people shaking their heads back and forth in front of a camera. What else could I possibly say, just go look, you need the laugh you know you do...

LOL,they look like they were in a blender accident.

I almost don't want to post this cuz I want to send one to somebody, but oh well. Think MailArt package that's useful after the contents have been removed, useful as a lamp...

The third place winner of a design competition has designed a wall that you can sit in, look thru and lean against. it looks quite fun. I don't think it would serve as very good insulation, and I might be nervous leaning against it 20 or 30 floors up, but taking a nap IN a wall might be fun anyway.

More Art Toy goodness from Portland, OR. Everything is so cool in PDX.

Wanna waste some time? Google has added satelite images to the google maps search engine, kinda fun...

Yes, I'm blogging about a battery, but trust me it's no ordinary battery, describing it requires the use of words like Nanotechnology. It'll recharge in just over a minute and last way longer than any other battery EVER. The first targeted use for this technology is the automobile industry, promising electric cars could really become the norm soon. A side note Toshiba is also hard at work on a fuel cell for laptops AND cars. And all this hot on the heels of there teany hard drive. Phew, looking for a place to put some stock dollars?

Dubai is already known as home to some pretty intense architecture, well they're gonna be hard to beat for awhile thanks to this new tower, BurjDubai (Tower Dubai) is slated to be the new Tallest building in the world. Though actual height has yet to be released, an elevator mock up has buttons going up to an ear popping 189 floors, 189 floors! right now the tallest is 101, so the BurjDubai is likely gonna be the tallest for awhile.

...and if you go to the EMAAR link at the bottom right, you can watch a ton of expensivly produced videos about it, and other projects

I dunno if anyone else will think this is cool, but damn! I sure do...stronger than titanium, as easy to manipulate as plastic, this friends is the stuff space ships are made from. It's been in use in products since January and is cool cool cool...

Use the Sun to brush yr teeth instead of toothpaste, well with the wonders of modern science it's now more or less possible.

This is just cool, they just won Best of Show at SXSW, and I think every city should have something like it sure beats CitySearch. Now I want to visit Montreal.

Some may think this is disturbing, but it's pretty cool, and goes well with the recycled toys link from last week, tho this guys recreations are of a slightly darker nature.

The link actually takes you to a collective of Austrailan artists, a couple of which are pretty great also.

Everything old is German again, there were only about four things cool about the 70's, one of which was 1% of the clothes, These guys have managed to capture that 1% in both nue/new and vintage/70's pieces, a couple I might even have to buy. Groovy.

Hold a world in the palm of yr hand, sounds cool doesn't it? Two of the originals from the Bio Sphere project are still trying to educate the public as to the nature of ecosystems, this time with something very much like art. Treehugger states that there affordable, but I couldn't find a price anywhere on the site.

I don't know exactly why, but at 12:37 am this made me laugh outloud, perhaps you to will laugh.

there's this one too

Artist Collective Spotlite, small group of superb illustrators, photographers, and graphic designs.

You know I never used to think about the disposable nature of our consumerism, and when I did think of being "greener" I was put off by the price, or the sheer ugliness. Braun however has been making products for fifty years that "last." It's strange in today's world to see something work for two years, but to have something still work after 20 years, AND look good. WOW.

Don't miss the 1965 coffeegrinder that looks like it was made yesterday

Northwest local(PDX)indy toymakers! How cool is that? There's also shirts, art and photography at the site, all of which are quite good.

Sometimes the best movies are less than 8 mins long. This beautifully produced CG movie is not to be missed, so don't miss it! (I wouldn't bother with the "premium download" unless you have a DivX player)

Wanna be in a movie? Well all you have to do is rush over to Expo2005 in Tokyo and wait in line for this movie, they'll photograph you and install yr face into the flick along with others in the audience. How cool is that?

NASA is getting into the prize business, with an X-Prize style competition for a space elevator/tether system.

Grow plants upside down. A link to a pretty cool idea for upside down tomatoes plants (and flowers) One does wonder why pay 20$, it looks relatively easy to make yrself.

A nice little gallery by an artist that reminds me of the guy that did the Sandman comics.

Who knew there were so many fried dough delictibles out there? Fried dough, think about that for a second . . . doesn't sound very appealing does it?

File this one under, why the heck didn't I think of that? Geesh how easy is this, I'm all over this.

China is gonna kick our butts in the alternative fuel movement, China? But then there aren't any huge companies that make huge money off high oil prices in China, so I guess it makes sense. This car of theirs is cute beyond words.

another picture of it's happy face >

New Order is releasing a new album on the 28th. You can preview the whole album on their website.

Not sure really what to call this, it's an art display, it's interactive based on peoples movement inside the garage. The project is assembled by a group that also has a few other really great interactive works around the country.

A link to a of the garage in action.

Whoa, less than an inch AND 4 gigs of storage, the possibilities for use are overwhelming.. due to release in April

A British design firm named Century23

For no other purpose than the 23 in the name, but there are some interesting papers and such.

Today is 23Day® soon to be a national day of creativity, one day a month set aside to do something different, something new. Take a walk, paint a self portrait, make a new friend. It doesn't really matter what you do to celebrate the day, so long as it's not what you did yesterday.

A movie website? with a "what dog would you be" game, quite cool indeed

Yes, btw that is the dog I'd be, aren't my ankles pretty?

A new, really great online toy store, and by toys I don't mean the ones kids play with. And they even sell Ogi posters, what coudl be better?

You have got to check out this gallery, the real point of the site seems to be to throw "tupperware-esq" parties to recycle toys, but the gallery is really what it's all about for me.

In their own words,

"La Petite Maison du Weekend is a prototype self-sufficient minimal dwelling. It can be relocated to virtually any outdoor site, where it will provide the basics for everyday life: sleeping for two, kitchen, shower, and composting toilet. Made of a variety of materials and premanufactured components, it generates its own electricity, collects and distributes rainwater, and composts human waste using only the natural dynamics of the site."

File this one under wierd as hell. Boy the interweb is one heck of a place huh?

ArtistSpotlight, Graffitti by Zé, from VICIOPIFDST crew, in São Paulo, Brasil.

Christian Dior lenses, these are damn cool, can't find them in silver yet tho.

Another site that was originally just going to be a random, but turned out to cool not to get the full treatment. Kinda erie at times.

So yr sitting there thinking to yrself, I wish I could put my very own DNA fingerprint on a t-shirt for everyone to see. Well than you'll be glad to know that not only can store yr DNA for future cloneing, you can get it on a mouse pad.

I'm not even sure how you read the time on this, but who cares, it's cool to look at

Everyone has a blog these days. I just found the mighty artist El Ray's blog! And he has an online gallery from which he will be selling me art.

It was great way back when B9 turned me onto it, I was positively giddy when I stumbled across this again.

This is an interesting site, I immediately wanted to make one, everyone should do this.

How many seconds do you have left to live? Not sure about the science behind this, it's a little hokey.

Yeah yeah there just T-Shirts, but there really cool I think. One of many sources of hand made short run shirts I've found and will be posting.

Just in case you thought the interweb was loosing it's eccentricity

Why restrict recycling to tin cans and paper towel tubes, there are tons of crappy art languishing in thrift stores just waiting for a new life.

this is but one very cool aspect of the web gallery, dig around some while yr there. (PS, B9 these ppl are near you, I insist you contact them with yr stuff, please)

Ok,ok this has nothing to do with robots or Japan. A really cool online script that turns images from yr google search into a (say it with me) photo montaaaage!! (inside joke)

I swear this theme was unintentional, but here's another really great Japanese site, this time with more droid type robots

In keeping with the theme, here is an amazingly beautiful robot movie site.

the quicktime trailer is best

OK, I know you all just love cutting and gluing paper, now you can cut and glue paper into robots! This site is entirely in Japanese, but you don't really need to read anything do ya, the adventure of discovery.

ps-click on ???????>> then click on the .pdf (non robots HERE)

Think back to a couple years ago when absolutely everything had a web camera pointed at... well some of those cameras ares till pointing... forget about pan and zoom, this one let's you turn on a lava lamp and xmas lites. What could be better than that? Oh and there's an ever growing ball of foil too.

For the roadside attraction lover in us all, a museum of roadside signage. Finally a reason to go to Cincinnati.

Yoga? yes yoga... it's fun it's easy and the benefits far out weigh the pains... least that's what the brochure says. I like the DIY approach better than going somewhere and wavin' yr butt in the air.

There small, there square, they've got little interlocking bumps on 'em...but don't call 'em Lego. It's Blockland, play with "blocks" right there at yr desk... how cool is that?

An extremely elaborate installation.

This is one damn cool way to get yr news, I think.

Designer Spotlite. Chuck Anderson/ NoPattern

Another, "Art is the best way to recycle page"

Holy S#!Tza you have to check this out. \Funk"y\,Do Morro" translates to "of the hill", and has been ingrained in brazilian slang as reflection of the culture of the segregated favelas that have firmly rooted themselves in the hills of Rio De Janeiro. This archive is intended to share the hip hop beat produced in the hills of Rio, the favelas of Sao Paolo, and the streets of Salvador

World Jump Day, check yr time zone to see when you should jump. The goal? for 6million humans to all jump at the same time...goes on to blab about saving the planet but, I rather prefer focusing on getting a large group to all do the same thing at the same time. I seriously doubt it would do anything.

A B9 targeted link to a Polaroid transfer site.

And a link to a whole slew of Polaroid art sites.