Hip.Young.Thing.

For all you geeks, hackers, engineers or just general gadget lovers out there, Bug Labs have created (more like assembled the parts of) what could be the ultimate gadget. Featuring a series of connectable ‘electronic modules’ and a programmable Linux core, you can build whatever type of gadget you want. According to their website, digital cameras, telephones and gps systems are well within the capabilities of their devices and with motion sensors and touch screens available who knows what’s possible.

This Giant Flip Clock from Little Clock Shop would look great on my desk. Apparently it’s wall mountable as well.

Yvonne Lee Schultz has some great art works on display on her website. The main themes seem to be either the effects of war and destruction or, in complete contrast, the beauty of this planet (I couldn’t find an artists statement on the site). Either way my favourite  is this porcelain handgun, which I guess symbolises the fragility of human life.

Sleevage is a brilliant blog devoted to the art of music sleeve design over the years. Featuring albums from almost any era from the 60’s through to the 00’s this website is a great resource, or just fun to browse during your lunch hour.

Dan Tobin Smith’s photographic works are the opitomy of organised chaos. The set designs look like they have been hit by an explosion, but upon more careful observation you can see that everything has been set in place down to the most minute detail. He also has some wonderful experimentations with colour as seen above in a work from the ‘Paper’ series.

ooo000ooo is Brian Morris’ online playground and there’s plenty of great stuff to check out. Everything has a distinctly macabre feel to it (perhaps it’s the skulls!) but there’s some truly inspirational work scattered around especially the vinyl toy art in the whatnots section.

Finding Cheska take small things in our life and re-examine them thru the eyes of a little child (according to their website). And it certainly shows! All the Finding Cheska designs have a brilliant child-like quality to them whilst retaining their functionality.

Shi Yuan, a Porstmouth University graduate, has some great concepts in his folio. My favourite is the heat sensitive wallpaper which looks like a wonderful idea. Let’s hope someone puts this into action in the future.

I’ve just spent a lazy afternoon watching Current TV and I’ve got to say that I think it’s brilliant. The basic premise of Current TV is that it’s content is user generated. This gives a wide diversity of programming, most shows don’t run for much longer than 10 minutes, that’s basically perfect for my short attention span anyway. Don’t expect anything too polished, but do expect some interesting viewing. (As a side note I’d like to find out the ratio of user-generated:current tv generated content.)

No One Belongs Here More Than You is a book of short stories written by Miranda July. The website is brilliantly irreverant and reflects the style of the book to a tee.