Tag over at Sleepover, San Francisco gives quite an in depth analysis of his shoes.

A Critical Analysis of My Shoes

I typically am not a fan of people using their dogs’ fur as a design canvas, but admittedly some of these are pretty cool.

Those aside, Tim Flach has some great animal photography, like this shot of a pooch drying off.

James Roper spent three years folding an average of ten origami flowers per day. The result is incredible: “Devotion” is an installation of approximately 10,000 colored paper lilies.

“Mandala” shown here. More pics here.

New York City is invaded by 8-bit arcade-era characters in this short by Patrick Jean called Pixels.

Some incredible post-production work, and a bit of nostalgia.

Ketchup. Fantastic photo-realistic oil paintings by Emily Burns.

Love the food theme.

Some really great watercolor paintings by artist Ben Tour.

“Ben Tour is an artist/painter from Toronto, Canada. Tour obtained his degree in illustration from Sheridan College Oakville, Ontario, Canada. He currently resides and works in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.”

from pixelelement.com

Awesome video of Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs using Musion 3D Holographic Projection at a live gig as they “play” the “heads” of London beatbox performer Beardyman.

Also see their first vid here.

“The on-going collaboration of Puma and Japanese designer Miharaya Yasuhiro enters its 10th year Spring/Summer 2010. For the occasion they have produced a great viral video, introducing the Pumaneko.”

From highsnobiety.com

I’m not quite blown away, but I couldn’t not post about Apple’s newest, the iPad. I’ll be honest, I want one… but I want a lot of things that I wouldn’t necessarily use all that much.

Essentially a huge iPod Touch, the iPad (let’s not get into the name choice for now) is a Mac tablet that boasts a large, thin, HD touchscreen for mobile web browsing, photos, calendar, email, video, iTunes, apps, gaming, etc. Filling the gap between laptop and smartphone, it will be interesting to see how successful it becomes – and if it was indeed a gap that needed to be filled.

At the low price-point ($499-$829), it may compete with lower-end laptops and perhaps the Kindle. It seems to me one of the bigger opportunity will be with apps and games, and with EA and Gameloft already on board they’ve got a pretty good start. The addition of iWork apps is great, the large screen allows for decent HD movie viewing (although not 16×9), photo viewing promises to be sexy, and things like double paned email are nice touches. But I can’t imagine this being a huge success as the iPod and iPhone have been – it’s simply not that revolutionary.

I’ll give it one thing: in true Apple style, it’s pretty damn sexy.

Mike Hollingshead is a storm chaser. He’s spent 10 years in the chase and has an incredible portfolio of still photos and videos to show for it. He’s captured countless sights that most won’t see in a lifetime – some ominous, some simply beautiful, each fantastically sublime and truly breathtaking.

If I had what it takes to do what he does, I’d sure give it a try. I imagine it to be an intensely gratifying experience – to be in the presence of nature’s ferocity and power, and capture its fiercest moments into composed portraits. Just brilliant.

Don’t hesitate in looking through Mike’s chases on his website, Extreme Instability. His other, non-storm galleries there are well worth a look as well.