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Best of the Rest

|Watch the jury’s selection of The Best of YouTube right here. Art ‘Seaweed’ Artists Reemi Weekes, Luke White

Composed by the birds

|One of the best You Tube video’s from last year comes from a music composer, who just made music out of a photo he took

One stolen

|My man just came back from London and guess what my souvenir was…from Ai Wei Wei’s recent show at the Tate. Watch the excellent movie

Bend your sofa

|This week’s column in NRC is about beautiful flexible Ikea-smart paper couches from Taiwan. Design Chishen Chiu

Fair hair

|In The Netherlands public women, like judges or police women, are not allowed to cover their hair. Clever Islamitic hairjab with prints of fair hair. Artist

Dirty beauty

|Mud. Orgy. War. One man with 100 women. Sale. Holy. Photographer Bettine Neumann

Savile Row meets performance

|Only the English can design a tailored bike jacket like this. Rapha also designed bike outfits with Paul Smith. Design Rapha & Timothy Everest (one of

I have taken on a job

|From now on, I am also creative director at Interbrand Amsterdam. I’ll be responsible for an exciting sports brand and a new kind of university.

Stack!

|This wonderful kind of stacking looks like it comes straight from Viktor & Rolf. Artist Tobias Putrih

Limit to your love

|Wonderful interpretation of a song by Feist, sung by James Blake. Click here to hear it. Director Martin de Thurah

Voice knitter

|Scarf made by the Voice Knitting Machine, an interactive mechanical knitting machine that uses voice signals. Design Trikoton. You may order your own here.

Complaint Choirs

|I wrote my NRC column on Complaint Choirs, an really funny initiative by 2 artists, in no time implemented worldwide.

Have a seat

|Fine optical illussion. Artist Matthew Ngui Exhibition Documenta X

Circles and holes

|Fun illustrations by The Unknown Hipster. Gabi, a fashion designer, is crazy about connecting circles and holes. Hipster: “I was afraid he would explain more and

Porn free

|Private Stages are beautiful collages made by punching amateur photographs (of nudes found at the internet). All nudes are secretly hidden, as if the artist

Plain Space

|Now in London: a major exhibition of the work of my favorite architect John Pawson. These images show his design for a private chapel at

The new bride

|In Paris, the look that had everyone talking was V&R’s plain white shirt with an extending tail, paired with black pants, it is such a

Ampersand

|New identity based on an ampersand for a large Dutch Nature & Environment organisation. Design Interbrand (pro bono)

Stingy Jag

|Jaguar released its new four-wheel electric concept C-X75. The back of the car reminds me of the beautiful Chevy Corvette Stingray (picture at the top).

Surreal hybrid man’s shirt

|Viktor & Rolf’s collection for Spring 2011 is based on a man’s shirt. They used their famous layering of the same elements that will forever

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