Sorry I'm Late from Tomas Mankovsky on Vimeo.

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see also:

• Bomb The Bass - Butterfingers

• F is for Fail — An Alphabetical Odyssey Through The Creative Process

• The Wolf and the Pig

• 'Western Spaghetti' stop-frame animation by PES

Play Crush the Castle. Thanks Chris C.

On a spring day in 1971, Charles Simonds packed several pounds of red clay into the steel box on his delivery bike and set out through New York City's SoHo district. He had spotted a gutter curbstone there that he thought would make the perfect site for one of the tiny clay villages he had been building around town. As the artist pedaled up to an intersection, he passed three of his former art students standing on a corner. "One girl stared at me and said, 'Mr. Simonds?' " he recalls. "I nodded and waved. Suddenly she burst into tears. She thought I'd been forced to start delivering groceries."

In fact, Simonds was embarking on the first stage of a grand artistic vision: constructing the archaeological remains of an imaginary miniature civilization. At first, the "Little People" dwellings, as Simonds called them, cropped up in vacant lots, on doorsills and beside curbstones around New York's Lower East Side. By the mid-'70s he had begun erecting his elfin dwellings abroad: in the nooks and crannies of Paris, Berlin, Venice, Shanghai and—where else?—Dublin. These days collectors pay up to $30,000 for the pyramids and signal towers of his personal mythology, and the tiny towns have long since moved from abandoned doorways to fancier quarters like the Whitney Museum in New York and the Kunsthaus museum in Zurich. Continue reading

The Unfinished Swan is a first-person painting game set in an entirely white world. Players can splatter paint to help them find their way through an unusual garden.

The game is still in development and no release plans have been announced. You can track the game's development on the blog.

The Unfinished Swan - Tech Demo 9/2008 from Ian Dallas on Vimeo.

Watch the video here.

The squiggly, arthritic looking pieces of wire are what physically exist in these pieces, the 'images' you see are actually the shadows created by a light souce specifically focused on the wire constructions. 

monsieur Qui lives and works in Paris, here are some samples from his website. He's also  known for his wheatpastes, a flickr search produced these results but I can't find his personal Flickr account.

These ads for the "Society of Cardiology of the Russian Federation" were shot by Dylan Collard.

This series of 'point and click' games by Armor Games is really well done, I particularily like the music in the The Great Attic Escape — when it changes.

• The Great Kitchen Escape
• The Great Living Room Escape
• The Great Bathroom Escape
• The Great Basement Escape
• The Great Attic Escape
• The Great House Escape

These samples found on deviantART and Souloff's blog.