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The New York Times has a profile of architect Roald Gundersen who builds homes using entire trees instead of boards.

Tracy and I talk a lot about cobb homes and other eco-architecture styles (like this awesome "hobbit house")

The way Gundersen and his family live looks like the fantasy I used to have when I lived in Harlem.

Artist Eric Testroete has a project titled Papercraft Self Portrait - 2009

"I made this as my costume for Halloween 2009. It was kind of inspired by big-head mode seen in videogames. I really wanted to get the faceted geosphere look with wireframe."

It was done in the same style as Bert Simons

A collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí

More info

Prior to one of Charlie Rose's interviews with Chuck Close, the staff recorded a 'Charlie's Green Room' clip, where Close says, "Inspiration is for amateurs, the rest of us just show up and get to work." This is a paraphrase of pretty much all the best advice that I've never followed. I'm still waiting for the muse to pay me a visit, to my chagrin.

One treasured memory of when I lived in New York was watching Charlie Rose almost every night at 11 on channel 13 WNYC. The image would sometimes flicker when I walked between the rabbit ears and the tower on the World Trade Center. At the time that seemed annoying, but from what I've seen of digital TV, with its blocky, pixelated artifacts, occasionally dropping out altogether, I definitely prefer analog.

Student project at Savannah College of Art and Design

(there's even a 'making-of' video)

Patrick Smith is a brilliant Flash artist who has been producing works of wonder for the past several years at VectorPark

His latest game is his most whimsical and technically sophisticated work to date, a downloadable game called Windosill.

There is nothing like Smith's stuff anywhere. He's managed to come up with a pseudo-3D engine for Flash that no one else has replicated.

In terms of game commerce, this is an interesting experiment because the download is only $3. The price point for most casual games has been $15, but now with GameLab going out of business, it looks like that wasn't enough to pay their bills, but at the same time was too expensive for many people to want to pay.

The download is free and you can play the first half without paying anything. I got about $20 worth of enjoyment out of it, so it was worth it.

Play Windosill.

Kuitman, An obviously talented music producer and video editor mixed together dozens of YouTube clips to create wonderful and cohesive music videos.

It's amazing how he found so many clips that are all in tune with each other. He must have done some noise-reduction or other post-production. Everything is just so tight. The voices definitely have some reverb added.

All 7: http://thru-you.com/

I hope he's like the next DangerMouse and gets a music career going from this

The Mysterious Geographic Explorations Of Jasper Morello [CZ subs] from Ludik on Vimeo.

"Oceania" kinetic art by Casey Curran from casey curran on Vimeo.

On Monday, Christoph Niemann had another piece in the Times: I LEGO N.Y.

It's one of those things that seems so obvious in hindsight, yet so clever. It made me quite nostalgic. One of the pictures I didn't get, the "worst" building. I lived in NYC for 11 years but don't know what that's supposed to be.

Niemann's last piece was the one on coffee. Where each picture is drawn using coffee on a paper napkin. Equally brilliant.