I’ve seen this kind of thing before and always loved the inherent grace that these people have. While many standard jugglers are admittedly amazing in that they can frantically keep x amount of balls/fruits/knives/whatever in the air at the same time, I’d have to say that practitioners of contact (or tactile) juggling are much better value for money.
While your focus is concentrated on the solitary glass ball, the act can then become almost balletic or even narrative.
Witness, then, this Japanese fellow, courtesy of (of all places) Failblog.

Want to learn more about the history of contact juggling? Why not drop by the snigger-inducing Ministry of Manipulation.

Now, it’s quite probable most, if not all of you will agree with me when I say that the fashion industry has to be possibly the biggest waste of time, money and resources ever. In fact I would go so far as to say that it’s all a load of groin-based spheroids.

Finally, someone in the design side of the fashion world appears to agree with this. This is Andy Bates, a leatherworker (not that way! Stop it, you filthy minded buggers!) par excellance.
You see, it would appear that an artist by the name of Grayson Perry heard of Mr Bates (I’m not telling you again – no giggling at the back) and asked him to make a handbag especially for him.
I can see you’re thinking about the use of pronouns in that last sentence. Would it help if I said that this is a picture of Grayson Perry?

Yep. You can see where this is going now can’t you? Well, here’s the finished product.

No, it’s not a coincidence that it looks like that (isn’t the jingly Prince Albert a nice touch though?). Especially when you take into account the back of the bag looks like this.

For more information and some completely gratuitous close-ups, head on over to Trend de la Crème.

See this?

Fairly crude piece of sculpture, wouldn’t you say? Well, I think you need to cut Dalton Ghetti some slack, because he’s carved this entirely out of pencil lead. Yep. He’s whittled away the wooden casing and then painstakingly shaped the graphite (not lead, folks!).
If you thought that was good, take a gander at these:

How much patience does this Connecticut-based artist have? I mean, one of his pieces, involving interlocking hearts, took him over two damn years.
Go see more of his work over at I New Idea.

According to the vimeo page the video’s creator put an ant colony in his scanner and this video is the result of scanning it at regular intervals for 5 years. True or not, it’s a great video.

via The Daily What

Like many folks my age, I had a Rubik’s cube when I was a kid. Also like many kids, I spent hours in frustration trying to solve the damn thing before taking it apart with a screwdriver and putting it back together ‘solved’.

The thing is, that made me feel uncomfortable, because I knew that what I had done was wrong. I was a bad puzzler. Then I was introduced to puzzles where the aim was to put the pieces together or dismantle them. These, I loved.

This one, however, scares the crap out of me.

The Intimidator is – technically – a piece of artwork designed to sit on a desk and look good. However, if work slackens off a little,* then you could waste a little(!) time on attempting this. At 8″x5″x4″, and handcrafted from blocks of cast metals, it’s no lightweight. Never mind it falling on your foot though, there’s a far more dangerous aspect; Inside each Intimidator are certain pieces that, when put together correctly, form a small working handgun!

Go see more over at GarE Maxton’s site.

*Well, when I say ‘a little’, I think that you’d need to be more concerned about the state of your job than the puzzle on your desk if you have that much free time at work…

Today, my friends, we go… through the keyhole. You’ll have to imagine Lloyd Grossman’s horrible twang as I have no inclination to replicate it here.
Having said that, I don’t need to. Just watch this clip, in which someone with one of the oddest French accents ever gives you a tour of his humble abode.

It’s certainly an interesting way to advertise a house that’s on the market, right? I’m just gutted it has been sold, because I wouldn’t have minded it myself.
On the other hand, this is what it looks like on the outside:

Ignore the model shop – everything else, from the door just to the right and all above belongs to this guy’s amazing place. It’s just a shame it’s situated in one of the naffer areas of Eastbourne’s nightclub scene.
Ah well.

Oh hi! Is this on? 1, 2… 1,2 …  Nod if you can hear me. Anyone?  Ok then lets do this stuff.

Chris was good enough to allow me to inflict my genius on the visitors of his site. Not sure if he will foot the doctors’ bills as well but what do I care?

Anyway for my first outing I decided to link you to something with absolutely  no other value than it is pretty and seems to be worth a few clicks. And this you will have to do, click that is.

Ouch owl

Keep a look out for the owls because I hear they bite or is it snap? What do beaks do? Peck…no peckers do that? erm.. I need a thesaurus. Brb