The Oculus Yacht is a 250 feet, long distance cruising "whale" capable of speeds upto 25 knots and transporting 12 people in ultimate nautical luxury. It is the first yacht from Schöpfer Yachts LLC and was designed by E. Kevin Schöpfer, founder and owner of his namesake company. Would look great moored next to the Protein Wally.

Amazing. Directed by Thibaut de Longeville and via: http://www.lamjc.com/

Our longtime friends at onedotzero are looking for your creative output for their upcoming "adventures in motion" tour which kicks off in London at BFI Southbank on 9-13 September.

MTV and Swatch have got together with Behance to find the world's best 2D, 3D, graphic art, illustration, fashion, motion design and film talents.

Called MTV Playground, you will have the chance to win $20,000 and the opportunity to have their work featured on MTV. Sounds good? Sign up here ...

If you ever get bored of Vice's Dos and Don'ts then this is where you can go to Look at this Fucking Hipster:

Props to cuz Ciaran for the link.

These are genius. More over on Kottke ...

See, adverting can be good if it's done right.

All the designers, all the time. You can find it here: http://www.tweeeeet.com/

Sweet. Props to Mr Tantramar.

NYC based Colossal Media will hand paint your billboards for you for that authentic touch. Via the equally awesome Missbehave magazine. Am loving the original work they did with Shepard Fair for Dewar's, original 1960's style.

Finally! A super simple out-of-the-box hack c/o AnchorFree for all those non-Americans who want to find out what all the Hulu fuss is about ... and they've even made a version for your iPhone. Happy days.

I had no idea the incredible range of projects Wellcome Trust have funded over the years. It ranges from kids books to this award winning documentary. They've even made a little video to show them off, not that I presume they are the showing off kind of people.

Damn! My favourite magazine has just hired my favourite designer to make my favourite things. Expect good results.

Mr Blaire MacIntryre shows us the way forward. Now *this* is what I've been waiting for. Props to @ammonite for the link.

After more than 50 years of experimentation, physicists are hoping to develop the first form of nuclear fusion technology that produces more energy than it consumes. Within the next fortnight, researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) in California will fire 192 separate laser beams capable of generating 500 trillion watts - 1,000 times the power of the US national grid - for a fraction of a second.

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Glocal (global + local) is an immense, collaborative and multifaceted digital art project that examines the making, sharing and exhibiting of images in the 21st century. Working out of the Surrey Art Gallery's TechLab, the artists behind Glocal pose questions about the nature of photography at this point in our history: What is a photograph? What is a camera? What is a photographer?In the context of Glocal Project, Digital Artist Jer Thorp has produced 2 abstract search tools to visually navigate through Glocal's large database of photos. The first image represents the latest tool created by Jer, entitled Glocal Similarity Map Engine, which shows the compositional similarity between a particular image (shown in the center) and other images in the Glocal Pool.

Eigenfactor.org is a non-commercial academic research project sponsored by the Bergstrom lab in the Department of Biology at the University of Washington. Eigenfactor ranks journals much as Google ranks websites. Scholarly references join journals together in a vast network of citations.

Instrument collaborated with JD Hooge of Gridplane to conceive and produce designs for a data visualization project for Google. The concept revolved around the idea of aggregating and visualizing the scale and pace of activity as well as the influence of social media over time. The end result of this effort would harness the power of Google Analytics and other data from varied sources and display them in a flexible interface.Instrument developed an application to aggregate the data from sources all over the Internet with deep visual design detail provided by JD.

In August 2008, MIT Technology Review reported on how new imaging
technologies are revealing the intricate architecture of the brain, by
creating a series of highly-detailed, and never seen before, blueprints of
its dense connectivity.The typical brain scan shows a muted gray
rendering of the brain, easily distinguished by a series of convoluted
folds. But according to Van Wedeen, an Associate Professor in Radiology at
Harvard, that image is just a shadow of the real brain. A new technique
called Diffusion spectrum imaging (DSI) uses magnetic resonance signals to
track the movement of water molecules in the brain: water diffuses along the
length of neural wires, called axons.

The Complexcity project explores major cities around the world focussing on
how their urban sprawls have evolved over time. Using the patterns formed by
roads in each city, Korean born designer Lee Jang Sub creates complex
graphic configurations, combining the idea of natural and man made systems.
In the process he finds a concealed aesthetic within the convoluted pattern
of urban networks. He started with his hometown Seoul, and has already
completed Paris, Rome, and Moscow.

I've wanted to add the brilliant work of Eno Henze to VC for quite some
time, but I was struggling a bit with its abstract artistic
nature. I'm not sure why, since it hasn't stopped me before. In fact, if you
want to read more on the noticeable bond between VisualComplexity and
Generative Art, read my blog post on this
topic.Eno Henze is a generative artist, based in Berlin, who has produced
a great array of outstanding projects. What's so interesting about Henze's
work is the strangely organic and painterly outcome based on code. The
images shown here are from a commissioned piece for Aurora - Norwich
International Animation Festival, part of an ongoing series of computer
drawings entitled "The Human Factor", which Eno Henze started in 2006.

These work-in-progress maps are part of a study produced in the spring of
2008 for economist Yann Moulier-Boutang, law professor at the French
engineering school UTC. They represent the
linked terms of vocabulary used on the Web to talk about the intellectual
property rights in French. The datasets came from the search engine Exalead SA.Each node is a term
and each edge exists when two terms or expressions are co-cited on a
sufficient number of web pages, over more than 120,000 pages. 1283
expressions and 4984 co-citing links have been selected, assuming a
representative approach against an exhaustive one. The first image is a detail of the
general map where semantic clusters are represented with different
color-nodes.

Net-Map is an interview-based mapping tool that helps people understand, visualize, discuss, and improve situations in which many different actors influence outcomes. By creating Influence Network Maps, individuals and groups can clarify their own view of a situation, foster discussion, and develop a strategic approach to their networking activities. More specifically, Net-Map helps players to determine what actors are involved in a given network, how they are linked, how influential they are, and what their goals are.The tool is extremely low-tech and low-cost and can be used when working with rural community members with low formal education as well as with policy makers, or international development actors.

Similar to Unfluence, this visualization tool lets users visually explore the relationships between 100 donors and US Governors elected in 2006. Currently the application shows only donors who donated to more than one candidate, or pursued a single donation higher than 100,000 USD.The application, inspired by a conversation with Daniele Galiffa, was produced by Marco Borgna using data from The National Institute on Money in State Politics. The Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization revealing the influence of campaign money on state-level elections and public policy in all 50 US states.