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.

Keith Peters is a generative artist who works mostly in ActionScript 3.0. The images shown here are just part of a growing body or remarkable work which he showcases on his website Art From Code. The quality of the work is almost as impressive as Keith's unpretentiousness. As he explains: "Sometimes I make something that looks nice and put it up here. I call it 'generative art' (...) Other people have different ideas on exactly what generative art means, or what a piece has to consist of or what should have gone into it in order for it to merit that title. So it's up to you what you want to call it.

Every name is rich with meaning, sound, history and character, contributing
to its unique and individual qualities. In order to fully understand the
complexities of baby-naming, Baby Name Brainstorm produced an enticing
interactive graph showing multiple name relationships concurrently.You
can easily discover alternatives and variations on a favourite name or
explore associations through phonetics, spellings, meanings and other
interesting characteristics.

According to the authors, each city's various subway structures and railway
systems should reflect somehow the character of that city. In an effort to
infuse the city's identity into its subway map, while also trying to
simplify and beautify the original diagram, Kim Ji-Hwan and Jin Sol produced
a series of original maps for three city subway systems - the Seoul Railway,
Tokyo Railway and Osaka Railway. More cities are in the design phase and
others are being planned.The first image depicts Tokyo's intricate
network of subway, lightrail and monorail, with more than 1500 stations
covering the metropolitan area. Placed in the city center is the Imperial
Palace, the residence of the current Ten-no (Japanese Emperor). Subway lines
circumvent the expansive ground claimed by the Imperial Palace.

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey is a comic creator and new media lecturer based out
of St Albans, England. In E-merl.com Daniel catalogues many of his experiments in
fiction, comics, and hypercomics.In reference to the concept of hypertext
fiction, where narrative is non-linear and non-hierarchical, hypercomics are
a variation of comics that has truly embraced its digital medium, allowing
multiple changeable paths within a fractured rhizomatic environment.

The Tax Map is a graph of the United States Tax Code, represented as a
network. In the network each node represents a section of the tax code,
while each edge represents a reference from one section to another. As the
author explains, the project was born by a desire to better understand how
the complexity of this mass of rules and exceptions would bear out if one
were to "look at the mere structure of the tax code, stripped naked of its
rules and semantics."Each colored circle represents a section of the tax
code. Size is determined by how many times that section of the tax code is
referenced by other sections of the tax code; while color is determined by
the ratio of references to a particular statute, by references made by the
statute itself. This ratio is then calculated against a color range from
blue to red to determine the final color.

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.