Shot on his floor, this short stop-motion gem comes from Tomas Mankovsky.

Website – www.sorry-im-late.com

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Partly recorded on the little island of Veckatimest in Massachusetts, Veckatimest is the third full-length album by Brooklyn-based indie rock band Grizzly Bear and it’s a nice continuation of their streak of musical acclaim in the indie genre. Mixing traditional chord-playing and electric guitar with intertwining voices, the four man band creates a blissful and breathtaking cocktail of nonconformist music which never loses its magic, however many times you play it.

If you’re still unsure of the music and want a free taster, there is a song, Cheerleader, available for free download on their site.

Website – www.grizzly-bear.net

Myspace – www.myspace.com/grizzlybear

The album is available on iTunes, Boomkat, and Amazon UK

Some nice work from typographer and graphic designer Jon Contino of New York-based design studio Onetwentysix.

Website – www.joncontino.com

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London-based Welsh contemporary artist Sophie Rees recently updated the design of her website, adding some new work at simultaneously. Working with oil paints and c-type printing, Sophie attempts to “challenge conventional ways of seeing” and her work “reconsiders the dichotomy between nature and culture”.

Website – www.sophie-rees.com

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The Webs Trend Map is a unique and beautiful visualization by Information Architects Inc. which maps this years 333 leading Web domains and 111 most influential Internet people onto the many stations and lines of the Tokyo Metro map.

Website – www.webtrendmap.com

Map on Flickr – www.flickr.com/photos/formforce/3409362834/sizes/l/

Entertaining new viral video from Samsung and London-based The Viral Factory featuring a comical “claymotion” duo and brutal, one-sided cartoon violence. Its a fun video to start the week with nice animation, though I am at loss as to the message they are trying to convey.

YouTube – www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUTkvfPpsA

A expansive collection of surreal collage from Deibo on Flickr. The graph paper background and vibrant splashes of colour give a nice basis for the work.

Flickr – www.flickr.com/photos/deibo/

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Great photography by Danish Kim Høltermand who takes full advantage of lighting in her complex and seemingly tangled, architecture-based work.

Website – www.holtermand.dk

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Swedish designers Humans since 1982 have created a new kind of digital clock comprised of 24 analogue clocks whose hands make up the numbers. The project, aptly named The Clock Clock, will be exhibited at the Rhösska design museum in Göteborg from June till mid August 2009.

The clock can be seen in action on YouTube here and here.

Website – www.humanssince1982.com

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Nice short film combining live action and animation by Ubik. Done for MTV worldwide to help raise awareness of the effects of global warming.

3650 from Ubik on Vimeo.