Earlier this month, this massive stone was recovered at the Letseng Mine, in Lesotho, Africa. It weighs 478 carats and could possibly be the largest polished round diamond ever to be found. Where can I get one of those? (more…)

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 Tapeworm, designed by Paul Sandip is a strip that slides into any roll of tape for an instant tape dispenser. How awesome is that? No more a million different size, heavy, ugly tape dispensers that take up half your desk. 

SNURK (Le Clochard) in the Netherlands created a duvet & pillowcase set for a project to help fund housing projects that supporting young people in finding work or continuing their education. A large portion of the proceeds go to SZN, the foundation for homeless young people in the Netherlands. Find out more about the project.

I’ve never been punched in the face.  Truth.

The closest I’ve gotten is a friend who looks at me with a dead-serious stare and says, on days when I’m feelin my worst, “Want me to punch you in the face?”  She’s never done it but I know she would.

I know - I’ve got great friends.  This video is dedicated to her and the right hook I know is on its way.

another favorite video from more recent history… the brothers neistat put together this impeccable DIY masterpiece for Arcade Fire’s Neighborhoods #1 (Tunnels) - it makes me cry. seriously.

so i posted the most awesome tom petty video yesterday on this and then realized that the reason the linking to the youtube video wasn’t working. it’s because the turdbags at universal music have continued the record industry’s staggering fall from grace (or at least from the 90’s heydays) by not allowing video content for their artists to be embedded on other blogs. (don’t worry record execs, this whole internet thing isn’t gonna catch on anyway.)

nice work guys. i hear the rotary phone and horse drawn carriage industries are booming as well. keep on sticking to your guns… it worked for them.

oh, and here’s a link to the tom petty vid.

the first in a series of nostalgic music videos (for those of you old enough to remember people used to make music videos) that people watched. more to come

I’m a few days late on this one, but Metallica has taken an interesting approach in promoting their new album, Death Magnetic. Instead of releasing the new album with just a few posters slapped around town, the guys turned to Turner Duckworth (a Cannes award winning design firm, for those of you that follow) to completely rebrand their image. They’ve revamped the logo along with a brand kit, and some coffin shaped collateral for those die hards out there. But perhaps the most astounding thing I noticed were the marketing incentives for the fan club members. If a member purchases a ticket to a live show, they receive an e-voucher for a copy of the album to be mailed directly to their house for no charge. Yes, we are talking about the same Metallica as in Metallica vs. Napster.But this should work great. With ticket prices as high as they are nowadays, maybe it’ll prompt more people to buy a concert ticket because they’re getting two for the price of one.  If I hadn’t already seen them live twice, and I was seeing a larger amount on my paychecks, I might actually consider this deal myself.

The Project Lives.