PicoCool

”Plushdepartment combines the power of computers with living, organic and beautiful materials. We create cases from ceramic and glass and concrete and wood. We add colour and style and pattern and line to what used to be a boring square box.” Designs range from shiny gold casings, sleek minimal black and white, to the PURE*ZENDER, an urban, street art-inspired computer and amplifier. The computers are Intel Core 2 Duo, 1000 GB hard drive, 2 x 2048MB highend Dual Channel RAM 800MHz memory, and comes with network gigabit LAN, USB, Firewire and more.  Currently available for purchase in the Netherlands, Germany and Turkey.

Network: blogs

"Artists Robin Hewlett and Ben Kinsley invited the Google Inc. Street View team and residents of Pittsburgh’s Northside to collaborate on a series of tableaux along Sampsonia Way. Neighbors, and other participants from around the city, staged scenes ranging from a parade and a marathon, to a garage band practice, a seventeenth century sword fight, a heroic rescue and much more… Street View technicians captured 360-degree photographs of the street with the scenes in action and integrated the images into the Street View mapping platform.”

Network: twitter

I love timelapse videos of scramble intersections (like this one of Tokyo’s famous Shibuya crossing). Here’s another one below that was shot by Sam Javanrouh of Toronto’s first scamble intersection at the corner of Yonge and Dundas. A writer at the Canadian Globe and Mail describes: “The launch of Toronto’s new “scramble” intersection - which stops motorized traffic and allows pedestrians to cross in all directions, even diagonally - felt a bit like a street party yesterday as thousands enjoyed a certain frisson from cutting across the middle of Yonge and Dundas Streets while cars had to wait.”

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Network: vimeo

PingMag has an interview with ZEVS, the French street artist whose street art and graffiti “distorts the logos” of corporate brands. “Visual kidnapping is like entering an interactive game: If the brand on the billboard kidnaps the attention of the public with the purpose of consumer demand, I reverse the situation and I kidnap the model on the poster and I demand a ransom of 500,000 Euros from the brand. This sum represents the symbolic price of an advertising campaign for the brand.”

Network: blogs

I love it when street style and tech come together as does with this KRINK laptop sleeve by Arkitip, a project of Incase “aimed at rtistically embellished Apple products to users who have an appreciation for the creative arts and technology.” Krink pens were developed by graffiti writer and artist, Craig “KR” Costello out of a variety of homemade inks and markers for use in both street and studio environments. “KR’s products gained notoriety by their association with his work in the street, the studio, and by his dripping ink aesthetics.” Available at $79.95 for MacBook and MacBook Pro 15 In.

Network: blogs

Designed by nineteen-year-old, Ben Gulak, ”the Uno accelerates with a simple lean and turns like a street bike on side-by-side wheels.” [via briancaldwell on twitter]

Network: twitter

This is a brilliant combination of pixel art and street art.  The photo was taken by Annamarie on 9th Street west of 2nd Avenue in New York City. If you have information about the artist, please tell us in the comments.

Network: flickr

It makes me feel creative just looking at this cute sticker pack by Jeff Claassen. All stickers are screenprinted with high quality ink on adhesive vinyl. And, it’s only $6 for one pack!

Network: etsy