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.

These images are part of an animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org
project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the world and this
animation displays a white flash each time a way is entered or updated. Some
edits are a result of a physical local survey by a contributor with a GPS
unit and taking notes, other edits are done remotely using aerial
photography or out-of-copyright maps, and some are bulk imports of official
data.OpenStreetMap started in 2004 and the rate of contributions is
accelerating with four times as many people contributing to the project in
2008 compared to 2007.

Daniel McLaren has built a Facebook friends visualization using his own
flash-based graph visualization tool called Constellation. The interface lets you see which of your
friends know each other. At any given time it will show one of your friends
as the selected node (in bold), and any mutual friends as additional nodes.
Lines between nodes represent friendships. Clicking a node will select it
and you and the new person's mutual friends will appear. Finally, the colour
of the circles represents gender: yellow is female, purple is male,
and grey is unknown.The information cannot be retrieved all at once so
you'll find that the visualization will constantly change as more
information comes in. It takes a while to load the data but it (usually)
gets more interesting the longer you wait.

The goal of City Murmur is to show how the media differently describes the
urban space through the attention that is given to each street of a city.
In the hypothesis of the increasing importance of the online presence in
contemporary society, a media geography has been generated intersecting the
media scape with the geographical reality of the city.CityMurmur aims at
addressing maps and diagrams, not as passive representation of realities, but
as tools for interpretation and action. It wants to build a time-based
narrative, an historical archive of media coverage of the urban space which
is able to reveal some hidden dynamics useful for city policy support,
critical media analysis, and sociocultural research.CityMurmur is an
on-going project that will be performed in several cities.

Twiter Friends Browser is a fun, simple and light application (5k according
to the author) that allows you to browse through all your twitter friends.
You can start by typing a particular twitter username to immediately see all their connections and latest updates. You can then continue clicking and
dragging in an endless friend-of-a-friend network.

TeleGeography's new Global Internet Map draws upon their annual Global Internet
Geography research to provide a unique view of the world's Internet
backbone architecture.The map's global projection traces the
intercontinental links between the countries of Europe, Asia, North and
Latin America, and Africa. Regional close-ups provide insight into key
routes within each region.

This radial diagram produced by The New York Times and Martin Krzywinski, the developer of Circos, represents the number of small molecules, called methyl groups, attached to segments of chromosome 22 across seven different types of human tissue. Methyl groups are one part of the epigenome, which controls how genes are expressed in different types of cells.