Ray Morimura

Wooden Scale

Absolutely one of my favorite pieces. More work by Jason Middlebrook here.

Ponds on the Inside

"Domestic Ponds" by Benjamin Graindorge and Eric Jourdan. Some interesting aquarium and houseplant design. I found a few articles on the designs here,  here, and here (they all say basically the same things, maybe just read one.)

Shadow Work

Artist Kumi Yamashita (here), Larry Kagan (here) and Tim Nobel & Sue Webster are all known for creating sculptural shadow puppets. Below are some of my favorites.

Kumi Yamashita

Kumi Yamashita

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Larry Kagan

Larry Kagan

Tim Nobel & Sue Webster

Tim Nobel & Sue Webster

Tim Nobel & Sue Webster

Tim Nobel & Sue Webster

Another Tree House

I guess I really like tree houses because here is a link to a cheesy website with a cheesy mission statement offering (for a price) a stay in a tree sphere. Below are some photos of the spheres.

 

below is a more spacious Vietnamese tree house. More information about that can be found here.

Finally, Here is a portfolio of O2 Treehouse. Some interesting ones can be found there, but I've uploaded my favorites below:

Tree Light

Here and Here are some articles on trees that have been implanted with gold nanoparticles, allowing them to glow red.
And because I was having trouble finding pictures of glowing trees, below are some of my favorite photos from a series of google image searches on trees.

3D Glass Paintings

Here is work from the artist David Spriggs who uses multiple panes of glass to create 3D paiintings. Below are a few of my favorites from the site.

Hanging Waves

here is a video of Pentagonal Wave by Reuben Margolin and here is some more information, including more kinetic wave sculptures.

A Blog About Bookshelves

Here are a series of blog articles having to do with weird-o artsy bookshelves. Although they aren't all exactly practical they are all pretty beautiful. Below are photos from some of the more interesting ones.

We're Still Not Alone

Here are a few more examples of animals doing things that humans like to take all the credit for.

Here is a Time's article describing a recent study that found prostitution within a group of Long-tailed Macaques. According to the article, not only were the sexual favors paid for at a measurable rate but the rate changed according to the rules of supply and demand. 

Male bowerbirds build elaborate nest structures which they fill with a colorful collection of hundreds of items found in their environment in order to attract females. They arrange the collection of shells, flowers, pieces of plastic and coins left by humans, leaves or anything else they find within the nest structures (called bowers) for the female to inspect. Even more interesting the bowerbirds have been known to paint the walls of these structures using berry juice and paste made from bushfire charcoal (more here, here and here) Below are some pictures of bowers built by the birds. I'm really impressed.

Art on Moon

A few images of art left on the moon (full article here)

Eco Building

Photos of the designs for EDITT tower, a maybe-to-be building maybe-to-be constructed in Singapore. More information here.