This guy, from Hiroshima, makes labyrinths out of salt.  leading up to salt mountains. where the salt children play. or something.  Regardless, I have never wished to be an ant more than I do currently.

via kottke

* yes, I am a nerd.

In case you, too, were visually offended by Avatar’s graphical gluttony*, here’s some CGI-therapy.

It is “A FULL-CG animated piece that tries to illustrate architecture art across a photographic point of view where main subjects are already-built spaces. Sometimes in an abstract way. Sometimes surreal” (from here).  Blablableebop, artsy-farsty talk… it is just plain pretty:

The Third & The Seventh from Alex Roman on Vimeo.

* not to mention the white-man-swoops-in-to-save-indigenous-group-and-breed-with-warriorprincess colonialist bullcrap.

Behold! Gloriously clever and impeccably retro-fied social media textbook covers by stéphane massa-bidal (of retrofutur):

(I am now only going to accept linked-in requests from users who are adequately mustachioed.)

You can buy a print direct from the artist here if you so choose. Here’s the whole collection:

via whorange.