Now, I’ve been to my fair share of performances and I think I can say, with some degree of authority, that there are humans with less guitar-talent than these zebra finches:

by French artist Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, via rebel:art.

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.

Below are but three of many beautiful things I have been patiently waiting to show you while I was busy with the holiday gift guide:

#1: New Zealand Book Council’s “Going West” (via designboom)

#2: Susanne Ludwig’s “Feasible Fantasies” (via it’s nice that)

no, you are not dreaming, that IS a flying bouncy castle you see. (there’s even a video of it flying through the treetops. yay.)

#3: origami tree roots, by Steven Beckly

just plain old whimsy-ful prettiness.

So anyhow, happy 2010 eve, kids!