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!

I may not be able to explain the following stop-motion film by Koichiro Tsujikawa, but I can promise that it is entirely mesmerizing:

via it’s nice that

(and ok, yes, I apologize for the video above and for the weeks of internet-neglect, most of all.)