The journals have countless pages of inspirations and ideas in them. My favorite part of this whole project is that the pages are created by ordinary people, not artist or designers. Allowing new ideas and unique and unusual concepts to emerge. It is simply brilliant.

There are still 1,000 journals circulating around the world… who knows, you could find one.

Check out 1000journals.com or buy the book with Amazon

Amazing paddy field art in Japan. Each year, farmers in the town of Inakadate create works of crop art by carefully planning, arranging and growing different varieties of rice plants. This year they came up with giant pictures of Napoleon and a Sengoku-period warrior. (via Pinktentacle).

DOXA Documentary Film Festival is launching something new at this year’s festival-their first-ever celebrity camera auction.

Equipped with single-use cameras, some of our favorite famous people have unleashed their point & shoot creativity to support exposed! DOXA’s Celebrity Camera Auction. The cameras will be auctioned off on eBay during the festival which runs from May 22 to 31 in Vancouver.

Here’s your chance to own a unique set of undeveloped snapshots, exposing the remarkable lives and extraordinary visions of some of today’s most celebrated public figures. They make great, one-of-a-kind  gifts for the ‘fans’ in your life as well!

So, if you’re sick of hiding out in Kristen Kreuk’s hedge to see what she’s up to, bid on her camera!

If you don’t care about celebrity lives, then all the more reason to skip that Hollywood blockbuster and check out some of the incredible films screening at this year’s festival. Starting today!

Not sure if Bansky has hit Berlin or not really, but now you have a better chance of finding out. Adidas has created an iPhone app that acts as map and guide for locating street art in Berlin. So, if you’re tired of yet another museum or monument, take to the street gallery with the Urban Art Guide. Backpacking ain’t what it used to be.

Clean tagging, or reverse graffiti, follows a very simple principle: clean in order to draw. We’ve all done that on a dirty car (yes, Wash me!!!). So is this environmental activism, art or vandalism? Alexandre Orion’s ‘wall of skulls’ in Sao Paulo is both stunning and very disturbing. It’s a beautiful piece of street-art that instantly reminds drivers of the impact their emissions are having on the environment by revealing the dirtiness of the tunnel. Authorities find themselves in a troubling dilemma: so far there’s no law to prevent you from cleaning a wall… In Sao Paulo they were so embarrassed that they ended up cleaning every other tunnel in the city.

Paul Curtis (UK), better known as Moose, explains “All I’m really doing is cleaning. Surely people can’t have a problem with that?” Actually they do have a problem and Moose was ordered to clean up his clean act. The irony is it only takes a few days for pollution to “naturally” cover it.

I guess all new story ideas have been used up in literary circles, and writers have to turn to rewrite the classics. And that’s right, Seth Grahame-Smith went there. Read about it here, and order it on amazon.

On Saturday, January 10th, 2009 nearly 2,500 people took off their pants on subways in 22 cities around the world. In New York’s 8th Annual No Pants! Subway Ride they had over 1,200 participants, spread out over four subway lines. Watch it here.

No pants day subway ride was organized by Improv Everywhere, check out their site for what else they have been up to, one of my favourites was Human Mirror.

It’s like Communication Design class all over again.

Take a peek at these sexy pieces for the Grammy’s “Celebrate the Music That Made Us” campaign.  The portraits of select artists (Rihanna, Stevie Wonder, Coldplay, Thom Yorke, etc.), are made up of song titles that inspire them. Not sure who produced the artwork but you can view more here and here.

With such great use of typorgraphy, even I’m inspired to catch the Grammy Awards on Feb. 8th.

Data Visualization seems to be all the rage these days and there is a great summary of some of the instances of it from 2008 over at Flowing Data. (via MS on Twitter) Some of these were already familiar to me (Wordle and House of Cards) but there were some new surprising ones, most notably I Want You To Want Me by Johnathon Harris.

New ways or displaying and interacting with information seems to be on the rise. We just launched a new project called Branded Life with our own take of visualization inspired by Wordle. Developed with Jer from blprnt and Ryan Ilg, for Egg Strategy, the site allows focus group users to log their brand experiences through a day, and then visualize the results.