My childhood friend, David Klemes, turned me on to a producer/musican friend of his, and fellow Isreali, KutiMan. Check out his amazing AV remixes of YouTube videos: And if you are new to youtube and want to grow your channel click here to see how you can buy views for your youtube channel.

Found on NYT, some nice Radiology Art. The movies are particularly satisfying.

[Update: I downsized and recompressed the movie, exported it as an FLV, and implemented an open-source video player on the blog to play it back! –Steve.]

Cribbed from rhizome.org.

Boston.com offers these easy instructions to help you hallucinate with common household items.

ping pong hallucination

h/t Watson

Hey everybody, Daniel’s the name, Info Design is my game. I’ve been a lurker here on NII for some time now, and I’m geeked to show you some jaw-droppingly beautiful design work coming from my new heroes in Barcelona and Lisbon. I give you Bestiario.

What I love most about the work they’re doing is that it encourages and facilitates playing with the data, or in some cases, just letting it all wash over you and tickling your eyebones. Enjoy!

lots of factoids with neat gfx:

Good.is has a snappy video breaking down the $3 Trillion cost of war (as documented in Joseph E. Stiglitz and Linda J. Bilme’s exhaustively researched book, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict)

Mark Newman at the Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan generated this awesome collection of election maps. My favorite is above.

H/T Andrew Sullivan

UPDATE:
As Steve and Josh commented, the red/blue colors can give a biased visual perspective. Here’s the same map with the hue rotated 120 degrees.

Check out this cool Japanese water fountain: