It’s no secret that Facebook is basically one giant worldwide popularity content just hosted exhange review sites. But how exactly to you gloat to your ‘real life’ friends about how popular you are on the interwebs? Through a giant flag of victory on your wall, of course. PrintingFacebook.com was started by an artist named Benjamin Lotan. He offers large 20″x40″ high quality prints which automatically grabs all your friends profile picks through facebook connect. Great idea and would make for quite a conversation piece in your livingtoom.

Yours for USD$20

Clearly inspired by the idea of protecting your investment, not to mention the homemade projects and knockoffs out there – Moleskine has finally entered the iPhone / iPad / iPod cover market. Don’t they just look beautiful? As beautiful as Boise ID and the countryside of the region?

We’ve covered moleskine before, we’ve always been big fans of their products. We  can’t wait to get our hands on these. No pricing announced yet, but we’ll let you know as soon as we can review one.

IdeaPaint turns virtually anything you paint into a dry-erase surface and any room into a hub of creativity and collaboration. Well thats what the nifty looking website says anyway.

The application in an office space is obvious, but I think this would be great as a home application. Especially for the new homes in Boise Idaho.

Make a room, cover it in this stuff – and you have a free-for-all room where you can let the children (or inner children) vandalise to their hearts content. Excellent for creative development of the brain, we say.

Everyone knows and loves Sharpie permanent markers, they are one of the worlds best selling and well known marker brands.
They appeal to everyone from young vandals, fashion designers, advertising execs and even grandmothers at home. But for the gentleman connoisseur? Now they have that covered with the stainless steel sharpie.

At degourget, we have a soft spot for anything stainless steel. It’s like a magical material that makes everything better.
Not really sure how it will improve the performance of a permanent marker, but hey, it make it look premium. It’s worth it for the cool factor. Also, it uses ink cartridges – so it’s essentiallt refillable. Which may even satisfy you conservationists out there .

Only costs $7 from Amazon

Filmed by director henrik hansen and his team in 2010, Shinya Kimura founded Zero Engineering in Okazaki Japan in 1992. Initially his shop was named Repair Shop Chabo but the name was changed the following year to Zero Engineering. He soon gained a reputation for his minimalistic and vintage looking bikes that combine form and function. As you can see by his bold, raw and minimalist builds.

His name was soon synonymous with what people often refer to as Zero-style. A Zero-style bike is typically based around a rigid gooseneck, a pre-1984 Harley Davidson engine, springer front end, spoked wheels and often includes parts of the bike remaining in bare metal. The inspiration came from wabi sabi (austere refinement) and the beauty of the raw materials and incorporating the essence of wa (harmony) into his designs. Shinya and his crew were also known for putting their work to the test by participating in different vintage race series with their motorcycles.

These are the most zen motorcycles we have ever seen. Truly beautiful.

More at his website, Chabott Engineering

As expected the new Tron movie trailer is looking amazing. Might be giving a little too much of the plot away – but it looks spectacular nonetheless. If you don’t want anything spoiled, watch it without the audio.

The Imaginary Foundation is a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination. They hold dear a belief in human potential and seek progress in all directions. Avoiding direct publicity, the team has sought clothing as an unlikely vehicle for bringing their ideas beyond the academic realm and into popular culture.

They’ve done some awesome tee shirts before, and now they’ve put their great artwork on some good lookin iPhone cases.

Get them direct from The Imaginary Foundation

Who doesn’t love Havaianas? While we are still freezing in winter down in Australia – we forward to a warm summer that our northern hemisphere friends are already enjoying. Wish we could be wearing these to work now.

Anyway Threadless is of course, the now famous, and probably the first crowd-designed tee shirt store. They’ve done a collaboration with Havaianas which has resulted in some really nice looking flip-flops (we call them thongs down here).

Get them from Havaianas US.

Well Apple’s own iBookStore, Amazon’s Kindle Store store and Zinio‘s newspapers and magazines are all great and that. But it’s the Marvel Comics App for iPad that has really got us excited.

The new app is launching with 500 of the company’s most popular titles and to celebrate the launch Marvel is offering titles like Captain America #1 and the Invicible Iron Man #1 for free, to get your started. Individual issues will cost US$1.99 and new titles will hit Marvel’s shop every week.

I can see a lot of 20 and 30 somethings, who collected comics in their younger years getting right into this. There is something nice and exciting about having a comic subscription right on your iPhone, the images would look crisp and beautiful on that Apple display. And of course, this means you don’t have to make the trek to the comic book store and deal with that damn comic book guy who always seems to judge you based on your inferior comic book choices.

Our guess is DC and Image would be coming out with something similar. Hopefully they will put something out at the same quality or better than the Marvel one. We’d love to see the DC Vertigo graphic novels on our iPads.

Detroit based Bethany Shorb, makes hand screenprinted ties and sells them on her Etsy store under the shop name Cyberoptix Tie Lab.

There are a whole bunch of nice designs, great colours with both artistic and dark themed images printed on quality silk and microfibre ties. Pirate ships, razors, cameras, victorian patterns and all kinds of miscellany. They start from about USD$30 and she also does wedding packages.

Check out some of our favourites. Get them here.

The new app is launching with 500 of the company’s most popular titles and to celebrate the launch Marvel is offering titles like Captain America #1 and the Invicible Iron Man #1 for free, to get your started. Individual issues will cost US$1.99 and new titles will hit Marvel’s shop every week.

I can see a lot of 20 and 30 somethings, who collected comics in their younger years getting right into this. There is something nice and exciting about having a comic subscription right on your iPhone, the images would look crisp and beautiful on that Apple display. And of course, this means you don’t have to make the trek to the comic book store and deal with that damn comic book guy who always seems to judge you based on your inferior comic book choices.

Our guess is DC and Image would be coming out with something similar. Hopefully they will put something out at the same quality or better than the Marvel one. We’d love to see the DC Vertigo graphic novels on our iPads.

For the first release in the series, Furni have teamed up with designer Bobby Solomon, founder of Kitsune Noir and Brooklyn-based Dan Funderburgh. The piece is painstakingly detailed with a neo-victotorian pattern. The outcome is nothing short of stunning, the woodgrain gives the piece depth and the etching just makes more a work of art than something to tell the time by.

The series is limited to 88 pieces and is available exclusively through furnicreations.

- Limited edition of 88 / 44 natural & 44 black
- Measure 16″ high x 9″ wide / These are HUGE!
- Laser cut acylic hands are reversible, come in black and white
- Solid birch body, handcrafted in Canada
- Battery operated
- Ships Globally

Limited to 88 pieces and sold exclusively by Furni for US$198

Freelance graphic designer Logan Walters has come up with a nice little project that he has called the Wu-Note Project. Inspired by similar projects by other designers. He has set himself out to redesign all the classic album cover artwork for the Wu-Tang Discography, which is notorious for some horrible badly aged artwork. Call them media-mashups, visual remixes, redesigns or whatever. We think they look pretty freakin sweet.

He’s got them available on his website and on flickr.

If you’ve got any of these albums in your iTunes or on your iPod – it’d be a nice visual update and a reason to revisit the albums.

Our faves are below.

via Geddem

Well we’re fans of tattoos in various forms, how about tattooed furniture? Traditional Japanese style?

Well the unfortunately named ‘Yakuza’ is a digitally tattooed wooden table by Reddish Studio. It looks like it’s part of a collection. We have no idea what the ‘digital tattoo’ process involves, but it definitely looks pretty cool. It’s made out of veneered MDF with some kind of digital printing technology.

From the makers:

In its design, the table is treated as a living body, receiving its character from a unique tattoo printed on its surface. The wood texture acts as skin, becoming a platform for expressing a strong cultural and personal identity.

The digital printing technology enables to easily treat each table individually, making them unique – just like people.

Price on inquiry. So you can assume it’s pretty damned expensive.

Available from Generate Design

Yeah, Kanye comes across as a douche and he’s gotta learn to stop using caps lock and all but maybe the problem isn’t Kanye. I mean he’s made some decent tunes. He’s had Spike Jonze do a clip for him. He’s shagging a very fashionab and sexy, albeit in an androgenous way, model. Factor all this together and you start to think that surely he can’t be all that bad. Maybe the problem is us, the great unwashed non-Kanyes out there.

You see us non-Kanyes can’t even begin to understand the fabulousness of the life this man lives. How can we? The concept of waking up surrounded by Louis Vuitton, bathing in Veuve and then having to decide which lambo to drive which bank stuffed with our milions is so far removed from our frame of reference that we don’t stand a hope in hell of ever understanding what Kanye has to go through every day just to be Kanye. Asking us to understand Kanye is just too hard and arduous a task.

Or at least we thought so. Like every seemingly insurmountable problem, the solution is but a mere google search away. And the internet gods have smiled upon our plight once more and delivered unto us mere mortal non-Kanyes the tool which we’ve been waiting for – Kanye Vision for your browser.

The talented individuals at F.A.T have created a simple Kanye Vision button that you can simply drag and drop into your browser window. Now you can start to gain a valuable insight into what it means to be Kanye by examining real world events through the eyes of Kanye.

Get yours here. What you telling me you don’t have 3 minutes that need killing?