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Join author Elizabeth Gilbert on her travels through Italy, India, and Bali where she pursues her desire for satiation, spiritual enlightenment, and emotional balance.

Gilbert embarks on her year long journey after a drawn out divorce as a way to heal and recover. A great book for fans of travel and memoir literature.

"Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year's cultural and emotional tapestry--conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor--as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression."

Check price and availability at Amazon.

Here at Surfilicious, we all consider ourselves to be quite the fashionistas, and maybe you've got someone in your life who fancies them self a fashion designer in training too. Let that young man or lady (or maybe yourself) tap into their creative side with this Fashion Design Studio.

The kit comes with a 3-D dressmaker from, a step-by-step guide to fashion illustration, a sketchbook and swatch book for brainstorming, and all the other tools needed to create miniature masterpieces for New York Fashion Week.

Check price and availability at Discovery Channel Store.

Neither of us are scrapbookers, but one of us is fond, very fond, of making loads and loads of art, and absolutely and totally in love with pens.

ZIG pens are wonderful to work with - they're made with pigment ink, so you won't get fading if you're doodling in your artist's journal or journaling in your baby's scrapbook. They're archival quality all around, for times when being long-lasting is important to you.

This set gives you 48 amazing colors. Well worth it.

Check price and availability at Scrapbooks Supercenter.

Buy now!

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Check out CoverPops, by Jim Bumgardner. (The pic above is called 500 Gifts for Geeks - well, okay, this particular piece isn't art, but we thought it was interesting).

Move your mouse over each mosaic at the CoverPop site, and you'll uncover the items that make up the piece. Each item is also linked to Amazon, where you can, oh so conveniently, of course, purchase it. According to Yahoo Picks: "Art and commerce give each other a big cozy hug" on CoverPops.

This poster is absolutely gorgeous, and you can order it at cost for only $4 at KrazyDad. It's actually made up of 1099 (!!!) individual circles, each of which is a photograph. 265 different people contributed their photos to the project.

From the KrazyDad site:

The photographs are arranged in a fibonacci spiral, a fascinating pattern commonly seen in plants, such as sunflowers and pinecones. You will notice spirals going both clockwise and anti-clockwise. If you count the number of spirals in each direction, the result will be two successive numbers in the fibonacci series.

Very impressive.

Feel a need to satisfy your inner graffiti artist? Check out the Refreshing Wall, put together by Sprite and MSN.

You start off with quite a choice of locations. We clicked around, and finally settled on an empty billboard, but you can do your stuff at a construction site, in a backalley, even on someone's trashed sneaker.

Once you're done your masterpiece you can save it to the gallery, or just go and check out the gallery and see the stuff other people have posted.

This site is one huge work of art, Internet-style - a little eerie but fascinating. Take a stroll through 99Rooms, showcasing the artwork of  Kim Koester, with digitization and animation by Richard Schumann and Stephan Schulz and sound by Johannes Buenemann.

The final product of this year long effort is a scintillating intermediary world which invites the observer to an interactive journey through its morbidly-beautiful rooms.

This is one site that will take you a while to look through. Click on "to see and do" and then, well, go see and do! The gallery is great, but we had an amazing time just fooling around with the fractals tree (after clicking "to see and do", click on "activities").

From the site:

Here at the Playing With Time web site, unseen worlds of change will be revealed. You will see time sped up and slowed down, and behold the beauty of change. Time will be in your hands to witness, replay, and even create. You never know... you might not look at things quite the same way again.

If you've got some time on your hands, definitely go check out Playing with Time.

Robots plus art add up to this site, which displays comic book covers featuring ... yep, you got it. Robots!

The Robot Comic Book Cover Gallery. For the robot lover in your family.

How's this for performance art?

One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly more than 150 feet away from the sculpture.

Want to get connected for your free minute of anonymous speech? One Free Minute.

We're posting a bit late today! Tons of work, so this will be a quick post.

Very nice stuff here. They made me do it. An on-line art exhibit of works by UK graffiti artists.

The Hand Collector now has 200 pictures of hands on exhibit. (Actually, 204 when we checked.)

Very cool.

Talk about getting creative with cards.

If you can learn to build a grid structure, you can build just about anything.

Um, right. We think we'll just look and admire and leave it at that, okay? Because there's one leeetle tiny thing we lack that just might come in handy with a project of this sort.

Patience.

A collaborative art project that really rocks: ZoomQuilt. Just hold your mouse button down and move up to get closer and down to move farther away. Very very freaky.

One of us wanted to title this post, "Which flame warrior are you?.

But after a heated short discussion, it was agreed that, really, that wouldn't be very nice, would it?

Not that we have ever, EVER (as in NEVER HAVE WE) behaved like anyone on the Flame Warrior roster of fame (or should that be shame?) ... But you know, there are times when it would be, um, fun, to, you know, slip into another identity.

Like the Rebel without a Clue:

Rebel Without a Clue's deep seated and infantile hostility to authority motivates his random and seemingly gratuitous attacks on list owners, Admins, Nannies or anyone else who attempts to maintain order and civility in discussion forums.

Or how about the  Bliss Ninny:

Bliss Ninny doesn't understand why people just can't get along. While it is entirely unintentional, Bliss Ninny's utterly vacuous comments can drive the more pugnacious Warriors into a frenzy of aggression. Often in the heat of battle Bliss Ninny will discuss her cat.

Or the Rottweiller Puppy:

Rottweiler Puppy is clumsy, marginally articulate, unsteady in his often playful attacks, but anyone who cares to notice will see that one day he will be a fierce and powerful Big Dog. HINT: By showing some patience and kindness to Rottweiler Puppy in his formative stages prudent Warriors may gain a steadfast and formidable ally.

But you know, we're normally the Kung Fu Master and the Big Cat. Ahem. Aren't we all?

We're amazed at the kind of art that people can make with, well, stuff ...

Like manhole covers.

And Rubik's Cube.

And what about bathtubs as art?

We thought we were only joking around yesterday. We didn't really come back in time from this coming weekend.

But here's an art installation that actually does let the viewer play around with time.

(Unfortunately, you've got to be there in person if you want to manipulate time a bit. But the movies are pretty cool.)

The Khronos Projector is an interactive art installation in Tokyo that gives:

the user an entirely new dimension to play with: by touching the projection screen, the user is able to send parts of the image forward or backwards in time. By actually touching a deformable projection screen, shaking it or curling it, separate "islands of time" as well as "temporal waves" are created within the visible frame.

If you don't want to stick around for the long movie at the beginning, there are shorter clips scattered throughout the page.

Cool stuff, that's for sure.

This cool Paintbox tool, sponsored by the National Gallery of Art, is meant for kids but you don't have to be a kid to enjoy it. We had a ton of fun creating all sorts of psychedelic swirls, although we're so enamoured with the new Surfilicious style we succombed and actually did one to match the site. We really couldn't resist, although we did end up with a screamingly loud and outrageous and absolutely gorgeous orange and blue swirl.

(No, we do NOT buy our art to match our sofas.)

You're not limited to swirls, though. You can take a face, draw hair and mustaches on it, and then use the warping tools to make it look eerie or strange or hey, maybe even something you'd be proud to hang on your walls. Satisfy your inner artist.

You know Sculpey? That stuff that kids play with. Cooler than Playdough because you get to bake it in an oven.

You've seen the kits. We know you have. You know, where you can make dragons, funny faces, bendable erasers. Stuff like that.

James Lehman made all of these from Sculpey. We're not kidding. We couldn't figure out the "paintings in space" label, but we had fun there anyway. Take your time - he's created a ton of really colorful stuff.

We'll never look at Sculpey in quite the same way again, that's for sure.

We like mandalas - and here's a blog about mandalas that we can't read, but hey, it's all artwork so no reading required.

How's this for an Art Challenge? A mandala a day. Just right to get the creative juices going.

The name is very tongue in cheek but there's lots of artwork here to tickle your funny bone. Check out the mouseovers in the Vintage Vandals section - hilarious.

Everything's for sale, too. (You're not going to find art to match your sofa here, thank goodness.) Know some nice young couple about to tie the knot? Send them to the dishwasher-safe section. We were somewhat partial to this set and this set. (We do the eclectic thing around here).

Juxtaposing art and artifacts about women, Picturing Women explores

historical and contemporary representations and self-representations of women — how they are figured, fashioned, turned into portraits, and told about in words and pictorial narrative.

An interactive component lets you create your own juxtapositions of art and artifacts to be displayed on the site.

A beautiful site for just plain browsing, if you're an artist who likes to work with the female form, it's definitely well worth checking out.