Let me axe you a question: do you like rad things? In the possible event that you do, I invite you to keep reading. If you answered no, keep reading anyway, you insufferable crank, and let’s turn that frown upside-down, yeah? Utilizing a steady supply of paintballs and compressed air, the Facadeprinter is an art project by three German industrial designers with a serious need to leave their mark. An infrared sensor measures the distance to the wall, a USB key supplies the image to be fired, the software compensates for driving power and ‘ballistic distortion’, and the gun does the rest. I don’t know…

Alright, this just kicked my netherparts right off my abdomen. Enter Leonar3do. Before watching the video, I was pronouncing it ‘Leonaredo’ and scratching my head. I think the 3 is silent. Regardless, it indicates the number of dimensions that are about to blow your mind. Surely you’ve heard tell of Zbrush – it’s a popular CG sculpting tool that allows you to, via mouse or preferably tablet (a real, traditional, Wacom-style tablet, not an iPad), get your freak on sculpting dynamically in real time. In its own right, it’s a big step up from traditional Rhino- or 3DSMax-style modelling. As if I just…

Just in case you missed it, here’s a couple of video clips which pretty much underline the kind of amazing things talented people can do with their iPad and the app of their choice. The first video is just one to watch, partially because its backing track isn’t deeply unbearable, and partly because, well, it is pretty cool to watch artist, Kyle Lambert and his video presentation of just how he painted his picture of Beyonce using an iPad and the super-amazing Brushes for iPad app. The video makes it look easy — in fact it took the talented finger-painting Brit a good six hours to make the picture….

He may have written some classic hits, but Prince has no ‘Kiss’ to give in his latest ‘Purple Rain’ of vitriol against ‘teh internets’, which the diminutive pop star says ‘is finished’. Is this a ‘Sign of the Times’, or simply an attempt by the artist to propel sales of his latest album, 20TEN, which isn’t going to be made available in shops, instead it is to be given away in the UK with copies of the Daily Mirror. Speaking to the Mirror, Prince slammed, like, this whole Internet thing, saying it is over, finished, dead, last year’s number. At the risk of being a rock ‘n’ roll…

Here’s a Twitter oddity I am absolutely not going to do the opposite of talk about. You’ve probably seen something like this before, but its ties to social media and the fact that you can watch it in real time set it apart. This is Marble Art, and while they could have spent a couple more hours on a name, it’s impressive nonetheless. Essentially, it’s a marble coaster powered by tweets – specifically, the hashtag #marbleart.tv. Punch the keys (for God’s sake) and check out the live webcam feeds to watch your marble do that thing marbles like to do: succumb to gravity. While I for one wish there was a little…

Now here’s a partnership of which you’d never have fathomed to dream. The Guggenheim has jumped into bed with YouTube to begin the hunt for the world’s most creative online video content. More like GOOG-enheim, am I right? Yeah? Never mind. Anyway, the initiative is weakly branded ‘YouTube Play’, and anyone on planet Earth can nominate their video (by July 31st – better get moving, kids!). Actually, I guess it’s not limited to Earth, but good luck getting reception from the moon. That place is a black hole, guys. A black hole. That’s really all there is to it – the official announcement and even the…

One thing we Germans are known for (other than our beer) is our crazy sense of style and awesome cars. This BMW just got a little more awesome, with the help of American artist Jeff Koons. This years BMW art car has been designed by Jeff Koons, who painted it using race cars and explosions as his inspiration. The result is a BMW race car that looks like a paint plant exploded all over it, only with the brightest and most vibrant colors (none of that earth tone crap). The result of this is a car that looks incredibly badass. “These race cars are lifelike, they are powerful and there is a lot of energy,” Koons…

Neven Mrgan of Panic Inc. is obviously a big fan of LOST. To celebrate the upcoming series finale, Mrgan posted a pixel art poster of the cast of the show. There’s even a .PSD version that adds Charlie and even the Smoke Monster! Add your own characters or artwork (Dharma Initiative pixel art, anyone?) and post yours with a link in the comments!…

That’s my second ‘i- prefix’ headline joke today. I’m on a roll. A couple of days ago I made all y’all privvy to a non-illustrator who is teaching himself to paint via the iPad. Now, check out what happens when a pro illustrator gets his hands on an iPhone. Kristofer Strom is a fellow illustrator I’d heard tell of before, but now he’s getting internet famous by vowing to draw something with his iPhone every day for ‘some time’. Like a true career artist, he readily admits his eventual procrastination and laziness. I respect that. Anyway, don’t not click here to rub your eyes all over the blog he’s using…

This one’s for the artists. Enter John Haasl, an IT guy whose hobby is fine arts. Haasl’s paintings don’t exactly revolutionize the art world, but there’s something special about them – Haasl’s painting them exclusively on the iPad. Said Haasl about his new-found pastime: “[I] only recently got into it more as Hobby using my iPad…The paintings you see done on the iPad are actually my second, third, and fourth completed paintings.” Frankly, speaking as an illustrator, that only serves to make Haasl’s work more impressive, as far as I’m concerned. Even more impressive is that without pressure…