The Big Picture covers the BP oil spill hitting the Louisiana shoreline. Even sadder is one of the following entries showing wildlife being completely covered by the oil.

Artificial Smile has to be the creepiest technology this year:

The camera „Artificial Smile“ is an apparat, whose pictures show in principle only smiling people, irrespective of their former emotional state.

(via CreativeApplications.net)

Factory 20 is a unique vintage furnishings company — I love the photography throughout their site. (via Thinking for a Living)

The beautiful Leica M7 Edition Hermès: Custom leather and silver chrome, part of a limited run of 200, retailing for just around $11,000 USD.

My birthday’s in April.

Some amazing photo manipulations by Dutch artist, Jan Oliehoek.

The Workspace project, by Joseph O. Holmes, is an “ongoing attempt to examine the quasi-private spaces people carve out of their public work lives.”

TiltShift Generator [iTunes link] was just released: (via egrossnickle)

This is the 5th release from the ToyCamera series[, it] will allow you to create retro miniature pictures. Originally, [it was] published as a free web service and AIR app. Now the awaited iPhone version has finally been released.

thedailywhat:

Photo Set of the Day: “Vita” — A series of gorgeous high contrast wildlife close-ups by Itou Kouichi.

Beautiful parking garage photography by Branislav Kropilak.