Check out these photo essays.  I really want to do some of this kind of photography but have not pushed myself to do the necessary exploring.  So, for now, I’ll live vicariously through photographers like Shaun.  [h/t Sarah]

Alan Jaras, Twisting Light #21

You need to see Alan Jaras’ breathtaking photographic work.  No PhotoShop, no digital camera – not even any lens.  [thanks, David!]

Seven examples of adaptive reuse architecture projects. [via]

The shoplet blog has a couple of articles on Post-It Note art.  Nintendo’s advertising campaign is especially neat.

Many of you will remember David Byrne as the lead singer of Talking Heads.  The Heads wrote a good part of the soundtrack to my youth, along with Oingo Boingo, The Cure, U2, Pink Floyd, and a smattering of others.  I never saw the Heads live (that I remember) but did see Byrne years later at the State Theater in Portland, Maine (where I’ve also seen Tori Amos, Paula Cole, and George Carlin; no, silly, not together!).  I found it powerful and interesting, but his solo music never touched me quite the way his Heads stuff did.

But these days, he’s making buildings sing.

Check out the artwork of James White.

Here are some tricks to help you detect various Photoshop chicanery.

Multi-colored mollusks wandering London.

Great stuff – check him out.

Check out these wallpaper sets – (and the earlier sets, linked within that article) .. thanks to Smashing for the usual great curating.