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These base jumpers defy common sense and bend gravity with their wing suits. Simply amazing. 

These people defy common sense and bend gravity. Truly incredible. 

Art & Copy is a film about advertising currently making its way around the country. The film is an in-depth look at some of the best and most creative minds in the business. As director Doug Pray states, “I felt it could be a more powerful statement to focus the film only on those rare few who actually moved and inspired our culture with their work. And that higher standard made me want to make a film that reflected the same kind of disciplined artistic approach that my subjects used.”

Objectified is a feature-length independent documentary about industrial design, by director Gary Hustwit, who also directed Helvetica. It’s a look at the creativity at work behind everything from toothbrushes to tech gadgets. It’s about the people who re-examine, re-evaluate and re-invent our manufactured environment on a daily basis. It’s about personal expression, identity, consumerism, and sustainability. It’s about our relationship to mass-produced objects and, by extension, the people who design them.

Breathtaking video shot by Jon Rawlinson with the new canon 5D MRKII at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan.

Tom and Tim Muller put this together as part of the campaign for Diesel’s new fragrance Only the Brave. Watch the video here. Thanks to Scott Hansen for the find.

Great new video out from Nike called “the game is never over.” Retro throwback to vintage games with a contemporary twist.

Designed out of a solid block of aluminum (weighing in at 900 lbs), the Colander table is an experimental project by designer Daniel Rohr. The idea behind the design is to create an invisible space within a space. Due to the bowl-form, the glass-top and the 909 holes drilled out of the polished aluminum block, objects placed upon the tabletop seem to float weightlessly in air. Taking over 4 weeks to produce a single unit, the table will be sold in an edition of only ten.

Prolific Japanese graphic designer Kenya Hara speaks about emptiness and designing happiness.

At the 2008 Serious Play conference, designer Tim Brown talks about the powerful relationship between creative thinking and play — with many examples you can try at home (and one that maybe you shouldn’t).