We launched paintthatshitgold.com today to coincide with the release of Atmosphere's new album, "When Life Give You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold".

The site allows you capture and tag your favorite corners of the web (or your least favorite, if you're the glass half empty type) all while listening to songs from the album. Check it out, you'll find an audio player with a legit equalizer (finally!), and a realtime web capture utility.

My sad attempt to be a graffiti artist is pictured above. I'm pretty sure that you folks will be able to do better.

To make the web capture stuff work, we had to build a little internet rendering farm to tap into the pipes and process all those juicy slices of interweb that people are sending in. I've literally got one of fifteen or so machines sitting on my desk right now that's sole purpose in life is to load up web pages and screen capture them for Atmosphere fans. How cool is that?

Linkses:

• Paint That Shit Gold
• Grab the album here - if you dig the music on the site, which you will
• Atmosphere's Myspace page

Freelance designer Jonathon Yule designed these very cool font bots using Akzidenz Grotesk, Helvetica, and Futura.  Link.

Designer Lucy Norman uses unwanted used books to create attractive chandeliers. 

The World of Books.com sell second hand books which they receive from the British Heart Foundation charity. 25% of the books they receive cannot be sold as no-one will buy them, which is approximately 10,000 a week. Presently these books have to be land filled which is costly and detrimental to the environment.  These wasted books are used to create an attractive chandelier.  Every page of the book is folded in half, producing a circular arrangement which hangs around a ceiling light.

I'm probably going to hell for posting this, but come on!  Who thought the design of this lightswitch plate was appropriate?  Link.

Previously:
Catholic Coloring Book Warns of Pedophile Priests?

These wood bikes are awesome.  Looking at the comments on digg, it turns out these men are from the mountains in Baguio City, Philippines.  Link to full image.

In 2003, a Madeira airport runway was extended due to having been notoriously short.  The extension is held up by 180 pillars each 70m high.  Link to gallery of photos at Deputy Dog.  Link to original photos at airliners.

Well Done is an annual report put out by food company Podravka.  Designed by creative agency Bruketa & Zinic, this annual report needs to be baked in order for the text of the document to be visible.  Link.

If you don't like what you read, you can just turn up the temp on the oven.

Imagine exchanging your contact information with another person with just a handshake.  Hideaki Matsui, Dong Ho Yun and Jea Wan Park won the 2007 Red Dot Award for Interaction & Communication design for designing a ring that does just that...

Shaking hands is a customary greeting action. Handshake brings the action one step further by creating an information transfer function. Handshake operates when people first meet and shake hands, and the rings on their fingers gain the proximity to operate. The rings exchange the users’ information and store it while the users are shaking hands. The more people met, the more information transferred. When the users browse through the people they have met, the card displays the basic information that was stored in the ring. The power source originates from the human body temperature, so no plug is required.

These lamps were created by Marcella Foshi.  She has designed lamp supports that vary in size so you can hang different sized clothing from your sweaters to your tighty-whities.

Link [via Urban Kinetics]

You shouldn't have a problem locating the libraries in Cardiff and Kansas City. 

The exterior of the Cardiff library is only temporary until the building is completed, however, the "novel" exterior of Kansas City's library carpark is permanent.  Link.