Garret County Press asked a handful of their favorite artists to “color in” pages from Kevin Stone’s latest project: The Pat Robertson and Friends Coloring book. The results are really a hoot– see the original page on the left, and 3 examples of the designer interpretations on the right. The artists were given simple instructions: Pick your favorite page and have fun.

Lately, we've really been enjoying the work of German-born, Düsseldorf-based artist Katherina Grosse, who you saw here at JoshSpear.com in her collaboration with Mekanism Skateboards. Her work is of amazing proportions and immerses the viewer “in the paint”. Utilizing a spray gun, Katherina explores and expands spaces with her vibrant color palette rather than defining and objectifying. Her canvases include aluminum, canvas, and paper and range from museums to airport terminals – Pearson International Airport, Toronto shown above, making that layover tolerable. Katherina's site specific installations can be found around the globe from Paris to Houston so keep a lookout and don't miss your chance to experience her ever-expanding collection of work!

If your office manager was tearing his or her hair out during the first week of this month, a small experimental advertising school in Portland might be to blame. Wieden + Kennedy 12 completely wiped out the West coast clear pushpin inventory. After more than 350 hours, $720.00, and 150,000 pins, the students created a 13′6″ x 10′6″ mural spelling out the words “Fail Harder.” The shots don’t do the mural or their message justice. The pins shimmer like diamonds and ironically adds a level of luxury to the normally dismal topic of failure. W+12 aimed to celebrate the idea that the greatest successes come from a series of failure. The piece was shown to the public for just one night (July 6th), but there are pictures and even a video for you to check out. Via Notcot

Pjotro is the only man with a musical suit that we know of– and watching/listening to him move is really amazing! The suit, which emanates beats and bops with every motion was created from his passion for dancing, music, and engineering. It may seem elementary, but watching the clip from his Finnish TV appearance, Pjotro creates electronic music that challenges that of many artists. On his site you can simulate the process by programming him to move in a variety of fashions including slow, crazy, sharp, smooth, cool, and fast, at different portions in his unique dance cycle. Pjotro's invention is totally innovative and its complexity demonstrates his engineering intelligence (A+ from us), which it seems can only be matched by his killer dance moves!

Theo Jansen’ Strandbeests are animalistic creations powered by nature that almost lack description. Jansen studied science at the University of Delft Holland and after practicing as a painter for some seven years, began constructing large moving objects, the first of which was a functioning flying saucer that flew over the town of Delft in 1980, raising quite a commotion! His work has since evolved and now Theo creates a new type of nature, the Strandbeests, which are giant skeletal structures constructed of plastic yellow tubes and sails that generate power allowing them to “walk on the wind”. In time Jansen hopes to release herds of his Strandbeest, allowing them to live on their own and I must say, what a sight it will be!

Many artist experiment with their medium, but none is so unique and simply beautiful as Martin Waugh’s Liquid Sculptures, which are created from drops of water. The 51 year old Waugh combines the “skill of a computer programmer with the eye of an artist and patients of Job” to capture water droplets as they reach their final destination. The result of experimenting with droplet density, temperature, and size for over 4 years is 20-30,000 photos of exploding droplets each unique in color and shape. My favorites are the “globe” shots, where Waugh has seamlessly captured the world in a drop of water!

Tom Locke says he is an average guy– not rich, not poor. He had an interesting idea one day when he was staring at a $39 roll of stamps wondering what on earth he could get for $39 in this day in age. Long story short he used the stamps to send 100 individual letters to 100 separate and random companies asking for free stuff– he called it The $39 Experiment. The letters he wrote to companies, not to mention the responses he received from them, are priceless and totally hilarious. If you’re looking for a quick laugh from a good project they’re definitely worth checking out. So far all the coupons and free samples he has received add up to just over $270 from 35 companies.