Millions of film fans world wide witnessed the lovable trash-collecting robot Wall-E as he leapt off of the screen and into our hearts in this summer’s Pixar hit. Npw  the Johnny 5 lookalike has an astonishing reproduction. The folks at the U.K. design firm Morpheus Creative Form Development managed to painstakingly reconstruct the essence of Wall-E, but instead of utilizing all those circuits and scrap metal, they’ve chosen wood as their medium. Like the movie, it’s truly an awesome achievement.

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Designer Jamie Lim has found a way to combine two of ’08’s big themes, social enterprise and large specs, with her creation of the sustainable sunglasses company KAYU. Frustrated in her role as an IT consultant, she wanted work with a triple bottom line focus and broke off on her own. Her first frames are light yellow and made of bamboo, creating a nice break from the seemingly unending stream of Tom Fords. Additional KAYU styles and colors will be available by the end of the year, and the best part is that each pair sold pays for sight-restoring surgery in Ghana and India through Unite for Sight. Looks good, does good.

The things captured, amalgamated, and created in Tom Jenkinson’s (Squarepusher) studio are breathtaking. Since the mid 90s, the British producer has given us exercises not only in technical exploration, but in pushing the limits of jazz, fusion, and drum ‘n bass. Now, we get Just A Souvenir, an album based on a daydream about the adventures of an imaginary rock band. Of course, all the instrumentation and production is Squarepusher himself, and we find the bass virtuoso returning to jazz-fusion, taking cues not only from Jaco, but from punk and rock rythms as well, while retaining the abstractions that make him one of the originals of the Warp Records sound.

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The art attacks in Sao Paulo are continuing, and they only seem to be gaining in strength and scaring the bejeezus out of gallerists. Around the same time when pixadores once again caused a hubbub — this time on the opening day of the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial — by tagging up the building’s second floor (purposely left empty by the curators to inspire new thoughts and ideas), a sticker group called the ARAC Group started surreptitiously invading this same notorious “Void” in their own method. Armed with instructions from a manual developed specifically for the Biennial, and a sarcastic take on the art show’s “In Living Contact” theme, participants carry out the underground stickering sting, decorating the white pillars with their signs of life. You can check out some of the photographed results here. The show runs till the beginning of December, so it’s likely the Void won’t be left vacant after all — which, ironically, achieves the curators’ intents for the space.

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