AshiDashi makes what are probably some of the coolest socks we’ve ever seen. They even have socks that look like meat! And for Chrismukkah, apparel site Cameesa is teaming up with them. Artists are encouraged to submit designs, and Cameesa pays them cash money for every shirt sold. The result is an excellent lineup of shirts and the ability to pay artists a reasonable price for their work. For a limited time, Cameesa is bundling GodMachine’s twisted T-shirt design of a plucked out eye-and-crossbones with AshiDashi’s comfy socks featuring the intestine design, so you or someone you love can gross out friends and relatives all during the holidays.

The first-ever David Choe-designed toy, Choegal, is finally available for sale at $45 a pop, but there are only 1,000 of these precious hand-painted dolls available. Besides movable appendages and mechanical parts, the all-wood Choegal features a rotating head with three faces showing a range of emotion. If you’re in L.A. on Dec. 23, stop by the GR2 store on the Westside for a special guest appearance by Choe himself, who will be signing Choegals as well as his cover turn on this month’s Giant Robot magazine.

We want to turn you on to Brazil’s Alessandro Von Victor. Yeah, really, that kind of turned on. You see, Von Victor is an erotic-pop artist of the hot rod and tattoo school. The picture above is the type of G-rated work that gets his name out into the mainstream, but if you head to his site you’ll also find saucy photo-realistic, illustrations of girls that fit right in with DVDs under your bed. As a female, I find his art fun and tongue in cheek (hardly exploitative, as it might seem at first glance), and especially with the recent death of Bettie Page, it seems all the more appropriate to be writing about Von Victor. Not only can he do pin-ups, this Sao Paulo artist’s reach goes all the way to anime and manga, an interest he developed at a young age a. Bookmark this one for when you’re not at work.

If you’re at least in your twenties, you had a relationship with cassette tapes. You remember your first mixtape, the easily breakable cases, and that pitch bend when the thing was just too damn old. The TapeDeck application for Mac OS X Leopard brings those days back without the hassle of hardware. The virtual tape recorder allows you to record and label tapes, lay down crazy effects, and store and share your tape collection, all with the visual appeal of an old deck and as many cassettes as you can fill. Check it out at tapedeckapp.com.

When most people think about the combination of wood and electronics, it often brings up memories of ugly 70s-era electronics. Designer Swann Bourotte has masterfully merged nature and technology with White Fruit Radio. The sleek music machine is constructed with acoustic enhancing sycamore and LEDs for navigation. Best of all, there are no buttons. Simply slide your fingers across the top ridges to control the volume and station selection.

Via Yanko Design