Bompas & Parr creates fine English jellies, designs bespoke jelly moulds and curates spectacular culinary events.

Wow, that’s tall! A crane was needed to complete the lego tower standing at 29.3m made from 465 000 lego bricks. Read here for more information about this madness.

Seeing these sculptures for the first time is pretty mind blowing. Dutch artist and kinetic sculptor Theo Jansen builds large works which resemble skeletons of animals and are able to walk using the wind on the beaches of the Netherlands. Jansen says, “The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds.”

” Robert Therrien was born in Chicago in 1947 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, among other venues. Most recently his work has been shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. A major drawing survey will be presented at the Kunstmuseum Basel in the summer of 2008.

Therrien’s work appears in numerous public collections worldwide, including The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, CA; The Getty Center, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, paris; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. ” (via Gagosian Gallery)

Check out the Limes Hotel by Argentinian designer Alexander Lotersztain opened at the end of last month in Brisbane, Australia. Simply gorgeous.

Okay, here’s a treat for everyone.

” Like a dark obsession with arachnids, Japanese-born artist Chiharu Shiota wraps objects from floor to ceiling in miles of black wool. Her work, ambiguous and stunning, leaves you curious about the strangled objects seemingly suspended in time and space. ” (via Momeld)

Daniel Arsham was born in 1980 (oh sweet, me too! ) in Cleveland, Ohio. He lives and works in New York and Miami. See all of his work over here.

Esther Stocker, if you are reading this, I just want to say thank you for being one of my biggest inspiration in the world of art, style and design.

” The work of Esther Stocker (1974) suggests a reflection on the meaning of geometric abstraction, on the perceptive approaches between the viewer and the artwork, as well as an innovative reconsideration of the Italian artistic experiences from the Sixties and, especially, of the experimentations by the gruppo T (Colombo, Varisco, De Vecchi and others).
Her visual language thoroughness enables us to consider again the issue of the relation between the artwork and the audience by means of the specificity of the painting structural elements. Primal forms, grids, compositional geometries that vibrate because of the interaction between the “non-colours” black and white are, both for the viewers and for the insiders, a singular occasion to deal with an artistic path that reintroduces the reflection on the modernity’s conceptual and visual devices. ” (via Galleria Contemporaneo)

Balloon Dog (Yellow), high chromium stainless steel with transparent color coating, 121 x 143 x 45 in.

My friend Jed writes:

” I’m really in awe when I first saw this piece. I never would’ve thought about someone making a metallic balloon dog. It does give me the sense that anyone can create anything possible. I like minimalism. That balloon dog is a perfect example. The piece is located on the rooftop of The Metropolitan Museum. Fortunately, it was a cloudy day because the sun’s reflection would cause glare problems. The whole rooftop exhibit is all of Jeff Koons. ”

These model railroad slums are by Peter Feigenbaum. Make sure that you check out the rest here. Pretty amazing huh.