RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist announced

This year's RIBA Stirling Prize shortlist has been announced with six buildings, including the London Olympic Stadium by Populous and two projects by OMA.

The six that will compete for the £20,000 prize for the Best Building by a British-registered architect are:

The Hepworth Wakefield, Yorkshire by David Chipperfield Architects (pic 1)
London Olympic Stadium by Populous (pic 2)
The Lyric Theatre, Belfast by O’Donnell + Tuomey
Maggie’s Centre, Gartnavel, Glasgow by OMA
New Court, London by OMA with Allies and Morrison
Sainsbury Laboratory, Cambridge by Stanton Williams (pic 3)

See more about the shortlist here.

3D lenticular images by The Saline Project

The Saline Project are a Brooklyn based trio who are best known for creating music videos for the likes of Eminem, 50cent, and The Cure.

Their most recent project focusses on evolving the gif format to something they're calling 3D lenticular… to great effect.

The Saline Project is an award winning group of artists and have worked on many projects including when they were commissioned by ABC to make a title sequence to 110 Stories (below) which involved manipulating photographs taken on 9/11 in New York to give them depth.

Find out more here.

Dance through your life with 'Me the Musical'

See your life in dance with this adorable app, Me the Musical, by Intel that links to your Facebook profile and takes you from birth to today in your very own musical.

It's great fun and brought a smile to our face on a rainy afternoon.

Get started here - Enjoy.

Who's buying which book around the world

Have you ever wondered what books are being bought around the world?

Well maybe not, but just in case The Book Depository has launched a Live site that allows you to see what books are being bought worldwide in real time.

Very interesting.

See the live site here.

Create your own modern artwork

Ever wanted to be a modern artist, then take a look at this website, jacksonpollock.org.

With the movement of your mouse and a few clicks you can create your own piece of modern art.

Enjoy.

Click here to get started.

Olympic postage stamps designs launched - great #olympics #design #london2012 http://bit.ly/O9hfK7

Olympics stamps designs are a winner

Hat-trick Design has created a series of stamps to celebrate the London 2012 Olympics which feature iconic London landmarks alongside various sports. 

Great design.

They are on sale now.

Making sense of lip reading

We found this strange but funny blog called 'Bad Lip Reading' which takes video clips from films and the news and lays new audio over the top. 

The result is an amusing take on what the actors, politicians and musicians are saying - but the audio matches their lips.

Un-nerving.

There are many more of these clips here. 

Amazing images caught by Google Street View

The 'Nine Eyes of Google Street View' is a photo project by artist Jon Rafman named after the nine lenses mounted on a Google Street View camera.

He has collected many of the strange and beautiful images that Google has capture by accident from around the world.

See more of these amazing, weird, frightening and striking images here.