I’ve never been that big of a Polysics fan, but these videos are going a long way towards my appreciation for them. But for those of you yet uninformed, the girl featured in the videos is Mao Murakami, an 11-year-old dancer called ‘Strong Machine 2′ who is part of a j-pop dance group that focuses mainly on robotic movements. I was popping and locking at the very same age, back in the first wave of robot breakdance. But by today’s standards, this may be the coolest 11-year old on the planet:

unfortunate commercial plug, but otherwise, awesome:

…and now the ‘I My Me Mine’ produced version:

Uses Yahoo! or Google, all animated cartoons and behind are translated automatically from English to Chinese.

I find this truly amazing.

If you have an iPhone and install the QRcode reader, you can take a photo of a patch and it will link you to a website, youtube video or google map location.

flickr user udronotto has been recreating famous paintings, photos, and film stills in lego.

I’d prefer mine to be a little smaller, but hey…

More on the Martin Jetpack.

Gary Hustwit, director of the excellent Helvetica, is working on a new documentary about industrial design, Objectified. I am looking forward to this one.

This guy is not only a good film maker, he is amazingly good at creating publicity for his films. Any independent artist could take a note or two from him.

The site seems to have some other similar photoessays.