An exhibition of work by London architect Zaha Hadid has opened inside her Mobile Art Pavilion (see our earlier story), which has found its permanent home in Paris having toured New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong since 2008.

-Via Dezeen

When Josh Stewart sent me his album in the mail, it was an awesome gesture but I forced myself to remain skeptical but I’ve got to say, his super clean guitar sound is soothing.

He sounds very much like Jason Miraz but I’m a fan. :) Take a listen to two of his songs below and if you like them, download the full album on iTunes!

The Birthday Song by JoshStewart

A Kiss For Your Head by JoshStewart

Follow him here at his site: http://www.songsforjude.com/

“As much as I love a beautiful front on a piece of furniture, sometimes it’s the back view or the unexpected details that really sell me on a piece. While I haven’t yet seen this chair in person (it’s debuting at ICFF next month), Sara Rowghani’s design sold me with the back view. The twisting wood reminds me of braided hair or some sort of elaborately folded wooden bow (the sort you’d see in one of my favorite Japanese design booths at ICFF).”

-Via Designspongeonline

A bike that can switch between a freewheel and a fixed gear at the touch of a button. It’s called the Alpha and I’m very impressed. They call it SWIFT Drive Technology and I hope they are patenting it!

A team of mechanical engineering students at the University of Pennsylvania have spent the better part of the past year designing and fabricating the ultimate concept bike, which they’ve called “Alpha.” Thanks to rapid prototyping technology, the bike was realized almost entirely at UPenn’s engineering school.

-Via Core77

1. Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.
2. He was as tall as a 6′3″ tree.
3. Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.
4. From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you’re on vacation in another city and Jeopardy comes on at 7:00 p.m. instead of 7:30.
5. John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.
6. She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.
7. The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.
8. He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck, either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.
9. Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.
10. She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

-Via Coudal

Designed by John Maniscalco Architecture and resting on the hillside of San Francisco’s Cole Valley, this residence is a revitalization of a 1930′s home into a more relaxing, modern masterpiece. It sits at the end of a cul-de-sac where the first thing you see while approaching is an exceptional use of planked wood siding and black steel.

-Via Iso50 Blog

-Via Fortysixthatgrace

Jeremy Wells has been working with Kevin Kirchner to create Novlr.com, a place for creative people to write and share good stories together. They have the project up on Kickstarter and if you like what you saw in the video, you should definitely become a backer.

-Via Notcot

-Via Make Magazine