Next to Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art, the Kleenex Silk Touch Tissue Tree is inspired by the work of the world famous 'wrapping' artist, Christo.

Swathed in over 1km of silk, the tree is laden with 700 blossoms that each dispense Kleenex Silk Touch tissues to passers by. Staff nearby are encouraging people to touch the silky soft tree and feel the difference of Kleenex Silk Touch for themselves.

This is the first in a series of video reports documenting the progress of The Artvertiser, an urban, hand-held, augmented-reality project exploring the live substitution of advertising content for art.

The footage shows the project in action on the streets of both Berlin and Madrid.

Software is trained to recognise individual advertisements, each of which become a virtual 'canvas' on which an artist can exhibit when viewed through the hand-held device.

The project was initiated by Julian Oliver in February 2008 and is being developed in collaboration with artists Clara Boj and Diego Diaz.

Dior came out with the first chapter of it’s Lady Dior viral short: The Lady Noire Affair, featuring La Vie en Rose star Marion Cotillard and director Olivier Dahan.

Last weekend at the Armory in New York’s Midtown, PSFK visited the latest installation of Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto. His Anthropodino is a huge playground set in a drill hall: stocking material drapes a dinosaur-like skeleton to create a cavernous tent. As visitors wander around they meet (and smell) large globules of fabric hanging down from the high ceiling filled with spices. The junior PSFK reporter who came with us had a blast - as you can tell from the photos.

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Pop-up or guerrilla shops have been lurking in the shadows of the world’s cities for the past few years. Rei Kawakubo of fashion label Comme des Garçons is often credited with launching the concept five years ago, when she set up a temporary retail outlet in a disused, dilapidated building in an unlikely neighbourhood of Berlin. The space was cleaned up – just enough – and equipped with rails of clothes, some design objects and a cash register. It was an instant success. Customers who found it felt they were in on something edgy, secret and slightly illicit: something that was hardly a business at all.

In China, pop-up retailing is quickly becoming an essential tool for the young experimental crowd as well as larger commercial brands looking for a new angle.

“Rogue shows or pop-up spaces appear all the time now,” he says. “Retail is still quite chaotic in China and therefore the smaller, less established designers and retailers setting up have a better chance.

Open for two weeks, and two weeks only, 143, located just off London’s artsy Carnaby Street, is a pop up store with a pioneering difference. Originally brought about due to the collaborative efforts of the creative powerhouse that is Kate Moross and cult fashion brand Silver Spoon Attire, whilst being supported by Gio Goi, 143 [the numbers standing for the amount of letters in the words I Love You – clever huh?] is a store packed full of beautiful bits and bobs that the creative teaming have decided to bring together under the one roof. providing customers with an avid shopping experience as it is around selling it’s product, the visual beauty of the space both stunning and fascinating.

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On Monday morning, Pyongyang tested a nuclear bomb for the second time in three years. "We just didn't see this coming," a usually very well-informed intelligence source in east Asia told TIME today. The magnitude of the explosion in North Hamgyong Province, in the northeastern part of the country near the Chinese and Russian borders, was four times greater than the last test in the autumn of 2006, analysts in Seoul said.

Brikolör has the ambition to manufacture furniture with a guaranteed emotional and technical durability of 300 years. Milan 2009 marks the start for our ambition.Above: ÄLTA-ÄLTA Stool with legs of solid ash. Seat in varnished ash-veneer or padded genuine leather.

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When it comes to messing with the music industry, there's no better instigator than Brian Burton. Better known as Danger Mouse, the visionary DJ redefined the mashup in 2004 with his Jay-Z/Beatles masterpiece called The Grey Album.For his new album, Dark Night of the Soul (due in June), he collaborated with indie rocker Mark Linkous (aka Sparklehorse) and filmmaker David Lynch. The power trio (shown at left) reinvented the album as a guerrilla art project. "When formatting changed from vinyl to cassette, packaging got smaller. With MP3s, it's completely gone," Burton explains. "I wanted to get back to a time when packaging was a visual fantasy about the music and created a mystery for people to unpack."

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"liver Peoples Eyewear announced today that it will launch an advertising campaign featuring Zooey Deschanel for the 2009 season. The luxury eyewear house, which recently wrapped up a Cinema advertising campaign featuring Robert Evans, plans to combine still photographs with a short film to create a storyline consistent with the brand’s story telling marketing approach."

In case you've forgotten, the Harper's senior editor engineered the first flash mob. Back in May 2003, he sent his friends an anonymous email asking them to participate in a "project that creates an inexplicable mob of people in New York City for ten minutes or less." A week later, scores of strangers descended upon a Manhattan jewelry shop, stood around for a bit, then dispersed just as mysteriously. By August, flash mobs were popping up in cities around the world and the concept became the subject of countless blog posts and news reports. By mid-September, Wasik and friends staged their final siege, making the phenomenon another fad that, like a flash mob, disappeared as suddenly as it appeared. Wasik became an amateur Internet scientist, hooked on analyzing ephemeral media memes, or what he calls nanostories.

This crisis is not just the trough of a cycle but the end of an era. We will come out not just wiser but different.

What we have discovered over the past nine months are growing diseconomies of scale. Bigger firms are harder to run on cash flow alone, so they need more debt (oops!). Bigger companies have to place bigger bets but have less and less control over distribution and competition in an increasingly diverse marketplace. Those bets get riskier and the payoffs lower. And as Wall Street firms are learning, bigger companies are going to get more regulated, limiting their flexibility. The stars of finance are fleeing for smaller firms; it's the only place they can imagine getting anything interesting done.

As venture capitalist Paul Graham put it, "It turns out the rule 'large and disciplined organizations win' needs to have a qualification appended: 'at games that change slowly.' No one knew till change reached a sufficient speed."

Suppose, during a date, you casually say, “The sugar maples in Harvard Yard were so beautiful every fall term.” Here’s what you’re signaling, as translated by Dr. Miller:

“My S.A.T. scores were sufficiently high (roughly 720 out of 800) that I could get admitted, so my I.Q. is above 135, and I had sufficient conscientiousness, emotional stability and intellectual openness to pass my classes. Plus, I can recognize a tree.”

Meet "Ida," the small "missing link" found in Germany that's created a big media splash and will likely continue to make waves among those who study human origins.

In a new book, documentary, and promotional Web site, paleontologist Jorn Hurum, who led the team that analyzed the 47-million-year-old fossil seen above, suggests Ida is a critical missing-link species in primate evolution

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As a seasoned traveller, Maciej Dakowicz was keen to get a few snaps of local life during his stay in Britain.

His resulting picture album, however, could do with an X certificate. Taken over a series of Friday and Saturday nights on the streets of Cardiff, the Polish student's images provide a shocking insight into alcohol-fuelled debauchery in the Welsh capital.

The unique collection is aptly named 'Cardiff At Night,' and includes a photo of a man walking across a street, his face and shirt covered in blood.

Another captures a reveller seemingly passed out next to a pool of his vomit.

First taking up photography in 2003, Maciej has travelled to over 20 countries but says he has never encountered anything like the scenes he recorded here.

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