Your doormat says “Hello” before you do. It’s not just where folk wipe their feet, it’s the welcome before they come in. And Meninos Doormats has a line of doormats too awesome not to want at your door: tape cassettes, iPhones. turntables… they got it.

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The POP! Faces series, by Joshua Scott and Yee Wong, is a must-see for the pop culture junkie and Warhol fans. The series features iconic faces, from Madonna and Naomi Cambell to Obama and Mr. West. You can view the entire series at www.thepopfaces.com.

Last night, this Hue Test from Xrite showed up in my inbox, and I have to admit, I was stoked to try it.  I have always believed that I have some sort of magically color-seeing power and this was my golden opportunity to test it out.

The main screen is a series of colored squares, and the object is to arrange them in order by hue.  I swear to you, when I was done I thought I had it perfect.  Turns out I scored a 19…when a perfect score is 0.  Womp Womp.

If you want to try it out, click the jump, and the post your score below!

The Make Something Workshops is a series of youth creative workshops held in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami and Tokyo. The goal is to work with public school art programs and youth mentors to encourage aspiring artists and give hands-on experience in art, film, fashion, design and music.

This month Nike teams up with Make Something!!, Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt and National Design Museum.

Based around the upcoming World Basketball Festival, the Workshops are split into Design and Art curriculums. The design week offers teenagers aged between 14 and 18 the chance to learn and work with designers, from Jordan Brand, Nike, Nike Sportswear and Converse to design apparel, footwear and more.

The experience continues with 10 other creative Make Something!! art-based workshops, led by world-renowned artists, handing over skill and experience on how to produce and promote your own creative talents. To end with a blast, the World Basketball Festival Celebration Event will be held at famous Rucker Park in August.

SLAMXHYPE is giving kids the chance to take part in the famed Make Something Workshops, a once in a lifetime opportunity, and a chance to launch your career and most importantly learn from the best! You must be aged between 14 and 18 years old, and located in the New York Tri-State area(The workshops will take place in Soho, New York City).

There are a number of workshops to choose from: Register here

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NYC Garbage, is one artist’s way of illustrating that one man’s trash is another man’s treasure. Justin Gignac picks garbage straight from NYC streets and packages it in a cube. Signed, dated and numbered, it’s $50 for the collectable junk, known as pieces of one of the most interesting cities in the world.

Kevin Cyr’s brilliant series of twenty vans. Each piece  was created with oils and silkscreen on panels.

The Artist’s Statement:

In a culture in which people are easily lured by the appeal of status-enhancing symbols, I find beauty in derelict cars and unkempt landscapes. I have always been interested in painting vehicles and scenes that have defined the evolution of the American landscape.

I commemorate commercial vehicles inundated with graffiti and rust, working vehicles, and well-traveled recreational vehicles. I find that there is so much character in old delivery trucks and vans — especially when covered with graffiti — and in the old RVs parked off a main road. Removing them from their everyday context gives them portrait-like importance. I paint with devoted attention to every imperfection and sign of age.

Painting and drawing these objects gives me a chance to document a time and place, and to make still a part of the ever-changing environment.

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Even if you didn’t buy into the mania of the  iPhone 4, if you have an iPhone, you checking out MachoArts is a must. They recently featured not one, but 30 wallpapers from the whimsical to the artistic to the, well, super.  My iPhone’s Spidey senses are tingling already.

Breakbot – Baby I’m Yours (feat. Irfane) – HD from Ed Banger Records on Vimeo.

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Space Invaders

For many of us, we had the benefit of using our imaginations when we played video games. In today’s world, that is less likely to happen considering how rendered out things are. Have you seen some of the graphic in Gears of War? WOW.

Well an artist from my era decided to render out some old 8-bit games into what they would look like using today’s standard for video games, and the results are nothing like what I saw in my brain as a child. However, that does not mean they are not beautiful. I love them. Take a look and let us know what you think in the comments.

The UCLA Jazz Fest was a perfect outlet for designers and artists alike, and one of the standout exhibitors this year was artist Keenan Chapman. Specializing in both tattoo art and oil and acrylic paintings, the artist was not only selling his pieces but doing live canvas painting as well.   Check out some of his work and then head over to his site and check him out.