If you’ve ever wondered what a tattoo parlor run by designers would look like, look no further than Tattly, the new temporary tattoo web service launched yesterday by Tina Roth Eisenberg, proprietor of the Swiss Miss blog and the TeuxDeux to-do list. We can honestly say that there’s nothing else quite like it on the web.

(Via LinkedIn.)

It is like no other Russian building. Nothing similar can be found in the entire millennium of Byzantine tradition from the fifth to fifteenth century … a strangeness that astonishes by its unexpectedness, complexity and dazzling interleaving of the manifold details of its design.

An architectural wonder and one of the most recognizable symbols of Russia, the cathedral has a history as colorful as its exterior.

Cy Twombly, an internationally renowned American artist whose lyrically evocative signature works blur the boundaries of painting, drawing and handwritten poetry, has died. He was 83.

The world has lost a great American artist.

Last semester, my drawing professor Maxwell Stolkin introduced me to the works of Cy Twombly and I really enjoyed his aesthetic. His work reminds me very much of contemporary graffiti and street art.

TED:

Musician and inventor Onyx Ashanti demonstrates “beatjazz” — his music created with two handheld controllers, an iPhone and a mouthpiece, and played with the entire body.

(Via TPUTH.)

(Via Shawn Blanc.)

I’ve been next to him on the bench and he’d tell Phil, you’re coaching (badly). He’ll tell me that I’m playing (badly). He doesn’t pull any punches whatsoever. He coaches the game, it’s nothing personal with him at all. He has certain principles that he feels like the game should be played by, and if they’re not being played that way he’s going to say something. It’s beautiful.

Long overdue.