Leigh Pearce’s blog 75 has a few creepy characters for your perusal, including this Coal Ghost and a fine little Goat Boy box to download, cut up and glue together. Nice mouth details!

Intrepid balloonists are gearing up as we speak to take part in the first ever internet balloon race! Balloons will race across real websites spread across the globe ( yours too if you’d like a bit of traffic! ), collecting tokens and teleporting through rainbows. Extra boosts are hidden around the course to speed you and your buddies on your way to victory and 20 grands worth of luxury holiday action in a villa in Ibiza. Preparations are underway, but there’s still time to grab a balloon, or even attach your very own website to the track. We’ve been feverishly drawing clouds and balloons for weeks, so if you think it sounds intriguing have a butchers at this… there’s some sweet audio touches in there too. And Coming Soon: the Balloon-Cam embeddable widget, so you can follow your balloon’s progress from the comfort of your own blog. It’s the follow up to our last adventure for Orange, Good Things Should Never End. You can never have enough rainbows in your life, i say

Also: Today coincidently happens to be the anniversary of another balloon first - the first ever public demonstration of a passenger carrying hot air balloon … aha! Or so it says on the Google homepage

PS. Igor has a good run down of the epic team involved in thrashing this beast into existence!

ClubPub Rocking one last time…. it doesn’t get better than this In fact it was so good it’s taken me nearly a week to get over it! Crank are the best band in the world without a shadow of a doubt. I totally lost my voice from screaming. Absolutely unbelievable. My guitar didn’t survive the mosh pit, but as long as i made it out alive that’s all i care about! And yes, that really is stage diving on a Wednesday night after work haha. Not to mention the swathes of underwear on the stage. Brilliant. Thanks to every person there for making it one of the best nights ever. More, more, more, more, more ……..

Awesome photographic talent featured above by Jaypeg and Mr.Lomo

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While we’re on the subject of guitars… Marshall should make these. Get one here. Link Via Nerd and Fffound

Gibson - ready to rock. Turned out better than i thought. From this distance you can hardly see the magic tape, foam board, stickers, cardboard knobs, and felt! Those knobs actually twiddle. Sweet!

Yes yes, i am glad to see that neon, rock, and flying v’s are transcending all geographical and cultural borders in their bid to take over the world. From this pic is seems that Buenos Aires should be twinned with Shoreditch for sure. This is Cherry - Sporting an equally impressive fake guitar accessory. Good work lady. This is AcidRock ClubPub in a nutshell. They even have the massive cassette! There’s a future in giant accessories mark my words ….

Now, you might be thinking that it’s quite a weird thing to be doing… And yes in a way you’re probably right! But in fact it’s all action here at Poke Towers, where some of the team have gathered from Making Things Club to prepare for the party of the year next Wednesday. If you fancy popping down to join us, it’s the last ever ClubPub party, and it’s fancy dress, Acid Rock theme! Awesome. It doesn’t get better than that for a theme does it. You’ve got everything from Glam Rock, to Punk Rock, Grunge to Marilyn Manson, Kiss to Ziggy Stardust, Europe and Van Halen to the White Stripes… its endless - oh and with a dash of 90’s Rave thrown in for good measure. Our good mates CRANK will be playing their first ever gig. Extremely excited about that. I saw them rehearsing at the Premises the other day, and they literally are the loudest band in Britain So if you’re up for experiencing amps that go well past 11, come down to On The Rocks in Shoreditch on Wednesday night….

Lovely lovely necklaces made from vintage jewelery mixed with lost and found charms. Each totally unique and recycled. I love the plastic dinosaurs and soldiers contrasting with the painted china and jewels. So Nice! Giving life to old objects, recycling them in creative ways always seems to give exciting results. I love it. Via Tres Plus Cool

These three beauties are from We Shall See. A blog written by Chris Gray, who spends his days at LOVE - the Manchester based studio - who seem to be doing some of the best work i’ve seen in a long time. You can see in everything they do that they really do love it. That’s quite something, and a bit of an inspiration. Lots and lots of nice ideas and beautiful executions on Chris’s site so if you’ve not clicked on anything else yet - click on this.

Found via ffffound.com. Hungry orange monster by Hylton Warburton. Check out his Flickr for some monsterous desktops.

One piece of art a day for a year - a project to celebrate her 25th birthday. Crowded Teeth’s been knocking out some lovely stuff, including this t-shirt, Bunnies and Birds. Follow the project here.

A smörgåsbord of wall decorations. Lots of styles and artists including Tado ( i’m a massive fan of Tado! ) - the king and queen of cute character illustration. Cheers Tom for the link.

I really like the idea of a piece of furniture you can manipulate to suit you. It looks very cool, but not sure how comfy it’d be until i get to sit on one Love that it looks like a gaming environment. Each cushion block, coming in 5 heights, is removable allowing you to create divisions, arm rests etc where ever you like. The Scape Modular Seating System is designed by Joe Doucet at Bond NY, who’ve got their launch party tonight! So if you get to sit on it - let me know what you reckon!