Up now: Reykjavik's annual Arts Festival, featuring a variety of visual, performance and multimedia artworks. (Yes, suddenly ubiquitous artist Ólafur Elíasson curated an exhibit.) Among the works featured is Atlantis (pictured) by Tea Mäkipää and Halldór Úlfarsson, a house installed in the city's pond that has working lights and broadcasts sounds from its interior—everything from singing to arguing. Too avant-garde? Take in some natural history in Húsavík, a small town to the capital's north, at the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which hosts a collection of male reproductive organs (among them a 154-pound specimen from a sperm whale). Hey, it's got to be more interesting than listening to Sigur Rós.

A good iPod dock is hard to find, especially if you're of the iPhone/Touch generation. That's why QDOS' Sound Frame, due this July, is such a refreshing find. It weighs less than half a pound and it's designed to be a real space-saver. Better yet, it rotates 90 degrees, making it easy to watch videos on the screen. (Tiny? Yes. But do we still use ours? Absolutely.) The 1.5-watt speakers won't knock anyone's ears out, though its size and versatility make it especially road-friendly. Look for it in July; price remains TBD.

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Beacon will get a shot of color this weekend when 24 street artists converge on the upstate New York town for Electric Windows, an installation of their work on the outside of a 19th-century electric blanket factory. (Beacon, apparently, is lousy with old factories begging for reuse.) Artists contributing, including Lady Pink and Michael De Feo, will all be painting live, and the installation will be followed by an after-party. Sounds very Chelsea, but Beacon prevails in the end: The bash will be held at a local BBQ joint.
510 Main St., Beacon, NY, electricwindowsbeacon.com

In New York this weekend? You could do a lot worse than hitting the parties around Design Week: Once you know where to go, it's (relatively) easy to get past the clipboard-wielding door dictators. With the International Contemporary Furniture Fair opening tomorrow in Manhattan, there's no shortage of related events. We've broken down the best in our night-by-night itinerary:

Friday

The Terence Conran Shop turns red with an installation of Spanish works. Designs by Jaime Hayon, Martí Guixé, and others mix with stuffed piquillo pepper hors d'oeuvres (407 E. 59th St., 6-9 p.m.). Another option? Smallpond, Matter, and I.D. magazine's Housewarming, with installations by Established & Sons, Tom Dixon, and Thorsten van Elten (101 W. 24th St., 6:30-9 p.m.).

Saturday

Spend the night in Soho: The Moss-Moroso-Maharam complex (150-152 Greene St.) features Studio Job's Robber Baron (pictured, the side table from a suite of five objects) alongside Tomas Gabzdil Libertiny's vases made by bees. Stop by the live auction at Cappellini (151 Wooster St., 7-10 p.m.), and check the scenes at Design Within Reach (110 Greene St., 7-10 p.m.), Kiosk (95 Spring St., 7-10 p.m.), and Bond (133 Greene St., 6-9:30 p.m.). Best bet? Core77's black light Ping-Pong party, which is exactly what it sounds like. (For secret location, e-mail rsvp77@core77.com.)

Alife kicks off a series of exhibitions at its L.A. store tomorrow with a collaboration between author Dumar Brown and iconic graffiti writer Haze, who got his start in the early seventies bombing subway trains on Manhattan's Upper West Side. Nov York City is based on Brown's latest novel, The World Screaming Nov, about a scrappy, graf-obsessed kid from Brooklyn, and features eight new silkscreens on canvas. If you're not in L.A. this weekend, Haze's limited-edition Nov T-shirt (pictured) is also on sale at Alife stores in New York, Vancouver, and Tokyo.
Through June 17 at Alife L.A., 451 N. Fairfax Ave., Los Angeles, CA, (323) 655-2093, alifenyc.com

After appointing a pinup to his cabinet last week, Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi finds himself once again treading dicey ethical (and marital) territory. GQ UK reports that Berlusconi was caught on camera passing a flirty note to Nunzia De Girolamo (pictured, left) and Gabriella Giammanco (right), two attractive female members of his parliament. (Its contents included the following lines of deathless prose: "Gabri, Nunzia, you look very good sitting there together," "Thank you for sticking around [to listen to the speech] but it is not necessary," and "Many kisses both of you!!!") Said Giammanco, "He was not trying it on at all." We wouldn't blame his wife, of course, for thinking differently.

Yep, the panel-based office prison turns 40 this week. Originally known as an Action Office, it was developed in 1968 by Herman Miller designer Robert Propst. (He would later say he regretted his contribution to "monolithic insanity.") Celebrate by burning yours down—or at least making time for another screening of Office Space.

The designer certainly isn't shy about his brand of sexy: Ford's latest louche offering comes in the form of limited-edition sunglasses—the Carlos ($2,200) and the Pavlos ($2,400, pictured), available only in New York at ILORI and Tom Ford Collection. The former is rimmed with metal and comes with a brown or green lens; the latter is made of Santos rosewood or ebony and polished plated gold "for a sensual seventies sexiness." In other obvious news, it doesn't look like the designer's going to put his libido in check anytime soon.
ILORI, 138 Spring St., New York, NY, (212) 226-8276, iloristyle.com

Known for melding old-school cobbling techniques with the latest in shoe technology, Harry's of London has been doing brisk business since its inception in 2001. The company has made a name for itself by designing classics with eye-catching twists, like those on the Archie (pictured). Now comes news of Harry's online launch: Although the footwear has been for sale elsewhere in the U.S., this marks the first time the entire line will be available in one place.
harrysoflondon.com

There's no end to the gossip about Hedi Slimane (and no, for the record, he's not going to Diesel), but this news, at least, is confirmed: The designer's photography show, Hedi Slimane_MUSAC, opens tomorrow in León, Spain. The pictures were taken at last year's Festival International de Benicàssim, Spain's version of Coachella, which draws thousands annually to the southeastern coast. Slimane capturing teenage rock fans on film isn't exactly revelatory, but the quality of his work speaks loud and clear. (It has to, after all, to make itself heard over all that gossip.)
May 17–September 7, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, 24 Avenida de los Reyes Leoneses, León, Spain, 011 (34) 987 09 00 00, musac.es

Moviegoers seeking Christian allegory will be thrilled with this weekend's blockbuster release, Prince Caspian, a return to the land of Narnia. The rest of us will have to content ourselves with Reprise, a Norwegian drama about struggling writers. Okay, so Jerry Bruckheimer it ain't, but bear with us anyway: The film succeeds in subtly exploring its characters' manic inner lives—and, despite a stay in a psych ward, doesn't get bogged down in histrionics. With all due respect to King Aslan, subtlety isn't an attribute typically credited to the talking lion, and he's not as comely as Reprise's Viktoria Winge (pictured), either.

Renowned longboarder Joel Tudor just launched a capsule collection with Loomstate, including hoodies, T-shirts, and the swimsuits pictured here, modeled after a pair that Tudor had made in Hawaii in the early nineties. They're made of nylon and organic cotton—this is Loomstate, after all—and come with an internal key leash in the back pocket. Most importantly, they look cool. (In fact, they remind us of some other trunks we've seen recently.) Clothes might make the man but they don't necessarily make the surfer—it takes talent to get to Tudor's level (check the video below). At least now you can dress the part.

Loomstate for Joel Tudor...Harmony Amplifier collection available at select boutiques nationwide; for store information, visit harmonyamplifier.com

Aliph's long-rumored Jawbone 2 headset was officially announced and went on sale today. Reviews have been mostly positive, as you can see here, here, and here. Still, we've thought about it, and we've decided to keep using our hands.
Jawbone 2, $130, jawbone.com

Reopening next week: Museion, an Italian museum of modern and contemporary art whose inaugural exhibit, Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, is a massive group show that includes works by Vito Acconci, Hans Haacke and Jean-Luc Godard, among others. Berlin architects KSV Krüger Schuberth Vandreike designed the new building as a five-story glass and steel cube that comes with the requisites: exhibition areas, events space, and a library. Added bonus? The museum's facades double as screens; curators will be able to project specially commissioned artworks onto them at night. That'll be handy come fall when Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, a retrospective of the alternative band's multimedia career, goes on display. This is going to be the year punk broke in Italy, apparently.
Opening May 24, Via Dante 6, Bolanzo, Italy, (39) 0471-22-34-11, museion.it

[Dezeen]

The boxy van (and cult surfer favorite) appears to be headed to that great junkyard in the sky: Autoblog reports that Dodge will stop making the Sprinter by 2011. It's a casualty of the recent Chrysler-Nissan partnership; expect a reworked Nissan van to hit streets in about three years. Too bad—the spacious interior was great for customizing, and the diesel engine made it a (relatively) eco-friendly ride.

Later this month, Michel Fournier will attempt to break the world free-fall record when the 64-year-old Frenchman drops approximately 25 miles over (you guessed it) Saskatchewan. In doing so, he'll both break the sound barrier and endure temperatures as cold as -150 degrees. (On the upside, he gets to wear the suit from this rendering.) We know what you're thinking: How will he tell the time while this is happening? Well, he'll have Bell & Ross' BR02 strapped to his wrist. The steel-and-carbon chronograph seems more than up to the task—in fact, we'd say it's more likely to survive the fall than Fournier is.

Meaning a car with a green paint job, and not, say, a Prius. That's the news according to CNW Marketing Research, who just released a survey about how choice of car color reflects drivers' attitudes toward life. Turns out the Batmobile's hue isn't a coincidence—sad sacks like Bruce Wayne are most likely to drive something noir. Full results are below:

-Emerald green: Drivers have 5.5 percent above average confidence
-Dark blue: 3.2 percent above average confidence
-Silver: 1.2 percent above average confidence
-White: average confidence
-Sunny yellow: 3.7 percent below average confidence
-Orange: 4.1 percent below average confidence
-Bright blue: 5.5 percent below average confidence
-Bright yellow: 8.3 percent below average confidence
-Red: 8.8 percent below average confidence
-Black: 14.6 percent below average confidence

[US News and World Report]

Today in Flickr discoveries: photos by former London schoolteacher George Plemper, who taught science in working-class south London from 1973 to 1978. His pictures of Riverside School and its students—rarely shown, except for an exhibition in 1979—is a gripping body of work, not only for Plemper's considerable skill but also because many of his young subjects had such refined senses of style. Case in point: the young man shown here, a refugee from the Nigerian/Biafran civil war of the late sixties. Hey, if you're going to wear velour and fur trim, wear it proud.

[The Guardian]

...update it incrementally. That's the logic, at least, behind Royal Enfield's 2008 motorcycle collection. The flagship is the Bullet 500 Classic (pictured), which has had more or less the same design since 1955, when it was first manufactured in India. (The bike's named after a product the company no longer makes: rifle cartridges.) This year, however, the brand has given it an all-new four-stroke engine from Austrian engineering firm AVL, good for a whopping 70 mpg on the open road. Think of it as a hog Al Gore could love.
$5,095, enfieldmotorcycles.com

Vicky Cristina Barcelona is the first Woody Allen movie we've looked forward to in awhile. Not only does it reunite Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz (who were great in Jamón, jamón), the film also, er, unites Cruz and Scarlett Johansson. Prurient interest created by lesbian kiss? Check. Fast-forward to 1:12 below, and consider September circled on the calendar.

The Grand Bazaar in Istanbul is like a litmus test for designer labels. Browsing the wares here is the best way to assess a brand's viability: The more frequent its fakes, the greater its mass-market cachet. Last week, when I braved its halls, the stalls were piled high with Prada and Dolce bags (no surprise), but also with G-Star and Loewe knockoffs (take that, Canal Street). Strangest of all? The piles of ersatz Ed Hardy, which succeeded in looking just as cheap and tacky as the originals, making them probably the best buy there.

The Bazaar wasn't anything like I expected, although there were a few supposedly high-end boutiques tucked in a corner. One of them had an alabaster mannequin posed like a Helmut Newton nude: legs splayed, hands on hips, naked but for an enormous black fur coat suggestively hanging open—Russian-hooker-chic. The stallholders in that section were clearly courting rubles and pounds. The refreshingly direct advance—"Excuse me, where are you from? Can I help you spend some money?"—was repeated, as necessary, in Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, and English.

No doubt it's those international tourists—Russians with private jets, new-moneyed Chinese—behind Starwood's decision to pick Istanbul as its road-test location for the W Hotels chain in Europe. (The branch here will be the lone brand beacon for at least a year, until clones in St. Petersburg, Manchester, Verbier, et al pop up.) The hotel's housed in a cluster of Ottoman-era row houses that were once servants' quarters for the nearby Dolmabahçe Palace, with huge souk-inspired rooms, disco-dark corridors twinkling with pink crystals, and a two-story branch of New York's Spice Market. (Exporting Vongerichten's restaurant to a town that already has a real spice market? Ballsy.)

Next month, upstart ZeeVee is introducing the ZV-100, a kit that sends online video to your TV. What makes it stand apart from this suddenly crowded field? It's so easy a caveman could do it: Just connect the box to your computer and then to your TV (or multiple TVs) via a standard cable. The TV mirrors what you see on your monitor, so it's perfect for watching online video or even cruising the Web with the included remote. (An optional keyboard is due later this year.) Simplicity, however, does come at a steep price: 500 bucks, to be exact.
ZeeVee ZV-100, $500, zeevee.com

[NYT]

Out soon: Jaime Hayon Works, the first monograph of the designer's work. It includes sketches, castings, and samples from his playful oeuvre, including the MGM musical-inspired BD Showtime furniture collection. The release also coincides with Arrojadoa, an installation of Hayon's work for Dutch furniture store Moooi. The centerpiece is Hayon's Elements, a functional reinterpretation of his ceramic cacti for Moooi (and a highlight of the Milan Furniture Fair) making its U.S. debut.
Jamie Hayon Works, $100, gestalten.com; Arrojadoa, May 17 through July 7, Diesel Denim Gallery, 68 Greene St., New York, NY (212) 966-5593, diesel.com

In 1992, Olivier Zahm and Elein Fleiss founded Purple Prose, whose name (as Fleiss gleefully points out in her intro) is "practically impossible for any French person to pronounce." (Fun to imagine, non?) Since then, the mag has branched out to include Purple Fashion and Purple Sexe, and published the work of a who's who from the art world: Teller, Ackermann, Richardson (both Bob and Terry). Their new (and curiously timed) anthology includes essays from the likes of Kim Gordon and Glenn O'Brien, not to mention reproductions of nearly every page they've ever published. This includes enough pictures of Chloë Sevigny to last two lifetimes—though if Inez van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin's nudes are any indication, you can never have too many.
$37.80, amazon.com; purple.fr

Audio cable giant Monster has teamed up with one of its biggest fans, Dr. Dre, to release its first-ever headphones. The results? Deafening. Beats by Dre, hitting shelves this July, pump enough bass to rattle your bones and are sufficiently stylish to wear out of the studio—thanks to a red-and-black design by Robert Bruner, formerly of Apple. They come with a handy earpiece mute button for when you want to hear the outside world and a noise-canceling system for when you don't. What they don't come with is a copy of Dre's long-awaited Detox, but it's nice to know that when the album finally arrives, you'll have your listening system in order.
$350, available mid-July

Half Gallery opens its second exhibit tonight: a show of oils including The Circus Tent at Night From a Helicopter (pictured), by artist Robert Hawkins. Renowned in the art community (Hawkins' 1985 painting of a glacier was hanging over Jean-Michel Basquiat's death bed), the American-born, London-based artist is a favorite of GQ style guy Glenn O'Brien, among others. That he's showing at Half Gallery makes perfect sense—the space was founded by designer Andy Spade, writer/editor Bill Powers, and sometime memoirist James Frey. Also? Hawkins used to live a couple of doors down.
Through June 14 at 208 Forsyth St., New York, NY, no phone, halfgallery.com

Casio's G-Shock watches have been weathering, well, shocks for 25 years, collaborating with some huge names in the process (BAPE, Stüssy). Tonight the company celebrates its anniversary collection, featuring partnerships with Japanese baseball team Softbank Hawks and Hawaii boutique In4mation (pictured). Kanye West, a fellow appreciator of all things Day-Glo, will be playing the party, and Spike Lee is slated to host. That's appropriate: Like the watchmaker, Spike's an expert at shocks—remember She Hate Me?

Prime Access and PlanetOut just released their annual survey of which companies are perceived to be the most gay-friendly. And while the top of the list is surprise-free (Bravo, Showtime), the bottom is as dynamic as it is puzzling. Then again, maybe everyone just hates Rachael Ray. The poll's five least-gay-friendly brands are below:

-Samsung (5 percent perceive it as gay-friendly)
-WalMart (4 percent)
-Frito-Lay (4 percent)
-Cracker Barrel (3 percent)
-Dunkin Donuts (3 percent)

[via Gizmodo]

Coming this August: Nike Sportswear, a new line timed to the Olympics that gives the brand's best-known classics a high-tech update. The Air Max 90 (pictured), for example, has been given a full mesh upper and a sole from its Free series of running shoes. The collection also includes the lightest garment the company's ever produced, a Windrunner jacket made with its lattice-style Flywire technology. But despite the forward-looking materials, Nike has produced the line with old-school craftsmanship—an AW77 hooded sweatshirt, for instance, is made from fleece by Loopwheeler, a Japanese company whose twenties-era looms produce only enough fabric for eight garments per day. Speaking of eight, the number dominates the designs—all in honor of the launch date, 8/8/08. Still, the line actually marks a return: Nike Sportswear was the company's full name when the brand was introduced in 1979.

Artist Bill Shannon is amazing to watch—and given that he suffers from a degenerative hip condition, his efforts are nothing short of astounding. WORK, Shannon's new solo exhibit, opens tomorrow and features his drawings, sculptures, and dance videos (see below). Using his crutches and skateboard, the artist creates an inspiring and lyrical form of movement (and demonstrates that he knows how to dress, too). "A search for balance is universal," he says. "To have video, sculpture and dance altogether? Well, I'm just trying to find that sweet spot."

Through June 18 at Douz and Mille, 138 Mulberry St., 6th fl., New York, NY, (212) 505-2075, douzandmille.com

Now out from Sharp: a set of two full-HD LCD TVs equipped with an Internet browser. (No word yet on which, but here's hoping it's not Explorer.) The line is targeted at businesses—those that watch YouTube videos during meetings, perhaps?—but seems more useful for checking headlines, scores, and/or porn during commercial breaks.
$4,000 for the 46-inch model, $5,000 for the 52-inch, sharpusa.com

The globe-hopping jet set has descended on Cannes, and while style matters, it's really all about size—yacht size. Alberta Ferretti's 148-foot Prometej will be docking off the beach, as will the Missoni clan's 162-foot Pegasus. Meanwhile, Roberto Cavalli's 135-foot R&C makes up for its (relatively) diminutive stature with all the subtlety you'd expect from the man who gave the world leopard-print eveningwear: It's painted with an iridescent lacquer that gleams electric-purple in the sun and softens to navy at sunset. We checked—Hypercolor's not involved.

[WWD]

For KCRW's Guest DJ Project, the Santa Monica station asks luminaries to comment on the music that shaped them. (Bonus: They play it, too.) The best of the bunch? The shows featuring Conan O'Brien (who, besides enjoying the White Stripes and the Clash, explains that he'd much rather be a musical guest than a late-night host) and John Cusack. The latter, while discussing Ray Davies, ventures into heavy music critic territory: "There's a dark, savage irony to his stuff that just adjusts you in a fantastic way." As Cusack fans already know, it looks like someone missed his calling.
kcrw.com

Yamaha's new FX Cruiser SHO, available in platinum and crimson-red-metallic (pictured), comes equipped with a 1.8-liter supercharged engine and weighs 25 percent less than previous models (thanks to the nanotechnology used to craft its chassis). But what's really remarkable is its introduction of a cruise-control feature. That, in concert with its 19.8-gallon cooler and self-draining beverage holders, just begs for casual Corona-fueled races. Our advice? Steer clear of resorts that cater to the college-age set.
$12,800, yamaha-motor.com

Here's something we don't want: the Timex 2154 life index watch. Basically, you put it on your skin, where it reads your biometric stats to determine how much longer you'll be alive. Pretty frightening, but even worse, it appears to be only available in purple.

Equally morbid (if more enjoyable) is 1,000 Ways to Die, premiering tonight on Spike TV. The show combines expert testimony with CGI to show what happens when, say, rattlesnake venom enters the bloodstream. In other words, if you thought the bullet-entry sequence was the Three Kings' highpoint, this is your show.

Opening today: a striking new exhibit of photographs taken by GQ design director Fred Woodward. Printed in high-contrast black-and-white, the pictures were originally snapped in 1986 to accompany an article written by Nicholas Lemann for The Atlantic Monthly. The concept was to document how the flight of middle-class African-Americans to Chicago from small towns in the South had created, as The Atlantic put it, a "disastrously isolated underclass." In reporting the story, Lemann was intrigued to discover that many of the subjects he'd interviewed had come from Canton, Mississippi. Woodward took his camera there, too.

The magazine only printed a small selection—at the time, The Atlantic didn't publish photos, but made an exception here—and the photographer shelved his negatives in the interim. Now, as they're presented at Manhattan's 401 Projects, the results are arresting. "Whether he was actually packing heat or not, I don't know," Woodward says, referring to the hard case in Revolver (pictured). "I think he was pulling my leg. It's just a pose. I looked at the frames on either side, and there was some laughter leading up to that moment." Other memorable pictures include those taken at a barber shop in Canton and the series Woodward took at the Greater Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago. It was the latter batch, in fact, that gave the photographer his impetus for the show: "I'd heard discussion on the radio—it was probably NPR—about Barack Obama and the Reverend Jeremiah Wright. Someone commented that maybe the problem was that many Americans had never been inside an African-American church, and it brought me back to that day in Chicago." Check out a selection of Woodward's photos in our slideshow.
"Going Over Home," May 14 to July 13, 401 Projects, 401 West St., New York, NY, (212) 633-6202, 401projects.com

Foosball is worth obsessing over, so we're understandably wowed by up-and-coming designer Jared Arp. He crafted this maple and silver lace wood table while still a student in Denver, and the one-off piece is up for sale for the relatively bargain price of $9,500. (Just think of it as bespoke.) With its sensuous curves and hint of Swinging Sixties sophistication, this is foosball as God (and Alfie) intended. If you can't quite swing that Ferrari yet, gentlemen, it's nice to know there are other toys worth bidding on.
For more information, contact jaredarp@gmail.com

Buried in the flotsam at the Sotheby's Contemporary Art Day sale in New York on Thursday is this Naomi Campbell nude taken by David LaChapelle in 1999. Two things you should know before bidding: The estimate is $40,000 to $60,000, and it's nearly five feet tall.

Budding NYC design darling Victor Vetterlein just unveiled his Reboot concept house over on Dezeen. The structure is completely self-sufficient, complete with solar panels, on-site wind turbines, and a special rooftop drain for collecting (and then recycling) rainwater. You can even control the building's precise internal temperature remotely from a cell phone or computer. All of which means it'll never be built, but should Wes Anderson ever direct a sci-fi film, now he knows who to call to make the set.

Now on view in Japan: XXIst Century Man, a multimedia exhibition curated by pleat-loving designer Issey Miyake. He's assembled works by notables like sculptor Tim Hawkinson and late designer Isamu Noguchi on topics like the environment, fashion, design, and architecture—the last of which includes 25-year-old Koutarou Sekiguchi's enormous masking tape and newspaper tower (pictured). An accompanying magazine, a collaboration between Miyake and the Japanese mag pen, has just made its way across our desk—not quite in time for the exhibit's late-March debut, but with plenty of time to spare before its July closing. (Hey, news of the dead-tree variety still travels slow.) It's a fascinating document, and better yet, it's available for $14 at Manhattan's Issey Miyake boutique—much cheaper than a trip to Tokyo.
XXIst Century Man runs through July 6, 2008, at 21_21 Design Sight, 9-7-6 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan, +03-3475-2121, 2121designsight.jp

Menswear trade show Pitti Immagine Uomo is known for its tony traditions, which makes this year's special guest all the more surprising. Eccentric Belgian designer Walter Van Beirendonck (pictured) will present his 2009 Spring/Summer collection in Florence on June 19. Known for his outré looks and antagonist philosophies (one of his slogans is "Aesthetic terrorists unite!"), Van Beirendonck follows last season's showing by New York designer Adam Kimmel. The latter wasn't exactly a Pitti person either, but at least he produces his clothes in Italy. Van Beirendonck, on the other hand, doesn't—he lives in Antwerp and usually shows in Paris. This will be the first time he's ever shown a collection in the boot.

Shepard Fairey is among the nine designers PC Mag has tapped for Computerlicious, an unfortunately named (if well-intentioned) charity auction of one-of-a-kind laptops. (Other participants include G-Unit cofounder Coltrane Curtis and graffiti artist James De La Vega.) Fairey's contribution (pictured) is based on his famed Peace Ornament and Zapatista Woman designs, and the current bid is $1,025—only 300 bucks more than the cost of the computer underneath, a plain ol' Hewlett Packard ZT1000. All proceeds go to the National Cristina Foundation, which donates used PCs to schools and nonprofits.

[via Gizmodo]

Some of the first and finest Ferraris ever produced will go on sale at the marque's Maranello factory on May 18. The star of RM Auctions' Ferrari: Leggenda e Passione is a 1961 250 GT SWB Spyder California (pictured) that belonged to tough-guy actor James Coburn. Estimated at $4.6 to $5.9 million, it's considered one of the most beautiful and valuable Ferraris ever made. (Coburn used to race it around the Hollywood Hills with his pal Steve McQueen.) Also on offer: a 1951 Inter Coupe PF 512 that director Roberto Rossellini bought as an anniversary present for his wife, Ingrid Bergman ($1-$1.3 million); and, on the more modern end, a 2004 Enzo made for a member of a Middle Eastern royal family—the only example ever produced in gray ($1.2-$1.5 million). If that's a little out of your range, there's also plenty of Ferrari memorabilia on offer, from blueprints to carburetors. Can't wait until Sunday? The house is taking bids now.

Opening tomorrow: the inaugural edition of the New York Photo Festival, a large-scale exhibition that celebrates the still image, curated by industry vets like Martin Parr and Lesley Martin. Works on display include everything from prints by recent MFA grads to a slew from more established photographers, like Roger Ballen's Fragments and Jan Kempenaers' Spomenik (pictured), taken of a Communist monument in the former Yugoslavia. (At around 75,000 square feet, the space promises a comprehensive look at the current state of the medium, with an eye directed to its future.) The event also includes panel discussions with featured artists, Ballen and Kempenaers among them, not to mention workshops and reviews. In other words, it's time to get your portfolio together.
Through May 18, nyphotofestival.com

Score one for corporate synergy: Fortune reports Pixar's upcoming Wall-E will star Eve, an iMac-like robot created by Apple design guru Jonathan Ive. The collaboration's no shocker given Pixar was founded by Steve Jobs (who is also Disney's largest shareholder), and comes after last year's Ratatouille featured appetizing meals created, of course, by Thomas Keller.

[via Gizmodo]

Misery doesn't always love company: Heartbroken workers at Japan's Hime & Co. can now get up to three days off to mourn the demise of their relationships. Employees of the PR firm can request "heartache leave," reports The Telegraph—though no one has actually taken the time yet. Duration varies by age: Workers in their early 20s can take a day, those in their mid-20s get two, and those 30 and up receive three. What if Miss Last Night isn't returning your texts? No word, but we wouldn't bank on anything longer than a coffee break.