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Comparing with iTunes music store and MySpace social network, Indie911 is relatively small, in the size of the network, as well as the number of staffs (they only have small number of staffs running the company). However, it has successfully combined some of the best features of iTunes and MySpace to serve both artists and audiences in the indie entertainment industry.

You probably have seen the animation image above. If you haven’t, stare at the cross in the center of the image and try not to move your vision away. If it’s done right, after a few seconds you will see the circling light green circle “eating” off those pink circles, leaving only the light green circle moving in its orbit…

If you work a large city’s shipping port, or a large industry yard, most likely you have already seen some of the scenes captured by photographer Chris Jordan. If you haven’t, try to imagine how great the sight of hundreds or thousands of piled up crushed cars will look like, or how fascinating it is to see millions of cigarette butts. All these, are the results of mass consumption…

There are many literature websites out there, but so far I have yet to see one which is as impressive as the Born Magazine. In the Born Magazine, they produce interactive multimedia poetry projects, combining art and literature together with the help of computer technology available, which is, Macromedia Flash.

The picture above isn’t photoshoped, it’s a real northern lights photo shot by Sigurdur H Stefnisson, an Icelandic professional photographer who has developed great techniques to capture this difficult to photograph phenomenon on film since 1985…