Start Mobile

First there was Start Mobile. What do all these things have in common? Their aim is to bring great art to your mobile phone's background screen. Launched today, Start Mobile was created by the San Francisco art gallery Start SOMA and features downloadable wallpapers ($1.99 each) from over 100 urban artists. By far the most comprehensive collection of street art [for mobile phones], Start promises …

Laughing Bike

Another highlight from the Basel weekend (yes, updates are still coming) was Soundbike, an art project by Jessica Thompson. Basically, a fleet of bikes was outfitted to emit laughter when the rider pedals. The faster the pedaling, the louder and more hysterical the laughter. In addition to being a lot of fun, I though her piece was a perfect little statement on the art consumption …

CH Gift Guide Exclusives

Our Holiday 2005 Gift Guide now has over 100 items for you to buy or wish list. Most of them are things you could have found yourself on the web, but we did the searching for you and provided the links to make it easy. A few things, though, are our own exclusives. They're things we had made or items no one else is selling. …