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Nina Katchadourian’s series of uninvited collaborations with nature contains a project wherein she attempted to mend broken spider webs using starched red sewing thread, sometimes adding new dimensions to the web. All of her repairs were rejected. Another of her works captures her attempt to patch mushroom caps.

Also crawling out of the forest, the eerie and organic folk of Big Blood’s Grove at Grown So Ugly. Digital facsimiles of the rituals will suffice for now, as the disc is only available at performances. Wild in the city and long hair in many stages, the coiffal history of Black Flag.

Anne Hardy’s world of interiors, scenes with no need for human characters. Scan galleries: 1968 Fender catalog, 1950’s - 1970’s advertising, and most striking of all Chutes Libre covers.

Ben Fry traces the roads of the America using US Census data’s TIGER/Line files, changing our understanding of our byways and identifying stark contrasting regions. Andy_house, a house that speaks through Twitter.

It would be impossible not to mention the treasure tar file Andy Baio unleashed. Weaving together a story based on 20+ year old bits of data from various parties, he traces the history of an unreleased interactive fiction sequel and manages to reunite most of the participants in the comments. A fascinating read. Related: Unearthing unreleased Atari cartridges in an Oakland flea market.

The Visual Rhetorics of the Supreme Being can be viewed while wearing the headlines across your chest. Raising awareness with AIDS statistics as page numbers. Beyond the Birds and Bees, an exhibit on the history of sex education. For a more personalized view, see the visualization of the relationships of Gregory Dizzia.

Walls of Eyes and No Coffin for the Corpse, found in the gallery of 1940’s pulp covers. Take a voyage to exotica and be sure to enjoy the cream of barley.

The experience of listening to a favorite album resequenced: The story of Neil Young’s original Tonight’s the Night acetate. Different tracklist, containing material that would surface on On the Beach and Decade, along with the unreleased “Bad Fog of Loneliness”. Have your audio memories rewired here. Rolling back brand identity to return to a better time- the Starbucks mermaid.

Reordering and unravelling by disease, Frontotemporal Dementia. View more in the gallery of Anne Adams, who passed away last year after a battle with FTD.

Some personal favorites of their kind: Big Questions, a dashboard widget from IDEO. Design notes on Monocle, a magazine and website.

The fascinating real/imagined visual language of black budgets. Mixing fiction with fact with parody based on speculation, eventually arriving at something so unique that an internal affairs investigation and coffee table book must be just around the corner. More beautiful layered insignias here.

Baseball season started just the other day and was greeted with Stealing Signs: Dead Ball-Era Baseball, a collection of paintings by Mark Penxa. A nostalgic collection, filled with statistics and a memory of supposed better days. Less biting and more melancholy than Pettibon’s ballplayers. More figures-as-art and statistics-as-canvas by Louise Despont, here and here. Some notation as art as notation by Penderecki.

More aesthetically pleasing data in the form of network graphs on GitHub. Making source control social, easy to grok, and colorful.

The recursive packaging art of the Droste Effect, via Torrez.

Super Mario Brothers written and embedded in a single 14kb Javascript file, with more info here. Still dreaming of computer games of the future. Similarly, how about a database built solely with HTML tables and Javascript.

We Made This inspects QR codes and QR code scarves.

Avant busted blues live and recorded via ChrisGoesRock.