Awesomeness. The New Dance Show (Circa early 90s) featuring Daniel Bell

Nikon's Universcale is like Powers of Ten for the Internet age; it puts 40 magnitudes of measurement at your fingertips.

Supertouch offers us a preview of WK's show in Paris at the Adict Galerie which opens tonight.

Re: Friday Night Videos. Should deux (Agglomerat, France, 1983) be feeling ripped off by Anton Corbijn and DM (Mute, England, 1987)? This wouldn't be the first time.

News from the City of Angels, our favorite purveyor of high-design, All Purpose has joined with Cyberoptix TieLab to illustrate the concept of James Dean's 1955 car crash "Whiplash" intricate prints of auto part schematic illustrations repeated and mirrored into complex, twisted patterns. I'm sure Ms. Bethany or Mr. Doyle will be posting more on this soon.

Until then, enjoy our Friday Night Video tribute to all things French (Videos de Vendredi Nuit?)

Rare cold-wave par excellence
Another French rarity (from 2003)
Even the fake french are fabulous
But we still love North America

Meanwhile, Think Geek introduces a new reason to be gunned down on the streets of L.A.

According to Gothamist, my favorite supplier of all things simple and good, MUJI will be opening a flagship store in The Times building in NYC. This will augment their small subset of goods already offered at MoMA, SF MoMA and MoCA (at triple the JP prices). I'm especially eager to finally have access to some of their larger products that are either too bulky to schlep back from Japan, and that are not stocked at the museums, like this sleek CD clock radio.

5 new Katamari Damacy shirts from our friends at Panic Software up in Portland.

Pitchfork Media has a fantastic interview with the Icelandic songstress Bjork, about her new album Volta, due out May 7. And once again, she's working from the beats outward, just as she did on Homogenic and Vespertine (unlike her vocal-only album Medulla).

In the article, she discusses her influences to the "marching" sounds in Volta. One of the best parts of the interview is when Bjork describes how this album is somewhat a reaction to the world today, particularly all the religious divides;

"I mean, the human race, we are a tribe, lets face it and stop all this religious bullshit. I think everybody, or at least a lot of my friends are just so exhausted with this whole self-importance of religious people. Just drop it. We're all fucking animals, so lets just make some universal tribal beat. We're pagan. Lets just march."

First there was the iPhone, then the Prada Phone. Now Softbank Japan introduces the Pantone Phone. It's a mobile being offered in 20 of your favorite PMS colors. Personally, I'm waiting for someone to release the hexidecimal phone in #6e6b6b.

I have absolutely no use at the moment for a high-end digital multitrack recorder, but if I did, I'd certainly check out the Cantar-X. Aside from it's rugged, blade-runneresque good looks, it appears to be loaded with impressive features like twin batteries and a remote control software so the Cantar-X can be operated from your PDA. The company calls it 'the Stradivarius of new generation, and at first blush I'd have to agree. [via Core77]