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Join author Elizabeth Gilbert on her travels through Italy, India, and Bali where she pursues her desire for satiation, spiritual enlightenment, and emotional balance.

Gilbert embarks on her year long journey after a drawn out divorce as a way to heal and recover. A great book for fans of travel and memoir literature.

"Sustaining a chatty, conspiratorial tone, Gilbert fully engages readers in the year's cultural and emotional tapestry--conveying rapture with infectious brio, recalling anguish with touching candor--as she details her exotic tableau with history, anecdote and impression."

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Here at Surfilicious, we all consider ourselves to be quite the fashionistas, and maybe you've got someone in your life who fancies them self a fashion designer in training too. Let that young man or lady (or maybe yourself) tap into their creative side with this Fashion Design Studio.

The kit comes with a 3-D dressmaker from, a step-by-step guide to fashion illustration, a sketchbook and swatch book for brainstorming, and all the other tools needed to create miniature masterpieces for New York Fashion Week.

Check price and availability at Discovery Channel Store.

Neither of us are scrapbookers, but one of us is fond, very fond, of making loads and loads of art, and absolutely and totally in love with pens.

ZIG pens are wonderful to work with - they're made with pigment ink, so you won't get fading if you're doodling in your artist's journal or journaling in your baby's scrapbook. They're archival quality all around, for times when being long-lasting is important to you.

This set gives you 48 amazing colors. Well worth it.

Check price and availability at Scrapbooks Supercenter.

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Check out CoverPops, by Jim Bumgardner. (The pic above is called 500 Gifts for Geeks - well, okay, this particular piece isn't art, but we thought it was interesting).

Move your mouse over each mosaic at the CoverPop site, and you'll uncover the items that make up the piece. Each item is also linked to Amazon, where you can, oh so conveniently, of course, purchase it. According to Yahoo Picks: "Art and commerce give each other a big cozy hug" on CoverPops.

This poster is absolutely gorgeous, and you can order it at cost for only $4 at KrazyDad. It's actually made up of 1099 (!!!) individual circles, each of which is a photograph. 265 different people contributed their photos to the project.

From the KrazyDad site:

The photographs are arranged in a fibonacci spiral, a fascinating pattern commonly seen in plants, such as sunflowers and pinecones. You will notice spirals going both clockwise and anti-clockwise. If you count the number of spirals in each direction, the result will be two successive numbers in the fibonacci series.

Very impressive.

Feel a need to satisfy your inner graffiti artist? Check out the Refreshing Wall, put together by Sprite and MSN.

You start off with quite a choice of locations. We clicked around, and finally settled on an empty billboard, but you can do your stuff at a construction site, in a backalley, even on someone's trashed sneaker.

Once you're done your masterpiece you can save it to the gallery, or just go and check out the gallery and see the stuff other people have posted.

This site is one huge work of art, Internet-style - a little eerie but fascinating. Take a stroll through 99Rooms, showcasing the artwork of  Kim Koester, with digitization and animation by Richard Schumann and Stephan Schulz and sound by Johannes Buenemann.

The final product of this year long effort is a scintillating intermediary world which invites the observer to an interactive journey through its morbidly-beautiful rooms.

This is one site that will take you a while to look through. Click on "to see and do" and then, well, go see and do! The gallery is great, but we had an amazing time just fooling around with the fractals tree (after clicking "to see and do", click on "activities").

From the site:

Here at the Playing With Time web site, unseen worlds of change will be revealed. You will see time sped up and slowed down, and behold the beauty of change. Time will be in your hands to witness, replay, and even create. You never know... you might not look at things quite the same way again.

If you've got some time on your hands, definitely go check out Playing with Time.

Robots plus art add up to this site, which displays comic book covers featuring ... yep, you got it. Robots!

The Robot Comic Book Cover Gallery. For the robot lover in your family.

How's this for performance art?

One Free Minute is a mobile sculpture designed to allow for instances of anonymous public speech. When you call the cellphone inside One Free Minute, you get connected for exactly a minute to a 200 watt amplifier and speaker. The speech produced by the speaker can be heard clearly more than 150 feet away from the sculpture.

Want to get connected for your free minute of anonymous speech? One Free Minute.