Who wouldn't love a levitating bonsai tree?

This floating bonsai tree is amazing. Called Air Bonsai, the miniature plant uses the same magnetic floating trick similar to the Air 2 Levitating Speaker. I've always wanted a bonsai tree for my home. The time has come!

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Check out this insane music box powered by 2,000 marbles

The brainchild of Swedish musician Martin Molin, the Wintergartan Marble Machine , is a bizarre music box that allows the user to play tunes using a hand crank and 2,000 steel marbles. The Rube Goldberg'esque contraption features a vibraphone, bass, drums, cymbals and other instruments that play a score programmed into a 32 bar loop comprised of LEGO Technic parts. It's mesmerizing, and you can watch how they built it over here . [h/t: MailOnline ]

A Look at Karl Arnaiz's "Duality"

It 's me, not the artist. Karl Arnaiz's "Duality" (currently on view at Eskinita Art Gallery ) is an invitation to ponder the complexities of life and appreciate the balance that exists even in differences. This 36 x 27-inch piece in charcoal and watercolor isn't just art that looks pretty on a wall. It's art that makes you stop, think, and maybe even re-evaluate how you see the world. Karl Arnaiz paints a meditation on death and its contrasting yet inevitable connection with life. In Duality, he explores the darker corners of the human experience. There is a certain sense of psychological imprisonment that permeates his work, as he paints a woman confined in a room with a disconnected skull floating against the wall. It shows how powerless humans are in the face of mortality and how the imminent passage of time from the woman’s face to the skull is simply nothing but a straight line, a blank, negative space on the wall, showing how nothing can obstruct death...

Feast your eyes on Liz Collini's amazing chalk typography

Liz Collini is an English typography artist known for her stunning hand-lettered chalk texts based on the style of mechanical blueprints. Her work has been widely exhibited in the UK and in other countries, including Portugal, France, Italy, Finland, the US and Japan. Liz says, "There are gaps and overlaps between reading and viewing, text and image, the hand and the machine. I try to create breathing spaces in which we can pause and look back at language." If you're a detail junkie you'll definitely enjoy a visit to her website . I couldn't quit staring at them. [h/t: My Modern Met ]

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