The burbling electronic pop of FACULTIES was born on laptops in the bedrooms of Brooklyn, but it is fitting that this cerebral and organic project found a home on Samplefruende, a new digital label in Oldenburg, Germany. Their debut video for Cold Hands, directed and produced by Gil Zablodovsky in Israel, is a claustrophobic study of every day alienation, lightened by the brisk tempo and soaring vocals of the track.

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Formed in Providence, now based in Brooklyn, Fang Island is a three-guitar monster pounding out hook-laden, guitarmony crazed, high-fiving epics. This is heavy metal for kids on Ectasy. Be on the watch for their new album, Major, arriving in July.

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Bookend manufacturers beware, a giant killer has emerged from the shadows. This elegant and simple design from Colleen Whiteley integrates the bookend into the shelf itself, using a sliding, oversize wing nut to stabilize your books. Currently one of ten Finalists in DWR and Dwell Magazine’s Live/Work Design Contest.

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This is a minimal, fun to use interactive map showing worldwide population density. Crank it all the way up and see how only China and India are still remaining.

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Massachusetts College of Art and Design industrial design student Mitchell Silva has prototyped an ingenious and very beautiful bicycle illumination device. Glo-Bars is a rechargeable LED fixture that is built into the handle bars of a bicycle, making the cyclist visible to both opposing and approaching traffic. The device also contains turn signals. Wild.

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Ang is a Korean sculptor who specializes in disturbing, hyper-realistic human forms. Pain, oppression and torture dominate as themes, but the verisimilitude of the works lets in some crucial breaths of humanity and empathy.

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