Vangelis Paterakis (Greece) photographs homes and hotels that made me drool for about an hour this morning. His work is in just about every magazine and he really knows how to make a home or hotel photo look like all it’s missing is you. On that gorgeous couch. With a glass of really expensive wine.

She’s a female graffiti artist in Mexico that calls herself NEWS and she’s collaborated with some really big names on some walls in Mexico City. I love her playful style, you can see her other work here.

Thomas Bendel is a German architect that makes very simple homes that I have just fallen in love with. It’s very difficult to do simple rooms like these and still make them feel warm and he uses books in many of his designs to tone down the museum effect a bit. Great idea!This is my problem: I spend so much time on these design and architecture sites and now that I am searching for a new place to live in Madison it’s difficult to love anything.Aren’t there …

I generally do not like animal photos that much because they seem to turn out in a really trite and “hey we went to the zoo” kind of way. French photographer Nicolas Evariste has some really good ones and manages to make them look modern somehow. Take a look.

This is Rosson Crow, she’s a 27 year old artist from Texas. I was flipping through Vogue when I stumbled across her artwork – which by the way is already getting wildly popular enough that I cannot afford her artwork. It’s really kind of morbid in a cheery way.Endearing Factors: She loves to dress up (I love to dress up too so I totally relate. The New Jersey-ite saw a picture of me on my refrigerator with a pink wig on and said “oh, is this …