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Next time someone asks to take your picture, refuse to say "cheese." Instead, scream at the top of your lungs. That's the only way to get noticed by Billy Hunt's unique camera, which he has dubbed the Screamotron3000. "Think Rube Goldberg meets the Wizard of Oz," says Hunt of his converted boom box that triggers a photo when the subject's scream reaches a particular decibel level. "By using a machine, I hope to offer a window through the inherently artificial process of portraiture into real human emotion." Hunt's growing collection of "scream portraits" speak for themselves—and loudly.

Still a little foggy on this whole sustainability thing? You're not alone. Get informed and inspired with a megadose of Vitamin Green, the latest addition to Phaidon's survey series (Vitamin D looked at drawing, Vitamin P plumbed painting). Designers, curators, and critics from around the world handpicked the approximately 100 projects featured in the illustration-packed sourcebook. Flip through for an up-to-the-minute look at products, buildings, processes, and ideas that address issues such as water quality, pollution, and energy consumption.

Punch up your portfolio (and stand to take home a Macbook Pro) with Veer's Stunner in the Summer poster design contest. Ready to flex your creative muscles? Download the free pack of images, fonts, and illustrations; use them to design a poster around the theme of summer festivals; and submit your entry by August 3. Visitors to the Corbis-owned company's website and a panel of judges will choose ten semi-finalists to move on to the second round, with a new theme and different elements.

Fed up with the Web? Get virtually violent with Font Bomb, the latest digital "experiment" by Philippe-Antoine Lehoux. The Quebec-based game designer and entrepreneur introduces the JavaScript bookmarklet by way of a quick video that shows his destructive amusement in action (the montage of HTML carnage is set to Tchaikovsky's Flower Waltz). After viewing it, try planting some bombs of your own anywhere on the page. We suggest scrolling down to detonate Baudelaire's "Hymne à la Beauté" (Hymn to Beauty). Voilà, poetry in motion!

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing. That's the tagline for Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present, a feature-length documentary now playing on HBO and in select theaters worldwide. The film follows the artist as she prepares for her 2010 retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art. “The two main goals I set for myself in the beginning were to figure out how to make the subject appeal to a wider audience than just the rarefied art world and to avoid the trap of making a plodding biopic-style film,” explains director Matthew Akers, who made mesmerizing viewing of Abramović's MoMA performance-cum-staring contest. “My hope is that the film’s audience will have an experiential encounter with the concepts in Marina’s work in a way that might reveal something about themselves, as it certainly did for me.”

A number of companies have made eyeglasses more affordable and even added a philanthropic "buy-one-give-one" twist, but what happens to all of those specs when they're replaced by more stylish models? Enter eco, a line of eyewear that is proudly "earth-conscious" as well as reasonably priced. The eyeglasses and sunglasses, available for men and women, are made from recycled stainless steel and repurposed plastic. But that's only the beginning of the brand's commitment to sustainability: eco plants a tree for each frame sold (through a partnership with Trees for the Future) and makes it easy to donate your unwanted eyewear.