IST (Indian Stretchable Time): Design studio Hyphen has created the “Indian Stretchable Watch”—or the “Ish Watch” for short—which presents a humorous take on the Indian mentality of time. This watch is available exclusively through Filter.

(Source: designboom.com)

Camera Obscura: French photographers Romain Alary and Antoine Levi convert rooms into camera obscura, casting views of the cities of Paris, France and Pushkar, India upon the walls of the apartment.

With a little elbow-grease, the camera obscura effect is a DIY project you can do in pretty much every room. Simply block all light save for one tiny hole which allows light to entire and fill the room, recreating an upside-down image of the world outside. The walls of the room become the photographic paper, merging eerily with furniture and blending the divisions between indoor and outdoor.

(Source: designboom.com)

Paint the Town: It’s that time of year again—the Hindu festival of Holi, which celebrates spring by throwing powder and diluted dyes and generally going wild. Holi always produces some great photographs and these ones by Kevin Frayer are no exception.

A Touch of Photoshop: Adobe has just released an Photoshop Touch app for the iPad 2. The app has, of course, fewer features than the real thing, but at $10 it’s also significantly cheaper and is great for on-the-go editing. (Swag So Fresh)

Sculpting Trees: Over the past few weeks, trees in the wooded area around Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, UK, had been carved into beautiful animal sculptures by an unknown artist, suspected to be Banksy but identified by the BBC as a chainsaw-wielding tree sculptor named Tommy Craggs. (This is Colossal)

Select Designers: The Patna Museum in India has chosen Japanese architecture firm Maki and Associates, despite the international jury’s initial recommendation for London-based architect Norman Foster. (The Art Newspaper)

Hitler’s Gallery: Seven paintings owned by Hitler were uncovered by a historian in a convent in the Czech Republic, though how they got there remains a mystery. The paintings depict heroic portrayals of German soldiers, revealing an unsurprising taste in military themes. (LA Times)

It’s Not Over Yet: Occupy Wall Street has found its next victim—the Whitney Biennial in New York. The organisers of the movement sent a letter to the Whitney Museum of American Art objecting to the way in which the biennal “upholds a system that benefits collectors, trustees, and corporations at the expense of art workers.” (LA Times)

Iconic Images: The World Press Photo of the Year went to Samuel Arenda’s photo (top) of a man being cared for at a field hospital in Yemen by Samuel Arenda. Below that is a selection of some of the most arresting achievements in photojournalism. Be sure to view them up close!

Left: Rebels in Ras Lanuf, Libya - Yuri Kozyrev (Spot News, 1st prize singles)

Middle: A wedding photo of a North Indian couple (Maya, 8 and Kishore, 13) - Stephanie Sinclair (Contemporary Issues, 1st prize stories)

Right: Triathletes at the start of the 2011 Ford Ironman World Championships swimming over a school of fish at Kailua Bay, Hawaii - Donald Miralle, Jr. (Sports, 1st prize singles)