Psykopaint – This super cool tool (free to use) invites you to paint over photos, whether photos you have on your computer or the ones in Psykopaint’s sample gallery, and create beautiful masterpieces.

Here’s my personal creation using a photo of my cat from last summer. I think I just found my next desktop background!

To learn more about the numerous painting and effect options you have available on Psykopaint, watch this video first and then proceed to create your own amazing photo-based painting!

99 Rooms – This amazing interactive art project is brought to us by Kim Köster, Richard Schumann, Stephan Schulz and Johannes Bünemann. Combining wall painting, photography, animation and sound to create a unique comprehensive experience, 99 Rooms is inspired by the works of Berlin artist Kim Köster “within the countless vacated premises of East Berlin‘s industrial sector.” Although the project first came out in 2004, it continues to surprise and inspire millions of viewers worldwide.

Enter the site and embark on an artistic voyage unlike anything else you have encountered. I have included below two screen shots, two out of the 99 rooms you will enter while exploring this fine project.

Google Art Project – See this video to get a behind the scenes look at the Google Art Project – Another amazing feature by Google, this Art Project by the communication giant brings art right into your face, in an experience no other technology has been able to produce until now. Pick out one of the many globally acclaimed museums from the list, and then choose between walking through the museum’s galleries or looking at specific masterpieces so close you can see each brush stroke in super high quality resolution.

The museum tour, as you will see for yourself, is a smart adaptation of Google’s Street View technology, and it feels as if you are right there in London, Berlin and NYC, admiring the art of famous virtuosos. Below is an image of the ‘museum stroll view’ at the National Gallery in London.

The next image is of an ultra-zoomed image of a famous piece by a well-known European painter. Guess who? Click the image to find out.

See this video to learn how Google’s Art Project came into being. It’s amazing.

Artist A Day – Although the Web makes us feel as though virtually anything can be found there, that’s not the case for many artists. Artist a Day brings “attention to artists that otherwise don’t get the attention they deserve,” by showcasing a couple of works of a new artist we would probably have never heard of if it wasn’t for this website. The idea is to introduce users to the artists, and direct them to the artists’ own website or portfolio online.

Artist a Day has an exquisite design as you would expect from an art website, and it also includes Top 5 and Recent artists lists worth checking out. Feel free to vote for your top art works and learn more about emerging new artists. Here are two images by Erik Johansson that I found here on Artist a Day. Here is Johansson’s website if you are interested.

Jelly Shot Taste Kitchen – What started out as a medium to keep friends and family updated on their new jelly shot endeavors soon became the super cute and tasty blog, Jelly Shot Test Kitchen. The two sisters behind the colorful jelly drinks, Michelle and Amy, work wonders and take jelly to a whole new level, and this blog documenting their creations was picked as one of the Weekly Blog winners.

The photos you will find on Jelly Shot Test Kitchen (plus recipes of course) are so beautiful I feel taking a bite off of these would be a crime, virtually destroying a masterpiece. I will let the photos speak for themselves. Click on the images to go to their respective post and recipe, and you will then understand why this blog was mentioned in gourmet magazines such as Saveur.com.

Santa’s Hat Jelly Shot:

P.S. The Jelly Shot Test  Kitchen recipe book will be released by Running Press in May 2011.

JayCut – With the ambitious goal of making videos like putty in the hands of users, JayCut offers free online video editing service that invites users to become fully engaged with videos rather than simply watching them.

Create and edit your very own video and edit it like a pro with JayCut’s easy and intuitive editor. This software is completely free, and it saves time so you can create your masterpiece in no time! To learn more about JauCut’s online editor, I recommend exploring the demo (click the image below).

NFB/Interative: Crash Course – Brought to us by the National Film Board of Canada, Crash Course is the creative project of Nobu Adilman and The Secret Location, exploring innovative perspectives on the US recession, in Argentina. Sounds crazy? Wait till you find out the connection between Tango lessons and a slow economy. Prepare yourself for an amazing interactive experience. This is simply a must.

Genero.tv – Feel like making the music video of your favorite artist? Now you can with Genero.tv. a site that picks the songs from artists around the world and then leaves it up to you to make your own music videos for them to express what the songs represent for you. This innovative and creative idea brings together grade A artists (including Royskopp, Moby, David Lynch, Alicia Keys) with video creators to make the best music videos ever. Winning videos score fame and great prizes, so if you know your way around the creative video world, genero.tv is the place for you. To get an idea of the artists listed here who are waiting for cool videos see the screen shot below.

To see an example of genero.tv in action, see this video by thespecialbobo , a finalist for Alicia Keys’ Wait Till You See My Smile song (apologies for not embedding the video, the code failed to work).

FatCap – I have never seen such a comprehensive resource of graffiti online that is also beautifully designed, regularly updated and full of inspiration such as that called FatCap. What started out as a simple photo gallery site gradually evolved into the global resource FatCap is today, dedicated to providing “a top-notch yet simple product, to give an exhaustive snapshot of the street-art culture all over the world.”

I recommend diving right into the site’s Pictures section, but if you’d like a quick taste, here are a couple of photos taken by Chip Thomas that appeared in FatCap’s article called No Reservation. It’s simply stunning.

Stuff No One Told Me – A Weekly Blogs king, this witty and fun blog is all about lessons learned, wrapped up with a good laugh. Alex Noriega, the Spanish-born creator, indulges us with a concise statement about life, accompanied by a cute illustration on a monthly basis. Once a month is hardly the update frequency you would expect from a blog, but it’s totally worth it. It’s clever, lovely, and intellectually satisfying. Kudos, Alex! See a couple of posts as decent examples.

Little People – Here’s a super cute blog, a Weekly Blog winner from earlier this month. As opposed to many of the art blogs out there -however beautiful and inspiring they may be- this particular one is entirely different. The art itself (and the artist behind it) is guided by a simple yet revolutionary concept: “little hand-painted people, left in London to tend for themselves.”

The result? See for yourself with the spectacular images below. Who is behind these lovely creations? He or she wishes to remain anonymous. The only thing we can learn about Little People’s creator is that he or she has another blog celebrating a similar concept of art.

Nikon’s This Day – This site could best be described as a “web content page that shows what happened on that day in the past, at some place in the world.” So if for instance, today’s date is December 19, 2010, This Day displays an important past event that took place on that date sometime in the past decades or centuries. Each entry is accompanied by an HD image, and the background music will make you feel as if you’re strolling around a futuristic yet peaceful museum.

Explore Nikon’s This Day and learn a bit of history along the way. Below is the entry for Dec 19, 1851, which marked the death of a famous English painter. Guess who?