The Great Escape is a 1963 BMW R60/2 customized by Blitz motorcycles of France. Blitz kept its 600cc engine, stripped off the fender, added 18″ tires and painted the body and engine matte black.

Pagani created the Tricolore in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Frecce Tricolori, Italy’s aerobatic team. The Tricolore’s paint scheme matches that of the Tricolori’s planes. More pics here.

London-based Laurie Lipton has developed her own peculiar drawing technique building up tone with thousands of fine cross-hatching lines like an egg tempera painting. Insane, haunting, and inspired.

Harrison Krix made a jaw-dropping replica of the M8 Avenger Assault Rifle from Mass Effect.  We think its the awesome paint job and stencils that make the replica really stand out.

The guys over at DeviantART have released this simple, elegant HTML5 painting application which even offers support for Wacom tablets. Start playing now for free, extra brushes cost points.

Robert Burden makes amazing tapestry-style paintings of the action figures he loved as a child, from G.I. Joe to Voltron to Hulk Hogan. Print versions of his paintings are for sale at his website.

Table-top jocks will love these foosball coat racks. They come in two, four or five-figure models. The figures can even be painted with the jersey of your choice. Rugby variant also available.

We grinning at the looks of this guy expressing himself on this handmade limited edition print from Omar Noory. It’s letterpressed on heavy paper stock and hand painted with a light ink wash.

The guys at Colorware have coated just about every object in geekdom with paint, so why wouldn’t you think they’d hit up Microsoft’s New Xbox 360 with a splash of the shiny stuff?

Artist Bruce Munro (and a crew of 140) created this installation using over 600,000 discarded compact discs to form an enormous shiny “painting”. In two months, all the CDs will be recycled.

ColorWare is now making custom-colored HDTVs – any model in the color that you want. However, you can’t send them an HDTV that you already have; the offer is for a TV plus the paint job.

These beautiful hand-painted steampunk guns look spanking good chap, especially alongside your Comptometer. They also are great for cosplay when you need to blast away your dreadful foes.

Aznom and Romeo Ferraris have tricked out the Land Rover Defender with custom paint, carbon fiber bumpers, leather/Alcantara interior and output increase from 122 hp to 152 hp.

This nifty music video for Breakbot’s Baby I’m Yours was created from a series of ~2000 handpainted watercolors by Irina Dakeva. The song is pretty awesome too.

San Francisco artist Scott Campbell has created a playful chronicling of some of the greatest confrontations in film history, presented in ink and paint at his website The Great Showdowns.

Artist Alex Andreyev’s evocative paintings envision a slightly askew world filled with zero-gravity vehicles, gigantic dirigibles and tentacled creatures. We’re not sure it looks like a fun place to live.

20 staffers arranged 2,700 polo shirts in 24 different colors to make a portrait of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh as part of a campaign by Japanese apparel maker Onward Kashiyama.

This awesome new app lets you create complex 3D models by sculpting them out of virtual clay, then painting them. Best of all, the app is totally free. Sorry, Windows only :(

Inspired in part by Santiago Calatrava’s València buildings, Daniel Garcia created this concept A9, featuring a unique electronic painting system that changes the car’s color at the touch of a button.

French concept artist Bastien Grivet delivers a strong illustrated collection of the worlds of tomorrow, full of menace and wonder, that somehow feels as if it was painted in the past.

Stanford’s autonomous car manages to cram itself into a parallel parking space with stuntman-like skills. It might take a little paint off some bumpers, but we’d like to see you try this move.

The Graffomat vending machine is fully stocked with graffiti supplies, including spray paint and ski masks, just in case you run out mid-spray while creating a mural in a dark alley at 4 am.

A short documentary on the dying trade of hand-painted billboard art, Up There is insightful and touching. Directed by Malcolm Murray, the film is part of Stella Artois’ The Ritual Project.