Archive for December, 2011
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Massive Lego Army 3D Street Art
Lego soldiers marching down the street at the 4th Sarasota Chalkfestival in Florida US are a result of street artists, Leon Keer, Peter Westerink, Ruben Poncia and Remko van Schaik of the Netherlands. The Lego men are meant to resemble clay figures as a reference to the Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang (the first Emperor of China). The beauty of such realistic perspective drawing such ...
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Awesome Steampunk Keyboards
Everything looks better in Steampunk, don’t you agree? Plenty of folks seem to be of this same mind frame and so it’s no surprise that there are many different types of remodelled steampunk keyboards available for sale. These are a few of our favourites from the following artists: Jake von Slatt (images 1 & 2) Peter Sztojanov jr (images 3 & 4) Richard “Doc” Nagy (images ...
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Bacon Flavoured Lube
As a result of an April Fool’s joke gone a little too far, Justin and Dave of JD Foods have been aiming to make everything taste like bacon. Their new products like Baconnaise (bacon-flavoured mayo) and Bacon Salt sound like great ideas for bacon-crazy foodies, but the bacon-flavoured lube is in a realm of its own. Single-handedly changing the true meaning of the term “bacon lover”, ...
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Awesome Megaphone iPhone Dock
Playing music in style is easy with the passive iPhone Amplifier designed by en&is. The ceramic unit’s design is sculpted after the old world megaphone – a form that optimizes sound output. A thin, wood base allows the unit to float above a surface to increase the audio quality through vibration. The megaphone is compatible for all iPhones models including the iPod Touch – it projects ...
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Creepy Anatomical Toy Sculptures
Jason Freeny of Moist Production likes to put an anatomical spin on iconic toys and characters by imagining what kind of innards our favourite characters might have. Then, he sculpts a mini version of his imaginings for the world to enjoy, and boy, do we ever! Freeny studied industrial design at the Pratt Institute in New York and spent most of the 90s traveling the world ...
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Brilliant Art Composed Of Naked Bodies
Angelo Musco, a New York-based artist, is doing amazing things with photography and creating interesting works of art that teeter on mosaic-style and illusion-based art. Musco takes photographs of naked human bodies and then digitally forms an intriguing visual to resemble scenes from the natural world, such as tree roots, bird nests, beehives, a swarm of fish and more. Musco’s photoshoots have been known to include ...
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Cool Mexican Wrestler Beer Labels
José Guizar is a young Mexican graphic designer who is responsible for this hilarious and perfectly fitting branding behind premium Mexican brewed beer, Cervecería Sagrada. Guizar conceptualized the Mexican wrestling mask branding as an homage to Lucha Libra – one of the most iconic symbols in Mexican pop culture. According to Guizar, the brand’s identity is “inspired by the golden era of lucha in the 1950′s, ...
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Steampunk Apartment In New York City
Screen writer Jeremy Noritz’s New York City 1,800 square meter (19,375 square foot) apartment in Chelsea was for sale over the summer for 1.75 million – a steep price for your average dwelling, but likely a steal considering its location and the super-awesome steampunk interior design job that makes this apartment look more like a film set. Some of the unique design features include a submarine-style ...
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Millau Viaduct: A Bridge In The Clouds
The Millau Viaduct is one cable-stayed road bridge that aims to impress. It’s the 12th highest bridge in the world and the world’s number one tallest bridge with a single mast height of 343m (1,125 feet) – that’s taller than the Eiffel tower! British architect, Norman Foster and French structural engineer, Michael Virlogeux worked together to design this autoroute that stretches from Paris to Montpellier, and ...
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Giant Monkey Made From 10,000 Flip Flops
Dutch artist, Florentjin Hofman, is the one responsible for conceptualizing this enormous “Fat Monkey” sculpture out of 10,000 flip flops. Students from Sao Paulo helped execute the artist’s vision that uses flip flops – a long-standing trademark of Brazil. The large-scale reclining monkey was featured at the 2010 Pixelshow conference amongst other works of art that appear pixelated once assembled. The colourful flip flops were attached ...
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Apartment Designed With 25,000 Ping Pong Balls
Snarkitecture has designed a 90 square meter (968 square foot) loft using 25,000 ping pong balls. The Brooklyn-based project is entitled the “Box Box Project” and belongs to one of the partners of Snarkitecture, Daniel Arsham, a graduate of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. Luckily for visitors, the ping pong balls actually blend together to create a surprisingly interesting appearance of ...
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Worst Christmas Sweaters Ever Roundup
With the Holiday season in full swing, we are heavily supressing the urge to throw an Ugly Christmas Sweater party – and yes, all the people in the above photos would receive VIP invites. Ugly Christmas sweaters are becoming surprisingly fashionable amongst the hipster community – but these gems are some of the ugly originals before fugally sweaters became “cool” (ridiculous Christmas-themed head gear optional). We ...
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Ugliest Family Christmas Portraits
Posing with the family to create the perfect Holiday greeting card is a tradition many families share – but not all families are lucky enough to end up with such a “special” photo to look back on. These photos really put us in the holiday spirit by reminding us how lucky we are not to have such ugly family photos circulating the internet. For the folks ...
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Parmesan Cheese Pencils
Creative German design agency, Kolle Rebbe, prides itself on designing with common sense in mind. This standard seems to hold true after seeing the flavoured parmesan pencils designed for the Deli Garage that are available in pencil-form. The pencil lead comes in three parmesan flavours: Chili, Pesto and Truffel, all of which can be extracted by a special pencil sharpener that comes with the product. To ...
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Massive Mona Lisa Coffee Cup Art
Leonardo Da Vinci’s famous painting, “La Giaconda” (commonly referred to as the Mona Lisa) has been recreated using 3,604 cups of coffee and 564 pints of milk. Each cup is filled with varying amounts of coffee and milk in order to achieve the tonal changes necessary to depict depth and shape. The work of art measures 20 feet x 13 feet (6m x 3m) and was ...
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The 13 Most WHOA-Worthy Press Photos Of 2011
An aid worker using an iPad captures an image of a dead cow’s decomposing carcass in Wajir near the Kenya-Somalia border on July 23. This sightseeing boat, Hama Yuri, was pulled 1300 feet from the coast and somehow balanced itself on a two story house during the tsunami in Japan. A woman rebel fighter supporter fires an AK-47 rifle as she reacts to the news of ...
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iTypewriter: A Vintage Accessory For Your iPad
Attention all nostalgic writer-folk: Here is a fun product that will let you channel your inner Hemingway while enjoying the functionality of your iPad. The iTypewriter was repurposed by Jack Zylkin, a Philedelphian who appreciates the clickity-clack of a vintage Royal typewriter. The best part is that the iTypewriter works as a dock for your iPad and can also be used by your desktop (just plug ...
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Carl Warner’s Yummy Foodscapes
Welcome to visionary photographer Carl Warner’s curious world, where Parmesan peaks tower over a desert of paprika and spiky chicory, while a tomato-skin scorpion perches on a potato. Every one of the 13 complex images featured in this calendar offers a unique visual feast for foodies and fantasy lovers. BUT THE BOOK NOW
