Archive for December, 2011
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Extreme Close-Up Photos Of Animal Eye Balls
Black Rabbit Caiman Crocodile Fish Guinea Pig Horse Husky Hyena Iguana Siam Cat Snail Tiger Python Suren Manvelyan, became working as a professional photographer in 2006 and is currently involved in nearly all fields of photography, especially in Macro, Portraits, Creative photo projects and Landscapes; but it was his macro photographs of animal eye balls that made us say WHOA! The general public doesn’t usually have ...
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Tiny Apartment Transforms Into 24 Rooms
In Hong Kong, because of the space, apartments are small and expensive. Gary Chang, an architect, decided to design a 344 sq. ft. apartment to be able to change into 24 different designs, all by just sliding panels and walls. He calls this the “Domestic Transformer.” Source: www.jellywoo.com/
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Sculptural Teapot
Product designer, Joey Roth, likes to design things that articulate the beauty of everyday rituals, and we think he has hit the nail on the head with the Sorapot – a modern and unique teapot. Like his other products, the Sorapot combines functionality with honest, unfinished materials. It’s architectural form brings tea’s quiet beauty into sharp focus – an appliance that resembles a sculptural piece of ...
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Cross Bow Snow Ball Launcher
For all you North American and European readers who find yourself living in a country where snowy weather is part of the fun, here’s a good one for you. The Cross Bow Snow Launder can fire snowballs up to 60 feet (18m) and make for an awesome day outdoors. To use the launcher, place a snowball in the front, pull back the lever until it locks, ...
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Celebrities As Sunglasses
Image is everything, especially for celebrities, so it’s no surprise when one of our favourite mixed media artists, Hengry Hargreaves, came up with this fun photography project where he has paired a set of gold sunglasses with a celebrity name. The idea is that each celebrity’s sense of style (and dare we say swagger?) can be summed up in a single pair of sunglasses that the ...
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Portrait Of Steve Jobs Made From Mac Parts
The creative folk over at Foundry decided to pay tribute to Steve Jobs, former CEO and master-mind behind the incredibly successful computer brand, Apple. An old Mac Book Pro was disassembled, and after admiring the intricate and highly sophisticated components that comprise the technology, each component was disassembled. The individual parts were used to create a portrait of Steve Jobs shortly after his passing in October ...
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Creepy Animal Shaped Chairs
Spanish designer Maximo Riera likes to design chairs that exhibit animal forms. The designer’s Rhino Chair, Walrus Chair and Octopus Chair, part of the Animal Chair collection, are equally interesting mainly because of the unexpected nature (no pun intended) of the chairs’ forms. The series of three sculptural furniture pieces retain the vitality of the animals which they represent – Riera ensured the animals’ biology and ...
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8 Foot Tall iPhone Dock With 10,000 Watts
That iPhone dock up above is no joke (notice the scale of the iPhone in it). It was built as a one-off for CES 2012 by Behringer, the award-winning innovator of affordable professional audio and music equipment. Known appropriately as iNuke, this $30,000 8ftx4ft, 700 pound dock pumps out a handy 10,000 Watts of power. All in a package the size of a refrigerator. FULL PRESS ...
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Ghetto-Fab High Heel Nikes
These fun high heel versions of Nike dunks made us say WHOA! While the shoes are likely just prototypes or works of art (not available for purchase) are extra cool. The combination of bright colours, patent leather and vinyl make these shoes funky fresh and totally fashionable – maybe with enough complaint from consumers, these babies could hit the shelves? Likely not, but it’s fun to ...
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The Levitating Lamp
There’s no magic behind these amazing Light-Light lamps, just a whole-bunch of awesome science. The levitating lamps are handcrafted and available in two styles: ‘Silhouette’ and ‘Eclipse’. The top portion of the lamp shade that hosts the light source is not physically attached to the bottom portion of the lamp shade – a phenomenon that is possible thanks to futuristic electromagnetic components and LED lights (which ...
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Top Ten WHOA-Worthy Tumblr Blogs
Accidental Chinese Hipsters A collection of people from China that don’t know they are dressing like hipsters. Lonely Cheetos Lonely Cheetos is the saddest Tumblr of the year. I Love Charts The best place to find awesome charts on the internet. Onion-Like Headlines In Real Life A collection of real headlines that are too good to be true. ...
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Super Awesome Pancake Pillows
Todd von Bastiaans and Bryan McCarthy are responsible for the design of these deliciously hilarious pancake-shaped floor pillows. Each flapjack measure 36″ (91 cm) in diameter and features different surface patterns on each side. The pillows are upholstered with tempurpedia-type foam with digital printing. These flapjacks make for awesome lounging-around pillows or just funny decor, but be sure to pick up a set of the butter ...
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Photos Of Painted People That Look Like Paintings
In case you didn’t notice, there’s a lot more to these works of art by Washington-based Alexa Meade than meets the eye. The 25 year old artist has created these works of art that are not just 2D brushstrokes of paint on canvas, instead, Meade paints directly on top of physical subjects and then photographs the staged scene. When photographed, the representational painting and the subject ...
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Steampunk Darth Vadar Helmet
An artist from the B. Campbell Studio of Charlotte, North Carolina developed the SteamPunk Dark Vadar mask for the Darth Vadar Project – a charity event in which artists create new designs for the Darth Vadar mask and sell the works of art and donate all proceeds to the Make a Wish Foundation. (remember the Storm Trooper Hybrid Helmets post?) Campell Studio self-proclaims to “serve the ...
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Beatles Portraits Made Out Of Toast
Mixed media artist, Henry Hargreaves, has decided to commemorate the Beatles by dedicating a work of art to them – he has created enormous portraits of John, Paul, Ringo and George using nothing more than slices of bread – white Wonderbread, to be specific. Hargreaves achieves various levels of tone and shade merely by toasting the slices of bread at varying degrees. The work is part ...
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Amazing Suburbs From The Sky
Denver Suburbs, USA Favelas in Rio de Janeiro Palm Jumeirah in Dubai Pigeon Houses, Mit Gahmr Delta, Egypt Sha Kibbutz, Israel Suburbs of Cape Town, South Africa Suburbs of Copenhagen, Denmark This is a collection of aerial photography produced by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, a French photographer, journalist, reporter and environmentalist. He founded the Altitude Agency in 1991, which was the world’s ...
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Pop Culture Faces In Classical Portraits
ghdjhf created a hilariously addictive tumblr stream called “replaceface” where he takes the portrait work of English artist, George Dawe, and replaces the faces over over 329 Russian generals who were active during Napoleon’s invasion of Russia for the Milityary Gallery of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg (Russia) with faces of his friends, family and in some cases, celebrities. ngjfkf uses photoshop for his replaceface ...
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Arcade Game Washing Machine
Doing laundry is boring, right? Wrong! Thanks to Lee Wei Chen, a MA student from Kingston University in London, laundry can be a blast if you use the arcade game washing machine he designed. The 27 year-old designer came up with the idea to make a washing machine that not only resembles an arcade game, but also functions like one once he was forced to work ...
