Archive for February, 2012
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Color Added To Famous Black And White Photos
Reddit user mygrapefruit and self-taught colorizer Sanna Dullaway has colorized famous photographs in history. You can find the entire 34-image collection on Imgur. Using a Wacom bamboo tablet and Photosohp, each photo takes anywhere from 20 minutes to 2 hours. LIKE THIS? CHECK OUT THESE FAMOUS PHOTOS RECREATED WITH LEGO
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If I Die: Facebook Your Friends From The Grave
As the video states, you never know when you’re going to die, and you can end up caught off guard without having had a chance to say goodbye. Thanks to the “If I Die” Facebook app, you can leave a message to friends, family, enemies and strangers by pre-recording a video message and entrusting three of your Facebook contacts to share your message after your passing. ...
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Disgustingly Cute Plush Organs
One of our favourite companies, Broodr, has recently listed some of the most disgustingly adorable plush toys that made us say, WHOA twice! The plush organs by Tainted Visions feature cutesy stuffed toys in the shapes of cartoon organs as part of the “I love Guts” series. Our favourite? Well, we can’t choose just one, but the plush testicle and plush ovary are on the top ...
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Kowloon City Mapped Out By Hand
SEE IN HIGH DETAIL Kowloon was one of the most crowded walled cities in the world. Located within Hong Kong, it had a dense population of over 50,000 inhabitants within 0.025 km2…(that’s 1,923,076 inhabitants per km2!). After war strife between the Chinese, Japanese and English, the city became abandoned and soon invaded by squatters, resulting in a haven for illegal activities like prostitution and drug trafficking. ...
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Hilarious Japanese Fart Scrolls
Scholars at Waseda University have scanned and uploaded images of the “Fart Battle Scroll” (hegassen emaki – 屁合戦絵巻), one of the Edo Period’s most bizarre works of art:
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Stunning Books Carved With Surgical Tools
Using knives, tweezers and surgical tools, Brian Dettmer carves one page at a time. Nothing inside the out-of-date encyclopedias, medical journals, illustration books, or dictionaries is relocated or implanted, only removed. Dettmer manipulates the pages and spines to form the shape of his sculptures. He also folds, bends, rolls, and stacks multiple books to create completely original sculptural forms. Dettmer is originally from Chicago, where he ...
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Darth Vadar-Inspired Burger
In conjunction with the release of ‘Star Wars: The Phantom Menace 3D’, French fast food chain, “Quick”, released a blackened burger. The folks over at Quick might be a little too excited about the latest Star Wars craze to hit the big screen, but we’re thankful that the black burger looks hideously awesome enough to share with you on WHOA!. Now, before you freak out and ...
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iPad Dock Inspired By Very First Apple Computer
The iStation is a desktop stand for the iPad or iPad2 that is made to resemble the original Apple I and Apple II computer designs. While we think the designers at M.I.C. have taken some liberties with the original design (it’s not exact, we know, we know), we think this unit is still super cool and makes any iPad a workable desktop with a cute retro ...
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An Artificial Arm From Victorian England
This late 19th century artificial limb from the Victorian England era gives us the willies. It was used as a prosthetic arm for a victim of war or disease, and is now on display at the London Science Museum. Considering it’s one OLD artificial limb made of steel and brass, the elbow joint could be released by adjusting a spring, and the wrist could be rotated ...
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Yummy Sounding Pop-Culture Icon Popsicles
Russian advertising agency stoyn has developed a line of popsicles that are based on iconic characters and items of recent history. Ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Darth Vader, Vladimir Mayakovsky to Donald Duck, the project is an experiment in pairing flavours to personality and context in a playful, tongue-in-cheek fashion. The three-dimensional popsicles are created in custom moulds with great attention paid to likeness, and use ...
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Absolut Bottle By Gorillaz Artist Jamie Hewlett
Absolut vodka has launched a limited edition bottle called London in collaboration with one of the UK’s leading graphic artists, Gorillaz’ Jamie Hewlett. Set against a London backdrop, the bottle introduces key characters from the past who have influenced and shaped London’s present fashion scene. The seven characters encapsulate the city’s diverse heritage, spanning the ages from Dickensian and 18th Century Dandy, through to Pinstripe gent, ...
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Stunning Video Of A Tornado On The Sun
NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory posted this stunning video, which shows the sun’s plasma sliding and spinning around in the star’s magnetic fields for 30 hours earlier this month. Terry Kucera, a solar physicist with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told Fox News that the tornado might be as large as the Earth itself and have gusts up to 300,000 miles per hour. By comparison, the strongest ...
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Super Funky Paper Dolls Of T.V. Characters
‘Trim Doll’ is a collection of paperdolls, created by Argentinia-born, Madrid-based illustrator Andrés Martínez Ricci in the forms of pop culture icons from TV, movies, and music. The inaugural two models of the series are Walter White from the TV series ‘Breaking Bad’ and Don Draper from ‘Mad Men’. Like traditional children’s paperdolls, each figure can be clothed in a variety of different outfits included in ...
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A Crazy Tattoo Of A Tattoo Info-Graphic
Polish artist Paul Marcinkowski tattooed an infographic about tattoos on his neck, arms and torso as a school project, putting the rest of us who consider ourselves passionate about either tattoos or data visualization to shame. One of the many things I want to know is if/how he plans to keep the numbers up to date. EDIT: Upon closer inspection (read: berating from my lovely Twitter ...
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Dash: Turn Your Smartphone Into Your Car Stereo Deck
Dash is the convergence of the car stereo and your smartphone. Today’s smartphones provide a level of connectivity, accessibility, and usability that has not been possible in the car audio market. Dash doesn’t require that you learn a new interface to use your stereo. You already know how to use your phone to access your music, your navigation app, your phone calls, and the incredible number ...
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North Brother: Photos From NYC’s Lost Leper Colony
As it was: North Brother Island circa 1937 Just 350 yards from the crowded tenements of the Bronx, North Brother Island was first employed as a quarantine centre in 1885. It was soon a home to six lepers. Its most notorious resident was ‘Typhoid Mary’ – the first healthy carrier of any disease ever to be identified – who spent years confined in its bleak woods. ...
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Famous Classical Paintings Improved With Cats
Over at Great Artists’ Mews there is a real obsession over fat cats in fine art taking shape. As you view the images they have created, classics like Botticelli’s “The Birth of Venus”, Rembrandt’s “Danae” and even Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa”, all yoru knowledge of classical fine art starts to flicker on, but then, in the blink of a eye, its gone and you are ...
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Zombie Presidents Of The United States
Etsy artist Jeremy Plemon imagines George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, and founding father Ben Franklin in their respective undead states. Fingers crossed they stay in Plemon’s imagination, because I’m guessing Washington’s hatchet of truth wouldn’t be used for cherry trees in his cursed afterlife. Source: Buzzfeed JUSTIN BIEBER ZOMBIE & OTHER UNDEAD CELEBS WALDO AND OTHER CREEPY CARTOON ZOMBIES 5 CREEPY PRODUCTS FOR ZOMBIE LOVERS
