Archive for March, 2012
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Detailed Mini Sculptures In Urban Settings
Isaac Cordal makes miniature sculptures all around Europe. And yes, they are teeny tiny in the best of ways. His recently published book entitled “Cement Eclipses: Small Interventions in the Big City” where Cordal explores urban landscapes by injecting his little sculptures in unlikely places and makes for a great coffee table book or gift for that person who has everything (and happens to love miniature ...
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Exotic McDonald’s Dishes From Around The World
Over 31,000 chains around the world keep the masterminds behind McDonalds’ restaurants pretty busy. The restaurant offers some exotic dishes to cater to the palettes of patrons from foreign countries, and for this reason, we say WHOA! to the Chicken Maharaja Mac from India where beef is banned, and the poutine trio meal from Canada. And the combination of exotic sides, like corn niblets instead of ...
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Motorized Wheelchair Of The Future
When we first heard about WHILL, our jaws dropped open in disbelief – finally, a wheelchair that not only offers those in need mobility but a super cool aesthetic. Japanese firm WHILL debuted their solution for mobility at the Tokyo Motor Show in 2011 with a device that attaches to a standard wheelchair to convert it into a motorized vehicle. The unit resembles an oversized set ...
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Hello Kitty Restaurant In Beijing
If you want to take in all the Hello Kitty you can possibly enjoy, head to Beijing’s Sanlitun Village to the Hello Kitty Dreams restaurant…like Disneyland but without the other characters. The restaurant is the first of its kind in China that features decor, food and uniforms all inspired by Miss Hello Kitty, and the sell-out crowds have made it impossible to get in without a ...
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The Aston Martin Phone From Mobiado
Grand Touch Aston Martin Phone is the second phone released by Mobiado as part of their Aston Martin collection. The body of this mobile phone is constructed from solid aircraft aluminum meticulously CNC machined and anodized to create smooth and elegant hard surface for the exterior body. The surfaces of the bodies are created with curves to straight line edges, a process that can only be ...
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Manly Men As Sexy Pin-Up Girls
Rion Sabean, a 26 year old photographer from Tampa, Florida who is responsible for the hilarious parody of pin up girl calendars with male models assuming the typical pin up model poses. The series is called “Men-Ups” and was so successful, it spawned a calendar which sold out very quickly, but individual prints are still available for purchase through the artist.
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Beef Straws For Bloody Mary Lovers
Bloody Mary lovers rejoice! The evolution of the Bloody Mary is complete. Made from 100% USDA beef, Benny’s Bloody Mary Beef Straws are the final chapter in the creation of the “Perfect” Bloody Mary. Since the Bloody Mary was first served in 1921, many changes have been made. These changes have all been relative only to individual recipe, and choice of garnishment. The plastic drinking straw ...
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Funky Minimalist History Posters
These great posters come courtesy of H-57 which works as an advertising agency, design studio and an experimental laboratory as well. H-57 main;y consists of a 3 member team who had initially worked in important agencies serving national and international clients. The team’s philosophy is based on a no frills policy which aims at spending less time for meetings and dedicate for energy and concrete facts.
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A Restaurant In A Cave In Italy
In the town of Polignano a Mare in southern Italy (province of Bari, Apulia), lies a most unique dining experience at the Grotta Palazzese. Open only during the summer months, a restaurant is created inside a vaulted limestone cave, looking outwards toward the sea. The restaurant is part of the Grotta Palazzese hotel located above. INTERESTED? CHECK OUT: A RESTAURANT ON A ROCK THE UNDERWATER HOTEL
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The Killer Whale Submarine
This is the streamlined, two-person watercraft that breaches and submerges just like the Orcinus orca after which it is designed. A pilot protected beneath its watertight 1/2″-thick acrylic canopy pushes and pulls twin control levers to articulate the whale’s pectoral fins for rolls and stealthy dives. With a finger on the right lever’s throttle trigger, steering is provided by dual foot pedals that control the vectored ...
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Watch Collection Made From Moon Dust
Swiss watchmaker Romain Jerome has already shown the world that their creations need attention. Earlier, we have seen the $300,000 Day or Night watch and the Titanic-inspired watches. The latest from the house is the “Moon Dust-DNA” collection, which includes watches made from moon dust, parts of the Apollo 11 rocket and bits of spacesuits. This new, one of a kind collection has been launched to ...
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Creepy Victorian ‘Hidden Mother’ Photos
Above is a selection of images from the Hidden Mother Flickr group. Hidden Mother was a practice where the mother…often disguised or hiding often under a spread…holds her baby tightly for the photographer to insure a sharply focused Image. Super creepy… NOT CREEPED OUT ENOUGH YET? CHECK OUT THESE CREEPY VICTORIAN C0RPSE PHOTOS
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Superheroes In Renaissance Art
Look! Up in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… …a Bouguereau? There were no superheroes during the renaissance period. Why? Apparently there were no supervillains so they were not needed. That would explain the lack of superheroes in fine art. Worth 1000 fixed that with one of their latest contests. The rules of the contest were as follows: Take any piece of fine ...
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Flaming Devil Sculpture Made From Matches
Sculpture by David Mach. Being a sculptor leads everything I do. Every project I take on starts from that point. I believe that an artist must be an ideasmonger responding to all kinds of physical location, social and political environments, to materials, to processes,to timescales and budgets. I also believe that sculpture just about encompasses everything – a painting can be a sculpture, a TV ad ...
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The Evolution Of Video Game Controllers
CLICK IMAGE TO VIEW IN FULL SIZE GLORY! The long-awaited reboot of the most extensive charting of video game controllers ever by Pop Charts Lab. Now detailing 119 species and 11 genera over seven decades of video gaming. Each 24″ x 36” print is signed and numbered by the artists, from a first edition of 1000. BUY NOW
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Bizarre Photos Of Shrink-Wrapped Lovers
Japanese artist Photographer Hal has stuffed club kids into bathtubs and other cramped spaces in his work before, but this time he’s chosen to shrink-wrap them like living dolls squirming under plastic. With some nude, and some dressed in candy-colored attire, Hal covers his models with a plastic sheeting that he vacuums the air from in order to distort their features and bond them together. It ...
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Cool Underwater Photos Of Fallen Surfers
Australian photographer Mark Tipple’s The Underwater Project captures surfers and swimmers frozen mid-action as they’re thrown down by the force of waves, escaping a cloud-like avalanche of frothy water, plummeting toward the sandy ocean floor, and thrusting themselves triumphantly towards the rippled, silver surface. Yes, these images are quite striking and totally refreshing… because Tipple wants them to be. With this deliberately appealing project, the photographer ...
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Custom Vulva Portrait Necklaces
Each piece is an original, one of a kind hand sculpted image of its owner to remind her that regardless of what the world and the people in it may tell her: she is beautiful. So celebrate yourself (and feel free to take pleasure in the fact that when someone tells you that your necklace is beautiful they are really saying they think your Vulva is ...
