Archive for May, 2012
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If ‘The Simpsons’ Characters Were Modern Furniture
The masterminds behind 56th Studio have made us say WHOA! with their hilariously accurate caricature furniture collection. 56th Studio creates and produces quirky designs and cutting-edge graphic works, but all items have a “form-follows-story” mantra. The chairs that made us smile are all based on the popular television series, The Simpsons, and each distinctive feature of the shows characters is exaggerated to produce a single piece ...
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Python: The World’s Fastest Amphibious Vehicle
WaterCar‘s Python is the world’s fasts amphibious vehicle to ever be designed and built. The Python can reach up to 60 mph of water speed, and mid 12 second ¼ mile times and 0-60 mph in 4.5 seconds. For those of you who don’t speak “car stats”, the translation is simple: it’s FAST! The engine is based on the famous aluminum LS Corvette power train. The ...
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6 Amazing Hyper Realistic Pencil Drawings
Artist Paul Cadden is a 47-year old hyperrealist artist who uses graphite (aka pencil) and chalk to create amazing works. Cadden often works from photographs and video stills, using his simple artists’ tools to recreate the imagery. Cadden believes that works of art create the illusion of a new reality not seen in the original photo, and we’d have to agree. We never thought it possible ...
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What Mickey Mouse Should Look Like At 84 Years Old
Mickey Mouse was born in 1928, making him the ripe old age of 84 years old in 2012. Darick Maason has sculpted the Elderly Mickey Mouse. I know what you’re thinking…the artist must have used a Mickey Mouse plastic mask and added wrinkles to it…right? Wrong. (Although admittedly, we thought this too). The sculpture was made entirely from scratch while the artist was enrolled in a ...
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Fake Lady Lap Pillow For Single Men
We are so happy that there is no shortage of interesting pillow design out there, and the Hizamakura is no exception. Shaped like a beautiful woman’s lap, kneeling in Japanese style, the Hizamakura pillow provides the best imitation of a woman’s lap that is ready for you to take a nap on. The pillow is made from polyurethane and wrapped in a polyester “skirt”. The item ...
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Yoga Class As Lead By Starwars Characters
Star Wars nerds will love this – artist Rob Osborne has illustrated Star Wars characters in yoga poses. Poses include Extended Side Angle, Boat, Half Moon, Crow, Extended Triangle, Salutation Seal, Tree, Supported Shoulder Stand, Warrior I and Warrior II and more. All prints include the sanskrit name for each pose beneath the illustration. Each print is hand-signed by Rob Osborne himself and makes for a ...
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Large Scale Portraits Using People As Pixels
Artist Craig Alan has created portraits of pop-culture icons using humans as the media. His large-format works of art are carefully set up using human subjects and then photographs them from above to create a pixelated image effect. Subjects wearing different colours (or holding coloured lights) can help create a special affect like those used in the Marilyn Monroe photo. We love large-scale art.
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Crazy Images Of Sexy Skeletons Getting It On
Tulipan condom company’s latest ad campaign is turning heads (err…skulls?) with it’s risque content that won’t quite make you blush, but rather cock your head to the side like a confused puppy as you consider “Yes, this is actually what it “really” looks like.” The ads feature skeletons around a modern house doing it on every surface in every position. We aren’t sure what skeletons have ...
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Child Versions Of Classic Celebrities
Ever wonder what Audrey Hepburn was like as a 7 year old? Or perhaps Andy Warhol, Frida, James Dean or Marilyn Monroe? Well, Mexican photographer Olga Laris aims to provide viewers with a fictions glimpse of what some of society’s favourite actors and artists would look like if they were children at the peak of their fame in the photo series entitled “The Iconics”. The entire ...
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Cool Faces Made Out Of Folded Clothing
NYC-based photographer Bela Borsodi has used clothes (specifically, one garment per face) to create these quirky visages for fashion shop Yalook.com.
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Rockin’ Guitar Add On For Ipad
ION Audio has designed a full-size electric guitar add-on called the All-Star Guitar that transforms your iPad into an amazing guitar-learning experience. Once the iPad is inserted into the fitted holder and the All-Star Guitar app is loaded, you’re ready to start playing the guitar without the use of external connections, wires, plugs or cables. The strings can be strummed together or plucked individually and the ...
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Realistic Looking Food-Shaped Hand Soap
Etsy vendor HowardsHome is selling food-shaped hand soaps that apparently smell as delicious as they look. The soaps are handmade glycerin soap (no SLS) and some of them are made out of moulds that were cast from real food items – that’s how the artist manages to get the fluffy icing of the pumpkin spice cake soap to look so realistic. We think these soaps make ...
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12 Novelty Tents Campers Will Love
Field Candy is not just your ordinary tent-branding company. Nope. Instead of functional and boring camping tents, Field Candy provides functional and AWESOME tent designs for quirky campers with swagger. We really love the Fully Booked tent flysheet (a jumbo-sized book flysheet) by artist Jack Maxwell. These fun tents are sure to snag the attention of the cuties camping in the next lot by boasting your ...
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Booze Bottles Branded For Kids
Artist Anna Utopia Giordano has designed a series of boozy baby bottles that made us say WHOA! These whiskey, vodka, gin and rum bottle designs that parody children’s toy brands are part of an art exhibition, and are not for sale. Is the artists suggesting that the toy brands have similar addictive qualities as hard liquor? Perhaps. The Pop Bottles slogan is “Parents, please, feed your ...
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Baby Rattles Inspired By Parents’ Profiles
Silhoutte art has a certain nostalgic beauty to it and these baby rattles made from extrapolated adult silhouettes are equally as beautiful. New York designer Russell Greenberg of RUX Design came up with this concept following the birth of his first child. The ends of the baby rattles are shaped like the silhouette profiles of mom and dad. The maple-wood toy is carved on a lathe ...
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Latest Diet Craze: Inhale These Yummy Dessert Vapors
Eating dessert is one of life’s simple pleasures, but sadly for many a sweet-tooth, the cream, chocolate, spinkles and custard comes with plenty of calories. Until now (apparently). Vaportrim is a dessert inhaler. What does that mean? Exactly what it sounds like. Vaportrim is a straw-shaped stick that offers dieters an alternative to dessert – the stick is filled with dessert-flavoured water vapours, and when inhaled ...
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Floppy Disk Wood Coasters
Floppy disks are super retro and cool (believe it or not), which is why we love these coasters from Etsy vendor, Vectorcloud. The coasters are made out of laser engraved birch ply and finished with clear matt coat. Each of the four coasters that come in a single set can be personalized with your own message so you can give a super-cool retro gift to a ...
