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Arkay: Non-Alcoholic Whiskey
Ready for St. Patrick’s Day? For those of you who are nuts enough to enjoy the burning sensation that comes with drinking hard liquor, you may want to sample of the ArKay non-alcoholic whiskey-flavoured drink. Within the first month, ArKay sold over 100,000 orders – obviously there is a market for a halal-certified whiskey flavoured drink that contains zero calories and zero percent alcohol.
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Photos Of Young People With Everything They Own
You can tell a lot about a person by looking at his stuff — especially if you’re nosy, like us. So, when you ask a group of people born in the ’80s to arrange their possessions into a giant sculpture and pose for a photo in front of it, the result is bound to be revealing. Swedish photographer Sannah Kvist has done just that in All ...
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Animal Sculptures Made Out Of Broken CDs
Now that music is increasingly stored on iPods and computer hard drives, and those who prefer physical recordings have mostly turned to superior-sounding vinyl, what are we supposed to do with all those CDs taking up space in our closets? You can’t really them anymore. Sure, we could throw them out, but considering how many we’ve acquired over the years, that seems awfully wasteful. Well, if ...
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Popular Gadgets Made From Deli Meat
If the idea to fashion a slice of deli meat into an ipod sculpture has never occurred to you, you are not alone…us neither. Thankfully, Dutch artist Rutger de Vries has beat us to the punch and we can’t think of a more fabulous way to use sliced deli meat. The artist has used cold cuts to fashion a set of car keys, a USB stick, ...
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A Portrait Made From Coffee Ring Stains
Coasters are totally overrated. Inspired by one of Jay Cou’s songs, artist Hong “Red” Yi created a portrait of the Taiwanese musician using nothing but coffee rings, left by an actual mug expertly set down over and over again on a canvas. Yi writes, ”It is inspired by the opening sentence [of the song], about lifting up a coffee cup off the saucer, and the ending ...
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Cartoon Characters Struggling On The Streets
French artist Benjamin Béchet, whose work we spotted over on My Modern Met, creates images intended to provoke a double take. In his subversive photo series, beloved childhood characters like Winnie the Pooh, Spider-Man, Hello Kitty, and Snow White are seen living in the real world and on the margins of society. They wash windows and mop floors; they sleep under overpasses; they pump gas and ...
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Olly: The Smell Releasing Twitter Robot
The brilliant folks at MintDigital – a London and New York-based group of software developers, interaction designers and creative strategists have done it again. Introducing, Olly and Molly – two adorable web-connected robots that help you manage and track your online success with social media websites. Olly is a tiny robot that can be synced with any online account, and once you receive a mention, comment ...
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Alien vs. Predator Chess Set
Leave it to a super geek, like deviantART member, Joker Laugh (Francis Gray), to come up with a custom hand-made chess set using the characters from Alien Vs. Predator. Francis Gray is an artist from the United Kingdom. He made the chess board from wood and stone tiles. The Alien pieces were made using small figurines from a company called Konami, and the Predators are small ...
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Stunning Photography Of Red Bull Cliff Divers
Cliff diving is the purest extreme sport on earth. Take a high cliff, deep water and courage. What you get is all you need. No additional machinery, no protection whatsoever, just absolute concentration and complete body control. The equipment – a swimsuit – fits into your trouser pocket. The principle is simple; the complication is your own experience. Diving from heights of around 27m, the equivalent ...
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Four Seasons Captured In One Photo
What do you get if you snap a photo of the same scene out your window everyday for a year? A lot of photos. Now, if you decide to photoshop those photos of different seasons into one super photo, you end up with a wicked picture of the same scene as it shows throughout the year, just like photographer Eirik Solheim has done in 2010. Solheim ...
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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.
