The Autostadt is a visitor attraction adjacent to the Volkswagen factory in Wolfsburg, Germany, with a prime focus on automobiles. It features a museum, feature pavilions for the principal automobile brands in the Volkswagen Group, a customer centre where customers can pick up new cars, and take a tour through the enormous factory, a guide to the evolution of roads, and cinema in a large sphere. ...
Artist Federico Pietrella was born in Rome and now lives and works in Berlin. He creates art using a number of different methods involving resins, flashlights, photocopies, and other found objects, but most striking to me are these lovely paintings made with rubber date stamps. Pietrella opens a exhibition starting this weekend at Galleria Civica G. Segantini in Arco, Italy. Source: www.thisiscolossal.com/
Bâtiment (Building) is a mirrored installation by artist Leandro Erlich currently on display at Le 104 in Paris as part of their In_Perceptions exhibition. The piece is clever in its simplicity: a massive building facade is constructed on the floor near a towering mirror giving anyone reflected the uncanny appearance of being weightless. Optical illusions are familiar territory for Erlich, whose pool installation appears to plunge ...
JumpFromPaper™ is a playful and innovative line of handbags created by Taipei-based design duo, Chay Su and Rika Lin. One cozy afternoon, the two girls were chatting, when they got to sketching their dream designer handbag. A surprising idea popped up – “How amazing it would be if a two-dimensional hand-drawn illustration could come to life as a real bag!” They explored every possibility, rendering fantasy ...
DRINKWEL believes that the world is full of healthy people who still like to have a good time. That’s why they created drinkwel: the first daily multivitamin for healthy people who drink alcohol. Created by two UC Berkeley graduates and formulated by two doctors, a PhD in Biomedical Science and a Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, drinkwel’s unique combination of ingredients replenishes nutrients, supports healthy liver function, ...
New estimates show that binge drinking* is a bigger problem than previously thought. More than 38 million US adults binge drink, about 4 times a month, and the largest number of drinks per binge is on average 8. This behavior greatly increases the chances of getting hurt or hurting others due to car crashes, violence, and suicide. Drinking too much, including binge drinking, causes 80,000 deaths ...
The project by the young architectural studio Urbanplunger has been recently awarded the third prize in the Night Club Hotel in Hong Kong international competition. The main idea is to create a suspended building structure to comply with the extremely compact planning in Hong Kong. The whole structure is elevated above the ground by leaning on the nearby buildings. The nature of the design allows for ...
HORNET JUMPING SPIDER FLY BUZZER MIDGE RED DAMSELFLY COMMON FLY COMMON HORSEFLY WASP AZURE DAMSELFLY CRANE FLY Bug-obsessed Slovakian student, Dusan Beno captures detailed macro portraits of insects and spiders. He catches his subjects in the great outdoors and then “bug-naps” them by taking them back to his home for photo-shoots. “I love great detail where you can see hair, every eye, jaw or sting – ...
The designer mastermind behind the Pixel Swimsuit remains unknown, and while this swimsuit is just a prototype, it has been turning heads online (and at the beach). The comical beach wear is meant to look like a woman with censored parts, or, what p0rn looks like with a dial-up Internet connection. Either way, this swimsuit made us say WHOA! for it’s blatantly comical nature, and because ...
B Fiber and Craft Emporium made us smile from ear to ear today thanks to their quirky listing of large-scale food items made out of fabric. The jumbo pizza slice sleeping bag is made by hand and stuffed with recycled quilts, and the bag is lined in satin making it very comfortable and luxurious. The cheese and sauce fabric is dyed by hand and pillows are ...
Walk off the Earth and Sarah Blackwood perform a cover of Gotye’s “Somebody that I used to know” using five people on one guitar. Performers from left to right: Joel Cassidy Sarah Blackwood Gianni Luminati Marshall Taylor Walk off the Earth is a Canadian indie band formed in Burlington, Ontario. Founded in 2006, the video of their cover of Gotye’s Somebody That I Used To Know ...
These cookies will satisfy both your sweet tooth and inner hipster. Designed and produced by the brains behind Manjar – an American-based delicacy bakery that specializes in fancy cookies for all occasions – these cookies made us smile mainly because they look so accurate. We love the polaroid cookie, the flash attachment, the bird camera and the diana camera – we love them all. The cookies ...
Hitler’s real downfall: Listening to Rebecca Black – Friday Video by FlyingSquirrel222 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair ...
Men, we need your attention. Finally, a piece of furniture that you may actually care for (aside from your Laz-E boy chair). Why, you ask? Because this coffee table is actually a dual arcade game console that you and a friend can use to play some of your favourite arcade games head to head. Designed by British company, Surface Tension, the Dual Arcade Coffee Table is ...
It’s a well-known fact that the best part of an Oreo cookie is the creamy filling. Judith G. Klausner, a Massachusetts-based artist, likely agrees, which is why she created a collection of altered food items for her latest art series called “Food Scratch”. This interesting series includes classical style cameos carved out of Oreo cookie cream filling in 2011. Klausner used straight pins, toothpicks and a ...
In his latest series of concept photography, Jean-Francois breathes life into common kitchenware. Source: Buzzfeed
These images developed by the Associacao de Luta Contra o Cancer (ALCC) in Mozmbique may at first glance depict iconic superhero women groping their breasts, but once you wake up from whatever sick nerdy dreamland you’re living in, you’ll notice that Wonder Woman, Storm, She-Hulk and Cat Woman are actually conducting self breast exams. The ALCC used these ads during Breast Cancer Awareness month (October) to ...
Here at That’s Like, WHOA!, we love cool stuff. And we love bacon. Naturally, we are pretty crazy about bacon-inspired cool stuff, like these awesome bacon-clad kicks. Unlike Lady Gaga’s freaky meat dress, you can get more wear out of these porky shoes because they are merely bacon prints on canvas or vinyl fabric. The last two images of bacon shoes are compliments of Tokio Kumagai ...