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Anatomical Social Media Icons With Muscle And Bone
Barcelona-based illustrator, Giselle Vitali, has produced an impressive collection of anatomical icons for various social media and web platforms. The icons of Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Behance, and more are illustrated to resemble muscle, tissue and bones in a series entitled “Musculante”. The artist says: “Experimentar a fondo—las redes sociales nos invaden, no sabemos si ellas son parte de nosotros o nosotros de ellas. No sabemos tampoco, ...
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Spring Loaded Tukanni Chopsticks by Kayiwa
If being chopstick-impaired has left you unable to eat your food with a more exciting utensil than a fork, your sad days are finally over. The Tukanni Chopsticks designed by Kayiwa are made of sterling silver and are circle spring-loaded, so you can be sure you’ll be able to pinch that sushi roll successfully. Although, be warned, the ease that comes with using chopsticks does not ...
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Downton Abbey Characters as Cat and Dog Portraits
Anna as a Greyhound Bates as a Pit Bull Dowager Countess as a Sphynx-Cat Lady Mary as a Borzoi Matthew Crawley as an Aussie-Shepherd And lastly, Mrs. Patmore as a Persian-Cat Ready for Season 3 of Downtown Abbey? We sure are… Kim Parkhurst, owner, designer and curator over at toadbriar has come up with this set (cleverly titled Houndton Tabby) of fine prints featuring rather distinguished ...
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4 Iconic Photographs Turned into “Selfies”
For those of you who aren’t familiar with the term “selfie”, allow us to share the definition as presented by UrbanDictionary.com: “A Selfie is a picture taken of yourself that is planned to be uploaded to Facebook, Myspace or any other sort of social networking website. You can usually see the person’s arm holding out the camera in which case you can clearly tell that this ...
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Ever Wonder What Your Baby Was Dreaming About?
Ever wonder what your little bundle of joy is dreaming about? We do all the time (same applies for our doggies), and love that photographer Adele Enerson has created a series of images that depict what her son, Vincent, might be dreaming about while napping. Clad in white jumpers and positioned against a white background, Vincent was photographed during nap time and Enerson sketched imagery over ...
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Stickygram: Turn Your Instagrams Into Magnets
StickyGram is a personalized printing service from the brains at Mint Digital that turns your Instagram images into lovely little magnets. You create your pack online and they deliver them right to your door. Each StickyGram is 50mm x 50mm. That’s approximately the same size as they appear on your iPhone. They come in packs of 9. Their unique process produces a flexible yet durable magnet ...
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The Decelerator: a Slow Motion Perception Helmet
Artist Lorenz Potthast has figured out a way to slow down time. Ok, not really, but his Decelerator Helmet certainly manages to trick the mind into believing time is slowing. The helmet takes a video signal from the outside mounted camera that is displayed on the screen of the helmet and simultaneously inside the helmet for the user to see. Using a remote that accompanies the ...
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This Hot Dog Toaster Is The Answer To Our Prayers
Nostalgia Electrics has finally answered our prayers – a toaster that toasts a bun and cooks a hot dog at the same time is now available! Ok, fine, we never in a million years would pray for this invention, but now that it’s here, we thought we’d share this wacky item with you in case you’re one of those hot dog fanatics that loves the idea ...
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Secret Bra & Belly Drink Pouches for Public Drinking
BUY BEERBELLY NOW BUY WINE RACK NOW Drinking in public is not widely accepted (or legal) in many cities, and if you happen to live in such a horrid place, you may want to consider investing in these concealed beverage pouches. Depending on your taste (and physique) you can choose the BeerBelly model in which a polyurethane “bladder”-shaped pouch can be worn under a shirt to ...
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Famous Landscapes Of The World Created With Cereal
We’ve always wondered what the Land of Lucky Charms cereal would be like – surely a wonderful place with lots of sweets to be had. Thanks to photographer Ernie Button’s ongoing series entitled “Cerealism”, we no longer have to think quite as hard to imagine a world made up of our favourite crunchy and sweet breakfast food. Button’s motivation behind the series is quite interesting. In ...
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Naked Torso Neck Tie
Fool your co-workers and fellow party-goers at holiday parties with the OPUS collection of Next ties from Zazzle. The Perfect Hairy Chest and Stomach Neck Tie are likely to prevent you from making new friends right off the bat, but the Bodybuilder Neck Tie might have a different effect. Our personal favourite (and definitely a winner in wardrobe options for the next medical seminar you have ...
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Insect Sculptures Made From Watch Parts & Light Bulbs
Justin Gershenson-Gates is a Chicago-based jeweller who designs these wonderful insect sculptures made from watch parts and light bulbs. Gershenson-Gates also creates wonderful works of jewelry from old watch parts, but this post is all about the intricate creepy-crawllies that are sold through his Etsy shop, A Mechanical Mind. The Mechanical Spider, for example, requires an incredible amount of manual labour, including thirty four soldered joints ...
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Phorce: A Smart Bag The Charges Your Devices On The Go
Phorce is the world’s first smart bag. We live in the mobile age. You can wake up in San Francisco, spend the afternoon in New York, and be back in the West Coast right on time for drinks. Whether you walk or ride around your hometown, drive to another city, or fly to another continent- your trusty bag is always with you. Unfortunately bags haven’t changed ...
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Top 5 Creepiest Zombie Santas
We love it when creative folk decide to put a spin on typical holiday imagery. Thanks to numerous illustrators and graphic designers, we are able to feast our eyes on Zombie Santas – you didn’t think Santa would survive the zombie apocalypse, did you? Trading in his cookies and milk for brains, brains and more brains, these hilarious renditions of Santa as Zombie are sure to ...
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Cool Jewelry Made From Real Preserved Fruit
USA-based Etsy shop, realfruitjewelry has become one of our favourite Etsy vendors. The colourful, fun and whimsical jewelry is all made from real fruit and preserved with a hard, water-resistant resin coating to ensure the fruit pieces last a lifetime. Truly a unique idea, and a great gift for fruit-and-colour lovers. We love the collection of vibrant, exotic fruits available in earrings, necklaces, rings and cufflinks. ...
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Eerie Images Projected Onto Trees As Art
Parisian artist Clement Briend works with projections as an artistic medium. He is known for his works in which he projects meaningful or haunting images onto every day objects such as doors, buildings, bridges and in this case, trees. The series is called “Cambodian Trees” and features imagery of Cambodian spirits and deities projected onto trees around the city of Phnom Penh. The trees are beautifully ...
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Funky House Made From Wood Pallets
Chilean architectural firm, James and Mau Architects, is best known for their prefabricated houses, including this uniquely designed house made called the Manifesto House (as built by Infinski) that was built using mostly recycled, reused and eco-friendly materials. 85% of the house boasts a green building standard. Materials like cork, iron, wood, aluminum, noble woods and eco-ceramics were combined to create a pretty cool design aesthetic ...
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9 Of The Ugliest Christmas Trees You Will Ever See
We shared our favourite ugly Christmas sweaters with you in the past, and this year, it’s time to shake things up a bit. Behold: Some of the ugliest Christmas trees ever. Too bad not everyone is fortunate enough to have a keen eye when it comes to holiday decor. We hope these people didn’t pay much for these trees. We can’t help but think of little ...
