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Awesome Hair Wigs Made From LEGO Blocks
Dutch artist Elroy Klee created a series of hair wigs made entirely out of LEGO bricks for the “Mindplay: Bricks on Me” fashion photoshoot. We have seen LEGO used to create a log of amazing stuff, but couture-esque hairstyles is a new category and we’re impressed. We love the black afro, the layered blond cut and the sassy red crop wigs that were constructed in segments ...
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Pop Culture Portraits Made From Fingerprints
In all honesty, these fingerprint portraits made us smile from ear to ear! ITalian artist known as Dito Von Tease created these fingerprint portraits as part of a collection entitled “Ditology”. Dito Von Tease has managed to pick-and-choose the nuances and facial characteristics that are associated with certain celebrities and characters in order to produce these easily-recognizable portraits that were composed on an ordinary human finger. ...
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Cool Electrical Tower Design Built In The Human Likeness
Kudos go out to American architecture firm, Choi+Shine Architects, for this innovative and fun design concept featuring 30-metre tall electricity towers that are shaped like human figures. The project, entitled Land of Giants, was awarded the 2010 Boston Society of Architects Unbuilt Architecture Award for its unique conceptual approach to power solutions in the Icelandic landscape. The Land of Giants design also received an honourable mention ...
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Dirt, Cannabis and Sushi-Scented Colognes
Hold on, before you jump to conclusions, don’t fret – Demeter’s Sushi Scented cologne does not smell like raw fish (which is kind of too bad, we would have appreciated a raw-fish scented cologne just the same). Instead, the cologne spray smells like “just cooked sticky rice and straight from the seaside seaweed with hints of ginger and lemon essences”. Delicious, right? Sounds edible, as opposed ...
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Dead Rockers As Tech Savvy Present-Day Dudes
We love works of art that imagine the wonderful talents and characters we have grown to love in a different light, so it’s no wonder we love these images compiled by Brazilian artist and Behance user, Butcher Billy. Do you think Elvis Presley would be a Blackberry or an iPhone kind of guy? We agree – iPhone all the way for the King. Also shown are ...
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$164,000 Gold-Plated BBQ
While on the topic of unnecessary expenses, the BeefEater Barbecues’ $164,000 gold-plated barbecue grill came up. Now, we know a lot of people take their BBQ skills seriously, but come ON, people?! Will your slab of animal taste better if it is cooked on a grill that costs the same as a small house in middle America? We have a feeling the Signature Series 6 Burner ...
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Photoshopped Scenes from WWII In Today’s Streets
Artist Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse has created this breath-taking photography collection that features photoshopped images of people during WWII transposed over photographs of today’s streets. The artist aims to remind viewers to “stop and think about history, about the idea and sometimes forgotten stories of where they live”. Her collection entitled “Ghost of History” was inspired by film negatives that were found at flea market in Amsterdam ...
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Luxury Computer Circuit Shoes From Louboutin
The peep-toe and round-toe high heels are covered in computer-circuit quilting that is sure to add an edge to your outfit. If you’re more of a flats and sneakers type of gal, the circuit-printed sneakers are a great option.
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Turn Your Toilet Into ‘The Iron Throne’
We don’t pride ourselves on low-brow humour (or toilet humour for that matter) but we do take guilty pleasure in the aforementioned, which is why we’d like to share this hideously awesome piece of wall decor with you and your loved ones. This vinyl wall decal sold on Etsy by PeelAndStickDecals is a winner – the giant 23″ x 23″ black sticker is easily applied to ...
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10 Amazing Optical Illusion Charcoal Drawings
Netherlands artist, Ramon Bruin, is trained in the art of anamorphic drawings – special works of art that appear 3D only when viewed from a specific angle. Ramon Bruin is a 31-year-old talented freelance artist, who graduated from the Airbrush Academie in the Netherlands, but he is mostly a self-taught artist. Besides a great passion for airbrush, he also draws and paints. We love these charcoal ...
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10 Brilliant Long-Exposure Photographs of Fireworks
Photographer David Johnson captured these fireworks at the International Fireworks Show in Ottawa, Canada using a long exposure of approximately one or two seconds long. Sure, it doesn’t sound like that much time, but in shutter speed terms, the two seconds allowed Johnson to capture the little stems and the long dropping branches of the fireworks in a way that highlights the bursting effect of the ...
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Freakishly Realistic Looking 3D Body Art
Japanese artist, Choo-San, uses acrylic paint to create these freakishly realistic-looking paintings on human bodies. The final results are surprising – what many people assume to be digitally enhanced photography is actually nothing more than a photograph of a practical effect. Choo-San began drawing on her hands while bored and soon realized that the more she practiced, the better her drawing and painting skills became. By ...
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A Transparent Glass Plane From Airbus by 2050
With its see-through aircraft cabin, passengers of the future will get a get a window on the world as they fly through the sky. For this plane with it’s ‘intelligent’ cabin wall membrane and interactive games, may be everyday air transport in 2050. The futuristic concept for travel in 40 years’ time was unveiled recently London by Airbus – and it’ll terrify those who already have ...
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Wicked Trampoline Bridge Concept in Paris
Thanks to Parisian architectural firm, AZC, Paris could be home to one of the best bridge designs we’ve ever stumbled across. Associate architects, Irina Cristea and Grégoire Zündel, put together a proposal for a new “Bridge” in Paris as part of their entry for a new Bridge design competition. Here’s an excerpt from AZC explaining the concept behind their design: “The competition brief, A Bridge in ...
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Giant-Sized Realistic Drawings Made Using 100 Pencils
Michigan-based artist, Chris LaPorte, dedicated 1,200 hours of his time creating this incredible giant-sized drawing using pencils as his medium of choice. LaPorte burned through over 100 2H pencils to create the 13×26 feet work of art entitled “City Band”. The portrait was inspired by an old photograph the artist found of his grandfather’s high school marching band. The original photograph was in very bad shape ...
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Yes, It’s a Belt Buckle That Doubles As a Beer Holder
Our beer-loving selves are drawn to the BevBuckle for obvious reasons – this belt buckle beer holder is a brilliant invention. Holding a beer at a party can be a good way to busy one’s hands, but without a bottle cover you are sure to warm your beer faster. And everyone knows that warm beer is bad beer. Besides, setting a bottle down at a party ...
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Amazing Portraits Chiseled into Building Walls
Just when you think the street-art world has exhausted ideas for new types of expression, an artist like Alexandre Farto aka Vhils from Lisbon Portugal comes up with these marvellous feats. Vhils is one of the youngest artists who specializes in street-art; at 25-years-old he is already represented by Steve Lazarides (also the agent that represents Bansky). Vhils’ chiseled wall portraits of ordinary citizens have made ...
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Crazy Guitar Shaped Forest in Argentina
Crop circles are for amateurs, and clearly, Pedro Martin Ureta, a 71-year-old man in Argentina is no amateur. Ureta and his four children planted every tree in this guitar-shaped forest decades ago in honour of his wife, Graciela Yraizoz, who was inspired by the idea of planting a shape-based forest while flying in an airplane over Pampa while noticing a farm below that coincidentally resembled a ...
