If you didn’t have enough of poetic underwater sea animals, here’s more! Artist Miwa Koizumi creates a world of underwater wonder with discarded PET bottles.
In another project, he created some extremely organic and effusive forms, apparently by suddenly freezing liquid plaster.
Visit his site here!
The Stonehenge was estimated to have been built more than four thounsand years ago, and it has thus aroused curiosity and conspiracy theories alike as to how it was built. Some attributed the effort to aliens, considering the physical impossibility of humans in moving, erecting and constructing those stones that weigh more than 20 tonnes each.
One man decided to see if he could build the Stonehenge without employing any modern technology – and to build it by himself. He proved that with some clever method and a lot of perseverance, it is possible to emulate the effort. See how one man lifts and moves tons of stone in the quest for the Stonehenge.
“Give me a long enough lever and a place to stand, and I will move the earth.” – Archimedes
While there are some artist who’d meticulously plan the layout of their drawings, Nobumasa is not one of them when he works on the Japanese Graffiti project at Space Force, Japan. He allows his drawing to crawl and sprawl across the wall as his imagination takes him. Drawing inspiration from the Japanese Sumie drawings, his work is testament to a wealth of fascinating and sometimes absurd imagination. Drawings that do not need to follow logic – spacemen, candies, machines, buildings, superheroes all mingle among one another as if they were already in their most natural habitats. The public is sometimes invited to contribute ideas of what they want drawn on the wall too.
Click on picture to see final the question.
If all my trivia-gathering and Internet-trolling could lead to one good thing, this would be the dream. A contestant on the Who Wants to be a Millionaire show, John Carpenter was in the hot seat, ready to answer the final question. How will he fare? Watch it!
Click on the picture to see the transformation.
Of course, we intellectually know that models that appears on our magazines and billboards have been enhanced. But quite often we still assume that a celebrity/model looks just like how they appear on these flashy pages too. Dove, in its Campaign for Real Beauty, hit a gem in this commercial spot that illustrates just exactly how the whole mechanism works – the lighting, the make-up, and the digital touch ups.
And yes, no wonder our perception of beauty is distorted.
I received this through the mail, and perhaps it’s been floating around for quite some time. Apparently a magazine ran a ‘Dilbert Quotes’ contest, looking for people to submit quotes from their real life Dilbert-type managers. Ten of my favourite submissions:
Classic stuff!
Hah, quite a funky multi-plug aint it? A multi-plug that fits 12 non-earthed plugs at maximum – only works for the lower voltage plugs, because the higher voltage appliances are supplied with a wider plug. Plug away (no, not diagonally though). The studio that designed it has some other interesting if quirky stuff too!
[via swissmiss]
Talk about bringing the art to the masses!
While art galleries often project the image of catering only to a select group of (rich) connoisseurs, one in Helsinki has chosen to go on directly the opposite route. Housed in a former supermarket, art pieces are displayed exactly like the typical mart – on the shelves, counters, etc. – with all the shopping trolleys and baskets. Inheriting the traits of a supermarket, art here start from just a few euros, and they even had a promotion to give away 100 art pieces to the first 100 (it was wildly successful – lines over 100 meters were formed on the opening day).
Choose your art like how you’d choose your meat:
And of course, nothing is more surreal than seeing Andy Warhol’s “Campbell Soup” graphic selling right here.
[via Design Finland]
Entomology professor Dr. Thomas Eisner from Cornell shows you do not need a fancy DSLR camera to produce stunning photographs from Nature. Using a black colth and a color copier, Thomas shows us that with some ingenuity, amazing photographs can be taken without the aid of an expensive camera. He explains his process making it sound simple:
It was like playing with a Lego set. There were only two provisos. Parts had to be laid out upside down on the copier’s stage, because the copier ‘sees’ the stage from beneath, and the arrangements, once composed, had to be covered with a black velvet cloth to exclude ambient light from the picture.
See additional pictures here.
These days, going green quite often implies going cool. This is also true for bike designs.
Instead of gasoline, this ENVBike uses hydrogen as its power source. Usually, “green” vehicles are associated with low power and not much fun. The ENV is not stellar in engine performance (it goes 0-50 mph in twelve seconds and its top speed is 50 mph.). It does look powerful though.
The second photois the power source of the ENV. It houses the fuel cell generator. It is removable/detachable and could be used as a separate power source. The intricate engravings on the housing display its status as a beautiful object in itself, showing off hydrogen technology’s cleanliness.
While we’re looking at fuel cell bikes, we might as well look at the ones from Yamaha too (from quite a while back):
Yamaha Passol, Yamaha Divide, Yamaha Pocke, Yamaha FC06.
