I love my mother unconditionally but she suffers from some disorder all older people get - damn near yelling across the room when I'm standing right there in front of her. Jessica Frelinghuysen (say that 10x fast) created a solve I'm ready to put to the test. The Here Onseself Speak is a foldable paper helmut designed to bounce sound into the ear ducts amplifying the volume. Unfortunately to have one of these little gems will set you back $1800.00!
I had no idea 2009 marks the 400th anniversary of Galileo using a telescope to say, "damn there be a lot of stars up there" so in celebration, Miniature Rhino created these fantastic needlepoint constellations. They're too rustic and dare I say STEAMPUNK for my home but they'll go nicely in my office, which has a broke down farm look.
Seen it at Kitsune Noir
The IAM1 Amsterdam Journey from Nalden on Vimeo.
Discover Europe's five most creative hotspots through the eyes of their native revolutionaries. Discover Amsterdam through the eyes of blogger/entrepreneur extraordinaire; NALDEN - nalden.net
Visiting Amsterdam hotspots and related people of the MiNiBar, Momkai, La Melodia (who made the Soundtrack) and HOTEL who designed the Amsterdam map you can download at nike.com/sportswear
Directed by Sartoria for Nike Sportswear
Watch out Gundam! Residents of Kobe took one look at Odaiba's life-size Gundam statue and thought they could do better. The muse to their project is a Tetsujin-28 Gigantor. It'll stand just as tall at 59 ft but weighs in at a hefty 50 tons. OH SNAP! Those is some fightin' words!
P.S. When can I move to Japan? Better yet when is America going to build some giant statue in honor our popular culture - hmm, I vote for a massive and I do mean MASSIVE real-life enactment of Springfield, working nuclear reactor and all. I call dibs on the Simpson's house. Damn the recession. Let's do it!
Video after the jump.
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Florentijn Hofman's solo show at Galerie West in Hauge Netherlands is a show after my heart. I adore plushie animals and I adore them even more when they're oversized, brimming with cotton and polyester filling.
The exhibit called "Dushi" features unnaturally large stuffed animals placed in various rooms of a house. The exhibit is supposed to highlight how these toys loose their childlike innocence once they become larger than life.
Umm, Mr. Hofman, I would revert to an a giggling drooling baby if I were placed in a room with these fun animals. Hell I may never leave! Who needs the real world anyways? All I ever seem to do is work.
More pics after the jump. Via Trendhunter
Somebody decided to make the world just a little bit more interesting, and three red swings appeared on the BART Public Transit System in San Francisco for the public to enjoy. You really need to check out the photos below, they're great.
More great photos after the jump. All photo credits go to Audrey Penven.
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Winner of the International Photography Awards, russian artist and photographer Oleg Duryagin combines conventional photography with photo manipulation to produce portraits with an unsettling graphic consistency.
"Visually I am inspired by culture of fashion and surrealists. I often shock people. I try to create my personal aesthetics of the works, I try to combine reality with artificiality." - Oleg Duryagin
More from the series "Toystories" after the jump.
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Hugh Ferriss (1889 - 1962) was an American delineator (one who creates perspective drawings of buildings) and architect. According to Daniel Okrent, Ferriss never designed a single noteworthy building, but after his death a colleague said he 'influenced my generation of architects' more than any other man. Ferriss also influenced popular culture, for example Gotham City (the setting for Batman) and Kerry Conran's "Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow". "Just Imagine" (movie from 1930), strongly influenced by Hugh Ferriss's book, Metropolis of Tomorrow (1929), takes the archetype vision of the future city as defined by a Manhattan-like skyline, and portrays it in all its beauty and majesty.
Interested? Pick up his book of illustrations at Amazon. More drawings after the jump.
Nokia sent me the E71 awhile back to try out and tho impressed, I've yet to be convinced it's better than the iPhone. However Nokia is doing some interesting things to promote it. Their latest campaign/feature called Beautiful Connections lets your visualize text messages. A little app runs on your E71 and dynamically creates an amazing mini movie to be sent to any of your contacts.
Check out their website and the 4 featured movies created by artists.
Submersed Songs | Canções Submersas from ▲LEX on Vimeo.
Submersed Songs is a sound installation that uses live goldfish to remix music fed from an MP3 player. A computer tracks the movements and proximity among each goldfish and constantly mashes-up two different songs recorded by different users. The two tracks are subjected thru different modification processes, building a real time continuity between the fish and the levels of distortion- which can vary from an intense reverberation to a simulation of hearing sound underwater.
Artist and prankster Banksy's latest installation is a mock pet supply store on 7th Ave. near Bleeker St. in New York's West Village. This is no ordinary pet store tho. In store windows, chicken nuggets dip themselves into sauce, a white rabbit covered in makeup and jewels gazing into the mirror, and a fish bowl with swimming fish sticks.
"The Village Pet Store and Charcoal Grill, as the green awning reads, is Banksy's first official exhibition in New York, his representatives say, and it will be open to the public daily through Oct. 31. 'Open for Pet Supplies/Rare Breeds/Mechanically retrieved meat' says a sign in front of the shop. Bales of hay dot the sidewalk, along with a kiddie dolphin ride, wrapped in a fishing net like the day's catch. But it is the leopard in one of the storefront windows that stops passers-by first. 'Is that -- real?' a woman asked on Wednesday, peering at a large furry object perched on a tree branch, its tail swinging. It's not: it is an ingeniously arranged fake fur coat. The robot monkey is more lifelike: it sits, breathing, in a cage inside the store, wearing headphones, holding a remote and watching a television clip of some fellow monkeys in an amorous moment."
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Bansky Pet Store is Not What it Seems