Thursday, March 24, 2011
Victorian Retrofuturism at Home
By
Marc
in
Furniture & Interiors
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Technology & Futurism
Victorian interior decorations and accessories are unique and booming crafts that have ignited the
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12 High-Tech & 3D Printer Design Ideas
By
Steph
in
Architecture & Design
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Technology & Futurism
It’s the 21st century – so why are printers still so bulky, ugly and wasteful? The time is ripe for
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13 Futuristic 3D Scanner & Printer Designs
By
Delana
in
Architecture & Design
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Technology & Futurism
Manufacturing is about to undergo its biggest transformation ever, but it won’t come with big
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36 Breathtaking Steampunk Computer Mods
By
Marc
in
Furniture & Interiors
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Technology & Futurism
As steampunk connoisseurs and hobbyists become veterans at their craft, they’ve been increasingly
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20 Awesome Gun and Bullet Artworks
By
Steph
in
Urban & Street Art
There are artists who work with paint and clay, and then there are artists who create bizarre and
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Real-Life ‘Up’: Balloon Transports Entire Buildings
By
Steph
in
Architecture & Design
,
Technology & Futurism
It’s 500 feet across and can carry 700 times more weight than a heavy cargo helicopter – yet it’s
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20 of the World’s Most Awesome Art Cars: From Cupcake Scooters to Cat Cruisers
By
Steph
in
Urban & Street Art
,
Urban Images
,
Various Uncategorized
(Check out our complete collection of
Extraordinary Art from Ordinary Objects
.)
If you passed one of these awesome art cars in traffic, you might just run yourself off the road
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15 Innovative Lamp, Lighting and Light Bulb Designs
By
Steph
in
Architecture & Design
,
Furniture & Interiors
Interior
lighting is often an afterthought, with bland boring
fixtures
that are purely functional – but
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20 Outstanding & Outrageous Concept Cars from the Golden Age
By
Steve
in
History & Factoids
,
Travel & Places
,
Urban & Street Art
,
Various Uncategorized
A map of the history of the auto industry would show dozens, if not hundreds of roads not traveled.
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Circuitboard Artwork: A Gallery Inside Your Computer
By
Marc
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Guerilla Action & Art
,
Technology & Futurism
Circuitboards are tossed into landfills by the ton; one of the most consistent computer remnants
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35 Unique Lamps That Will Light Up Your Imagination
By
Marc
in
Furniture & Interiors
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Technology & Futurism
We’re beyond the year 2000, and it’s time to ditch your ancient lamp with its boring beige
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True Transformers: Normal Cars Turned Monstrous
By
Marc
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Technology & Futurism
,
Urban Images
Car modifications are sometimes awesome, often horrible, and always expensive. The best
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Tiny, Magical Worlds Inside Toilet Paper Rolls
By
Steph
in
Architecture & Design
We rarely give much thought to the humble toilet paper roll – and why should we? It’s just
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Elod Beregszaszi: Paper Master
By
Marc
in
Architecture & Design
,
Guerilla Action & Art
Elod Beregszaszi is a master of paperwork, but not in the normal sense of the phrase. He cuts, folds,
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Paper Mache Masters: From Crafters to Professionals
By
Marc
in
Travel & Places
,
Urban & Street Art
Paper mache is a process used to create art that involves laying paper over a form and using a wet
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10 Miniature Works Where Tiny Rules
By
Marc
in
Architecture & Design
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
In the West, bigger is typically considered better, but there’s a growing movement against this
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10 Uncanny Ultra-Small Artworks
By
Steph
in
Urban & Street Art
There’s something sort of magical about miniatures, especially when they’re strikingly lifelike.
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15 Amazing Graphic Designers
By
Steph
in
Architecture & Design
,
Technology & Futurism
,
Urban & Street Art
What is it that makes a truly effective piece of graphic design? Is it just the skill that allows an
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15 (More!) Amazing Tilt-Shift Photos
By
Steph
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Urban & Street Art
It’s a case of life imitating art: photographs of full-sized objects or scenes that look like
tiny, perfectly
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7 Tilt-Shift Photographers
By
Delana
in
Architecture & Design
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Travel & Places
,
Urban Images
It doesn’t take much to fool the human mind into thinking it’s seeing something other than reality.
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14 Epic Environmental Art Images and Photos
By
Delana
in
Environment & Nature
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Travel & Places
,
Urban & Street Art
History is filled with artists who dared to try to make positive changes to their world, even when it
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15 Amazing Illustrators
By
Steph
in
Architecture & Design
,
Graffiti & Drawing
,
Urban & Street Art
Illustrators have an incredible power to bring stories, concepts and brands to vivid life
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21 Cleverly Mirrored Images & Reflected Photos
By
Delana
in
Architecture & Design
,
Urban & Street Art
,
Urban Images
Photographers know countless methods to add interest to to their images through tricks of light,
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9 Creatively Camera-Free Photographers [30 Photos]
By
Delana
in
Architecture & Design
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Urban Images
Looking at some of the
most
impressive
contemporary
photography
, it’s easy to believe that
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Amazing and Creative Book Cover Art and Design
By
GT
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Urban & Street Art
,
Various Uncategorized
They say you can’t judge a book by its cover, but sometimes it can be unavoidable. The
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The Surreal & Colorful World of Artist Marco Escobedo
By
Steph
in
Graffiti & Drawing
,
Urban & Street Art
Illustrator and graphic designer
Marco Escobedo
’s work focuses on the surreal and fantastic,
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7 Urban Wonders of the World: Amazing and Record-Setting City Roads and Streets
By
Urbanist
in
7 Wonders Series
,
Travel & Places
,
Urban Images
,
Urban Videos
Everyone hates traffic, but how about trying to wind around 8 switchbacks in one city block,
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20 Fantastic Physics-Defying Frozen-in-Time Photos
By
Delana
in
Architecture & Design
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Urban & Street Art
,
Urban Images
What do you get when you cross performance art with high-energy photography? You get the
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Incredible Art in Motion: From Freeze Frame Urban Photography to Kinetic Sculpture
By
Urbanist
in
Guerilla Action & Art
,
Urban & Street Art
,
Urban Images
,
Urban Videos
What could be stranger than a person twisted and frozen in time inches above a street?
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Digital Painters: Old World Art Meets Modern Tech
By
Steph
in
Architecture & Design
,
Graffiti & Drawing
,
Urban & Street Art
If you think that digital art has no soul or dimension, you haven’t seen the work of these
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7 Engineering Wonders of the Modern World: Contemporary World Record-Setting Construction
By
Urbanist
in
7 Wonders Series
,
Architecture & Design
,
Urban Videos
Would you believe that the tallest bridge in France reaches higher than the Eiffel tower, or that a
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Unbelievable Kinetic Sculptures of Theo Jansen
By
Delana
in
Environment & Nature
,
Urban & Street Art
,
Various Uncategorized
Part Three in an Eight-Part Series on Amazing Artists of the World
In 1990, a new species was born. It was not formed from the cross-breeding of existing creatures.
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The Making of 5 Modern Marvels of Engineering: Construction Truths Behind Contemporary Wonders
By
Urbanist
in
Architecture & Design
,
Environment & Nature
,
Urbanism
Even today
modern wonders of engineering
like the Eiffel Tower and the Golden Gate Bridge
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15 Artists to Watch
By
Steph
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Graffiti & Drawing
,
Technology & Futurism
Watching an artist turn a piece of paper and some graphite into a realistic, imaginative work of
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Don’t Know Jack About Construction? 14 Fabulous DIY Castles
By
Angie
in
Architecture & Design
,
History & Factoids
,
Travel & Places
Don’t you hate it when someone tells you that you don’t know diddly squat, don’t know jack? Does
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The Dreamy Driftwood Sculptures of Heather Jansch
By
Delana
in
Environment & Nature
,
Urban & Street Art
(Part One in an Eight-Part Series on Brilliant and Unusual Artists of the World)
The relationship between an artist and the material they create with is a complicated and intimate
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Mind-Bending Digital Photo Manipulation by Erik Johansson
By
Steph
in
Technology & Futurism
,
Urban & Street Art
In the Age of Photoshop, few images are surprising anymore – but every now and then, you come
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10 Castles Built for Love
By
Angie
in
Architecture & Design
,
History & Factoids
,
Travel & Places
Architecture is influenced by Eros, Greek god of sexual love and beauty, also known as Roman
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Street Art Peels Back Urban Layers
By
Delana
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Graffiti & Drawing
,
Urban & Street Art
Urban environments are crowded with all kinds of sights that are so common they often just
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20 Mind-Bending Architectural Sculptures
By
Delana
in
Furniture & Interiors
,
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Urban & Street Art
If you set most artists loose in a building that was about to be demolished, you might get some
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38 Trend-bending Custom iPad Cases
By
Marc
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Technology & Futurism
As Apple’s iPads have boomed in popularity, so has their been a wave of bland mass-produced
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10 Historical Secret Rooms and Hidden Passages
By
Delana
in
Architecture & Design
,
History & Factoids
,
Travel & Places
For all of humankind’s history, we’ve been fascinated with hidden places. Before they were a
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15 Awesome iPhone Cases
By
Steph
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Urbanism
For every Apple enthusiast who sees utter perfection in the sleek, modern lines of the iPhone,
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Art in the Shadows: Documenting Temporary Urban Sights
By
Delana
in
Gadgets & Geek Art
,
Graffiti & Drawing
,
Urban & Street Art
In an urban environment, it seems that nearly everything is fleeting. Nothing – not even the tall
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Urban Padlock Monuments to Commitment
By
Delana
in
Urban & Street Art
,
Urban Images
,
Urbanism
All around the world, lovers have unique ways of showing their affection for one another.
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22 Ads from Bizarre to Brilliant
By
Angie
in
Guerilla Action & Art
,
Guerilla Marketing & Ads
,
Subvertising & Counter-Ads
Guerilla marketing is about using a small budget for big results. Some guerilla ad campaigns are
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GEOtube Building Grows its Own Lace-Like Sea Salt Skin
By
Steph
in
Architecture & Design
,
Green Technologies
,
Technology & Futurism
How can architecture autonomously grow and expand when it is not constructed with living
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Wild Campaigns With Cars
By
Marc
in
Guerilla Action & Art
,
Guerilla Marketing & Ads
,
Urban & Street Art
Guerilla marketing catches one by surprise, and instantly generates a ripple effect through the
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Hidden Hideaways Right Under Your… Stairs
By
Marc
in
Architecture & Design
,
Furniture & Interiors
Hidden rooms and secret passageways are the stuff of legend. Only found in ancient castles and
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