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Jenni Sparks is breathing new life into the art of hand-drawn cartography. Beginning with her quirky map of London and her follow up for New York, this doodler has been helping tourists get around big cities with her sense of humor and wit. The maps point out contemporary landmarks, such as the 24-hour bagel shop in Brick [...]
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Shark Bay Films shot this fascinating five-minute vid featuring some strange, strange, strange real-life sea beasts from Indonesia’s Lembeh Strait you don’t ever want to mess with. The hideous-looking brainless and blind worm that drags fish underground is the stuff of nightmares, and I can see how Aphex Twin’s Richard D James, whose face has [...]
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Laura Collins creates a whole new layer of meaning for these vintage photos by overlaying a second or third photo, carefully chosen to slightly skew the overall meaning of the piece. These collages give insight into the yesteryears of our parents and grandparents. Some of them are innocently pretty, while others seem to have a heavier [...]
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We’ve been going on and on about 3D-printing, but we still didn’t see this coming: yes, of all things, a 3D food printer. Er, why not just eat food? Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor, who designed the printer, sees a future in printing out customized meals to help us all address nutrient deficiencies unique to us, [...]
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7Stories is my new Locative Literature project set along Melbourne’s Swanston Street and the Bourke St Mall using the beautifully crafted QR code designs by Csilla Csongvay. So if you’re up for listening to the stories of homeless guitarists, wannabe skaters and Romanian refugees in the places where these stories are set, then grab a [...]
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Buzzfeed recently ran a piece about Weird Twitter, or “intentionally wrong style of idiotic comedy” by “a loose group of Twitter users who write in a less accessible form, using sloppy punctuation/spelling/capitalization, poetic experimentation with sentence format, first-person throwaway characters, and other techniques little known to the vast majority of ‘serious’ Twitter users”. In other [...]
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Have you ever wondered what’s actually going on in your head when you begin to have trouble focusing? With Melon, just put on the high-tech headband and begin monitoring your brain function; improve your focusing skills and practice meditating on a whole new level. Melon is the most effective App around to help you improve [...]
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So, we have a wickedly talented and creative producer and DJ laying down what’s good and what’s, well, not so good. Yes it’s, wait for it, just a little longer, nearly there. Ok, it’s Moby, from some otherworldly universe. This is his MY SECRET PLAYLIST, the songs that inspire him, written in his own words.
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Polvo are a critically acclaimed and widely influential rock band from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, that were active during the 1990 before reforming recently for a benefit for WKNC at the Pour Haus. The band was fronted by vocalists-guitarists Ash Bowie and Dave Brylawski. We asked David Brylawski to give us a rundown, in his [...]
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Collagist and book artist Lynn Skordal has a fantastic collage series, Scientific Re-Illustration, where prim and proper Victorian figures find their way into the droll world of detailed scientific illustrations. It’s all deliberately absurd and simply hilarious.
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Now this is an oldie but goodie. Scientific American recently reminded us of this fantastic creation by Hammer & Tongs’ Garth Jennings and Nick Goldsmith that condenses human evolution — from a protozoa to an obese kid — into the tight space of FatBoy Slim’s ‘Right Here Right Now’ music video Most of the creatures [...]
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Ooh, this is great. In response to the way everyone taps away on their phones even when they’re in human company, designers Chelsea Briganti, Leigh Ann Tucker and Ingrid Zweifel from Manhattan-based studio The Way We See the World have introduced Blokket, a pouch thoughtfully made from a silver and nylon material that blocks cellular [...]
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One Week of Art is a project by Rinpa Eshidan, Japanese based artists who over the course of 7 days paint and re-paint a wall, shifting from black and white designs to vibrant and colourful ones. The opening scene is futuristic, making way for more nature based images before moving back into the future. The [...]
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Transport company Ropid, which runs the Czech capital’s trains, has now hit upon the ingenious idea of rolling out special train cars for love-seeking commuters. The initiative is still in the works as they undergo polling to see just how the residents would take to it. Wonder if red roses and champers are on the [...]
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If you’re anything like me, you have a fascination with clouds. Lucky for us, there’s a cloud appreciation society that shares the same interest. There’s one type of cloud formation in particular, the asperatus cloud, that’s got our collective jaws on the floor. It looks as if it came right out of one of Van [...]
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