Great grampa turns electric scooter into Batmobile
74-year-old great grandfather Brian Vannlooks of Evesham, Worcestershire, has turned his electric mobility scooter into a homemade Batmobile, proving that you can be young at heart at any age.
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Drawings of animals by Maria Elina
It’s funny that as alienated as we are from animals in this modern world, people still feel compelled to draw them as if it were one of our core instincts. Argentine artist Maria Elina does excellent drawings of anthropomorphized animals. Excellent, I say. Trust me, I look at the internet all day. Read more
Surreal sculptures by Ben Wheele
Honestly, writing about art (and music, for that matter) is kind of an awful task because good art speaks for itself. Such is the case with Ben Wheele’s surreal sculptures and videos. I use the word ‘surreal’ to describe 90% of the art I like not because I’m a lazy writer, but because there’s really not much more to say, and I like surreal and grotesque shit. Read more
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Christine Young’s work looks like doodles in a high-school student’s Trapper Keeper. She definitely got a lot from doing blind contour exercises in art class.
This remarkable photo series, The Big Bang, by Houston-based Deborah Bay, shows the destruction wrought by bullets being blasted through plexi-glass. And, as our friends at Wired have suggested, they also closely resemble those mystical planetary galactic realms, far, far above. Wild. Read more
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Designer Haik Avanian has set up a website through which you can send an old sweater for his mom to reknit into a new item. Seeing as he only has one mom, not all orders can be filled, but you can keep trying.
Lyon-based Babylon Circus is music laced with ska, gypsy, rock, vaudevillian antics, dancehall and reggae. Their first Australian East Coast tour in 2008 saw the nine piece band sell every show out. They feature on the So Frenchy So Chic compilation. We asked them to tell us about their favourite music right now, and they started with Django Reinhardt’s Minor Swing [listen below]: ‘Backstage, home, in the bus, cooking or having breakfast, is there a time you wouldn’t love to hear this one? We love it anytime, any style, too, as it’s been remixed and rearranged so many different ways. Still, we love the original best’.
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There was some brilliantly creative work on show at the China Fashion Week Spring/Summer 2011 showing, which was held in Beijing late last year. Colours, colours, everywhere colours. American designers take note. Read more
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