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Low Lai Chow
Low Lai Chow is a spacebar invader and freelance writer from Singapore. She travels light and is working on exercising demons from her past.
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Whimsical hidden self-portraits by Wataru Yamamoto
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For Japanese photographer Wataru Yamamoto’s Drawing a Line series, Yamamoto walked into the Kumano virgin forest armed with a large-format camera and a long cable release to trip the shutter with. The result: intriguing self-portraits that hint at the spot where he was standing at (he can hardly be seen), thanks to the clearly visible [...]
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Kim Jong Un looking at things, too
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Following art director Zachary Smith’s brilliant Tumblr blog, Kim Jong Il Looking At Things Tumblr, which shows, er, the esteemed leader looking at things when he was still alive, someone else has gone ahead to set up a Tumblr of his successor and son, Kim Jong Un, looking at things too. We like the original [...]
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Laser light guns destroying random stuff
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Patrick Priebe, who makes a business out of building laser light guns and gadgets, has a YouTube channel that come peppered with irate video text descriptions that go “DON’T ASK FOR PARTS PLANS TUTORIALS”. At first we wondered what was up with all that screaming, but if you take a look at one of his [...]
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Want to fight cockney zombies in London? This way, please
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Seemed like quite a while back since we mentally hyperventilated over the fact that Wish.co.uk actually organized zombie-fighting adventures in malls, so you can imagine how thrilled we were to find out that they’ve now emerged with even more zombie fun. There’s the Zombie Boot Camp, where you can learn how to shoot zombies down [...]
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Floating cloud couch levitates with magnetic force
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Hong Kong-based designers David Koo and Zheng Yawei came up with this astonishing concept design for a couch that we can only dream about for now. Yes, it’s a levitating couch that makes use of magnetic force from the bottom base to stay afloat. And it looks like a cloud. Their design nabbed an honourable [...]
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Infographic shows superhero life expectancies
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Creative agency Designbysoap were commissioned by a client to take a cold, hard look at the lifestyle habits of superheroes and comic book characters, then thought about whether they possessed regenerative powers, are human or immortal, and if they have died in a plot. The result is this rad infographic tabulating scores for how long they’ll [...]
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Geography of Twitter: Mapping out a month of tweets
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Thanks to a paper that gleaned geolocation data from 1,535,929,521 tweets from 71,273,997 unique users in Oct 23-Nov 30 last year, some fabulous maps showing a month in the life of Twitter were generated. The world of Twitter, as you can see, is beautiful.
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Mirrors, mirrors everywhere: An infinitely replicating room
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Berlin-based artist Thilo Frank has this fascinating installation work, The Phoenix Is Closer Than It Appears, a 4m x 4m x 8m room that is entirely lined with mirrors and lit with streaks of neon green. It looks like it came straight out of The Matrix. Hmm, looks really cool, but we wonder if people [...]
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Google and the World Brain
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Yep, we here at Lost At E Minor said years ago that mega-repository of all knowledge in the world, Google, was surely becoming our collective brain. Now the documentary Google and the World Brain is out, and it looks at Google’s ambitious plan in 2002 to scan every single book in the world. The trailer [...]
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1892 photo shows perching children on water lilies
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It wasn’t that long ago that we sniffed out this 1938 picture of a massive water lily lifting a dainty little kitten, so it’s funny to see the bar has raised with an even earlier photo dated 1892 showing even more of these giant water lilies lifting an entire family of kids in North Carolina [...]
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Animal ninjas in their element
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Nature is great. Some animals have the art of camouflage down pat, disappearing right into their surroundings. Christian Ziergler captured some amazing pictures of these creatures at their mimicry best for National Geographic, and you can try to locate sneaky leaf-little toads and the such in this interactive image gallery.
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Print ads feature food splashing around like water in a glass
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Food splashing around like water in glasses and pitcher jugs? When Latin American supermarket chain Exito launched a seven-layered water bottle that preserves the taste of water in it, they also got ad agency Sancho BBDO Bogotá to come up with this series of print ads featuring just what the product won’t do. Clever.
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Graphics spewing colour by LIE
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Malaysia-based graphic design studio LIE (or Little Ideas Everyday), which has done a staggering amount of good work ranging from identity design to illustration, recently ran a project on their blog where whimsical visuals, such as a polaroid that spews colours and a suitcase opening up to reveal a sea of paper waves, come to [...]
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Motion flapboard swaps airport announcements with other statements
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Know these mechanical alphabet-by-alphabet motion flapboards at the airport that make flight announcements? Mumbai-based interdisciplinary artist Shilpa Gupta’s work, 24:00:01 — so named to represent a time that does not exist, or a space that cannot exist within conventional boundaries — takes the flapboard out of its familiar airport setting and displays statements inspired by [...]
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Starlings forming clouds of poetry in the sky
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So Neels Castillon was shooting a commercial with Mathias Touzeris in Marseille, France, when a massive flock of starlings turned up and started a mass aerial display. The technical term for the dance is ‘murmuration’, and Alt-J’s Hand-made makes a really good soundtrack for the birds’ ensemble performance.
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