“Swedishness” is a hilarious mockumentary that takes a satirical look at Swedish culture. According to the video, the Swedes have 100 expressions for “parental leave,” and even Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt has to empty the dishwasher. The video was aired during last weekend’s Eurovision Song Contest in Mälmo, Sweden.
Rhode Island School of Design industrial design student Seulbi Kim has created the Togo Burger, an innovative folding cardboard device to hold fast food with one hand.
People nowadays tend to more rely on having take-out food because their eating habit has changed due to their busy life. However, despite the fact that a number of take-out containers have been designed, packages for take-out burger meal are not really developed so far.
Therefore, this package is designed to provide a more convenient way of take-out for fast food industry as well as its customers by designing handy carrier for take-out burger meal consisted of a burger, french-fries, and soda.
The carrier will reduce the volume by about 50% compared to that today because I tried to simplify the design and minimize the amount of paper used with a hook for French fries, a sleeve for a burger, and a hole for soda drink, which causes people to carry it easier, and more materials saving. It is one-handed, convenient, practical, and compact, so your hands can be more free by holding all in one.
animated GIF via Funri, image via Packaging of the World
via First We Feast, Foodbeast
Magician Rahat Hussein and Philadelphia-based prankster Ed Bassmaster have joined forces to add a flesh eating zombie to Rahat’s original “Headless Car Driver Prank.” As Rahat (headless driver) and Ed (zombie) cruise up to various drive-thru windows, they both frighten and make the fast food employees laugh.
“I think it should like, make a high contrast between the figure and the line. Cause I feel like. It’s like…”
An art student freaks out in the middle of class and smashes her painting after receiving a horrible critique. I feel like. She like totally made the right choice by storming out.
UPDATE – During an interview via Skype with RightThisMinute, fashion design student Teddy Quinlivan explains that the “freak out” was actually acted out as part of a performance arts project. She used the painting to purposely receive negative feedback from classmates. Bravo!
videos via Teddy Quinlivan, RightThisMinute
Thanks Jonathan Bergeron!
Obscure Video Games is a Tumblr blog that collects pixel art and animated GIFs of obscure, unsuccessful, or long-forgotten video games. The blog’s owner also periodically takes questions from Tumblr users attempting to identify titles of games based on fragmented memories.
images via Obscure Video Games
via Boing Boing
IGN has released “Death Star Destroys Enterprise,” an amazing video by Mike Horn showing an epic battle between Star Wars and Star Trek spacecraft in San Francisco. Previously we wrote about Mike and his other great videos of sci-fi spacecraft fighting and flying around San Francisco.
via Geeks are Sexy
The 2013 Art of Science competition hosted by Princeton University features artwork created during the pursuit of scientific discovery. The sixth annual exhibition houses a wide variety of art from photography to computer generated diagrams created using intricate data sets, and more of the clever artwork can be viewed at the Art of Science Online Gallery.
The Art of Science exhibition explores the interplay between science and art. Both of these disciplines involve the pursuit of those moments of discovery when what is perceived suddenly becomes more than the sum of its parts. Each piece in this exhibition is, in its own way, a record of such a moment.
These 44 extraordinary images are not art for art’s sake. Rather, they were produced during the course of scientific research. Entries were chosen for their aesthetic excellence as well as scientific or technical interest. We thank all those who submitted work to this year’s competition. We are inspired by the breadth of their creativity both in their scientific research and in the artistic fruits of that research.
images via Art of Science
via NewScientist, Gizmodo
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Tales of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, featuring a foreword by Fight Club author Chuck Palahniuk and
afterword by Stuart Mangrum of the Billboard Liberation
Front and Charlie Todd of Improv Everywhere.
