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Thermosaurus, A Wonderful Radiator That Looks Like a Tyrannosaurus
Art. Lebedev Studio designed the wonderful Thermosaurus, a cast-iron heat-exchanging radiator that looks like a Tyrannosaurus. It appears to be a conceptual design at this…
Flux Machine, Twisted Historical Animated GIFs by Kevin J. Weir
For his Flux Machine project, VCU Brandcenter student Kevin J. Weir makes amazing animated GIFs using historical Library of Congress public domain images. Each one…
Google Glasses: A New Way to Hurt Yourself, A Parody of Project Glass
Yesterday Google announced Project Glass, their technology-in-development for Android-based augmented reality glasses. They created a video showing how the technology could work in real life.…
Wooden Toy Quarterly, An Australian Lowbrow Art & Culture Magazine
Wooden Toy Quarterly is an Australia-based “design-heavy lowbrow art and creative culture” print magazine. The current Music Edition issue, as well as back issues, are…
Animals Inside Out, An Exhibition of Animals Preserved by Plastination
“Animals Inside Out” is an exhibition of animal corpses that have been perfectly preserved with plastic polymers in a process called “plastination” (video). The exhibition…
Design Line Fashions, A Film Gem Featuring 1970s Designer Phones
From the company’s start to the breakup in the 1980s, AT&T always rented their phones to users. But in the 1970s, they tried a novelty…
Detroit’s RoboCop Statue Is On The Way
In February of last year the we wrote about the successful Kickstarter campaign to install a RoboCop statue in Detroit. More than a year later,…
Boo Bass, A Remix of Monsters, Inc. by Pogo
Boo Bass, a wonderful remix by Pogo of the 2001 Pixar film Monsters, Inc. The video was edited by goldpikpikcarrots.
The Knife, A Giant Bloody Cardboard Knife Art Project by Maria Luján
German-based artist Maria Luján created The Knife, a street art project that creates the illusion of being stabbed with a giant bloody cardboard knife. via…
Weird Advertising Characters
Weird Advertising Characters is a really great group on Flickr that is full of fun familiar and perhaps not so familiar advertising characters. via Super…