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Melanie Favreau took the little plastic things that keep your bread loafs closed and turned them into sterling silver pieces of jewelry she calls Milk & Bread.
Available as either a ring or a necklace, Milk & Bread are from her appropriately named “Supermarket” store, and can be customized with any text that you’d like.
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180 degrees rotated picture of a clear blue sky, by Helmut Smits
There is some amazing Photoshop work by Ricardo Salamanca at Salamagica. Great is that he gives a few “behind the scenes shots” of how he created his images.
“Dead men lying on the bottom of the grave
Wondering when Saviour comes - is he gonna be saved [...]“
Totem - Soldier Side is a bizarre yet deep collection of military/religious themed photography by German (?) multi-disciplinary artist Michel Valentino.
Photographer Andrew Bush mounted a camera in his car to catch drivers in Los Angeles and elsewhere in the southwest between 1989 and 1997. Then he posted the 66 most interesting ones. Link
Do you collect those useless phone cards, credit cards, gift card or whatever plastic? Do throw them away, they can be use to make guitar picks. Other materials like cardboard, “Handi Snacks” stick, CD, Toshiba laptop, and plastic packaging can be use too. Just use a marker pen and draw the pick shape on the card and card it with scissor, piece of cake.
[via MAKE]
Those of you who know me know that I have a thing for jumping photos. I love being in them and I love taking photos of jumping people. I have no idea why I have such a fascination with them especially since most of the time they require almost zero effort to take. I guess I just like how each jumping photograph can capture so much energy and expression in one shot.
Anyway, the Hyper series by French photographer Denis Darzacq is just awesome.
The Book of Sleep collects vintage photos of people sleeping. Wonderful.
Are you a football fans? Tell you this gotta be crazy, because of the UEFA EURO 2008, Adidas is invading Europe with its giant players, a group of 17 meters high and 33 meters in diameter football players were placed in Zurich. One initiative that is part of the campaign “Dream Big”, created by 180/TBWA.
This was in Vienna, a ferris wheel served as a support for Petr Cech from 42 meters in height. With 8 arms, the Adidas symbolizes the invincibility of the goalkeeper of the Czech Republic, considered one of the best in the world at present.
What we see everyday can affect our mood and state of mind. Enhance your desktop with a wallpaper creation from Desktopography and feel the essence of nature and the outdoor existence on your computer. Bring tranquility to your desktop, feel the wilderness and give your background a breath of fresh air.
The Desktopography project arrived in 2005 as a place to download nature/topological themed wallpapers with edits from selected designers. Everything iss free, and some of the artwork is really amazing.
The donuts blink in unison.
Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. Color Allusions is a rebus-style puzzle, where color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes.
Try to guess the exact hue of each. Roll your mouse over the colored boxes to reveal the missing words. Click the colored boxes to learn more about each hue.
If you have lots of empty wall space in your office you need to check out this. It’s a list of posters that focus on interesting information rather than nice-looking sunsets. And all are computer and network related.
Print. Cut. Fold. Tape. Paper Foldables.
Michael Neff’s Chalk series is a terrific idea in which he outlines various objects’ shadows in chalk, and then photographs them at night, giving each shadow an odd, sort of radiating glow.
So far, cities that he’s done this in include New York, San Francisco, Seattle, and a small town in Oregon, and the series is ongoing, so he has plans for more in the future.
With a Pringles can, a box cutter, and a little bit of time, you too can make your own mini-golf holes that are perfect for both quick games and extended competitions.
Just remember to eat the Pringles first!
BRUSHster is an online painting machine for all ages. This shockwave interactive includes more than forty brushes and customizable size, transparency, texture, and stroke options. A rainbow palette, along with a toolbox of special effects that blur, ripple, smudge, blend, and fragment your designs help make BRUSHster a full-feature painting program.
Abstract painting is like visual music. It lets you share your mood or express an idea without painting a recognizable picture of something in the real world. BRUSHster is programmed to paint ABSTRACT art, but the tools can be used to create realistic pictures, too.
Click one of the green AUTO buttons and let the computer generate some paintings for you.
From Modern Mechanix.
14 Smoking Accessories That Nobody Should Own.
You arrive at the golf course, and soon you’re on to 18 holes with your best buddies. After drinking sport ades, water, beer, and whatever, you’re on the 3rd hole with no rest room in sight. There are no trees or bushes around and you just gotta go, what are you going to do?
The UroClub is intended to eliminate anxiety and any feeling of uneasiness on the course. It can be emptied at the nearest restroom or later on, when the golfer returns home.
If you are feeling bored, I mean damn bored, head to this site: ColorFlip.com. It is a site by Rafael Rozendaal, a site where you can flip the color page as many times as you want like the flash e-book.
Loads of interesting work done by Laundry featuring clients like The Strokes, SvSv, Blood Arm and many more. Really worth a visit.
She’s doing it all wrong! Sure, the result looks OK, but my method is faster.
Wow… Will you get the phone number if this sexy girl is in front of you? 
This is the way to carry coffee, much easier and safer than a tray! Link
A TV light effect on the window at night tells you that there’s someone is watching some late show. There’s an advantage of it and that is to avoid burglars. It tells burglars that someone hasn’t sleep in that house, so they won’t dare to break in your house. But you can’t just watch TV every night to prevent that so what you can do is to purchase this FakeTV device. It is capable of producing the light of varying intensity and color that replicate the motions of a real television. There are a lot of effects for you to choose from scene changes, camera pans, fades, flicks, swells, on-screen motion, and more.
“The Nubrella is worn with a harness, and closes around its user like a clear, private cocoon, guaranteed never to turn inside out.”
This time we’ll have two winners. One voted for by the people. The other chosen by a panel of industry insiders. You enter it. We’ll make them. You’ll see them in shops. Worldwide.
The Video called “Speaking in Bubbles” about Ji Lee, a street artist in NY who founded Bubble Project. He tags stickers shaped like speech bubbles and places them over public advertisements, and he invites passersby to fill in the blanks with their own thoughts. 30,000 of these bubble stickers were printed. They are placed on top of ads all over New York City. Passersby fill them in. Fun project.
Belgians Benjamin Verdonck lives in a nest in Rotterdam, it may will be here untill May 22(I translated from German). How you look this project?
Here is a cool addition to the land of Flickr - very nice application to explore Flickr photos via virtual planetary systems.
You enter a tag, and the related galaxy appears on screen. Each planet contains the pictures of a certain tag, and when you click on them, the images are placed on a 3D rotating globe.
A neat photographic journey: Tag Galaxy
LOL! Armpit and pubic hair fashion. The Winter Coat looks like somebody forgotten to shave the other part of pubic hair, err!! While the Natural Mink is a T-shirt that comes printed with armpit hair. They are 100% cotton and were priced at $30 and $45 respectively, available at www.missandladysboutique.de. Just wear that if you want to turn someone off. Blek!
Star Wars fan and photographer Cindi Geeze doesn’t just play with her extensive collection of Imperial soldier action figures. She props them into humorous poses and photographs them.
The new Walt Disney Studios “Tower of Terror” web site is great!
For the launch of its latest attraction Disneyland Paris invites you to visit a virtual hotel hit by the fourth dimension curse.
Tower Of Terror - a rich online experience!
Before you click on the different sections to explore them: Stay there! Stay on the “lobby” page, without doing anything … wait, and watch what happens … Huuuuh!
As you can see from my photo below, visiting the 4th Dimension can have quite an effect on your looks.
Just upload your photo for a ride in their elevator … or step into the 4th Dimension to “play with your nerves” …
Some fantastic retro graphics over at this flickr set.
Guy Ritchie directed this new nike spot, check it out.
An invention of Erik De Nijs with these trousers as a Jean, integrating a keyboard bluetooth as well as loudspeakers and a telegraphic mouse. Completely equipped for mobility, the explanations in images and in the continuation.
This stylish Usb Cufflinks($TBD) is a flash drive with 2 GB memory. The very cool cuff links. It is fashion and made of sterling silver and shiny finish. This company is also offering the sterling silver bracelet and necklace with usb memory(pics check out more). Individual whishes like engraving, gemstones (cabochon, facet, baguet) and other materials (white and yellow gold, platinum, titanium, palladium) on demand.
You have seen the Futurama in real life, now take a look at the Jessica Rabbit. Is she hot? It was untooned by Pixeloo. Nice work.
The Resume Tee($30) designed by BlackBird Custom. You can print your resume on the black of T-shirt and choose an intro or teaser line for the front of your t-shirt. I don’t know if will you really buy it and wear it for find a job. But it is a humor to tell your friends, you need to be noticed and care.
Cool 360 video of Time Square shot with nine synced SI-2K MINI cameras.
Apartment Therapy LA Blog has a neat post about some homewares from Japan (that unfortunately, you can’t get in the United States). This one above, a dining room set called Cube Style, is very cleverly designed for small apartments (as you probably know, space is at a premium in Tokyo)
Alright, Dylan Marvin has taken some stock photography and has photoshopped them and transformed them to the real life Futurama. Leela is hot right, see who is she from after the break.
The Electric Koi is a new short film from the guys at tokyo plastic.
Check out the teaser trailer here.
This is cool. A Portrait of Steve Jobs, made from sort of Apple products.
The Nappak is designed to use in the office for the minimal space; quickly open and store; mobile and easily use. This Nappak sleep bag can be stored in a slim and round trolley, it features can be expanded in a a few minutes, quickly open and stow. Its inside translucent white color creates a relaxing atmosphere, and outside orange color give the people attention. I love this design, because its independent space can be separated from the offcie, give users more relax.
This is when you get jealous that you co-worker is taking leaves on vacation and you’re stuck in the office, it’s time to fool someone. Here’s a video showing you how to grow grass in the keyboard. We are not sure whether the keyboard is still functional or not after growing grass, so try at your own risk.
Photoshop Express is an exciting new web based product from Adobe. It is a flash based, light version of the popular (to say the least) image editing software Photoshop. It works pretty good and it is totally free. Don’t expect to find the same advanced functions as in the full-scale versions but it works better than I initially thought it would. Not too bad at all!
Adobe Photoshop Express [photoshop.com/express]
These shots of big time sports events by New York-based photographer Vincent Laforet. I love the plasticized, surreal quality of the photos and the unnatural vibrancy of the colours. It really does look like someone’s created an extremely detailed little sports diorama and carved thousands of wee sports fans out of plastic. They look like many tiny plastic figures.
Some insane photo-manipulation skills, with a massive spoonful of humor.
Ladies and gentlemen: Sven Prim is in the house.
If you do not have enough space in your room, you can go for the Bedup. Bedup is a Bed which can be retracted into the ceiling when not in use, saving you up to 30 square feet. You can even have lighting integrated into its underside. Bedup is available at a starting price of $4300.
The power of photo editing has changed the toilet to “Toiletron”. This is not Photoshop. It is created in “Aviary, a suite of online web application”. The toiletron is edited from toilet bowls, urinal, basin etc. Continue reading for the video.
PolarClock 3.0 is now available as a screen saver for Mac and Windows, and also as a dashboard widget for OSX Tiger.
In this city, if you need a floating house, your own house that you can see the streets from the house’s floor? Its name is Backpack House. As mobile as a “rucksack “, adds extra space at the front of each residential building attached. The Backpack House consists of a cube-made element with the dimensions width 2.50 m, 2.50 m in height and 3.60 m deep. The construction is a welded steel cage with a light birch veneered plywood interior cladding. The height of the top floor of the cube element is approximately 10.50 m, and the total weight of the sculpture is approximately 2.0 t. For the fearless high person!
Fake magazine covers with your picture. Just upload any picture to create your own cover. Kinda neat. How devious can you get?
today I just have to share this link with 30 of the most creative bookshelves around. Some of them are just crazy, but most of them are inspiring! Above you can see the Dedalo Bookcase designed by Marconato & Zappa.
30 of the Most Creative Bookshelves Designs [freshome.com]
When you I see it, I stared to laugh. The Shower Breasts(GBP 15; about $30) are a fun and saucy shower gel/shampoo dispenser. This naughty nipple-topped pair attaches to your shower wall, each bosom having a compartment for shower gel or shampoo. To dispense, simply squeeze away…
Spiderbear is coming on!! By Alberto Raviglione. :_)..So funny.
Introducing by nubrella; “The Ultimate Weather Protector”. The Hand Free Umbrella($60) is perfect for walking to work while yapping on your phone with one hand and cradling a cup of coffee with the other. But I like its funky style when you wearing in the rain! You just push the button and pull the handle towards you and nubrella will simply “pop” open to protect you.
If you are visiting Copenhagen, Denmark and need a cool place to stay, be sure to check out Fox Hotel in the city center. All of the rooms are designed individually and some of them are really cool and crazy. I like it a lot. Check out a bunch of photos from the different rooms at Freshome:
The Worlds Most Inspiring and Creative Hotel Rooms [freshome.com]
Katharina Ludwig, a Dutch designer has come out with the jewelry made of ice. There are ice earrings, ring and necklaces. You will need to remake the ice every time you wear it. Cool huh, that’s for ladies.
This time is the Amazing Staircase, it is a book-lined staircase how he came up with this stylish space-saving solution.
This is the best collection of desktop wallpapers I have seen in quite a while. You will find something for everyone and the quality is very high. Check it out if you want to refresh your desktop background.
(Really) Stunning Desktop Wallpapers [smashingmagazine.com]
The Yuno PC is a concept design by Jason Farsai that seems like a great idea at first: wrap a touchscreen display around a coffee mug, give it WiFi access so people can read news headlines, stock quotes, weather, etc., but the more I think about it the less practical it seems. I mean, in order to get a better look at the display, you’d most likely have to tilt the cup at somewhat of an angle and risk spillage. The other thing is the fact that it’s touch screen; whenever I go for my cup of Joe I rarely ever grab it by the handle - I hold it by the handle, but that’s a totally different deal. But it is still a great concept design.
Casulo is a box with the base area of a euro-pallet, only 90cm high. Inside: a armoire, a desk incl. container, a height adjustable stool, two more stools, a shelf, a bed with mattress. Two people can lift, carry, and assemble (and then disassemble, when it’s time to move) each piece of furniture within the Casulo in about 10 minutes — it requires no tools for assembly — and every part of the boxy exterior is used, negating any need for extraneous, wasteful packaging. Smart!
Wonderfull work about photography art, with few colors, just red, black and white.
Dialog05 designed this French Connection, bra connect by two usb ports. Unplug and play! For a world without hooks or eye.. I also love another design - USB ring, pic check more.
If you are a new daddy? The Cybex I.GO let’s you carry your baby in a horizontal postion during the first four months, which is what most european pediatricians recommend. Afterwards, parents can transport their child in the I-GO in a vertical position up to an age of approximately 1 year �C while baby is either facing the parent or later enjoying a free view ahead.
Are feeling sleepy in office? Really need some sleep..zzz…zzz… Here’s a solution, take a nap with these eyes stickers. Close your eyes and stick it, sleep for a few minutes and regain your energy. Don’t blame on me if you get caught for that or fired hahahah. For me, I’ll take a cup of coffee whenever I felt sleepy at work. But it is still cool to have those stickers, hehe. Not sure where to get them, maybe you can print some eyes from the net and stick it with tapes.
This mouse car work by the Petya Savova. I love this mouse car design. It is cool that likes the Batman’s car. The mouse car = mouse + car!
don’t really have any issues downloading pictures from my digital camera to my computer. Mostly because I just pop out the SD card and insert it into the card reader in my PC. It eliminates the need for any resource-hogging software. The same goes for my camera phone, there’s just the extra step of inserting the microSD card adapter. Apparently some people still think this is an issue, which is one of the reasons why this tiny USB digital camera was created.
I’m going to guess that there’s some artistic reasoning behind this creation as well. You’ll notice that this thing is tiny, which gives no room for any kind of viewfinder or LCD display. You’re kind of in the dark as to whether your picture is going to turn out. I guess I don’t really get it, as I want to make sure that my pictures are actually going be worth looking at when I download them.
I’ve also got a beef with their little diagram. They clearly show a card reader that plugs into a USB port, then they show that you need a USB extension cable. Why do they think you’ll need one for that and not your little camera? Because it makes their little camera look better, that’s why. Yes, I am probably reading into it just a little much.
VIA [ Yanko Design ]
I have a nasty habit of using my hands instead of a scrap piece of paper for jotting down reminders and to-do lists and while I’ve seen people getting blank to-do list tattoos on their hands and arms before, I don’t think I’ll be following that particular trend anytime soon.
As an alternative here’s a kit that includes 12 temporary to-do list tattoos you can place anywhere on your body. That way if you happen to end up like that guy in Memento with a particularly short-term memory you can at least keep things neat and organized. The kit also includes a skin-safe ink gel pen that easily washes off, but I have no idea how long each temporary tattoo will last.
You are sitting on desk for years with the laptop. Ever thought of using it while you standing up or walking around. It is designed by Henning Kunow. The Lindo is made of fiberglass, just wrap around your waist and it has two sturdy support that stick out in front of you which you can use for putting your laptop, writing desk or food tray. Unfortunately, Lindo is only a concept prototype.
Before and After mug shots of Tracey Gold of Growing Pains, booked for drunk driving in 2004 (The Smoking Gun)
One day, photographer David Friedman of Ironic Sans got an idea: take a celebrity mug shots and turn it into glamour shots!
Here are a few examples: Link
London based, award winning Spiros Politis shoot it so good.
Print post production / retouching studio, Saddington & Baynes creates picture perfection.
Also perfect for you to check it and get impressed.
This is the dress (and furniture) campaign for the Salvation Army Second Hand Shop in Norway: See My Dress - Selling Used Stuff the Right Way!
This manual of hand shadow puppetry (get it? Oh, I love me an atrocious pun) is from a 1950s activity book. Found at Christopher Goodwin’s blog Trashball
Here’s a video from PhotoshopSurgeon is going to show you how they transform a pretty girl to a manly man. If you think that this girl is lovely or beautiful, please don’t watch the video, as, she is going to be a guy at the end. Video after the jump.
Yeah, after the photoshoped she does looks like a guy but there are something missing.
Pretty Girl TRANSFORMED Into A Rugged Man - Watch a funny movie here
As they say: “Cake Factory doesn’t have a house style, we have standards.”
Truly, there’s a high-end showcase of photographs by the photographers represented by Cake Factory
Impressive!
This looks like an illustration, but it’s a photo from the Japan HDR Flickr Photo Pool. High Dynamic Range Imaging is a set of techniques that allows a far greater dynamic range of exposures than normal digital imaging techniques.
The intention of High Dynamic Range imaging is to accurately represent the wide range of intensity levels found in real scenes ranging from direct sunlight to the deepest shadows.
The Human Calendar is a rather unique idea.
To show the days and dates, people hold placards with the correct information. To show what day it actually is, everyone looks in one direction: the current date.
Ludovic Prigent, aka iLK from Paris put online his new site today. Fresh colors, fresh works. Must see !
Ask people to hold a record cover over their own face and send a photo.
The result: an hilarious collection
Original from Malaysia and now with base in Portland, OR Undoboy brings his very particular and colorful graphics all over the place, he is the one behind of the Super Bastard Toy product line and you can get his diverse Graphic Sets to decorate your walls.
I agree, “Design brings happiness” as he says.
German designer Wir Gestalten created this wall-hanging paper folder called “Neuer Ordner” (New Folder) shaped like a desktop folder on your computer! Link
There is something about a “hive mind” that I like. Take a look here to see what I mean.
To see what true Photoshop masters can do with a lot of time and even more motivation, check out the winners of the third round of Crestock’s Photoshop Contest.
The prize was a MacBook Pro, and the source material was rather varied, so the results are simply astounding.
Makes me want to brush up on my lasso skills…
The Powerblock is a modern sculptural hidden powerstrip or recharging station. It kinda looks like a mouse made a Geodesic dome for his entrance.. Designed by Jérôme LOPÉ & Johann AUMAITRE
If you are not a stickler for appearances, this project might be right up your alley. Cool hi-fi speaker(s) for your laptop. Nice little how to.
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Photographer and designer Trevor Morris has updated his terrific Photoshop keyboard shortcut cheatsheets for Adobe Photoshop CS3. Download this handy PDF cheatsheet, print it out, and keep it near your computer:
London based designer Anthony Voz created this concept ashtray which would measure the ash in its base to guesstimate just how many minutes, days, weeks, and years you shave away with every puff.
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