FEATUREDAston Martin's One-77 ~ take a look at some of the first pics, only 77 made and already sold out... £1.2m pricetag... and i need a NOTCOT reader to go visit the factory and take pics of this beauty for us! Up for the challenge?
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FEATUREDFreshly back from the Paper Magazine 24 Hour Department Store ~ there are 24 bands in 24 hours, and check out my top three products to go snatch up! Also lots of pics in the gallery...
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There is just something wonderful about propping my door open with a life size gold bar. ~ Gold Doorstop by Arik Levy
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Samsonite's Black Label Collection by Alexander McQueen Goes silver. The hardside "rib cage' case and the travel case in croc texture are both launched in a special silver finish this month. Wild.
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Dries Van Noten will have the Palais Royal windows of the Minister of Culture until mid-December - After Martin Margelia, Dries exhibit on one of the most prestigious Parisian windows.
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Some amazing shots of Obama and his family watching the election results at home. It must have been really something to be in that room when the results came in.
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The Chapel of St. Loup by Danilo Mondada in Pompaples, Switzerland - love the accordion form.
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Vogue resorted to acclaimed director Tim Burton among others, to shoot an homage to beloved children's author Roald Dahl
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Loving the bent wire handles of Marita Kohl's porcelain paperclay vessels.
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Leading digital and interactive agency Catalyst Studios has released its latest spot, "Art Interacts" as part of the Art for All campaign created for Target.
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MTV and VIVA collaborated with PETA Germany to raise awareness of abused animals in captivity. Hosts and VJs from the music channels stripped naked and posed as animals in body paint.
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9 Bunk Beds that would have made your childhood happier.
who knew bunk beds could be this cool?
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Hand-blown glass menorah in rainbow web motif. 6.5" x 14". Created by Bandhu Dunham of Salusa Glassworks. Beautiful! And those shadows... wow.
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Microsoft viral with a skydiving mouse and some biker guys ~ "expect more from your mouse"
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Ninja cats fighting on TV ad for new Toyota Corolla.
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The Mensa table by Lazerian is so gorgeous. The table is constructed from birch plywood modules that form a beautiful, structural base.
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Eco-friendly aluminum packaging now seen in wines from Volute.
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Gorgeous illustrations by Joe Wilson. This particular one was done as a t-shirt pattern for Topshop’s Illustreight Capsule collection.
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Kaws presented last night an amazing life size version of his Chum character toy.
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The Madrid House by A-Cero Architects is made up of a series of shifting volumes.
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Awesome graphic of what the last 12 presidents did in their first 100 days in office.
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The XVI Architecture Biennale pavilion by Felipe Assadi features a skin mad eout of reusable materials.
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Sweet new sponges by 5.5 designers, released in celebration of Scotch-Brite's 50th anniversary. The sponges come in a sponge house. Buyable soon!
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buzzispace, awesome alternative to boring office dividers
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FEATUREDOn unexpected collaborations - Threadless Select teams up with RISD/John Maeda!!! Here's a sneak peek at the 4 upcoming shirt designs from RISD profs...
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60’s & 70’s was an exciting time for car design, with the introduction of the supercar.
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Paper Magazine's 24 Hour Dept Store is back! And launching tonight at 6 ~ our favorites like A+R, Citizen Citizen, and StrangeCo will all be present!
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Images from the coronation of Bhutan's new king, currently the youngest monarch in the world.
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A new level of paper art, a fashion toy made from a lot of variation of paper. With a story and a graphic novel coming up.
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"Playing with Myself" - beautiful new works in oil from London based artist Sonia Blair. A personal exploration of childhood fables.
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when reading a nytimes article on the suffering economy in china, i spotted this shot of piles of santa snoopys. one looks like it might be escaping!
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suddenly, its real! makes an awesome wood yoyo ~ "They are made with various sustainably harvested woods from our own tiny forest! The strings are 100% cotton, professional Yo Yo strings!"
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An crop from a poster by Seblester showing 100 Contemporary Boomerang Designs ~ it's absolutely fascinating (click the grey/white square in the photo nav)
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I too want a scarf made of "trillions of tiny carbon nanotubes, arranged in a pseudo-random lattice to provide softness and heat retention similar to angora, but with a strength and density similar to kevlar" grown on space bunnies the size of lions.
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I see the devil in my sleep, a comic by Becky Cloonan (American Virgin, etc.)
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Paris Photo 2008, which brings together some one hundred galleries and publishers from around the world, will coincide with Paris Photography Month, making the City of Lights the international epicentre of art photography.
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More 700 newspaper front pages from all over the world, the day after Barack Obama was elected.
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Allison Sommers is a stellar illustrator who puts her dark imaginings into the world for the rest of us to enjoy (albeit slack-jawed and saucer-eyed at their incredible detail).
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Obama's new site Change.gov has finally launched! "Throughout the Presidential Transition Project, this website will be your source for the latest news, events, and announcements so that you can follow the setting up of the Obama Administration."
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Vogue Italia Does Fall Florals With Jessica Stam
Jessica Stam Shot by Solve Sundsbø for Vogue Italia
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This amazing mousetrap of a water pipe plays music when it rains.
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Happy to have Obama for President ? Get your free Obama icon here !
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VIDEOLittleBIGPlanet TV Ad "JANICE PLANET" [Editor's Note: Haha ~ check out some of the others as well!]
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Environmental art in Finland by Jonna Pohjalainen.
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Hammacher Schlemmer will make a jigsaw puzzle out of any New York Times cover, from 1888 to the present.
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All you need is a picture of a key to instantly make a duplicate of that key. UCSD - "Keys Can be Copied From Afar, Jacobs School Computer Scientists Show"
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Very cool reinterpretation of little red riding hood from Canadian illustrator Jerry Cai.
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The "Lean-On" self-standing closet rod, designed by Peter Van de Water for Cascando ~ gorgeously simple ~ also take a look as cascando's other minimalist hanging racks
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promo video for award winning sound design studio
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Brille Brille showreel 2008 : stunning live visuals and VJing.
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Exclusive interview of french body sprayer RéELBenjam1, one of the first artist in this art.
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Zakee Shariff has some great illustration work, both in textiles and in print.
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The Moment: Nice short film by Verena Fels and Csaba Letay.
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Filthy Boy is the ultimate line of bath and body products geared towards the locker room jock.
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FEATUREDMassive Toy Unboxing! Check out a first look at the new James Jarvis Amos KING KEN minis (even the secret colorway!) ~ and the new Toki Doki Captain Coco (and pinapple grenade sidekick)
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The Space Invaders get Japan-imated. Apparently, they're here to be our friends now.
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Love this dreamlike pastel painting by Jacek Yerka.
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Supakitch and Koralie are two street artists from France who have joined together as a power duo in their craft. Both heavily influenced by Japanese art, their work showcases images of geishas, dragons and other elements of the culture.
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A Toile de Jouy Shoes pillow by Anne Hubert.
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Fun little bottle for Yaoki sake - Yaoki comes from the Japanese proverb "Nana korobi yaoki", the apparent literal translation meaning "Stand up on the eighth attempt after falling seven times" or "Never give up!" The shape of the bottle reinforces this idea.
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The women´s health centre in Burkina Faso is much more than just a building, playing an active role on fighting the Female Genital Mutilation. This building by FARE studio was awarded at the World Architecture Festival in the Health category.
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Check out the very amazing winning photographs from the Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2008 awards.
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Modern fashion umbrella inspired from Japan. Clear rain umbrella.
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Dan Tobin Smith and Kilimanjaro magazine do terrible things to teddy bears in the magazine's new issue – as this amazing film reveals.
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VIDEOA video my creative partner and I made simply for fun, which ended up getting us both jobs. This is part 2 of 2. We did the entire thing stop motion (nearly 7,000 frames) and wrote and sang to the song in it.
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A series of Papertoys Troop made to celebrate the 10th personal custom of Lemi the Space Wanderer, and to mark the first 100.000 visitors of Thunderpanda.com . The toys released one by one each day, starting today.
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The Shed ~ coat rack, keyring holder, random paper/mail/mitten holder... adorable multipurpose design by Domesticity
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A chilean girl makes these stylish boots using recycled plastic bags.
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I am digging this A Typical Day poster by Effektive Design. The red indicates time spent sleeping, and black time spent awake.
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Fun retro style prints from Lab Partners' Hunt and Gather show.
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A slick collection of black and white Quantum of Solace images by London photographer, Kwame Busia.
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This is a Norwegian girl, who broke up with her boyfriend and decided to redo her apartment in such a way she would never be "allowed" to by a boyfriend. Black! I love it though!!!!
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Stadtnomaden's Piepschau bird house is adorable! And it can be taken apart and dispatched in an A4 box
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Dutch Design studio, gewoon guus, schenkan - fascinating carafe i can't seem to take my eyes off of it ~ what an interesting juxtaposition of materials!
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Melbourne based designer homewares brand MOZI has just launched Christmas 2008 products, screen printed teatowels, felt decorations, body bars, soaps, candles, aprons.... So much to buy!
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Aluminum rims for your Bugaboo. This could be the coolest Bugaboo upgrade yet.
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Bowl Championship Series by Fox Sports Design and Method Labs...
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Holiday Gift Tags with an edge. My favorite: "I made this myself. In China."
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Lovely work done by Tjep in a public space in Holland, the Amstel Train Station... see also www.lsworks.eu
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Creative idea to spread a school of meditation.
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Installation art, created by David Bowen based on the movement of flies.
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TENOVER6 opened its doors to L.A. shoppers in the beginning of August 2008 with beautifully curated displays of fashion forward accessories and fashion gadgets...
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aastrial house by kwk promos, amazing driveway goes under the house
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Completely beautiful and utterly bizarre--wooden necklaces by Norwegian artist Liv Blåvarp
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Alga Science is a series of 14 edutainment toys from Swedish Alga. The toys teach how weather, wind, chemistry, water and electricity works. And when the toys are but together you get a working product, such as a solar music box!
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Could the WiFi Multipass MintPad Mini Tablet with 1.3MP webcam be the ultimate in pocket gadgets? Allowing internet browsing and messaging, as well as offering full PMP cababilities, we think so.
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Hospitalis | you to a restaurant that is' dying of hunger '.
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Bay Area painter Yvette Molina creates work that is both a celebration of nature as well as an invitation to consider its fragility.
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Designer Manish Arora showed this “visible human” outfit with Swarovski crystals” at the Swarovski Runway Rocks fashion show during London Jewellery Week. Surprise by the bones on clothes.
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Li Wei is a Chinese photographer who creates crazy, gravity-defying images - without digital manipulation! He apparently uses mirrors, wires and scaffolding to create his work.
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A battle between Italian papercrafter PHIL and the Japanese papercrafter Shin Tanaka has started with this one email Shin sent to all PHIL’s subscribers.
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LEGO 3D runway from Fashion Designer Jean Charles de Castelbajac - So cool !
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Beautifully designed ad for UNICEF, from the ad agency Luminus Creative out of Zagreb, Croatia and art directors Mislav Vidovic and Tonci Klaric.
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FEATUREDOn awesome box design ~ the way the Jurlique Biodynamic Beauty Serum literally unfolds and opens itself, presenting the gorgeous frosted glass bottle to you.... such a nice unboxing experience! See pics of the line, and box scans!
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Founded in 2003 by product designer/carpenter René Mueller and forester Nina Griesshammer, Woodloops strives to “covey our original views to common behaviors, weaving known circumstances into new and curious concepts”.
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illustrator Ryan Chapman's simple twist on Andy Warhols classic banana.
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Guallart Architects created Microcostas Vinaròs out of hexagonal wood platforms as a series of micro coasts, forming islands on the beach
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100 hand painted chairs, which show moods, emotions, destinies and ways of human life. There is a movie made with stop animation about one hundred chairs in stroll through my city and the book “100lica stolica”
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The Monstera Pendant by Flame, must cast some great shadows...
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Interview with Duty Gorn, one of the most important contemporary artist in Milan. His works are becoming well-known for interior design projects.
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Israeli Military Photo/camera Bags ~ wow ~ KATA's 3N1-20 Sling Bag for photography gear ~ so awesome, Core77 has a nice write up on it!
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Amazing jewelry by Anthony Roussel, who laser cuts and then layers sculptural jewelry pieces.
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The Experimental Pavilion, pushes the limits of ultra high-performance concrete. The thinness and forms achieved contradict the heaviness and thickness that we think concrete is limited to.
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Artist Brian Stauffer’s “A Very Long Tunnel” visually sums up this momentous week in American history.
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FEATUREDMore Mobile - Portable Architecture for Today ~ take a peek inside this awesome new book filled with the architectural solutions for us nomads ~ shipping container building lovers will love this one!
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Here is preview of Turn, Italy's big annual art week, when the Luci D’Artista festival, the Turin Triennale, and the Artissima art fair all have their debuts. Includes works by Rebecca Horn and Olafur Eliasson.
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Malmö Streets Project is a sweden group of artists that replaced the usual grey street tiles for beautiful and inspiring images.
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This "pipe cabinet" comes from woodworker Palo Samko. The four circular drawers are designed to accomodate differently sized pipes.
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Liquid Cardboard is an eco-friendly material developed by cardboarddesign, with a honeycomb cell shape that makes it durable and lightweight. Each piece can be molded into a variety of designs to create vases, bowls, votive holders...
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Under New management! Obama 2008! Time to CHANGE your shirt! by the Print Liberation.
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FEATUREDBoarding Pass Wines ~ they really do jump right off the shelf... if you're a packaging junkie! The fonts and graphics were too fun not to buy and take pics of!
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Coöp designed a logo for 1:1 Architects. The logo incorporates a 3-D element and is meant to represent the process of architecture. The placement of the design in different settings emphasizes the human approach taken by 1:1 Architects.
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A lovely short by amazing animator Kat Morris.
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Love Joonhuyn Kim's take on the light bulb - the Flat Bulb is 1/3 the size of a regular bulb. [Editor's Note: their site seems to be over their bandwidth limit!!!]
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CNN's Jessica Yellin goes holographic to chat with Wolf Blitzer in New York, from Chicago.
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Fatih Baltas' variation on the traditional Rock Paper Scissors game.
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Stop Motion Day Video by Micah Spear - with Notcot browsing inside!
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Coalfinger ~ an animated bond-like campaign by Greenpeace - Along with his dopey sidekick Dr. Anthracite, Coalfinger plans to cover the world in coal-fired power stations and destroy the climate in Operation Browncloud.
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ENESS takes a regular whiteboard, regular markers and plays PONG irregularly.
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morfai "selections" Experiments with illustration. [Editor's Note: brilliant! you have to click and see it in action for sure]
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Body Navigation is an impressive reactive floor projection designed for a dance performance. Collaboration between Ole Kristensen, Jonas Jongejan, choreographer Tina Tarpgaard, and the Recoil Performance Group.
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Loving Ron English's new KISS inspired show at the Shooting Gallery. Old masters reborn!
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Obamabats ~ for when you're speechless and can't type words.... congrats to our 44th president ~ Barack Obama!
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Flexible Faucet from Paini - Hybrid is LED illuminated
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An amazing house by KWK Promes in Poland. A white volume over stone walls create a spectacular inner space.
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Klaus Staudt is an internationally received artist who creates geometric abstractions with the focus on creating a sense of geometrical systematic thinking, within the constructivist movement.
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Brian Jurgen created this collection of totemic representations of Native culture in Canada using iconic Michael Jordan athletic footwear to express and explore what he refers to his concepts as "Prototypes for New Understanding". This is #16
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These sneakers are dope. Fully made out of reflective swiss fabric. These are dropping this Thursday in a limited edition of 60 pairs at the DDCLAB flagship Soho store in NY. Try to make a flash picture of these....
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VIDEOChildren of the Video Gaming Generation take their Halloween costume to the next level! Check out Video of a homemade chicken walking Mech costume. Too Cool/Too Cute!
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Susie Mendive of SUM knows just how to add a little film noir feel to a bathroom.
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Dark Daze shoots dramatic and gaudy scenes in a way that would make David LaChapelle jealous. Nice set with DeadDeadDead down in Brighton
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Kazimir Malevich's "Suprematist Composition" (1916), sold for $60,002,500 at Sotheby's last night. Check out other works from the auction that brought in a total of $223,812,500 and included Edvard Munch’s "Vampire."
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Paul Smith teams up with Lomography ~ for this adorable limited edition fisheye camera!
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