11/27/10

World’s cheapest car goes Bling Bling

Tata Nano, the world’s cheapest car from India, is going to get a gold make over. Goldplus is celebrating 5,000 years of Indian jewelery by decorating the small wonder. After a design contest, they have shortlisted three designs, and you can vote for your favorite design and ultimately see the winner grace the Indian roads.


4TH AMENDMENT UNDERCLOTHES



"4TH AMENDMENT UNDERCLOTHES 
Now there's a way to protest those intrusive TSA X-ray scanners in Phoenix, Baltimore, LAX and JFK without saying a word. 
4th Amendment Metallic ink-printed undershirts and underwear. 
Assert your rights without saying a word."

Playboy Portable Hard Drive has 250GB and Vintage Issues

Playboy has released a 250GB drive for $300 , which has every single issue of Playboy, from vintage 1953 girls to present day.

11/24/10

LTJ Bukem & MC Conrad - A Way of Life

Mandala

In tibetan Buddhism the Kalachakra Mandala is a cosmographic representation of the inner, outer, and alternative dimensions of reality. 

The Body Mandala is surrounded by crescent-shaped areas, which are the offering grounds. 

Next follow circles which represent the elements: earth (yellow), water (white), fire (pink/red), wind (gray/black) and space (green). 
The outermost circle is the "Great Protective Circle", "Mountain of Flames" or "Circle of Wisdom" which represents the wisdom element. 

The differently colored areas represent the five Wisdoms of the Buddha in the form of a rainbow.

Picture taken from a Kalachakra Mandala tanka in Kathmandu....
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Nature

By ~manusia-no-31

Stealing a Sheep from a Moving Truck!!!


This video shows a man in Turkey jumping out of a motorcycle’s sidecar and onto a moving truck.

Pac Man Cookie Cutters



These officially licensed Pac Man Cookie Cutters from suck for Pac-Man's 30th anniversary. Comes in a pack of 4 (one Pac Man and three ghosts). Price £12.00.

Candy is Porn

by BehindtG.

11/18/10

Villa Nefkens by Mecanoo Architects




Mecanoo Architects created this amazing house for the Nefkens family in the Wageningen municipality of the Netherlands.

The Orca PowerStrap

The Orca PowerStrap is a battery bracelet that provides emergency power for your gadgets. You can connect it to your iPhone or other gadgets via a USB power port. And it has four LED shows how much battery capacity is left. You can charge up the PowerStrap itself via a USB port.

Fluid Dress


Fluid Dress from Charlie Bucket on Vimeo.

It's 600 ft. of knitted tubing powered by a pump. By Casual Profanity.

Danny MacAskill - "Way Back Home" - NEW street trials riding short film


Way Back Home is the incredible new riding clip from Danny MacAskill, it follows him on a journey from Edinburgh back to his hometown Dunvegan, in the Isle of Skye. Extremely surprising!

11/10/10

Beautiful Japanese Tattoos







There are so many different terms for tattoo in Japanese, such as Irezumi, Horimono, Yobori, Kakushibori…
 Irezumi (入れ墨, 入墨, 紋身, 刺花, 剳青, 黥 or 刺青) is a Japanese word that refers to the insertion of ink under the skin to leave a permanent, usually decorative mark; a form of tattooing.
The word can be written in several ways, each with slightly different connotations. The most common way of writing irezumi is with the Chinese characters 入れ墨 or 入墨, literally meaning to "insertink". The characters 紋身 (also pronounced bunshin) suggest "decorating the body". 剳青 is more esoteric, being written with the characters for "stay" or "remain" and "blue" or "green", and probably refers to the appearance of the main shading ink under the skin. 黥 (meaning "tattooing") is rarely used, and the characters 刺青 combine the meanings "pierce", "stab", or "prick", and "blue" or "green", referring to the traditional Japanese method of tattooing by hand. (wiki)

Condom Dresses by Adriana Bertini

Brazilian artist Adriana Bertini took thousands of quality-control-rejected condoms and turned them into dresses and skirts! These colorful clothes were shown at the "Dress Up Against AIDS: Condom Couture," an exhibition at UCLA’s Fowler Museum.

11/9/10

Molo Design´s Portable Walls

Molo Design’s range of softwalls is basically a portable wall, which allows you to create intimate spaces within a room. The free-standing flexible structure acts as a partition, which you can rearrange at ease as well as expand or contract to (almost) any possible size. Not only that, it’s also 100% recyclable and comes in a range of neutral colours, or translucent or with in-build LED lights.

Röyksopp 'The Drug' Official video


Another mesmerising and creepy video from Norwegian producers Royksopp (aka Torbjorn Brundtland and Svein Berge), this one taken from their new album Senior.

Coco Rosie - Gallows


COCOROSIE - GALLOWS (OFFICIAL VIDEO) from Emma Freeman on Vimeo.

New creepy Coco Rosie video for their typically black and cryptic track Gallows. It was created by Tropfest winning director, Melbourne-based Emma Freeman.

Cloud Chair

Design by Lisa Widén. Looks really comfy! 
A soft reclining chair that adapts to the user's body. Cloud slides on its hidden curved rail to provide a comfortable sitting position... Price $ 950.

Diamond Ring Mug

The Diamond Ring Mug from uptoyoutoronto for $18 CAD.

Wheel number by Ethan Law


wheel number from E and M-P on Vimeo.

11/8/10

Gary Hecker, Veteran Foley Artist


SoundWorks Collection: Gary Hecker, Veteran Foley Artist from Michael Coleman on Vimeo.

Foley Artist Gary Hecker shares his amazing tips and tricks of "make sounds" in movie!
From "The Empire Strikes Back" to "Robin Hood", award-winning Foley artist Gary Hecker of Todd-AO says it takes “timing and a huge creative mind” to be the man behind the sound. Here, he shares tips and tricks he’s learned during a career that has spanned more than 200 films.

11/3/10

Bang! Lights Out!


"Bang! Lights Out!" from Japanese design studio bitplay INC. (Jack Chang + Josh Cheng).
To operate simply 'shoot the lights out'.
Point the accompanying gun (remote) at the lamp and it turns the light off, the lampshade knocks to an angle, showing its been hit.

"Love, Love" by Julien Berthier


This ship isn't sinking. It's "Love, Love" by Julien Berthier, a boat that's been modified to appear as though it's capsizing. The ship was originally a 6.5 meter yacht that was sliced in half and outfitted with a new keel which keeps it upright at all times. Apparently it's actually seaworthy, and he has toured it around Europe. Watch the video of it in action below. Berthier writes:
"Love-love is the permanent and mobile image of a wrecked ship that has become a functional and safe leisure object. "

Love Love from julien berthier on Vimeo.