12/26/10

CardSharp Folding Credit Card Knife






Iain Sinclair's CardSharp Credit Card Folding Knife (£15) is a svelte knife and folds into a card to fit in your wallet. It weighs just 13 grams, is only 2mm thick and features a stainless steel blade with a healthy 65mm cutting edge and a short serrated edge on the opposite side. When folded, a built-in sheath prevents you from accidentally touching the sharp blade. Check out the video, you can see how it does fold/unfold. It will start shipping from January for £15($23) and and can be pre-ordered.

Music video: Tame Impala - Expectation


Tame Impala - Expectation from Modular People on Vimeo.

Nicholas Was… by Neil Gaiman (Animated Version)


39 Degrees North: Christmas Card 2010 from 39 Degrees North on Vimeo.

Neil Gaiman’s creepy Christmas poem “Nicholas Was…” Here is a wonderful animated version.

A Coat to Help Detroit's Homeless

The idea seems simple enough: Design a product that keeps the wind out and heat in. How about an inexpensive jacket that quickly turns into a warm sleeping bag? Design student Veronika Scott  has designed a coat which could allow homeless people to stay warm, but also preserve their dignity. She designed what's essentially a wearable sleeping bag, which she named the Elements S[urvival] coat.

German university installs gigantic slides


A gigantic (4 story high) slide in the middle of the Technical University of Munich!

Endless jumping into the pool

12/15/10

Nas & Damian Marley - Patience

Lykke Li- Get Some

Tron Inspired Skatecycle


The Custom Tron Legacy skatecycle was designed by Alon Karpman at Brooklyn Workshop to celebrate the Tron craze that is about to invade the world, and coming launch of the new Tron film. It uses colors and glow in the dark elements to re-create the Tron light cycle effects. The Freerider Skate cycle is a hubless two wheeled self propelled skate. Check out the new Tron Skatecycle in action.

Birdsnest Eggcup


Sweetest Birdsnest Eggcup($7) by Studio Gijs.

Butterfly

Bullshit Quotes

“People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all. People talk about how great love is, but that's bullshit. Love hurts. Feelings are disturbing. People are taught that pain is evil and dangerous. How can they deal with love if they're afraid to feel? Pain is meant to wake us up. People try to hide their pain. But they're wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It's all in how you carry it. That's what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you're letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
Jim Morrison (American Poet and Singer. Member of the American band The Doors and one of rock music's mythic figures. 1943-1971)

Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
Ernest Hemingway (American novelist and short-story writer, Won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, 1899-1961)

“The deadliest bullshit is odorless and transparent”
William Gibson quotes (American writer of science fiction, b.1948)

“Dear 'The Kids', Don't waste your precious holiday time sittin arround all this bullshit x lies, GO FUCK SHIT UP!! Lots 'O' Love. P.S. Happy whatever!”
 
 Lars Ulrich quotes (American heavy metal Drummer (Metallica), b.1963)

“Facts an' facts, an' t'ings an t'ings: dem's all a lotta fockin' bullshit. Hear me! Dere is no truth but de one truth, an' that is the truth of Jah Rastafari.”
 Bob Marley quotes (Jamaican Singer, Composer and Guitarist. 1945-1981)

I pray when I'm in trouble or when I'm happy. When I feel any sort of extreme. I pray when I feel so great that I'll think I need to check with myself and recognize how good life is. But when it seems there's so much bullshit around, it's important to remind myself of the things I have to be grateful for. Madonna



12/9/10

HAKUCHI MANGA ILLUSTRATIONS

 A mix of Japanese traditions and modern style, Shohei Otomo (Hakuchi) manga illustrations are amazing!






osh-kosh live jungle turntablism @ jungle syndicate (03-12-2010)

 JIGSORE TASTER 4 - osh-kosh live jungle turntablism @ jungle syndicate (03-12-2010) - FREE DOWNLOAD by JIGSORE SOUND!

Tracklist (in only 40 mins):
1.remarc - bad no bloodclart
2.fusion and mark x - truth over falsehood
3.shitmat - whitelable unity
4.remarc - legalise
5.krome and time - the licence
6.johnny jungle - killa sound (pascals remix)
7.salt fish & ackee - the gunman
8.omni trio - (surprize)
9.dj ss - black v.i.p mix
10.substance - rude girls
11.stivs and junglefever - fat ting
12.warped dynamics - rid da enemie (gunshot mix)
13.archangel - wings of the morning
14.rygin - bust outta dis
15.16armedjack - mash up the place
16.general malice ?
17.rygin - destroy dem
18.b-boy 3000 - ?
19.walkingstick - bawling for soundclash
20.+2h-2n - requiem for a crime
21.craveone - oridinal sound
22.walkingstick motivation
23.dj c - babylon a fall mix
24.shitmat - more fire
25.square pusher - full rinse (feat mc twin tub)
26.venetian snares - sajtban

Bjork x Nick Knight – To Lee, With Love, Nick (Alexander McQueen Tribute)


Fashion photographer Nick Knight has released a video in commemoration of late designer Alexander McQueen’s impressive, inspirational body of work, featuring a soundtrack by Bjork, another of McQueen’s admirers. Like McQueen’s clothes, Bjork’s score presents a compelling paradox of strength and fragility – decidedly minor horn chords back up the singer’s voice as it grows in power and certainty, complimenting Knight’s stunning visuals. It’s an incredibly moving song, appropriate for such a moving short film. Even if you don’t know much about McQueen, it’s worth a watch, and definitely a listen.

Holiday Wreath For Geeks

Craft a wreath out of obsolete computer junk.

Edward Horsford - When the Pin Hits the Balloon

Edward Horsford's High-speed photography." Caught on camera at an incredible 1/40,000ths of a second these photos show the spectacular moment water balloons pop - at speeds normally too quick to see."



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....
source

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)