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Up-cycling!

Just found mitz takahashi. They use all reclaimed and recycled wood for their products. Beautiful mid-century stuff.

posted: October 2nd, 2011

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Arduino Controlled Motion Detector

Really cool installation project project by Nils Voelker that inflates and deflates plastic bags at random until someone approaches, then it does the inflating/deflating based on the persons movement!

posted: May 14th, 2011

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Animal Portraits

Morten Koldby does a series of portraits … of animals.

posted: March 30th, 2011

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Written Portaits

Van Wanted Etcetera created the campaigns, which show the Different faces behind the (auto) biographies.

posted: March 20th, 2011

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•DAN MOUNTFORD // EMPIRICΛL ENDEΛVOURS•’s

Dan Mountford makes incredible images … in camera! He gets some really amazing textures that you wouldn’t normally see, check out his Flickr stream for more.

posted: February 1st, 2011

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Hyperreal

Above is an oil painting based on a high definition photo. It’s part of new trend taking place where artists are either reproducing digital images perfectly or reproducing the inherent flaws that can occur.

posted: December 19th, 2010

More music and Beer!

I wonder if they got this idea while they were drinking…

posted: December 9th, 2010

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Found drug bags

Interesting photography of the design of drug bags found in London, and the south east UK.

posted: November 9th, 2010

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Two more things that should always be put together!

I never thought I’d see the day where xylophones and beer come together in the most perfect union! Meet the six pack that doubles as an instrument, buy two and you get the full octave!

posted: October 21st, 2010

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Well designed house!

This is one of the most beautifully designed houses I have ever seen, it’s in Lithuania and belongs to a farmer and a design student.

posted: September 27th, 2010

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Moog and Volkswagen collaborate on new kind of car!

This synth / car  is basically two of my favorite things combined, it’s the future.

posted: September 15th, 2010

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The Reason I like Photography

This is an absolutely stunning example of some great time lapse photography…

posted: August 31st, 2010

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Turntable design!

I have no idea what this site says, but I do really like the design of this new turntable coming october 1st from Denon.

posted: August 26th, 2010

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Matthew Dear to sell album in new format

Matthew Dear and his label have devised a new way to sell music…

posted: August 2nd, 2010

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Dutch Air Defense.

Acoustic listening devices developed for the Dutch army as part of air defense systems research between World Wars 1 and 2.

posted: July 23rd, 2010

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Paper Art by Jeff Nishinaka

This is by far the most intricate and delicate art work I have ever seen. The linked site goes so far as to call him: “The Paper Genius”  and I fully agree!

posted: July 18th, 2010

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Furry Puppet Studio

Go to this site, scroll down and watch the video that proves being into puppets is a lot of work!

posted: July 13th, 2010

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I Officially have a favorite sculptor!

…and his name is Michael T. Rea. His medium is most often wood, and his sculptures are over the top…have a look.

posted: July 12th, 2010

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Crossroads(what to do) video installation

Here as in interesting video installation by an artist named Garvin Nolte using 25 GPS systems.

posted: July 7th, 2010

Going to see Flaming Lips on Thursday

If you haven’t seen any videos of their 2010 set, watch this…it looks incredible!

posted: July 7th, 2010

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Electronic Musician Rejoice!

Wow! Ever have a tangle of cables that leave you beyond frustrated? Now you don’t have to be! (wow that totally sounded like an info-mercial).

posted: July 5th, 2010

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Fair coverage of G20 in Toronto

Currently now on TVO, Steve Paikin’s show The Agenda is focusing on the events of this past weekend in Toronto…here’s the live stream.

posted: June 29th, 2010

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Vuvuzela on Google maps now too!

Looks like Google is getting in on the Vuvuzela fad too, look at their street view icon!

posted: June 25th, 2010

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Great new Music app/site for Chrome!

Just found this really great new app called extensionFM, all you do is go to your favorite music site and it downloads all the songs!

posted: June 24th, 2010

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updated Flickr UI…Finally!

Wow Flickr has finally updated their UI and added much needed new features! I have waited a long time for the scrollable photostream.

posted: June 24th, 2010

Pavement on Toronto Island

I went to this concert last weekend, I can honestly say it was one of the best concerts of my life…

posted: June 24th, 2010

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Rgb Lamp!

I saw this lamp while reading the KLM in flight magazine. I liked it so much I thought I would share it here.

posted: April 19th, 2010