Art For Geeks: Star Wars Mosaic Last Supper

A big, big time Star Wars fan spent two weeks creating a mosaic version of Eric Dechamps‘ Star Wars themed last supper painting — and he created it completely from frames of the movies. Avinash Arora created the image from 69,000 images, or what he said amounted to one of every 20 frames from the [...more]

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Jan 28 2010
By Nick Upton

Photoshop Phun: The Inventions of The Future

I’m a sucker for Photoshop contests not just because of some of the wacky images that people come up with, but because sometimes those images wind up being pretty good ideas. Sure, a lot of Photoshop contest entrant focus on just being goofy, but every now and again somebody whips something up that’s a legitimately [...more]

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Jan 26 2010
By J. Matthew Zoss

LEDs Turn Funky Foam Into Faux Fancy Couch

What looks like a common block of foam becomes — cue dramatic music — a light-up Chesterfield! It’s a brilliant design idea to take something swirling, cozy and classic and essentially jam it into something square, illuminating and incredibly modern. It looks cheap and straight forward, but as the couch is a design concept, [...more]

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Jan 22 2010
By Nick Upton

Bad Designomaly: Check Out These Awful Photoshop Smoke Effects!

Design website SixRevisions, which usually provides good design advice, has taken a vacation from that and published an article on the merits of smoke lettering. You can download the brushes here, but be warned – all smoke effects should be used is for irony purposes only. For example, my entry to the smoke lettering game, which [...more]

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Jan 22 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Enjoy This Parade Of Terrible Robots!

The aptly titled blog Fun Gags has collected an album of peoples terrible homemade robot costumes. Lord knows what dark inspiration set upon their editors, but bless their hearts – these photos are some of the best/worst things I’ve seen on the internet in a while. Check out my cardboard friend to the left, who looks [...more]

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Jan 21 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Jeep Produced Techno Again Proves Techno’s Awfulness

Techno music: History’s Greatest Lie. A series of annoying clicks and beeps designed to elicit pleasure from shut ins, techno is  the worst thing to happen to music since Buddy Hollies, Richard Valence and The Biggest Boppo all got into that train fight and died. Nah, I’m just messin’ with you, techno’s fine. And this techno [...more]

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Jan 19 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Google Grabs Graffiti and Goes Global

You might think of graffiti as a strictly a local art form. After all, graffiti artists are painting on the sides of neighborhood buildings. It’s impractical to tear down a brick wall and send it on a tour of art galleries. (Then again, size hasn’t stopped Jeff Koons‘ work from getting around.) Thanks [...more]

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Jan 19 2010
By Geoffrey Golden

Blob House Makes Pre-Fab Living Pretty

The Blob House from dvmA is a phenomenal exercise in minimalist architecture. Built on wood with polyester molding, the Blob House is visually stunning, but not obtrusive — perfectly designed to sit in the yard as a guest house or garden fort. It’s equipped with a bathroom, a shower, a bed (hidden among the [...more]

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Jan 17 2010
By Nick Upton

World’s Largest Aquarium Made For World’s Largest Bachelor Pad

Ah, “the world’s largest.” Three simple words that set men’s hearts afire. Now we’ve got a new toy to lust after – the AquaDom in Berlin, Germany. It’s currently on display at the Radisson SAS Hotel, where it’s likely getting everyone laid. AquaDom stands 25-meters high, contains 900,000 liters of seawater and is home to [...more]

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Jan 17 2010
By Asterios Kokkinos

Bacon-Flavored Floss Perfect With My Egg Toothpaste

Maybe someday I’ll have the willpower to wake up and make myself waffles, bacon and coffee, but my current extreme level of laziness keeps me in bed until the very last possible moment. Thankfully I can get my coffee, waffle and — most importantly — bacon while I floss my pearly whites with Breakfast [...more]

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Jan 16 2010
By Nick Upton