Toy Shining
Kyle Lambert used his iPad to storyboard Toy Story 3 characters into classic scenes from The Shining. Awesome enough to get an invite from Pixar to bring them to the studio. (Thanks David!)
Kyle Lambert used his iPad to storyboard Toy Story 3 characters into classic scenes from The Shining. Awesome enough to get an invite from Pixar to bring them to the studio. (Thanks David!)
We’ve seen OhiseeRED use a basketball to paint. This time she uses a coffee cup, making ring-shaped stains to paint a portrait of Taiwanese pop star Jay Chou. It took her 12 hours to finish it.
The tale behind the WWII poster turned meme, straight from the horse’s mouth. Made by Nation and Temujin Doran for Barter Books, the bookstore where the poster was rediscovered in 2000.
You’ve probably never thought about attaching your camera to the end of a power drill. That’s okay. Oscar Lhermitte has you covered, with this hypnotic, kaliedoscopic look at life sent spinning.
The Ribbon is a modular baking pan that can be molded into any shape, eliminating the need to buy any more molds. It has magnets that make it stick to the complementary baking sheet.
A clever stop motion short that plays on idioms and homonyms. PES made Fresh Guacamole for Showtime’s Short Stories as a follow up to his award-winning short Western Spaghetti.
French custom artist Oskunk gives us a peek of his workflow, using Sega’s last console as his canvas. Dude’s got some steady hands. Check out more of his art on his website and on his Flickr page.
You may recall Antony Gormley’s sculptures. Turns out he supersized things in 2010, erecting an 85 foot-tall metal man in the Dutch town of Lelystad. We wonder how tall he’d be if he stood up.
A luxurious lodge built with environmentally-friendly specs. It can house up to 4 people and has modern amenities, yet can be assembled on-site in as little as 5 days and last up to 15 years.
Jon Rafman’s Nine Eyes of Google Street View website is a offbeat, ongoing project that publishes the strange scenes that the nine automated Google Street View car cameras capture. (Thanks Max!)
In tribute to the late, great surreal comic Mitch Hedberg, artist Kiersten Essenpreis created these hilarious wood etchings with quotes which make us wonder if Mitch was Philosoraptor’s father.
You might think pocket watches are a memento of olden days, but these wooden pocket watches are cool enough to dress up any 21st century outfit. Puts that tiny jeans pocket to good use, too.
While you might not think of positive change when you think of Medellin, Colombia, they’ve recently installed an outdoor escalator system which cuts a 28 story uphill climb from 35 to 6 minutes.
Similarly to his unpeeled tangerine painting, artist Duane Keiser makes omelettes art from his broken egg in this progressive, time-lapse painting, shot one day at a time, then animated.
6 Legged Tees are treated with permethrin, a repellent that keeps insects like mosquitoes, ticks and flies away and lasts up to 70 washings. Each shirt is silkscreened by hand using organic inks.
Aatma Studio became famous for its futuristic take on the iPhone 5. They’re doing it again with the iPad 3, imagining a magnetic edge-to-edge display, NFC and holographic capabilities. More like iPad 10.
The latest Wacom drawing tablet combines the pressure-sensitive pen we already know with a multi-touch surface, so you can go from pen to fingers in a snap. Wireless is now an option, too.
There’s just something so surreal about abandoned amusement parks, and this defunct park in Berlin might be our favorite yet, with its fallen dinosaurs and creepy mustachioed car.
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