Awesome Art & Design

Chef “Jacques La Merde” decided to prove a point by taking off-the-shelf junk foods and preparing them to look like extravagant gourmet meals. The first dish is Dole Arugula, SPAM Torchon w/Fuzzy Peaches, White Cheese Balls and Nuts.

Revatu’s Black Pearl is a beautiful and humorous showpiece motorcycle. Not only does it look like a steam train, it actually works like a steam train, with the rear wheel driven by a huge crankshaft. Photo by Marc Quinlivan.

Part of Racing Gold’s Infiniti Red Bull Racing collection, this floor lamp is made from the exhaust system of one of Infiniti Red Bull Racing’s F1 cars. You’ll even get a certificate stating the source car’s history.

We can make hyperlapse videos with our phones these days. Pacer, the first known hyperlapse film was captured one frame at a time on 16mm film by Guy Roland in 1995, and only screened once before the negative was destroyed.

Moleskine meets The Dark Knight with this awesome series of limited-edition sketch notebooks with five different black and white silhouette cover designs and a set of Bat-stickers.

We finally ditched our old VHS deck about five years ago, but if the modern TV shows and movies that Stan’s VHS has made up actually existed back in the day, our VCR would have gotten way more use. Be kind, rewind.

Nissan commissioned artist Ian Cook to create a massive 2200 sq. ft. piece of art, which combined the artist’s brushstrokes and splatters with the tread marks of a Nissan LEAF, creating a glowing self-portrait of the compact EV.

The Skurniture is a 7-ply maple skateboard deck with steel legs attached via Philips headbolts and lock nuts for trucks. The deck comes in natural or black while the legs come in red, white or black. You can also get just the legs.

Ron “Boneshaker” Schroer’s wooden kinetic sculpture is a mix between a high wheel bicycle and Theo Jansen’s strandbeests. It has mechanical legs with small wheels instead of a single rear wheel.

The 03Gen concepts are variants of the Tricity three-wheeled scooter. The 03GEN-f has a racing-inspired build while the 03GEN-x is for off-roading. Like the Piaggio, the Tricity and its concepts enable riders to lean into turns.

Butcher Billy’s new series of superhero-themed mashups features post-punk and new wave artists such as The Smiths, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Devo. Get them on various merch on Red Bubble.

For his series Drawings in Space, artist Janusz Grünspek created these sculptures which represent wireframes of everyday gadgets, tools and furniture using nothing more than thin sticks of wood, hot glue, and a whole lot of patience.

These elegant LED bulbs offer a smoked finish and a columnar light source reminiscent of classic Edison bulbs. Metal pendant fixtures sold separately. Be sure to check compatibility, since these are sold in the UK.

Jay Leno’s Garage takes a look at Fab Fours’ eye-popping showcar. It’s a Jeep Wrangler that’s been chopped by 4″, has huge fenders and 50″ tractor tires on 24″ wheels. You can check out its uglier but more practical version here.

The latest single off of tUnE-yArDs’ 2014 electro-harmonic album Nikki Nack features a music video packed with retro-style visual effects which perfectly reflect the group’s low-fi, avant garde, ’80s-tinged sound.

This watch won’t help you tell time at all, but you’ll still have the coolest watch on the block – since yours will be a fully-functional (though very small) ant colony. Comes with sand, a feeding dropper, tweezers, and of course, five live ants.

Austrian artist Klemens Torggler creates these amazing doors which open and close by rotating two panels around pivot points, and need no tracks to operate. We want all of our walls made out of these things.

Product designer Stian Korntved Ruud is trying to hand carve one wooden spoon every day for a year. He usually sketches a design on the way home, then carves it the following day after work. He’s nearly done but he still has lots of ideas.

Woodworker Izzy Swan of Think Woodworks created this ingenious portable dining set which folds up into a 20″ x 20″ x 30″ block for transport, but pops open to provide a dining table and chairs for four. Buy the plans here.

Ready, aim, fire your espresso with this clever aluminum coffee pot, designed to look like a pistol. Six gold metalized porcelain espresso cups look like giant bullets. Designed by Paola Metaldi for Viceversa.

The guys from Dissolve dug into their massive library of stock video to create this amusing series of highly generic TV opening sequences which look like they could be real. TV networks, please don’t get any funny ideas.

The Cherokee’s laid back descendant. The Chief concept has a 3.6L Pentastar V6, 17″ wheels and beach-inspired details, including an ocean blue body, Tiki shifter, and wooden slats in the cargo area, and seats inspired by Magnum P.I..

Once you get past the silly computer voiceovers, you’ll be treated to the construction of an incredibly detailed scale model of Paris’ iconic Eiffel Tower, built from 2779 sticks of bamboo by artist Srinivas Thatipally. Feeling ambitious now?