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Hot Wheels Darth Vader Car

Hot Wheels Darth Vader Car

To promote its upcoming line of Star Wars-themed cars, Hot Wheels made a life-size version of the Darth Vader car. It has a 526hp LS3 engine and makes Vader’s heavy breathing sound. Check it out at the San Diego Comic-Con.

Shaun Hughes’ Hobo Nickels

Shaun Hughes’ Hobo Nickels

Urban artist Shaun Hughes makes hobo nickels – bas reliefs carved on nickels and other coins. His sculptures often feature skulls, but he also uses pop culture references from time to time. You can find some of his pieces on eBay.

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Blue Sky Painters

Blue Sky Painters

Established by Mehdi Ghadyanloo and backed by the government of Tehran, Blue Sky Painters turns drab buliding facades in Iran’s capital into murals with eye-catching illusions or drawings that interact with their surroundings.

US Marines Self-Driving Car

US Marines Self-Driving Car

The Ground Unmanned Support Surrogate (GUSS) is a US Marines proof-of-concept autonomous vehicle. It can be controlled remotely, follow its remote control, drive to a waypoint and operated like a normal vehicle.

Star Wars Death Star Rug

Star Wars Death Star Rug
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That’s no moon. It’s not a space station either. Unlike its predecessors, this Death Star is fully operational… as a rug. This officially-licensed rug is made of polyester pile and has a 52″ diameter. Much fancier, unofficial version here.

Michael Jordan Acrylic Chandeliers

Michael Jordan Acrylic Chandeliers

Artist Michael Murphy created these cool hanging pieces for the Nike Store Berlin which look like Michael Jordan when viewed head on, but disintegrate into important icons of his career when viewed from the side.

Lunar Landings Print

Lunar Landings Print
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As part of its new Space series, City Prints has created this stunning lunar image which maps out the landing sites of all of NASA’s lunar missions. Available framed, matted or in custom sizes or printed on custom substrates.

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One with the Birds

One with the Birds

Designed by Chinese architecture collective, Penda, this temporary dwelling, constructed from bamboo and rope modules, is designed to allow visitors to sleep in the midst of nature without any impact to its surroundings.

Fantastic Fox Display Window

Fantastic Fox Display Window

This amazing window display for Hermès was created by Thibault Zimmermann and Lucie Thomas aka Zim&Zou, who we’ve featured previously. While many of the objects are papercraft, the fox was made from leather.

Dangerdust

Dangerdust

Dangerdust is the moniker of two (partially) anonymous Columbus College of Art & Design students. Every week, they make impressive typographic chalk art of a memorable quote and leave it on campus. Learn more about them here.

Wild Dining Plates

Wild Dining Plates
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Mustard’s amusing 9-inch ceramic plates let you make fun of wild animals without the risk of them chewing your limbs off. Available in lion, gorilla, giraffe and panda bear designs. Dishwasher and microwave safe too. Woot!

Jellyfish Abandoned Garage

Jellyfish Abandoned Garage

Artists Walter Hugo & Zoniel installed a tank filled with jellyfish behind the windows of an abandoned building in Liverpool, England. The outer garage door only lifts at night to expose the amazing glowing creatures within.

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From the Street

From the Street

Believe it or not, these objects are actually made from wood. Artist Tom Pfannerstill found some discarded and worn out packaging of everyday things and painstakingly recreated them out of basswood and paint.

EO1 Digital Picture Frame

EO1 Digital Picture Frame

The EO1 is a low power computer designed strictly to display images – including animated gifs – and Javascript animation. It has a 23″ 1080p IPS display in portrait mode. You can easily change what’s on display via a mobile app.

Jaguar Virtual Windscreen

Jaguar Virtual Windscreen

The Virtual Windscreen Concept is a track-oriented heads up display. Similar to the interface in driving games, it can show data such as GPS, lap times and racing lines. It will even let you race against a “ghost” car.

ChronoDisc Wall Clock

ChronoDisc Wall Clock

While the vast majority of wall clocks use hands which rotate around a center point, designer Karl Dierenbach’s clever and minimal ChronoDisc tells time using two easy-to-read pointers which spin on an off-center orbit.

The Peach Kings: Mojo Thunder

The Peach Kings: Mojo Thunder

(NSFW) A brilliantly animated, hand-painted music video for The Peach Kings’ fuzz-rock track Mojo Thunder. Its use of light on dark illustration is truly stunning. Created by Ataboy, Kris Merc, Benjy Brooke and Vikkal Parikh.

Replicating a Gargoyle

Replicating a Gargoyle

Using Scantech’s SL 3D scanner and a 5-axis Breton CNC machine, they were able to precisely recreate a damaged stone gargoyle from Denmark’s Kronborg Castle. Imagine the work it would have taken to do the job by hand.

Doom: Knee Deep in the Dead

Doom: Knee Deep in the Dead
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Gaming Heads’ officially-licensed diorama recreates the famous Doom box cover art. It’s finished and painted by hand and has removable bullet effects. The Exclusive Edition has pulsing lights in its base. Standard version here.

Game of Thrones Season 4 VFX

Game of Thrones Season 4 VFX

(Spoilers) Mackevision shows off some of the visual effects it did for the fourth season of Game of Thrones. It’s like half of the things we saw on the show were enhanced or didn’t exist at all, from entire cities to wisps of smoke and fog.

Smart Bricks

Smart Bricks

Everything is awesome! Kite Bricks envisions a new approach to building, using interlocking blocks that work like giant LEGO blocks. They bricks would have built-in channels for cables and pipes, and snap-on wall and flooring sections.

Calvin and Hobbes Embroidery

Calvin and Hobbes Embroidery

Artist Laura Hartrich of Tiny Scissor Times handmade this impressive recreation of a classic Calvin and Hobbes scene using needle and thread. Sadly, we can’t have it, as her son is the lucky recipient of this awesome artwork.

The Abandoned Fish Mall

The Abandoned Fish Mall

Bangkok’s New World shopping mall was abandoned back in 1999. Later, an unknown person started populating its flooded basement with koi and catfish. Jesse Rockwell captured these amazing photos of its unusual residents.

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