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Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health

Designed by renowned architect Frank Gehry, the Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health in Las Vegas has two faces – one surreal, and one rigid, to represent the left and right hemispheres of the brain.

Pop Culture Sneaker Collection

Pop Culture Sneaker Collection

UK artist Daniel Reese has created a great collection of sneakers inspired by contemporary pop culture using a standard Nike trainer as base, and is now available for commission work.

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Stone BMW Z4

Stone BMW Z4

Eric Brum snapped these pics of an incredible masonry sculpture of a BMW Z4 in Beijing, China. It’s a full-size replica of the real deal, with glass windows and an interior made from stone.

The Society of Sinister Simians

The Society of Sinister Simians
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The Society of Sinister Simians from Dallas illustrator Chet Phillips is a part Victorian, part steampunk and all evil book and card collection of vicious, mysterious and power hungry primates.

Breakbot: Baby I’m Yours

Breakbot: Baby I’m Yours

This nifty music video for Breakbot’s Baby I’m Yours was created from a series of ~2000 handpainted watercolors by Irina Dakeva. The song is pretty awesome too.

World Cup Coke Man

World Cup Coke Man

This awesome Coke Man sculpture was built for the 2010 World Cup in Johannesburg. Built from 2500 Coke cases, weighs 28 tons, and 55 feet tall; they plan on recycling it when the World Cup is over.

Flight Patterns Visualized

Flight Patterns Visualized

Aaron Koblin took data from FAA flight traffic control and ran it through a Processing application, After Effects and Maya to produce these incredible images of airplanes’ nerve-like interconnections.

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Great Cinema Showdowns

Great Cinema Showdowns

San Francisco artist Scott Campbell has created a playful chronicling of some of the greatest confrontations in film history, presented in ink and paint at his website The Great Showdowns.

Alfa Romeo Art Collection

Alfa Romeo Art Collection

The Centennial Alfa Romeo Art Collection is a cool journey into the company’s 100 year history, freely interpreted through 100 works by 100 artists, offered in limited editions of 100. (Thanks Ron!)

Casa de Karton Installation

Casa de Karton Installation

Don Lucho’s Casa de Karton, an apartment built entirely with carton and paper, includes furniture and other items found in a typical home. A carton car wreck can be found outside the installation.

May28th Architect Watches

May28th Architect Watches
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Disappointed with the scarcity of quirky, yet affordable timepieces, Agni Tilla founded May28th. If her one-of-a-kind Architect watches are anything to go by, we’d say she’s on the right track.

Around the World

Around the World

Would you believe Andrey Gordeev’s amusing (if just a wee-bit stereotypical) point-of-view illustration series Around the World was created for a trucking company’s calendar? Us neither.

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1000 YouTube Uploads

1000 YouTube Uploads

Musician Patrick Liddell uploaded, downloaded then re-uploaded the same video to YouTube 1000 times. Turn down the volume and watch what happened over time. (Original video here).

Jeff Koons’ BMW Art Car

Jeff Koons’ BMW Art Car

BMW has announced that the 17th Art Car created by Jeff Koons will race where the first art cars did – at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France on June 12th and 13th. Koons’ canvas is a BMW M3 GT2.

Video: Let’s Colour

Video: Let’s Colour

If you doubt that color can be powerful and uplifting, you may change your mind after watching the 2 minutes of Let’s Colour, a worldwide initiative from Dulux to spread color all over the world.

A Separate Reality

A Separate Reality

Artist Alex Andreyev’s evocative paintings envision a slightly askew world filled with zero-gravity vehicles, gigantic dirigibles and tentacled creatures. We’re not sure it looks like a fun place to live.

Flat Light Poster Lamp

Flat Light Poster Lamp
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Made by UK-based artist Finn Magee, Flat Light has an embedded LED that makes it light up. Originally part of Magee’s Flat Life series, Flat Light is now on a limited edition run at the Moss Gallery.

Folded Paper Art

Folded Paper Art

Cologne-based artist Simon Schubert has perfected the art of paper folding with these highly detailed paper works that showcase intricate architectural details in European buildings.

Polo Shirt Portrait

Polo Shirt Portrait

20 staffers arranged 2,700 polo shirts in 24 different colors to make a portrait of Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh as part of a campaign by Japanese apparel maker Onward Kashiyama.

Digital District 2010 Showreel

Digital District 2010 Showreel

French creative house Digital District shows off their many talents in computer-generated VFX and animation in this stellar demo reel. Bonus points for the catchy backing track by We Have Band.

Bear Sleeping Bag

Bear Sleeping Bag

Amsterdam-based artist Eiko Ishizawa created The Great Sleeping Bear after hearing about a wild bear that wandered into Bavaria and was hunted by the government. We prefer landsharks.

HandMadeFont

HandMadeFont

Estonia design firm HandMadeFont loves making “unique, untraditional fonts”. HMF has a whimsical approach to typography, taking inspiration from everyday objects like food and even packing tape.

Howl’s (Paper) Moving Castle

Howl’s (Paper) Moving Castle

Here’s a terrific version of Howl’s Moving Castle, meticulously crafted out of paper by the patient Ben Millet, who downloaded the pdf from a book and dedicated 72 hours to complete it.

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