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UK design group Slam has the solution to what can only be called the Goldilocks problem of doors: a door that is not too small and not too big. Behold the ThreeStyle, the world's first 3-in-1 door.
Link - via Interior design room
Two things immediately come to mind: 1) that dog sure pees a lot and 2) my, what a fetching blue sweater!
Hit play or go to Link [YouTube] - via Bits & Pieces
Don't ask me how Allen and Patty Eckman did it, but they have a special process that lets you create detailed sculptures out of cast paper:
Cast paper sculpture has been around since the 1950's but should not be confused with papier-mache'. The two mediums are completely different. The artists first mix an acid free paper pulp in the studio hydro-pulper
from two raw stocks, cotton and abica. Then the pulp is cast into molds which were made from original clay sculptures. The paper is then pressed under vacuum pressure or by hand in the mold where most of the water is extracted at the same time. The drying process is completed by evaporation while the paper is still in the mold. After the dry and hard casts are removed from the molds the exclusive process of chasing, cast additions, cast alterations, sculpting in paper and detailing begins. It takes a great amount of time and experience to create each piece. Some works are so painstakingly detailed they can take many months to complete.
Suffice it to say, their artwork are fantastic: Link - via CrookedBrains
Graphic: Oliver Uberti / National Geographic, source: World Press Freedom Committee
Biggify here: Link
Most Americans take our freedom of speech for granted - after all, such an idea seems like a basic and universal human rights. But be careful what you say in other countries: saying insulting things may just get you fined, land you in jail, or worse.
Recession schmecession. Hipsters never let a little global financial tsunami interefere with fashion! Here's the "Spin Jean" by Daniel Hirst, in collaboration with Levi's.
Bold and brash, he teams up with Levi’s on the release of a new denim style. Hardly wearable, the jeans seen here should be considered much more a re-appropriated piece of art than fashion. A multi-colored splatter pattern covers every square inch of a pair of iconic Levi’s denim. The Spin Jeans comprise of only 8 instances worldwide with a suggested retail price of ¥2,625,000 JPY (approximately $27,000 USD).
There are dogs ... then there are dogs looking like people. And of course, there are blogs that blog about dogs looking like people: Link
Say what you will, but I think this Wild Jewel Crochet Love Goddess Rainbow Sparkle Jumper by Etsy seller kyecrow is fantastic. Nay, fantastic is too tame a word. What is it that I'm looking for - oh yeah, supercalafragelisticexpialadocious !
At $610, it's a steal: Link
Humans! is a short animation by Reza Rasoli, Greg Gunn and Casey Hunt of Three Legged Legs. It's done in the style of a PSA - and while you may not agree with the gloom and doom depiction of humans as parasites, it's still a very interesting (though a bit gory) animation.
Hit play or go to Link [aniboom] - via Cool Infographics
After having solved all of the world's problems like cancer and global warming, scientists turn their attention to the vexing problem of why the top of your shoes get soaked when walking on a wet pavement:
The team used a high-speed video camera to film a person walking on a wet floor. The footage (see above) reveals how water is flung up from the ground, along the sole, and onto the top of the shoe.
The researchers calculated that shoes flick up about a pint of water after walking 20 kilometres on a damp day.
Link (with video clip and a clever animation of the process)
Photo: Christie's
If you have $60K burning a hole in your pocket, you may want to mark your calendar: Christie's is auctioning this stunning 100-million-year-old iridescent ammonite fossils excavated from the Bearpaw Formation, in southern Alberta, Canada:
[Pierre Pare, president of Calgary-based Korite International Ltd, Canada's main producer of ammonite fossils] says demand for the fossils -- formed from the remains of a primitive mollusk that died out at the end of the dinosaur age 65 million years ago -- is also being driven globally by practitioners of the Chinese esthetics system feng shui, who covet the Alberta ammonite's bright colours and spiral shape.
While ammonites can be found in many countries, the conditions creating the dazzling hues of the Canadian fossils "existed only in one place in the world -- right here in southern Alberta," says Mr. Pare.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1423002 - via Geekdad
Fido may be cute - but according to epidemiologist Judy Stevens of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) injury center, it is also a walking and barking hazard to your health:
LinkAmerica's dogs and cats, it turns out, can be blamed for injuries caused in an estimated 86,000 falls treated each year in the country's emergency rooms, federal health officials said today.
Nearly 88 percent of those injuries come at the paws of man's best friend, who's more apt to wound the fairer sex, epidemiologists report in today's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). About a quarter of those spills occur when a pet owner is walking his or her dog, and twice as many women as men are hurt.
Can kids be smart and popular with their classmates at the same time? Apparently so: English researchers have found the secret of how high-achieving students can avoid being called "nerds." First: be attractive (and/or athletic) ...
Research in nine state secondary schools in England found that the vast majority of "alpha" girls were thought of as physically attractive by classmates, had long straight hair, wore make-up to school and used lots of hair accessories, when this was allowed by the uniform code.
The "alpha" boys, were perceived to be "cute". Many had gelled or styled shorter hair, carried banded sports bags and wore their ties in a "jaunty" or casual way.
Bright boys' prowess on the playing field was also an important factor in ensuring they avoided derision.
... and two: have a "fall guy" as a friend:
Researchers also identified a "fall guy" phenomenon whereby alpha pupils gain kudos by having a best friend who is more disruptive at school, while avoiding facing the discipline that is meted out to the friend.
Biggify here: http://awesome.goodmagazine.com/transparency/web/trans0309walkthisway.html
Forget carbon footprint. Long before the Earth will suffer from a climate catastrophe due to global warming, humanity may perish from another environmental disaster: the diminishing supply of fresh water (Don't believe it? Why, humans have been fighting wars over water for centuries)
In collaboration with Fogelson-Lubliner, GOOD Magazine has an eye-opening infographic of "water footprints", the amount of water an individual uses in the course of a day, as well as ways to save water by making simple changes in your habits.
I, for one, am surprised at the amount of water it takes to yield a pound of beef: Link - via swissmiss
Umbrellas for the Civil but Discontent Man (2008), by Bruce and Stephanie Tharp,
manufactured by Kikkerland
Just because it's rainy season it doesn't mean that you have to go without your swords. Here are three such combination of weapon and umbrellas by Bruce and Stephanie Tharp of Materious:
"Sigmund Freud contends that aggressiveness is a fundamental human instinct whose inhibition is a necessary obligation of social life. These umbrellas combine a symbol of gentlemanly refinement--the full-sized, black umbrella--with an element from more manly sword-bearing times. The umbrellas offer brief psychological respite from the dictates of social amiability.
Core 77 has the write up of the couple's art display in Milan Design Week 09: Link - via oobject
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