Wood Rings Translated Into Moody Piano Music
If trees could play music, what would it sound like? That may seem like a silly question, but artist Bartholomäus Traubeck has found a way to answer it. The appropriately titled 'Years' project ...
Month: January 2012
Transcending Tags: 16 Typographic Works of Urban Art
Street art began with names, letters and symbols scrawled on public surfaces, and those markings have become more and more complex over time. Today, artists explore the beauty of lettering ...
Rooftop Riverboat House Unveiled: A Room for London
Sailing through the clouds in a riverboat perched atop Queen Elizabeth Hall in London may sound like a strange and surreal dream, but some travelers are set to do just that as 'A Room for London' ...
Real Life Sim City: 3D Printers Turn Virtual to Reality
Remember SimCity 2000? It was so easy to waste hours and hours planning and building cities, then watching disasters befall the unfortunate citizens. But the problem was always that you had to ...
Riding High: 30 Outrageous Bike Mods & Cycling Inventions
The green revolution would be a lot easier if everyone rode a bike. One way to get more people to start traveling via pedal power is to add a little creativity to an otherwise mundane form of ...
Art, Not Ads: 13 Creative Billboard Takeovers
While billboard advertising can occasionally shock us with totally unexpected visuals, by and large, these massive champions of commercialism are not exactly pretty or interesting. Enter artists ...
Trash Hits: 11 Scent-sational Concept Garbage Trucks
Seeing art is one thing, but have you smelled it lately? These 11 scent-sational concept garbage trucks trash traditional artistic sensibilities while maintaining the “can”-do spirit today's ...
These Are Not Photos: Realism by Steve Mills
These images appear to be mundane photographs, capturing scenes that we all see in our daily lives. Jumbles of newspapers, peeling paint on a wooden gate, jars full of marbles, glass bottles ...
Mirror, Mirror: Playground Pavilion Gets Funhouse Treatment
Children in Copenhagen have a little extra whimsy and fun added to their playground experience with the Mirror House, a pavilion and learning space used by kindergarten glasses. The gabled ends ...
Life-Size Gingerbread House is a Wonka-Like Wonder
Imagine walking through a house made of waffles and gingerbread, plucking marshmallows and bourbon biscuits from the walls, gazing in amazement at rivers of frosting carrying colorful cupcakes. ...
