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Month: January 2010

Enter & Die: 52 Photos of a Poisonous, Abandoned Factory

Muhahaha and enter. This place in Warsaw, Poland, was once a fluorescent light factory. The plant was called many things but is known as "Polam" aka "Rosa Luxemburg."  Rosa was born in Poland in ...

Fit to Sit: 15 Clever Bench Ads & Marketing Campaigns

A bench is a bench – except when it’s also a platform for a surprising, thought-provoking, memorable advertisement that sometimes even functions as urban art. The best bench ads turn ...

Living (in) Space: 10 Highrises For Off-Planet Frontiers

These 10 examples of international, interplanetary space habitats show that colonialism isn't dead, it's just lying in wait for the next new frontier - which just may be the wide open real estate ...

Dispatchwork: Patching World War 2 Damage with Legos

The stark contrast of monochromatic, crumbling stone buildings and small, colorful plastic toy blocks is especially jarring in Berlin, where evidence of the horrors of World War II is still ...

Fallen Empire: Dictator’s Destroyed & Recycled Palaces

It's a surreal, otherworldly scene: ornate palaces with the finest appointments being used as temporary shelter for American soldiers. The detritus of their everyday lives mingles with the ornate ...

Modern Trolls: 10 Bridges Turned to Homes & Mini-Cities

Remember the fairy tales featuring scary trolls who lived under bridges? We were terrified of them as children, and many of us still get a strange, subconscious feeling of danger when approaching ...

Guerilla Marketing: 22 Ads from Bizarre to Brilliant

Guerilla marketing is about using a small budget for big results. Some guerilla ad campaigns are completely waged on the social media front. Others are creatively brilliant, while still others ...

Weird Military Innovations: 10 Crazy Weapons of War

In war, innovation can mean the difference between a glorious victory and a world shattering defeat. When research and development departments have the funding of a desperate nation behind them, ...

15 Clever & Creative Billboard Advertising Campaigns

Billboards are so ubiquitous in the modern world, many people barely even notice them anymore. So, some advertisers have gotten ultra-creative with their outdoor advertising, relying on ...

The Futuro House: Space Age UFO Architecture Comes Home

Evoking images of flying saucers, interplanetary space pods and science fiction futurism, the Futuro house offered homeowners a chance to live in the future without ever leaving their front yards. ...

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