Pomparkour: New Urban Free Running Sport with Ladders
Anyone who's already familiar with parkour – the jaw-dropping urban sport that involves astonishing acrobatics including gravity-defying jumps – probably stared in disbelief at a video ...
Month: July 2010
Serious Ink: Weaponized Pens Mightier Than Any Sword
I feel great joy when I stumble upon a mundane, everyday object, that is always dull, and find that someone has taken the time to customize it in an interesting and exciting way. Enter the pen: ...
Remodeling Suburbia: Rerouting Classic, Car-Centric Design
The modern city is, for the most part, built around cars. We build enormous elevated roads and huge parking structures to accommodate our vehicles, but at what cost to the urban landscape and to ...
Paper Mache Masters: From Crafters to Professionals
Paper mache is a process used to create art that involves laying paper over a form and using a wet paste or adhesive to keep it together, and harden it. Most people's experience with paper mache ...
Workflow: 14 Artistic Examples of Watercolor in Web Design
Nothing softens the harshness of the world wide web like a little watercolor. Whether used as a sheer splash of color on an otherwise minimalist website or as the basis of an entire web design, ...
Nuclear Family Housing: Life In a Real Missile Silo Home
Formerly spark plugs of the cold war, dozens of decades-old, decommissioned underground nuclear missile silos are slowly slipping into disrepair and decay. Not all of these relics are destined ...
Downward Facing Wookie: Amazing Star Wars Yoga
After over 30 years, perhaps the Star Wars empire has already tapped out opportunities for profit among all but the newest generations of wannabe Jedis and Sith Lords – but probably not. ...
Another Wave in the Wall: Vertical Lake Building Facade
Undulating water is an immensely soothing and calming sight. That's why many urban planners incorporate water features into city centers, whether in the form of fountains, lakes or ponds. But ...
Cereal: Discontinued, Strange, and Awesome Brands & Boxes
If you were brought up eating a bowl of cereal every morning for breakfast, you know that the cereal you chose stuck with you. I couldn't tell you what I used to eat for lunch or dinner, but I ...
Super Sketchy: 15 Beautiful & Rustic Hand-Drawn Websites
How do you make a website visually dynamic, without using any special effects? There's nothing quite like the artsy and adventurous look of hand-drawn graphics. The juxtaposition of these ...
