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Month: August 2010

Dirty Car Drawings: Turn the Dusty Road Into Good Clean Art

It's easy to let your car go a while without having it washed, and some artists make it even easier, by creating beautiful works of art using only a brush and the dust coating your neglected ...

Beauty in Destruction: Awesome Post-Apocalyptic Art

If you believe there's beauty in destruction and a special kind of hope in disaster, Steve McGhee's art will speak to you. The Canadian illustrator's imagination gives birth to tragedy, calamity, ...

Bake a Movie: Star Wars Cakes That Will Make You a Fan

The Star Wars franchise was a phenomenon that rocked the world, and spawned an entire industry of offshoots, from television shows, to cereals. What's most amazing about the Star Wars universe is ...

Naturally Tactile Tech: 15 Beautifully Textured Websites

When the world wide web first came into popular use in the '90s, it wasn't pretty. Cold, visually uninteresting and – well – ugly, websites put functionality far before form and were anything ...

Blobitecture: 11 Cool Ways Architecture Gets a Round

Blob Architecture - sometimes referred to as Blobitecture, Blobism or even Blobismus is a exceedingly organic type of architecture that exhibits profoundly soft, rounded and curved dimensions. ...

Crafty Beetle-Inspired Tiny Treehouse by Terunobu Fujimori

Looking like a prop from a Tim Burton film, the little structure lives up to its name: Beetle's House. It stands on four slightly off-kilter legs presenting its charred pine wood exterior, like ...

Now and When: The Radical Future of Urban Australia

Many futurists and future-minded laypeople believe that the future of civilization lies in the water. If the global climate continues to get warmer and the water level rises, land will become a ...

Cigarette Advertising: A Vintage Look at Smoking Adverts

Smoking wasn't always unhealthy, at least, in the eyes of the public. Knowing what we know now about smoking's effects, and the checkered history of cigarette branding in America, vintage ...

Building a Better Burb: How to Fix Failing Suburban Towns

It's a reality that sneaked up on some of us, but others saw it coming for decades. Either way, it's now undeniable: the old suburbs just aren't what they used to be. We once longed to get away ...

Cake Art: Over 25 Awesomely Offbeat Decorated Cakes

It's strange to say, but cake technology is improving. The invention of new kinds of icing that can be sculpted to hold nearly any form, combined with age-old baking techniques, are creating a ...

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