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Month: November 2010

Totally Tron: Real-Life Designs Based on a Retro Movie Classic

When the first Tron film was released in 1982, no one was quite sure what to expect. The concept seemed strange and futuristic, and it was unlike any other movie made before it. Now, nearly 30 ...

Paint Us Into A Corner: 22 Visions of Celebrity Graffiti

We crave celebrity. We obsess over the minutia of celebrity lives, watch every movie of our favorite actors, and buy every endorsed product they throw their smiles behind. With celebrity so ...

Strange Skyscrapers: 14 of the World’s Weirdest Towers

There's the inside-out skyscraper, the horizontal skyscraper and the wooden skyscraper. There's a bizarre three-towered structure made to vaguely resemble an elephant, tusks and all. And then ...

Constructivist Manifesto: Russia’s Hammer & Sickle Canteen

The hammer & sickle shaped Maslennikov Kitchen Factory, located 500 miles southeast of Moscow in Samara, once stood at the pinnacle of the Soviet Constructivist architecture movement. Today, as ...

Puzzling 3D Digital Steam-Style Art of Kazuhiko Nakamura

Amid the sea of digital art displayed online, many artists get lost, but there's simply no way to overlook the bizarre robotic creatures and complex machinery of Kazuhiko Nakamura. Eschewing the ...

Slick Storefronts: 12 Cool & Clever Retail Facades

Sure, a brand name and an alluring product display in the window are enough to incite most people to step inside a store – but some retailers downright demand our attention with incredible ...

Evol, Street Artist: Mini Buildings With Mighty Details

Evol is a Berlin based artist who is his own kind of urban planner. Like Russian dolls, Evol's creations are a city within the city; he specializes in stenciling intricate building details onto ...

Parkour for Lazies: The Bizarre British Lying Down Game

It's happening all around the world: people are taking pictures of their friends awkwardly lying face-down in all sorts of unlikely places. On top of statues, in the middle of roads, in front of ...

Big Marketing: 16 Creative Billboards Worth Advertising

With the constant innovations of advertising in new media, it's easy to forget the tried and true forms of advertising that once dominated media buys. The old fashioned billboard tends to be ...

Mad Marketing: 15 Crazy & Controversial Advertisements

From severed arms to crosses made from marijuana, shocking imagery in ads aims to get our attention – and that they do. Advertisers are using bold and bizarre visuals to draw eyes in an ...

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