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Month: June 2012

Give It A Rest! With These 18 Weird Beds & Bedroom Designs

Here's what happens when creative types have difficulty sleeping... their bedroom set invariably gets an interesting makeover. Some of the most interesting beds stray from normal conventions and ...

Celebratory Nanshan Marriage Registration Center Covered in Confetti

In the United States, the process of obtaining a marriage license - and even the subsequent wedding, should the bride and groom choose a civil ceremony - isn't exactly a glamorous affair. But in ...

Topographic Tomes: More Carved Books by Guy Laramee

Sculptor Guy Laramee looks at the edges of paper bound in a book and sees infinite possibilities: hills, valleys, volcanoes and alien rock formations. The artist is known for carving books into ...

Dumpster Drinking! Skips Turned into Miniature Bars

What is trash, really, but materials that certain people decide are no longer useful? Scraps of wood, broken furniture and other piece of so-called junk sitting in a dumpster might seem destined ...

Skateable Architecture: 13 Irresistibly Curvy Structures

Look at an urban scene through the eyes of a skater and you'll see infinite possibilities: ramps, curves, bowls and level surfaces that are crying out for interaction, offering an experience that ...

Watching Wisely: 7 Owl-Shaped Japanese Police Stations

Never accuse Japan's police of not giving a hoot... they must be, since they're working in owl-shaped police stations! These seven Fukuro Koban (literally “Owl Police Boxes”) help put a ...

Prickly Portraits: The Photobooth Triggered By Screams

Ordinarily, people who are having their pictures taken want to look their absolute best. Even in photo booths where the goal is to be silly and spontaneous, the faces are usually smiling. ...

Sun in a Jar: Make DIY Solar Lamps Aglow with Awesome

Catching a bit of the sun's light and keeping it in a jar sounds like fantasy, but in fact Sun Jars let you do just that. Meant to mimic the gentle glow of a sunset or a bottled of fireflies, sun ...

Ghostly Paper Mansions & Spectral Stop-Motion Animations

Architectural renderings that are too realistic leave little to the imagination. At the opposite end of the spectrum, these folded-paper interiors are more like words than images on the page, ...

Giant Paper Flowers Bloom Inside Abbey Church in France

As if the ornate Gothic architecture in the Abbey church of Saint-Riquier in France wasn't beautiful enough already, it was temporarily filled with over 100 intricate and graceful paper flowers. ...

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