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Month: June 2012

Cloud House Elevates Organic Architecture to New Heights

Why should houses be geometric? Flowing, curving organic shapes often have a warmer and more comforting feel, billowing around the homes' inhabitants like a cozy blanket - or, in this case, ...

Wall Art Gone Wild: Fantastic Life-Sized Room Sketches

With some of her works it is hard to tell where the two-dimensional art ends and 3D objects begin, blending as they do into one semi-continuous, surface-defying series of overlapping murals. ...

Grandeur Lost: The Modern Ruins of Abandoned Detroit

Detroit is arguably one of the most fascinating modern cities in the world. This is thanks to the city's unique balance between its former identity as a manufacturing mecca and its current state ...

Pixel Pour 2.0: Digital Water Street Art Stuck in Mid-Spill

Here's a beautiful example of how street art can transform the most mundane, uninteresting sidewalk into a miniature gallery that captures the attention of harried passersby. A black faucet on ...

Double Agent JR: Undercover Photographer & Guerilla Artist

Photographers are the subject of a medium-old question: does their work represent reality, or create new realities? This one undoubtedly does both, putting images of eyes and faces up in urban ...

Underwater Wonders: 15 Subversively Submersible Gatherings

Swimming? Gazing at pretty marine life? That's boring - compared to the bizarre and amazing things that some adventurous divers choose to do underwater. Why simply scuba dive when you could be ...

Soused Pacific: 15 Terrific Ceramic Vintage Tiki Mugs

We're gonna party like it's 1959! Classic ceramic mugs celebrating the South Pacific Tiki have punched up pop culture from Waikiki to Wachee Weeki. Whether serving frosty, fruity tropical cocktails ...

The Shape of Sound: New Orleans Village Made of Music

In New Orleans, music seems to exist everywhere. The city itself is woven from the notes of generations of musicians, all leaving their mark on this historic and beloved town. But there is a ...

Wake Up! 20 Insanely Creative Beds Worth Sleeping On

Despite the fact that beds are a dominating presence of any room they're in, and that people spend a significant percentage of their life in them, they are almost always boring. I say almost ...

Olympic Disguise: Titanium Fish Screen Installation for London

The thousands of people who sweep through the streets of east London as they make their way to and from various Olympic events won't notice the less-than-aesthetically-pleasing rear end of the ...

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