Future Past: 7 Weird Wonders Predicted 100+ Years Ago
"These prophecies will seem strange, almost impossible," reads the intro to a 1900 article printed in the Ladies Home Journal entitled 'What May Happen in the Next Hundred Years.' And over a ...
Month: May 2013
Vertical Horizon: Urban Photographs Turn City Upside Down
Hong Kong has to be one of the most-photographed cities on Earth, but these shots present a rarely-seen perspective by documentarians or pedestrians ... unless they look straight up. From ...
Odd-Wheel Wonders: 11 Novel Vehicles with 1 or 3 Wheels
We've gotten accustomed to the idea of vehicles having two or four wheels. However, not all vehicle designers are so restrained in their ideas. All of these conveyances are unique because of ...
Abandoned Asylums in Focus: Photos by Jeremy Harris
It's not just the morbid and macabre horror movie ambiance of abandoned psychiatric facilities that makes them so haunting and fascinating; it's the shadows of the people who often lived their ...
Kids’ Rooms Rule: 32 Creative & Fun Bedrooms for Children
When the rest of the house is carefully furnished and decorated to be both practical and a visual representation of the adult residents' style, why should kids' rooms be a primary-colored ...
Different Strokes: Strange Paintbrushes Promote Creativity
When something evolves to have such a long history as the art of painting, it falls on out-of-the-box thinkers to question the most basic elements of creation: tools. The designers ...
Company Capers: Ten Terrible Corporate Superheroes
In today's dog-eat-dog commercial arena, trusting clueless celebrities or characterless characters to pitch one's products is a bad business decision at best; a quick ticket to Chapter 11 at worst. ...
The Stunning Instrument That Sounds Like an Orchestra
Stringed instruments have been played since time immemorial, and naturally as technology improves plenty of people are trying to recreate that kind of sound digitally. Of course, nothing compares ...
Constellation Portraits: Thread Wrapped Around Nails
A single, unbroken sewing thread is wrapped around a grid of carefully placed galvanized nails to bring human faces to life in stunningly intricate detail. Artist Kumi Yamashita, best known for ...
All-in-One Bicycle Helmet: Sleek Integrated Lights & Signals
Bicyclists need this. Incredible design is not just about looking good (which this does) or working well (which this does), but weaving the solution so that each seems the natural outcome of the ...
