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Month: October 2016

Beauty in Decay: Moody Murals Bring Human Faces Back to Abandoned Places

Abandoned places are often steeped in a mixture of emotional impressions, commingling a sense of loss and a confrontation of our own mortality with slivers of hopefulness for a new future, as ...

Architectural Interventions: 12 Radical Modern Changes to Historic Buildings

Honoring the historic significance of deteriorating buildings while reinventing them for modern contexts and usage, these architectural interventions don’t try to erase signs of aging and ...

Bright Ideas for Dark Art: Murals by Skurk Play Tricks with Light & Night

The deep sea anglerfish is a disturbing monstrosity that uses lights to lure in its prey and is the featured backdrop of a recent work of graffiti best experienced at night. Existing wall ...

Nothing Shocking: Abandoned & Derelict Battery Factories

These former battery factories once lead, er, led the way in electrifying society; now they sit abandoned in environs rife with heavy metal contamination. The abandoned Power City ...

Record Breaking: Magnetic Levitating Turntable Lets Vinyl Defy Gravity

Cool and clever trump common sense and normal physics in this levitating record turntable, which aims to bring a vintage technology into the future. Mag-Lev Audio wants to push audio ...

Pretty in Pink: Trump’s Border Wall as Envisioned by Mexican Architects

Donald Trump has promised that if he becomes President of the United States, he’ll build a “beautiful and impenetrable” wall and force Mexico to pay for it - so a group of Mexican ...

Invisible Solar: Panels Camouflaged as Wood, Clay, Stone & Concrete

Overcoming the awkward aesthetic factor typically faced by home solar technology, these disguised panels look like ordinary building materials you would expect to spot along the sides, steps or ...

Attack of the Giant Spider! Watch This Optical Illusion Mural Come to Life

A nightmarishly oversized spider emerges from a gaping hole in a wall in this anamorphic optical illusion mural by French street artist Denys Pasco, better known as Densoner. Known for his highly ...

Paint it Black: 16 Mysterious Houses That Have Joined the Dark Side

Most people can be divided into two pretty clear-cut categories: those who think black houses are creepy in a bad way, and those who love them for all their mysterious allure. Victorian houses in ...

Yoga Joes: G.I. Action Figures Posed in Complex Meditative Positions

G.I. Joe and other toy soldier figures are rarely found in anything but anxiety-prone positions, ready to do battle with the imaginary enemy. But in this quirky collection, they tackle a fresh ...

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