Private Playgrounds: 13 Amazingly Fun Houses
If you had your own pirate ship fort, multi-story slide, climbing wall or indoor skate park, would you ever want to leave your house? Some homeowners have turned their residences into private ...
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Fill in the Blanks: Illustrated Sky Spaces Between Buildings
Street art uses roads, sidewalks, walls and infrastructure as canvasses, but one of the brightest and blankest slates of all may be the spaces in between. Thomas Lamadieu, a French artist, ...
Child’s Place: 10 Eerie Abandoned Orphanages
Orphanages served as repositories for unwanted, illegitimate and unsupportable children in relatively recent yet still socially unenlightened times and places. Modern initiatives in family planning ...
Brand Re-Versioning: Trading Logos with the Competition
Our brains recognize brands before we even get to the text ... but what happens when that second of the process process yields the reverse of what we expect? In this series of experimental ...
The Wilds of Panama City: New Street Art Animals by ROA
The streets of Panama City are now crawling with exotic birds, iguanas, lemurs and other creatures measuring up to three stories in height after a visit from famed Belgian street artist ROA. ...
Origami Kayak: Packs Flat, Folds Up to Form its Own Case
Portaging in the wild is one thing, but try walking your canoe or kayak down the street (let alone through an airport) and you may smack someone right in the head - hence this city-friendly ...
World’s Most Powerful Man-Made Tornado in a Museum
Experience the awe-inspiring power of a tornado, up-close and personal, without putting yourself in serious danger chasing a real one. The Mercedes-Benz museum in Stuttgart hosts the strongest ...
Swinging Times: 13 Stylish & Fun Indoor Swings
Growing up shouldn't mean having to let go of fun and free-spirited activities like swinging from the trees - or your living room rafters. Indoor swings can be as simple as a piece of wood strung ...
Lunar Power: Solar Spheres Energized by Both Sun & Moon
Magnifying light by a factor of 10,000, this liquid-filled, sun-tracking, energy-harvesting glass sphere is so powerful that it can not only harvest solar rays directly but is even able to draw ...
Seconds to Years: 2 Scales of Time-Lapse Photography
With the rise of digital technologies, photographers are finding increasingly fascinating ways to capture minutes, hours, days, weeks, months and even entire years. Here are just three ...
