Art in Chains: Fine Art Sculpture Goes Heavy Metal
Chains are seldom used for any higher purpose than securing a bike against a railing, except in these cases, where artists have used their imaginations and metalworking skill to come up with ...
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Our Secret Selves: Identities Revealed in Pockets & Purses
Would you empty your pockets for a perfect stranger? Would you let a friend go through the contents of your purse? For most of us, the things we carry with us on a daily basis hold a certain, ...
Here Today, Drawn Tomorrow: 16 Future Visions of 10 Cities
Will the San Francisco of the future be a bleak post-apocalyptic nightmare, or a sparkling eco-metropolis of algae-harvesting towers? How will the world's largest cities deal with climate change, ...
Great In The Sack: 15 Weird & Wonderful Shopping Bags
Calling all shopaholics and sacks addicts: we've got your fun bags right here! These 15 weird & wonderful shopping bag designs take the concept of "love handles" to a whole new level while ...
Small Miseries: Eerie Ceramic Scenes Sculpted by Carole Epp
Cutesy, feel-good figurines they're not: one little girl has an eye gouged out, a boy is crucified on the golden McDonalds arches, and an anthropomorphized rabbit carries the severed head of a ...
Portable Cities: Suitcase Architecture Made from Clothing
What connection does a discarded sweater on a subway have with the city in which it's found? For Chinese artist Yin Xiuzhen, the used clothing of a city's inhabitants take shape as ...
Haircut Time: 25 Hair Styles That Will Blow Your Mind
As someone who has never said anything to a hair stylist beyond "Make it shorter," I have a true admiration for people who step outside of the box and get truly creative with their hair. It's ...
Robot Tattoos: Awesome Works of Mechanical Body Art
Robots are intrinsically fascinating, especially now that we almost have the technological capability to create what once was only a science fiction fan's dream. We're not quite there, ...
Retro-Futurism: 13 Failed Urban Design Ideas & Concepts
Many an architect has dreamed up visionary plans for city centers, but few have actually seen their designs come to fruition in a real live urban setting. And while many such unbuilt concepts are ...
Stuck On You: Seattle’s Gum Wall Is Pretty, Gross
The "Gum Wall" takes the concept of sticktoitiveness to a new level - actually, 15 feet above Post Alley in Seattle's famous Pike Place Market. The wall's owners no longer bother scraping away the ...
