Eye Powered: 12 Artistic German Transformer Stations
These visually stunning German transformer stations display artistic paint jobs that beautify their surroundings while discouraging graffiti artists. “Transformatorenstation” is ...
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Blown-Out Pipes: Artist Expands Everyday Plastic Tubes to Create Vases
Plastic piping original mass-produced to carry water from place to place has found a likewise liquid-related second life in the form of flower-holding vessels, blown out like glass into fresh new ...
Requiem for Pianos: Dilapidated Instruments Photographed Among Ruins
Once standing as symbols of prosperity within the luxurious interiors of grand European villas, these broken pianos have played their last tunes, now rotting among ruins. Photographer Romain ...
Cat VR: Feline Virtual Reality Technology Aims to Amuse Animal Companions
A new PVRR (Pet Virtual Reality Research) technical brief targets the hundreds of millions of global kitties who might enjoy a romp through a virtual playscape. For starters, be sure to watch the ...
Trash Bot Game & Professor Water Wheel: Gadgets Devour Floating Plastic Waste
Plastic pollution is worse than ever, with scientists recently announcing horrific levels of micro plastics found in Arctic sea ice, but innovative new ways of cleaning it up may give us a sliver ...
Art That Breathes: 17 Living Creations Made with Plants, Bacteria & Insects
Alternately beautiful and disgusting but nearly always fascinating, works of art that use nature in place of more traditional media raise questions about the power and responsibility of human ...
Rolling Out the Green Carpet: Grass Circle Transforms Madrid Public Square
Marking the 400th anniversary of the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, a grassy circle measuring over 35,000 square feet was rolled out to create seating space for over 100,000 visitors across a four-day ...
Architectural Anomalies: The Crooked Witch-Proofed Windows of Vermont
Why do so many houses in Vermont have these strange crooked windows tucked under their eaves? The fact that they’re called ‘witch windows’ should tell you a little something about their ...
Drag and Drop Housing: 12 Fast-Deploying Prefab Designs with Modern Style
You could receive delivery of your brand new home on the back of a truck, watch as they plop it down on the building site, press a button and allow it to self-deploy within minutes. That kind ...
Face Plants: 10 Lifeless Abandoned Garden Centers
Spring has sprung – officially, at least – as green-thumbed gardeners shop for seeds, shrubs and soil... but not at these abandoned garden centers. Speaking of green thumbs, the ...
