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Emoji Revenge: A California Spite House for the Digital Age

When a California woman's neighbors reported her for illegally turning her home into an AirBnb, she got back at them in a thoroughly modern way: with emojis. In an incident that’s referred ...

Getting Real: Placeholder Graphics Lead to Literal Architectural Renderings

Architects are sometimes criticized for taking creative liberties with their artwork, setting unlikely green scenes or populating their rendered scenes with an improbable array of happy ...

Reframing Modernism: Famously Severe Homes Softened by Lush Landscapes

The site and setting of Modernist masterpieces is a key ingredient of their aesthetic, so what, wondered one architect, would happen if these famous buildings were repositioned, set instead in ...

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 ...

Bloat Couture: 11 High Fashion Designs that Look Like Actual Garbage

Do you have $850 burning a hole in your pocket that you'd like to spend on some bedazzled platform Crocs that look like a three-year-old's art project? Perhaps you'd prefer to shell out thousands ...

Art of Parenting: Father Frames Six-Year-Old’s Uncommissioned Wall Drawing

Kids will be kids, and sometimes they will surprise you by doing things like drawing on the walls, leaving parents with an array of options for how to respond. Dr. Eric Masicotte is a ...

Sheep View: Faroe Islands Captured for Google by Four-Legged Crew

There may be many paths along the remote, windswept Faroe Islands that Google’s street view vehicles can’t traverse, but that’s where the archipelago’s many four-legged residents come in. ...

Robot Fails: 12 Times Supposedly Intelligent Machines Screwed Up

If you’re down about the oncoming dystopia in which robots take all of our jobs before we’ve structurally reorganized society to support ourselves, enjoy a few moments of smug comfort in ...

Eyebombing Bulgaria: Artist Adds Googly Eyes to Bollards, Bins & Pipes

As public art interventions go, googly-eye additions to urban objects and surfaces are pretty simple to implement, effectively animating their surroundings without too much work (or risk of ...

Urine for a Beautiful Day: Street Gardens Double as Public Pissoirs

‘Piss in peace’ is the tagline for the Urintrottoir, a recent addition to the streets of Paris that’s part urinal, part composter, part mini garden. City officials are hoping that offering ...

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