David Lynch on Product Placement

Smile For The Camera

Dan Witz, street art.

Ginormous Spheres

All (known) Bodies in the Solar System Larger than 200 Miles in Diameter.

Kitsch Holds

Indoor climbing wall by Nendo.

Extreme Escalator

Just Enough

Joris laarman’s superb BoneChair.

Truth And Transparency Are The Future

Its getting harder and harder to disavow things.
A cursory internet search brings back long forgotten memories…
Your flickr photos, the blog, the newspaper article, the frat party, the job search, etc, etc.

The “always recording” society we live in now is out of touch with the realities of being human.
Everyone has done things they regret, and it shouldn’t be something that tarnishes your record.

Own up to the life you live, and hypocrisy will be left without a job.
An open, more diverse, and richer society will creep from the cracks, where individuality will be more highly valued.

Almost Like Being There

The “McMurdo panorama” in QTVR.

Infrared Hack

Taken this morning after following an Instructables tutorial on how to take infrared photos with some negative film.

Indian Thriller

Formaldehyde

I want to make artwork that makes people question their own lives, rather than give them any answers. Because answers always turn out to be wrong further down the line, but questions are exciting forever.

Enlightening interview with Damien Hirst.

The Peculiar Pleasure of Earplugs

Now I know I am not the only freak who wears earplugs regularly…

Clouds of Speak

The evolution of Speech-balloons.

Autobahnschleife

A highway loop just for the sake of art.
We need more of this!

I Cried A Little

Zefrank’s final episode of The Show…
What an awesome year, thanks Ze!

How To Unload An Excavator

Ring Ring

Ring the bell, people part. Excellent.

:-)

The first smiley.

Exit Wounds

Shot wax figures, or so I assume.

Cock Your Balls

Golf, guns, inventions and mullets: The Golf Ball Launcher
Looks like fun…

My 2cents On Being Creative

Practice makes perfect
Creativity, like everything comes with practice; being creative is no exception.

Relax
Breathe slowly, try to clear your head.
Distractions take up bandwidth, get rid of them.

Change the scenery
Leave your desk
Fill the bathtub and take a notebook.
Lie on the floor or on the sofa.
Whatever rocks your boat, just leave the place you usually use to work.

See it
Before you break out the pencil and paper try to focus on the goal you are trying to accomplish.
Visualize it, move it, rotate, add parts and take away.
Solve the problem in your head.

Brain dump
Write down everything. Don’t give it meaning or hierarchy.

Change the view
Turn it upside down, close one eye, squint, view it sideways.

Cross pollinate
Bring knowledge and concepts from other activities into your thought process.
Use themes out of context.

Avoid stimulants, they clutter your thoughts with gibberish.

If all else fails,let it go
Leave, take a walk, read a book chosen by somebody else, or watch that movie you’ve been avoiding.
When you stop pressuring yourself, ideas just pop into your head.
That’s why it’s so important to carry a notebook with you at all times.
Some of the best ideas and concepts have left my head never to come back again.
Write it down!

The most important thing
Break all the rules mentioned above.

Punksuit

Sublime Sublimation

Cool gallery of laser engraved skates.

Explosive Realities

Selected work from the portfolio of Nik Ainley.

Walking Sticks

This makes me dream in color!
The Woojuin lamp and table by Victor Vetterlein.

Wild World

Rather than defining each country by size, these computer-generated modified maps – or cartograms – redraw the globe with each country’s size proportionate to its strengths, or weaknesses, in a whole series of categories.

Fixing a Hole

I’ll be doing some housecleaning on the site today.
So, if it seems quirky, it is.

Mono Theme

FunctionalFate: dedicated to the ubiquitous yet useful Monobloc chair.

Up Close And Personal

Slide Blues Cam

Spoon Slide

Small Fish