Fascinating Underground Homes | JetSetta: “We received a great response from our feature on Klima Hotel (Bella Vista), the semi-sumerged underground hote in Bozen, Italy, so we were pleased to come across 6 Fascinating Underground Homes on Inhabitat. Of course, you can’t book a stay in these places like you can a hotel, but they just might change your idea of a dream home.”
slightlywarped.com’s Curiosities: “Ten miles from the Russian border in Finland, you will find this strange collection of statues created by a farmer. At first glance, they are odd but when you get closer, you discover something truly unsettling.”
Creating Text on a Path in Illustrator : Shutterstock: “This beginner-level tutorial will show you how to put type on a path. This basic skill can lend a dynamic element to your work and is quite fun to use.
Often a designer needs to have text follow an open path or a closed path (shape) to create a design element which involves type. Text-on-a-path can be used to create stickers, emblems, and awards. In this beginner level tutorial, we’ll examine how to have text follow a path or shape using Adobe Illustrator (AI). “
Lucid Dream Guru – Master the Art of Lucid Dreaming: “Learning To Lucid Dream!
A Lucid Dream is a dream where the person sleeping becomes conscious and aware that they are dreaming. Once this consciousness is achieved, the dreamer is able to engage and even manipulate the dream as they desire. Since the dream is a re-creation from the dreamer’s own mind, the possibilities of what can be done in the dream is limited only by their own imagination.
On this site, we have included 6 proven techniques that have helped many people master the ability to become lucid in their dreams. However, before you begin these techniques, it is recommended that you read The Lucid Dream Primer to provide you with the fundamental knowledge that will increase your chances of success with these techniques.”
These guns can’t kill you – they are ice cream » This Blog Rules | Why go elsewhere?: “At first glance it looks like they’re putting real guns in their mouths, but in real life they are eating edible ice guns.
They all have different kinds of flavors–cola, cherry, licorice and black currant. They are an addition to the first 50 tinted ice guns that Florian Jenett and Valentin Beinroth made and placed in downtown Frankfurt a few years ago.
These edible eatables where exhibited at an art show called ‘Freeze Revisited’, and their existence certainly shocked a lot of people.”
Miniature Art on the Tip of Pencil by Dalton Ghetti: “Many artists have used pencils to create works of art – but Dalton Ghetti creates miniature masterpieces on the tips of pencils
Dalton, who works as a carpenter, has been making his tiny graphite works for about 25 years. A sculpture of Elvis Presley wearing shades, carved from a single pencil.”
Deep in the forest of Parikkala, in the easternmost part of Finland, lies one of the craziest tourist attractions on the face of the planet – the sculpture park of Veijo Rönkkönen.
[From The Sculpture Park of Veijo Rönkkönen Is the Weirdest Place in Finland | funny picture from web]
it uses the internal gyroscope of the device to automatically take photos while you’re moving the camera around you. It then assembles the photos into one of six collage themes in near real-time. You don’t need to worry about aligning edges of photos; the app knows the orientation of the iPhone 4 during the moment when each photo is being captured, so it takes care of the alignment for you.
Product designers Hyoungmin Park and Jeongmin Lee have created a tape roll with realistic looking hinges on it. It looks pretty interesting on a box.
Today is a good time as any to scare your friends. And here’s a new trick on how to get a few good screams. You simply need the fence you would normally use around your house. This should be easy to shape and stand up on its own. Now simply follow the pictures, shaping is the easy part. Whenever on a picnic, fishing or hiking, you can place your ghost in the forest and wait for the effect!
[From Hollow Man | Vision02]
Crayola crayons have come in a multitude of different colors since their introduction in 1903. By 1905 Binney & Smith’s Crayola crayon product line had reached 30 different colors.[1] In 1958 the number of colors increased to 64. Eight fluorescent colors were introduced in 1972, increasing the total number of colors to 72. In 1990 the total increased to 80 colors with the introduction of 16 new colors and the discontinuation of eight colors. The number of available colors was increased to 96 in 1993 and to 120 in 1998, though with thirteen crayons being retired along the way, the grand total of colors is 133[2]. Along with the regular packs of crayons, there have been many specialty sets, including Silver Swirls[3], Gem Tones[4], Pearl Brite[5], Metallic FX[6], Magic Scent[7], Silly Scents[8], and more.
Colors have been renamed through the years. In 1958, Prussian Blue was renamed Midnight Blue. The color known as Flesh was renamed Peach in 1962, partially in response to the U.S. Civil Rights Movement. Indian Red was renamed Chestnut in 1999 due to concern that some children thought the crayon color represented the skin color of Native Americans.[2] According to the company, however, the name originally referred to a reddish-brown pigment from India that is used in artists’ oil paint.[2] In the past, some crayons have been temporarily renamed, such as the 2004 State-Your-Color Contest[9] crayons and the 8 Kids’ Choice Colors in the 2008 50th anniversary 64-count box.[10]
[From List of Crayola crayon colors – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia]
Some of these might be innocent mistakes, but I imagine most of them are the result of bored workers.
[From Curiosities: Price Tag Fails]
Do you aspire to something more original than a generic Ikea-filled home?
These blogs are full of inspired home-styling ideas, suggestions of how to support small-scale, affordable designers selling handmade items and vintage and modern homeware, as well as tips for upcycling old furniture.
This list does not cover architecture or wedding design and is a small selection from the thousands of blogs focusing on interiors, graphic and product design. All post regularly and have a strong identity with original content.
multi-touch the storm – interactive sound visuals – subcycle labs from christian bannister on Vimeo. ckquote cite=”http://vimeo.com/7000376″> sound visualization, multi-touch interface, break beat performance engine, sonic navigation, sound storm visualization, time machine, interactive sound, time stretch tabla more at subcycle.org [From multi-touch the storm – interactive sound visuals – subcycle labs on Vimeo]
See what happens when people use sleeves from classic vinyl records to spice up their photographs, the results are truly spectacular…
Sleeveface is an international phenomenon wherein one or more persons obscure or augment body parts with record sleeve(s), causing an illusion.
In discussion with Dornob, he noted that one of the highest forms of praise one can receive is when someone tells you they recognized something as your design because it looked unlike anything you have done to date. His inspirations include such ground-breaking architects as Antoni Gaudi, Frank Lloyd Wright and Bruce Goff – designers who diverged from the mainstream styles of their times.
[From (A) Futuristic, (B) Retro, (C) Organic or (D) Architecture « Dornob]
Other highlights arrive in the 70s Bowie funk snark of opener Hot Body Rub, Bright Lit Blue Skies’ quietly euphoric pop radio charge, L’estat’s synth whirl and Reminiscences’ pleasant, aquatic drift. In fact, every track on this superb album is a winner – and, draped in the quiet glamour, fun and stateliness of bygone radio pop-rock, evidence that Ariel has emerged from his bedroom to exact his revenge on Hollywood’s Hills.
[From BBC – Music – Review of Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti – Before Today]
Top 33 World’s Strangest Buildings (sorted by 4.520 visitors votes)
[From Top 33 World’s Strangest Buildings (sorted by 4.520 visitors votes) | Bored Panda]
