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Awesome Post Apocalyptic Sony PS3 Adswatch!
It's a shame that these Dali-inspired adverts, made by the Chilean advertising agency BBDO Chile, probably won't be put into circulation outside of South America. But that's also a good thing. We can't help but feel that while these images ...More ( Media )
Knife Holder
aplusrstore.com — Heres a new way to show off your sadistic side. While its actually intended by the designers to be a joke, Raffaele Ianello & CSBs Knife Holder delivers a savage look thats sure to draw a few stares from your house guestsMore ( Knives )
PrintBall (print with paintball gun)
daviddoctorrose.wordpress.com — Dublin-based French artist Benjamin Gaulon is still playing around with his Printball project. Think of a cross between an ink-jet printer and a paintball cannon. This time round, its positioned at a glass window in Dublin.More ( Tech News )
Screw perfume, buy her a Chanel rocket launcher
vinylpulse.com — We already showed you how to stay fashionable in urban combat situations. Along the same lines, Peter Gronquist has jazzed up retired rifles, chainsaws, machine guns and artillery shells and slapped big names on them: Louis Vuitton, Coach, Gucci probably not the brands you think of when you imagine a rocket launcher or an electric chair. There's even a ...More ( Guns )
Mean Looking Mini Rhino Sculpture Could Be Your Opportunity to Help Save the Animals
mocoloco.com — Here's one for the animal lovers. Scott Wilsons MNML design firm has partnered up with Kohler to produce a one-of-a-kind rhinoceros sculpture to auction off for Humanscales Faces in the Wild fundraiser, with the proceeds going to the World Wildlife Fund. The investment-cast, chrome-plated, solid bronze rhino weighs in at 27 lbs and is named Kera. As you can see, ...More ( Survival )
Nihilistic Beauty of Weapons Arranged in Patternswatch!
Camera Fashioned From 150 Year-Old Skull
gadgets.boingboing.net —
If you're going to make a pinhole camera for taking pictures with, there are probably more practical cases for it than a 150-year-old human skull. But then again, it's tough to find a more unique camera than the Third Eye, which is indeed made out of an old skull.
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Propaganda Design & Aesthetics: Soviet Retro Posterswatch!
One of the great aesthetic legacies of the Soviet Union is the great wealth of magnificent propaganda posters it left behind. In this post, I present some personal favorites.
More ( Media )Mind-blowing Bertie robot figurine: 14" tall, 43 joints, 100% awesome
dvice.com — Bertie, shown off in his "Dirty Deeds" variant above, stands 14 inches high and has 43 points of articulation (each cold, robotic finger has three joints, amazingly). He comes with various weaponry, from a grenade launcher and oversized revolver (complete with spinning chamber) to a giant knife. Oh, and a bag of severed heads most likely a hint at those ...More ( Media )
Martin Postlers Paper AK-47 Kit
aplusrstore.com — Heres one way to stay busy in the office when the day slows down. Martin Postlers AK-47 is exactly what the name implies, a paper kit that lets you cut and paste together your own realistic-looking Awtomat Kalaschinkowa assault rifle. Earlier this summer some of the UKs most-respected street artists took to decorating the gun for the Paper Wars exhibit ...More ( Guns )
Rock & Royal Custom Weapon Chandeliers
rockandroyal.com — Want a custom chandelier for your crib? How about a large crystal Dick? Or the weapon of your choice? Based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Rock and Royal has been hooking up elite homes with one-of-a-kind luxury chandeliers and photo realistic mosaics since 2005.More ( Guns )
Science, Art ? This is really coolwatch!
Tokyo-based SACHIKO KODAMA prefers FERROFLUIDS. Composed of magnetic nanoparticles, ferrofluids often contain high levels of iron and, as such, are deeply affected by and responsive to the presence of magnetic fields.
More ( Media )Pinel & Pinel Watch Trunks
pineletpinel.com — Looking for a new way to roll out your watch collection? French luxury trunk maker Pinel & Pinel has teamed up with Swiss watchmaker Piaget to create two of the most lavish leather watch trunks we've come across. Both trunks offer a huge variety of display options for your timepieces and come equipped with drawers suited for the rest of ...More ( Tools )
Time to Watch this Line
yankodesign.com — Forget wearing a watch as jewelry. Since you'll probably be using your cell phone as your primary timepiece, just wear a puzzle like this on your wrist and make those who ask you for the time figure it out. Confusion: That must have been designer Denis Guidones idea when he created this Ora Unica, or in English, One Hour.More ( Watches )
Crystal-encased Atmos 561 clock runs forever on thin air
technabob.com — The Atmos 561 mechanical clock, designed by Marc Newson, is powered by changes in the temperature, so you never need to wind it up. Oh, and also, its encased in a big block of crystal. This design marks the 80th anniversary of Atmos clocks by the Swiss maker Jaeger LeCoultre (try spelling that 10 times really fast!) Now bear with ...More ( Watches )
Cable lamps put the inside outside
dvice.com — These would look great in your secret underground bunker. Completely made up of huge tangles of thick wire, making the cabling an integral part of the design. They're pretty awesome looking, too, with all of the wires adding a lot of chaos and life to the forms. With most lamps, we try to hide the cabling away somewhere out of ...More ( Flashlights )
Redneck Taxidermy Art
divinecaroline.com — Apparently, adding a Styrofoam mannequin head into the ass of a freshly killed deer carcass is all the rage in the redneck art genre right now.More ( Media )
Superior Watch exudes futuristic style, snobbery
dvice.com — Kyle Cherry's "Superior" timepiece adds a touch of Wonder Woman style to the wristwatch. Made from solid tungsten carbide, the band is extremely durable, but it makes one wonder how you get the sucker on your wrist. Cherry actually has an innovative solution for that: a magnetic strip that connects the two halves of the watch together. The novel clasp ...More ( Watches )
Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
blog.wired.com — How? It's simple. The device has a slave unit on top which is triggered when it sees a flash fire. This triggers his own flash, which fires through the back of the camera, through a film slide containing his slogan and then on and out through the lens at the front. This works because a camera is pretty much a ...More ( Media )