Rube Goldberg Breakfast Machine

Photo: Design Boom The Breakfast Machine is an art installation by Yuri Suzuki and Masa Kimura that makes a full breakfast for users through an elaborate series of Rube Goldberg -like devices. Pictured above is the section that prepares orange juice from scratch. It was featured at the Dutch Design Double design fair in Amsterdam. Video (in Dutch) at the link. Link via GearFuse | Yuri Suzuki’s Website

Ultraman Monsters on Transformer Boxes

Creative electric transformer boxes like this one – decorated with Ultraman [Wikipedia] monster silhouette paintings – can now be seen on the streets of Sukagawa City in Japan. Link

Proactive students will hinder H1N1

In recent weeks, the university has made many efforts to prevent an outbreak of H1N1 on campus. By the end of the first week of classes, if students were not aware of the pandemic waiting to sweep the halls of the White Hall Classroom Building, they received the memo loud and clear in the many H1N1 Policy additions to some of their class syllabi. UK has made its stance known and hopefully students have taken the subtle hints: use common sense. The university is using many of their resources in

Watermelon Carvings

Here comes October, which means it’s close to pumpkin carving time. But if you’re reluctant to let go of summer, head on over to Takashi Itoh’s and check out some wonderful watermelon carvings. Takashi says it only took him three weeks to become skilled at it. Link (Photo copyrighted by Takashi Itoh)

COMBO, Animated Graffiti by Blu and David Ellis

Remember Muto , the animated or time-lapse graffiti by Blu that took the InterWeb by storm? Well, here’s the sequel: a collaboration by Blu and David Ellis called COMBO (with music by Roberto Lange ) It was produced by Studio Cromie and released at the Fame Festival 2009 Link

COMBO, Animated Graffiti by Blu and David Ellis

Remember Muto , the animated or time-lapse graffiti by Blu that took the InterWeb by storm? Well, here’s the sequel: a collaboration by Blu and David Ellis called COMBO (with music by Roberto Lange ) It was produced by Studio Cromie and released at the Fame Festival 2009 Link

COMBO, Animated Graffiti by Blu and David Ellis

Posted by Alex in Arts Crafts on September 29, 2009 at 1:48 pm Remember Muto, the animated or time-lapse graffiti by Blu that took the InterWeb by storm? Well, here’s the sequel: a collaboration by Blu and David Ellis called COMBO (with music by Roberto Lange)It was produced by Studio Cromie and released at the Fame Festival 2009Link

Hipsters of the Universe

What would He-Man and the rest of the Masters of the Universe look like if they were into fashion? No need to imagine, as artist Adrian Riemann had re-drawn them as if they were Hipsters of the Universe: What would He-Man look like if he was really into fashion and indie rock? What if Skeletor was an American Apparel model living in Williamsburg, Brooklyn? What if She-Ra was an art school dropout that spent her time bar-hopping in the Lower East Side? For the past few months artists Adri

…quotes and autumn

I have a bit of an obsession with quotes. I have collected them my whole life; putting them in journals or writing them in scrapbooks. I love rereading the inspiring words of others. I learned to bookbind last month and made a quote book for my first project. I decided to make it entirely in black and white...so that the book is about the words and not the design of the paper. I love quotes in white ink. (Speaking of white pens. THIS pen by American Crafts in White Pastel is my new favorite!

Vintage Punk Clothes

Collectables -gt; Vintage, Retro, Mid-Century -gt; 1970s While vintage punk clothes are a popular item today, they didn’t even exist until the 1970s. The punk movement began in the 1970s in London with a small group of about 200 youth who wanted to go against the current trend. The movements was considered aggressive and promoting anarchy, and a music movement that went by the term punk emerged at the same time. Because of the punk movement and their idea of themselves as anti-fash

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