I’m so sad that I am late on the uptake with this fine illustrator/painter, Eric Fortune. Spending up to 160 hours on a painting, he’s truly a master of his craft. And I seem to just have missed his art opening at Copro Nason, in Los Angeles! Needless to say, here’s a fellow who should be on your radar! As well if you live in the Los Angeles area, the show is still up!
Apparently people are running out of ideas for movies… Get this, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies?! Are you ready?
I take the metro a lot on weekends, its easier than parking, it’s cheaper than gas, and I always meet an interesting random person. In Paris, IKEA is making your wait for the subway a bit more comfortable from March 10-24. They’ll be making it like your own little underground living room with couches, chairs, lamps, and end tables! Brilliant!
What?! Inventions are getting crazier and crazier. Do you hate when your friends refuse to smile, therefore ruining the what could have been perfect picture? Well here’s a creation just for you!
The camera “Artificial Smile” is an apparat, whose pictures show in principle only smiling people, irrespective of their former emotional state. The camera uses a pool of pictures with smiling faces, which was created beforehand, to replace the mouthes of the pictured people with smiling ones. To generate to maximum level of exaggeration it was knowingly renounced to show the laughter/smile realistically.
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Because bananas are just so not cool (haha) Chiquita Banana has decided to refresh its brand image. They revamped their trademark blue stickers and created 25 super fun characters. You can read more about the whole process of the campaign here. I’m an avid banana buyer but I have yet to come across these cool bananas! Has anyone spotted them yet?
You may recognize Pomplamoose from their cover of Beyoncé’s “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” which they released last year. The duo of Conte and Nataly Dawn have covered artists from Michael Jackson and Earth, Wind & Fire, to Simon and Garfunkel and Radiohead (watch “National Anthem”.) They add to their already impressive resume with this cover of Lady Gaga and Beyoncé’s “Telephone.” Not only do they completely make the song their own, but they also manage to skewer Gaga’s over the top, go nowhere excercise in excess and obvious product placement with some tongue in check visuals of their own.
This video for Dutch electro group, Nobody Beats the Drum is fantastic! It’s not CG, but actually a sequence of 4,085 photos!
Now maybe I’m super naive, or maybe this isn’t a huge deal, but when I saw this picture I had to share it, along with the story…I never knew the animal world worked so well together!
“A zebra at Zurich Zoo appeared to be staring into the jaws of death when visitors saw it nose to nose with an open-mouthed hippopotamus.
But the hippo had no intention of having the zebra for lunch – it was having its teeth cleaned.
The extraordinary sight was captured by photographer Jill Sonsteby, from Jacksonville, Florida.
She said the teeth-cleaning session lasted 15 minutes and the zebra came to no harm.”
Read the rest here.
This series called “Potency” by Nina Maria Kleivan (a Danish-Norwegian artist), shows her daughter dressed up as various dictators to show how “[w]e all begin life the same. We all have every opportunity ahead of us. To do good, or inexplicable evil.”
We are so spoiled with the keyboards we have and we probably don’t even realize it. Of course much hard work came together to give us the little typing devices, here’s are some keyboards that could have been made, but really just weren’t that practical…
