Archive for November, 2007
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Mashed Potato Contest
Photos from the 2006 Mashed Potato Contest
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Sunday, November 25th, 2007
Woodpecker Hotel
Via Sellsius:
The Woodpecker Hotel in Vasteras, Sweden is perched 43 feet up a 130 year old oak tree like a lone nest. It’s the creation of Mikael Genberg, who also designed the Otter Inn, a hotel which floats on Lake Malaren.
More strange accommodations on Unusual Hotels of the World.
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Friday, November 23rd, 2007
Dome House for Sale
One of LA’s most unusual homes: This pioneering work of vertically interconnected spaces defies domestic convention, using ideas once promoted in The Whole Earth Catalog now staples of architecture and sustainable design. Flexible live-work arrangements are accommodated within the lower levels, illuminated by a dozen skylights, earth sheltered and topped by a green roof for […]
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Sleep in a paper house in Eve’s Garden
Eve’s Garden is an organic Bed and Breakfast and Ecology Resource Center, located in the high mountain desert of West Texas, at the gateway to Big Bend National Park, in Marathon, Texas. It features a research level organic gardening demonstration site and an urban hacienda, combining to provide a comfortable Bed and Breakfast environment and […]
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Toilet-themed restaurant
This Taipei restaurant might consider it a compliment to be called an outhouse as the Modern Toilet diner is one of chain of themed eateries appealing to largely young clientele with a toilet humor.
All 100 seats in the crowded diner are made from toilet bowls, not chairs. Sink faucets and gender-coded “WC” signs appear throughout […]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
Elvis hotel implodes in Las Vegas
The New Frontier Hotel in Las Vegas was imploded to make way for The Plaza, a multi-billion dollar resort which will open in 2011. Elvis made his Las Vegas debut at the New Frontier in 1956 in the futuristic new showroom - the Venus Room.
From the Western-themed hotel that had opened as the […]
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Tuesday, November 13th, 2007
Moscow graffiti buildings
Plain apartment houses decorated in graffiti and Japanese-style anime designs on Damn Cool Pics.
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Saturday, November 10th, 2007
Bike Seat
Scarabike, a bicycle producing company - which offers customized products -presented a sofa and a stool made of bicycle seats.
From 2007 Tokyo Designer’s Week.
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Sunday, November 4th, 2007
Museum of Bad Art
Since 1994, the Museum of Bad Art has been dedicated to bad art. It is only through the efforts of the worldwide Friends of MOBA that we have been able to carry out our mission: to bring the worst of art to the widest of audiences.
MOBA maintains this web site as well as a bricks-and-mortar […]
