Archive for October, 2008
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
• Happy Halloween! and Don’t Forget to Vote!
YES WE CARVE
Pumpkins for Obama. A collection of Americans (and beyond) showing Obama support in a fun, positive, October appropriate way. Download, carve & share YOUR Barack O’Lantern at www.YesWeCarve.com
…And on a possibly related note, Marlow and I are officially opening our Official Bad Art Museum of Art ( or O.B.A.M.A. ) on Saturday, November [...]
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
• Architecture is a special effects machine
• Architect Liz Diller shares her firm DS+R’s more unusual work, including the Blur Building, whose walls are made of fog, and the revamped Alice Tully Hall, which is wrapped in glowing wooden skin.
No Comments » - Posted in Architects and Designers, Outrageous Architecture by JoDavid
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
• And now for something completely different…
• Get fit, bitches !!!
No Comments » - Posted in Fascinating People, Weird Things by JoDavid
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
Pink House (video)
Neighbors upset over hot pink house
No Comments » - Posted in Unusual Homes by Marlow Harris
Saturday, October 25th, 2008
Klein Bottle House
The Klein Bottle House is located in Rye, Australia and designed by Rob McBride. the unusual home design was inspired by its namesake: the klein bottle. this 19th century invention is used to describe a form which has no distinguishable inside or outside. the architects also wanted to move away from the paradigm of designing [...]
1 Comment » - Posted in Architects and Designers, Outrageous Architecture, Unusual Homes by Marlow Harris
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
That’ll put a few quid in the Banksy
According to the UK Sun, a couple hope to make £500,000 selling their mobile home — as it’s covered in art by Banksy.
Nathan Welland, 37, and Maeve Neal, 34, met Banksy through pals ten years ago when he was an unknown street artist.
He used their trailer to paint a 30ft by 7ft mural [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Unusual Homes by Marlow Harris
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Aren’t you glad?
Aren’t you glad these people aren’t your neighbors?
1 Comment » - Posted in Unusual Homes by Marlow Harris
Sunday, October 12th, 2008
Subterranea Britannica: A guide to all things underground
Subterranea Britannica is an organization with a website that features all sorts of underground man-made structures and places. There is information about 100’s of underground railways, postoffices, caves, bunkers, stations, tunnels. It has an especially interesting photo tour of Chernobyl, but this one is real (remember Chernobyl motorcycle girl? Not a hoax [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Strange Places by Marlow Harris
Thursday, October 9th, 2008
Fantastical personal library
From Wired:
Nothing quite prepares you for the culture shock of Jay Walker’s library. You exit the austere parlor of his New England home and pass through a hallway into the bibliographic equivalent of a Disney ride. Stuffed with landmark tomes and eye-grabbing historical objects—on the walls, on tables, standing on the floor—the room occupies about [...]
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
Mountain Wingsuit
Scary video of guys hurling themselves off of a mountain.
Mountain Wingsuit
