Guy has Glasses Tattooed on his Face

Matthew went to the tattoo parlor where he gets a pair of glasses tattooed over his eyes.

Seagull Stealing Doritos

A sneaky seagull has turned shoplifter by wandering into a store and helping himself to his favourite crisps.
The fearless bird lies in wait every day and pounces at a corner shop in Aberdeen when the door opens.
He sneaks in, grabs his spicy Doritos, then flies off with them in his beak and shares them with other birds.

Olympic Gymnast Damien Walters

Olympic gymnast Damien Walters does what usually only superheroes can do.

Watch him show off his parkour moves!

Via [Neatorama]

Creative Units, Aberystwyth, by Heatherwick Studio

The eight new Creative Units, designed and built by Heatherwick Studio have already established themselves as new landmarks for Aberystwyth and go to further enhance the Art Centre’s reputation as one of the leading venues for contemporary arts and culture in the UK.
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Phillip Toledano

Born in London to an American father and a French-Moroccan mother, Philip Toledano has been taking pictures since he was 11. While Phillip believes that all photographs should start with an idea, he thinks that every image should leave some questions unanswered. You will find on this website the photographs of very extreme and strange and different situation. Some picture like the ones in the Atlantic show that even in extreme condition you can find a source of life. His photographs are always taking about something that won’t let you indifferent.

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Shiny Balls Mirror By Daniel Rozin

The shiny balls mirror is a large physical object made by Daniel Rozin. It is composed of 900 hollow metal tubes with polished chrome balls placed in them. The hole piece has the form of a large hexagon. Each hollow tube and shiny ball represent one pixel on the display. The pixel has the ability to change its brightness by moving the chrome ball in or out of the tube.

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Austrian Design Firm “Eoos”

Offered plenty of opportunities upon graduating from design school in 1995, three young Austrian designers opted to start their own company: “Eoos”.The trio’s collective CV includes everything from boutiques for Adidas and Armani Cosmetics to lighting for Zumbell Staff to plush seating for Knoll.

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Yayoi Kusma

Yayoi Kusma started to paint using polka dots and nets as motifs. She created fantastic paintings in watercolors, pastels and oils.

Early in Kusama’s career, she began covering surfaces (walls, floors, canvases, and later, household objects and naked assistants) with the polka dots that would become a trademark of her work. The vast fields of polka dots, or “infinity nets,” as she called them, were taken directly from her hallucinations.

[Via Guardian Unlimited]

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Denis Santachiara

Denis Santachiara was born the 4th of may 1950 in Campagnola, Italy. He has chosen Milan as his adoptive city. This designer is a self-taught person who has always been fascinated by technology which he considers “poetic language”.

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Masanari Umeda

Masanari Umeda obtained his diploma from the Kuwasawa School of Design in Tokio in 1962. In 1967, he worked for the studio of Achille Piergiacomo Castiglioni. From 1970 to 1979 Umeda was design consultant for Olivetti. He has participated in several international exhibitions and won the Braun Prize in Germany in 1968, the Japanese Associated Commercial Designer’s Prize in 1984.

The Japanese designer was inspired by various shapes of blossoms and designed, among others, the armchair “Getsuen”, which means “garden in the moonlight”. The two realms are also increasingly merged in a playful and artful way through the use of artificial materials or shapes derived from nature – for example in pocketbooks sewn from artificial grass, and glass vases that grow thorns.

Watch out when you sit down…

Olafur Eliasson

Olafur Eliasson is born in 1967 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He’s an Icelandic artist who was really inspired by the light of this northern country. Eliasson is now presenting his new exhibition at the Hara Museum in Tokyo. In this exhibition, the artist throws out various questions concerning colors: where could be the border between red and yellow? How would we perceive things in a world devoid of colors? The viewer’s interpretation is influenced by their culture and history.

Fernando And Umberto Campana

Drawing inspiration from Brazilian street life and carnival culture, the brothers FERNANDO AND HUMBERTO CAMPANA combine found objects “ such as scraps of wood and fabric off-cuts with advanced technologies to create a vibrant, energetic and definitively Brazilian approach to design. Taking their cue from everyday scenarios and using unexpected combinations of found materials “ such as rubber hose, tissue paper, string or furry toys, Fernando and Humberto Campana transform modest materials into objects that celebrate the discarded and mundane and are instilled with the spirit of contemporary Brazil that they describe as “zest for life”. Read More…

Chair One By Konstantin Grcic

Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich, Germany in 1965. After training as a cabinet maker at Parnham College in England, he studied design at the Royal College of Art in London from 1988-1990. Konstantin Grcic creates industrial products widely described as pared down, simple and minimalist. What sets him apart from the minimalism in fashionable currency today is that he defines function in human terms, combining maximum formal strictness with considerable mental acuity and humor.

Fabulous, original and eyecatching are just a few words to describe the beautiful design of the Chair One by Konstantin Grcic. Through his minimalist industrial style, he has constructed a form that’s statuesque, elegant and hard to forget. It is made of a clear coat concrete base with a die-cast and powder coated aluminum seat. The Chair One family is extremely versatile, and suitable for indoor and outdoor use.

Karim Rashid

Karim Rashid is a leading figure in the fields of product and interior design, fashion, furniture, lighting and art. He received a Bachelor of Industrial Design degree from Carleton university in 1982 and completed his postgraduate studies in Italy Born in Cairo, half Egyptian, half English, and raised in Canada, Karim now practices in New York. His work is in the permanent collections of 14 Museums worldwide including MoMA and SFMoMA and he exhibits art in various galleries. Karim was an associate Professor of Industrial Design for 10 years and is now a frequent guest lecturer at universities and conferences globally. His approach to design can be described as functional and holistic.

Benjamin Pagart

Benjamin Pagart finished his cabinetmaker studies in Neufchateau, France. He was doing traditional furniture, but 3 years later he decided to go to Paris were he continued his studies and finished as one of the six laureates for the examination of Art Academy of Paris. At 30 (he already has six children), he’s working on special orders from contemporary designers. Here you can see his style, between Art Deco and Art Nouveau. He uses many kinds of wood patches and wrought iron. He never produces more than 8 exemplaries of a furniture.

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