This dazzlingly beautiful rug is from Top Floor, a multi-award winning design studio based in London. The firm, founded in 1988 by Design Director Esti Barnes, is located at the Chelsea Harbour Design Centre.
The hand-tufted Ethereal rug can be ordered by customers in any color or size.
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Archive for July, 2008
Amazing Steampunk Diving Suits and Submarines
Published July 30th, 2008 in Cool Stuff and Retro. 0 CommentsThe Upcool site has some mind-blowing pictures of old underwater diving suits and submarines.
Some of the diving suits can be described as distinctively ‘steampunk’ in appearance, even though the term refers to a genre of fantasy fiction set in the Victorian era.
I really love this particular suit. Just imagine what that hook can [...]
Roadmovie – Brilliant Stop Motion Animated Film by Rogier Wieland
Published July 29th, 2008 in Animation. 0 CommentsRoadmovie is a very creative stop motion film by Rogier Wieland, an animator based in the Netherlands. He used cardboard cutouts and iStopMotion from Boinx Software to create his masterpiece.
Visit Rogier’s Youtube channel to see more great videos.
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Bluetooth Web Camera Concept From Flynn Product Design
Published July 29th, 2008 in Gadgets. 0 CommentsArahnaphobes beware ! This is the most creepiest thing you will see in a while.
Update: The good folks at Flynn Product Design have now provided the latest images.
This spider-like monstrosity is a concept wireless web camera from Flynn Product Design.
Made with materials like ABS and Polypropylene, the webcam does not offer face tracking as [...]
Calamity Jon’s blog has scans from a 1998 "Secret Files" comic, which sheds some light on the origins of the various villains in Superman’s universe.
The origins stories, created by artist and writer Stuart Immonen, features some of Superman’s greatest foes like Lex Luthor and the unstoppable (almost !) Doomsday.
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What makes it [...]
Animation Backgrounds Blog has Images From Retro Animated Films and Cartoons
Published July 26th, 2008 in Animation. 0 Comments
The Animation Backgrounds blog has a huge collection of lovely images taken from retro animated films from Disney and other movie studios.
I have always been a fan of hand painted backgrounds, especially the ones in the Tom and Jerry series created during the Hanna Barbera era, which were produced by Fred Quimby.
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Back in 2007, I had posted Leslie Fiest’s music video for her single ‘1234′ from the Reminder album. Recently, Fiest made a special appearance on Sesame Street, and performed her hit song, and this time, it’s with the Muppets.
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This particular video from the College Humor guys cracked me up.
What if typeface fonts were really humans ?
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I have always believed that good design should be functional, beautiful and practical. The HANG wall hooks from Italian design house Seletti fulfill all these conditions.
The letters are 8” tall, and come with all the requisite hardware required for installation. You can buy the set here for $68.
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I Met The Walrus - Watch the Oscar Nominated Short Film
Published July 14th, 2008 in Animation, Movies and Music. 0 CommentsThe multi-award winning "I Met The Walrus" short film is based on a real life encounter between John Lennon and a 14 year old fan at Toronto’s King Edward Hotel in 1969. Lennon graciously allowed Jerry Levitan, the young fan, to conduct an impromptu interview, which he (Jerry) recorded with the aid of a reel-to-reel [...]
“Wonder Word” was a single released in the year 2004 by the now defunct Japanese alternative rock band Supercar.
The visually bizzare video for the song, directed by Koichiro Tsujikawa, is arresting, and brilliant.
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Watch a rather funny and irreverent commercial for Heineken Beer.
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I just dig the Sweeney Todd reference on this totally sweet-looking Razorblade Mirror from Suck UK. I’m not totally sold on the functionality part, but would still love to own one.
The mirror is priced at £75.00 (or about $149).
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Mithun Says,
“Dancing Queen is a short film directed by Sumit Roy, a writer and award winning filmmaker based in India. The film is a moving look at the joy of dancing.”
Amazingly, the entire video has been shot on a Nokia mobile phone.
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The Marvel Super Heroes – Campy Theme Songs From the 1966 Cartoon Series
Published July 7th, 2008 in Comics. 0 CommentsThe Marvel Super Heroes was an animated cartoon series, first broadcast on U.S. television in the 1960s.
The low budget series used the technique of xerography; a process that involved the use of photocopied images from comic books, which were then manipulated to animate the characters.
The program had five segments, and each one featured the [...]
Download DIY Instructions For Wall-E Papercraft Model
Published July 6th, 2008 in Art, Download and Movies. 0 CommentsArtist Kellen Waugh has provided printable DIY directions for creating your own Wall-E paper model.
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One more cover this time. After singing a cover of Nine Inch Nails ‘Hurt’, Kermit is back with a “muppetified” cover of Radiohead’s ‘Creep’, which just happens to be one of my favorite songs.
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I find the stuff on the Married To The Sea webcomic to be quite hilarious. This particular comic strip with a steampunk reference is especially funny.
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This one is slightly dated, but is still a goodie. Watch Rick Miller, the man of many voices, perform a cover of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody.
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I just adore the casually playful nature of the song ‘Hey Hey Hey’ by Room Eleven, a band based in Holland. Singer Janne Schra’s voice has been described as “a juicy green meadow, just after sunset, covered in fresh dew.”
Fittingly enough, the official video for the song is as light and summery as the [...]
