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You can always count on OK Go to create a very creative music video.
More impressive than you might think.
Comic Sans Project - if global companies used Comic Sans in their logos.
A company has started producing customised pendants featuring topographic locations from Google Maps. Enter a location or postal code into the Fluid Forms website and choose the area you want to make into a pendant. For EUR 330.00, they will convert it into a 25x25x5mm silver pendant.
Fancy swimming in a 38-storey high outdoor pool? This new condominium in in the Bishan district of Singapore is due to be completed in 2015 and features a swimming pool atop the building that spans two towers.
Design Boom has lots more photos as well as a video.
"Representing time as a hexadecimal value". Very geeky.
Bryan Lewis Saunders is an artist that likes to draw pictures after taking different drugs. The above image was taken after consuming 2 Psilocybin Mushrooms.
In this interview on Dinosaur City, Bryan explains the project as well as describing what he experiences when taking the drugs. The PCP account is pretty crazy.
A new trend in Los Angeles is to combine bars with libraries. Styleture has photos of four different interiors around the city. I'd love to be able to photograph some for my other site, Travels with Beer.
The strangest iPhone charger you'll see today.
How a Super Nintendo version of the movie There Will Be Blood could look like. [via]
Ephemicropolis is a cityscape constructed entirely out of staples. Artist Peter Root spent 40 hours and used 100,000 staples of varying heights to construct the metal city.
You can view stills of the city on Peter's website
A website called Nmap.org has analysed the top million websites and produced this image. It shows the favicons of the websites with the largest representing the most popular websites. The smallest icons correspond to sites with approximately 0.0001% reach, and rescaled to 16×16 pixels. The largest icon belongs to Google, and it’s 11,936 x 11,936 pixels large.
You can view a large, zoomable version on the Nmap website. [via]
Vintage website adverts for YouTube, Facebook and Skype.
An entire run of Super Mario Bros cleverly superimposed onto a curb.
BevShots are posh prints of beers, wines and cocktails photographed under a microscope and featured as modern art. Each BevShot has a distinctive design and color combination. The image above is of an English Oatmeal Stout.
You can view more at BevShots.com. [via]
An oak table made from wood which formed part of the foundations of Old London Bridge is to be auctioned.
The old bridge was built in 1177 and removed in 1833. Owned by the Kinnaird Estate in Perthshire, the table could sell for up to £3,000. [via]
This free service from Pilot Pens allows you to convert your own handwriting into a font.
The Guardian is producing a visualisation of every World Cup game based on Twitter activity during the games.
This must have taken an age to make.
It may take a while to load but this 360° virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel is extremely detailed.
Straight from my Brain has created a periodic table of sweets containing traditional favourites such as Everton Mints and Sugar Mice, more modern sweets such as Cola Bottles and foam sweets and some radioactive sweets (i.e. the fizzy ones)
Employees from Google’s offices in London create the Google logo using 884 individually printed 4x6 photographs. The camera took a shot every 7 seconds, so about 5.5 hours of work is compressed into 1:20. [via]
Another excellent update from The Oatmeal - why people should stop building social networking sites.
A very inspiring interview with Tina Roth Eisenberg, the founder of the Swiss Miss blog. And if you haven't tried out the excellent, and very simple to use To-Do app Teux Deux, go check it out.
The Geocities-izer sends websites back in time and makes them look as though they were built by a 13-year-old using the once 'popular' Geocities.
Ben Heine is a Belgian artist/photographer who combines mixture of photography and illustration for an ongoing experimental series, Pencil Vs. Camera. You can view more here.
A man draws The Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer using a single BiC Cristal pen.
Apparently, this nylon strap is a chair. Inspired by a strap used by Ayoreo Indians, it allows a person to sit comfortably without having to carry a chair with them. Designed by a company called Vitra, the first batch of Chairless has already sold out. [via]
An infographic showing the relative sizes of 100 different Pixar characters.
I love the Tetris pieces taking out floors in the buildings.
The video was created by Patrick Jean from the Paris-based special effect studio One More Production. [via]
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