Thursday, July 31, 2008

Interesting Pillows: Part -2.

Interesting Pillows: Part -2.

Here are few more interesting pillows we came across.

Get Cosy:

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Get Cosy (2) 2Designed by Berlin based Bombdesign, which looks for new interpretations of the everyday objects and rethinking the obvious. With Get Cosy you can sit down and slip your cold feet into the second cosy cushion and comfort is assured.

Laptop Pillows:

Laptop PillowsThese laptop pillows provide laptop users with a portable, heat-shielded surface for increased comfort and stability. Apart from this, sustainable materials and methods are used for the construction of these pillows. We would really like to get one for ourselves.

Reading Pillow:

Reading PillowCreation of Meg McElwee, a Montessori teacher, fiber artist, and pattern designer.

Pillow with a pocket for TV remote:

Pillow with a pocket for TV remoteLips shaped velvet pillow:

Lips shaped velvet pillowCute! Available in three sizes and colors.

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System Administrator Appreciation Day.

System Administrator Appreciation Day.

July 25th, 2008 was the 9th Annual System Administrator Appreciation Day, a special international day, a day to show that you truly appreciate the hard work and dedication of your System Administrator. These guys get no respect 364 days a year and the least you could do on this day is to present a nice gift and some public acknowledgement for their diligent work. These are the people who are paged even when the email server goes down at 2 AM on a Sunday, they wake up and have to work. These are the professionals, who plan, worry, fix, push, advocate, protect and make sure your computer is working in a healthy way and your network connection is safe, secure, open, and working.
Its quite a possibility that sometimes you don't even know who your System Administrators are, but this is one day to recognize your System Administrator for their workplace contributions and all the things they do for you and your business.
If you read this, then do thank your sysadmin.

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Feather Paintings.
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Houses With A Difference.
Spaghetti Cabling & Need For Cable Management.
How Would You Like Your Satellite TV Dish Antenna To Look?

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Motor Guitar.

Motor Guitar.

It's from the movies of the fifties, that it became evident that the electric guitar and motorcycle were first cousins! Building this instrument was really fun for McGilton and what made it special was to get the circuit working for the engine sounds. There are separate control buttons for REV and IDLE on the crankcase (pickguard cover). You have to pull down the vibrato arm (machined like a kickstarter), and pressing the rev button to start the Motor Guitar. At the ends of the exhaust pipes there are output jacks, one for the guitar circuit, the other for the engine sounds. Apart from this the balance is adjusted with the guitar output volume, and with 2 jacks; engine sounds and guitar have separate jacks in exhaust trumpets for stereo effects, and to permit guitar to go through effect boxes. It has 12" rubber tire, chrome spokes and disc brake son the wheel.
The creator: Exotic Guitars are the work of Peter McGilton, winner of a National Sculpture Award, an Art Educator, Artist, and Inventor. He has a Masters Degree in Fine Arts, and postgraduate studies in classical instrument construction. These guitars are the result of decades of invention and imagination.

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Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Bella Italia Weine By Ippolito Fleitz Group.

Bella Italia Weine By Ippolito Fleitz Group.

Bella Italia is a wine store as well as a restaurant, designed by the team of Gunter Fleitz and Peter Ippolito for Ippolito Fleitz Group. Owned by a typical warm-hearted Sicilian woman, who sells the products of her home country and offers a creative home-style cuisine on an upscale level, sends out the Italian spirit to Germany. Its highlighted by a ceiling mounted with over 90 different mirrors found on garage sales and there is a kind of room in the room. Apart from this, its large oval table, a large round mirror on a wall with textile covering, a carpet and a few of the lamps from the ceiling gives this space a homelike sitting-room.

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Street Art Installations - Human Plants.

Street Art Installations - Human Plants.

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The Camper - World's Lowest VW Bus.

The Camper - World's Lowest VW Bus.

Volkswagen parts' specialist Just Kampers teamed up with Turner prize nominated artist, Andy Saunders in a bid to create the World's Lowest VW Bus - also known as the Camper. The team lowered the roof, body section and lowered a VW Van (a T25) until it is just 3 foot tall, VW Bus entitled "Vancake" that's fully road legal was created by Saunders and his team in just three days over a weekend at the BugJam event, Santa Pod. Apart from lowering the roof the team also applied a custom paint job and an electric sunroof.

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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual.

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual.

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual designed by Emilio Ambasz in 1975 which, subsequently went on to win the 1980 'Progressive Architecture Award'; it also brought Emilio Ambasz to international attention as an architect is one of the most compelling architectural images of our time. 'Andalusian Dream' as its described is located in 600 hectares of lush countryside of olive groves, evergreen trees and overlooking a sparkling lake. The house reflects strong Arabic and Moorish influence.

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual (9) 1Aerial photography.

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La Casa de Retiro Espiritual (9) 3Exteriors daytime photography.

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual (9) 4The mirador photography.

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual (9) 5The patio photography.

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual (9) 6The exterior night-time photography.

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual (9) 7The interiors daytime photography.

La Casa de Retiro Espiritual (9) 8The interiors night-time photography.

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Innovative & Interesting Way To Promote A Product.

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HP And Its Huge Packing.

HP And Its Huge Packing.

The below picture is of a package received by Mike Cresswell a Reg reader a while ago from HP.

HP And Its Huge Packing (3) 1"As you can see, it had been shipped on a wooden pallet, no doubt to support the immense weight involved. We tore back the black plastic so that the awesome size of the package on the pallet could be seen. "When we finally finished taking pictures and falling around laughing we found the package contained one vanilla flavour PS2 mouse. We could only think that it was a much fatter mouse when it was shipped but had lost a lot of weight due to the amount of time it took to arrive."

And here is another one again from HP: 17 boxes to protect 32 A4 sheets.

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Transparent Canoe.

Transparent Canoe.

It's made out of polycarbonate material lighter than most aluminium or wood canoes, weighs only 40 lbs., and this transparent canoe provides 100% visibility. Comes with a price tag of $1,475.

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Art School Made Me Do This.

Art School Made Me Do This.

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Monday, July 28, 2008

Unbelievable X-rays: Part - 2.

Unbelievable X-rays: Part - 2.

You guys remember the 'Unbelievable X-rays: Part - 1' which was quite a success and many liked it! And now we have the second part of it. These x-rays are also quite intriguing and make one really wonder how such odd objects end up inside the human body. So what "excuse" would be used here for ending up these articles inside the body?

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Unbelievable X-rays: Part - 2 (9) 9Source: 1 (NSFW), 2.

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Eyelid Tattoos - Something That You Need To Think About.

Eyelid Tattoos - Something That You Need To Think About.

We thought we are through with the tattoo posts and we had enough of these, and again we came across something really interesting and we felt it needs to be posted. And here we have 'Eyelid Tattoos', now this is something extreme and even an artistic challenge for the artist too, to work on such thin and delicate part of the body. This makes us think why people need to do it at the first place, perhaps may be these people must have had enough of the traditional places which are mostly hidden under clothing and now want something extreme and different! Very realistic.

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The Leonardo Glass Cube By 3deluxe.

The Leonardo Glass Cube By 3deluxe.

The Leonardo Glass Cube created by 3deluxe is distinctive corporate architecture for the brand Leonardo. This integrative design concept is an interesting combination of architecture, interior designing and landscaping. One of the design features is the multi-layered composition of the building. This pavilion located somewhere outside the village Baddriburg in Germany 'maintains the difference between ground and architecture, while at the same time bind them together firmly. Fascinating in that sense is the plinth at the point where the facade hinges into the pavement. Quite a contrast to the fashion to make buildings appear like they are floating above the ground - no, this pavilion stands its ground.'

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Sunday, July 27, 2008

Mixed Links And Images: Part - 15.

Mixed Links And Images: Part - 15.

Stumbler's Day: 'This image pretty much summarizes my typical day since I joined StumbleUpon.' So how many of you have this typical day :)

Stumbler's DayCooling Computer:

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Cooling Computer (5) 6Statue of Liberty maze unveiled in Yorkshire:

Statue of Liberty maze unveiled in YorkshirA maze featuring a recreation of the Statue of Liberty 10 times larger than the original has been unveiled in Yorkshire. Composed of more than a million living maize plants and covering about 18 acres, its one of the biggest mazes ever constructed. Link.

Interesting Plane:

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Interesting Plane (8) 8Interesting Installation:

Interesting Installation Worker, an intervention by sculptor/artist Pauline.

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Saturday, July 26, 2008

The Tallest Vehicular Bridge In The World - The Millau Viaduct.

The Tallest Vehicular Bridge In The World - The Millau Viaduct.

The tallest vehicular bridge in the world - The Millau Viaduct is a large cable-stayed road-bridge designed by the structural engineer Michel Virlogeux and British architect Norman Foster. Its a part of the A75-A71 autoroute axis from Paris to Béziers, formally dedicated on 14 December 2004, inaugurated the day after and opened to public two days later. What makes it special is the fact that it's slightly taller than the Eiffel Tower with its one mast's summit at 343 metres (1,125 ft) and only 38 m (125 ft) shorter than the Empire State Building. Apart from this, its construction broke three world records: the highest pylons in the world, the highest mast in the world and the highest road bridge deck in the world.
Scheduled for completion in December 2009 the Chenab Bridge in the Reasi District of Jammu and Kashmir (India) will be 359 metres (1,180 ft) high, and its likely that Millau Viaduct will lose its position as the highest bridge deck in the world.

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Art By Tony Ariawan.

Art By Tony Ariawan.

Digital illustrations by Tony Ariawan are really something which are quite interesting. All the S.H.M.E.D Collection were made using Photoshop CS2. And if you want to know how to build this artwork check this quick tutorial. Presently he is residing in Yogyakarta, Indonesia and in his own words, he is 'simple ordinary guy who loves graphics & 3d graphics.' Digital illustrations (6) 1
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A Product Comparison Project - Advertising Vs Reality.

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Glide Dental Floss.

Saatchi & Saatchi New York has come up with this interesting visual to promote Crest's new Glide Dental Floss. One needs to think what's pig got to do with dental floss; we see a pig holding the dental floss around its neck. Is it supposed to be a visual pun :)

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The World's Most Expensive Toy Car.

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Friday, July 25, 2008

Amazing Light Trail Photographs.

Amazing Light Trail Photographs.

Here are some amazing light trail photographs, and if you are interested to take a few photos yourself then the Digital Photography School blog has really good beginner's guide. For instance:
'Location - the most obvious thing with location is that you'll need it to be somewhere near a road - however there's more to think about than that.' The location should be chosen to add some interest to the photo. ' This might be one where there are well lit buildings along the road, one where multiple roads merge together to create light trails in different directions, on the bend of a road so that the trails sweep through the image, near a roundabout so the trails create circular shapes, in the middle of dual carriageways.'

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