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In Vitro Grown Jacket - Victimless Leather
Here's a new kind of lab coat; the jacket is actually grown in vitro. The science is no longer just for breeding animals and people; it's now been applied to animal products including leather jackets. This makes it possible to wear goods such as animal skins without ever having to harm a creature.
Victimless Leather is a tissue culture and art project being shown at the Design and Elastic Mind exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibit shows how a small-scale version of a lea…
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Up close, you can see that these photographs consist of some fascinating detail; the entire design is made of plastic dolls. 32,000 Barbies, to be exact.
The images, created by photographer Chris Jordan, are more than just art; they are a form of social commentary and send a message backed by frig…
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32,000 Barbies Represent Real Boob Jobs - Social Commentary by Chris Jordan (GALLERY)
When she's there, she does little things that irritate the heck out of you, like hogging the blankets on cold nights. But when she's gone, you miss her horribly, quirks and all.
If you can relate, you'll appreciate the Accessories for Lonely Men by Noam Toran, which will solve all that. They inclu…
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Girlfriend Simulators - Accessories For Lonely Men (GALLERY)
Christopher Conte is a New York educated sculptor who began drawing at age 3.
In 2007, Conte began offering his really unique pieces of art for sale to the public for the first time and his work has been recently covered in Wired, Popular Science, Make Magazine, and used by The Discovery Channel a…
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Bio-Mechanical Sculptures - The Work of Christopher Conte (GALLERY)
You can not help but feel captivated and amazed by Mike Rea's geek-inspired wood sculptures. I went in thinking he is just another obsessed geek, but after reading his artist statement and an in-depth interview I find his art philosophical, thought-provoking and utterly genius.
Rea's goal is to cre…
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Amazing Geeky Art - Wood Sculptures by Mike Rea (GALLERY)
It seems the fascination with animal heads on the walls isn't letting up. These robotic animal head wall mounts make this our eighth fake taxidermy feature. We've seen classy antler chandeliers, and we've seen very tacky joke pieces. These are by far the most interaction of the bunch.
Motion sensor…
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Fake Taxidermy Part VIII - 11 Robotic Hunting Trophies (GALLERY)
Let's start with the punch line. This lamp will last for 200 years if used 8 hours a day, 365 days a year. Oh, and it gets its power from gravity, so no extrenal power resources are needed. Does it get any greener than this? The Gravia, gravity lamp, by a Virginia Tech student won second place in th…
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'Gravity Lamp' Lasts 200 Years, No Plug-in - The Gravia
If you're into nerdy art forms, you'll surely appreciate this art installation.
In his project, Richard Box combined nature with science as he laid 1,301 fluorescent bulbs on a 3,600 square metre field, with nothing above it but power lines.
The lights, which look like a freshly harvested wheat …
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Magnetic Field Powers 1,301 Fluorescent Lights - Flickering FIELD by Richard Box (GALLERY)
Young artist/designer Ah-young Yi used Wisteria to make this amazing piece of art he named, Lune Blanche which means white moon. Lune Blanche reflects a pattern of repetitive nature of the rule and the representation of a work of art. Hundreds and thousands of wooden 'toothpicks' were combined toget…
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Art Chair From Thousands of Toothpicks - Lune Blanche (GALLERY)
The Strap-On Chair, created by Cambridge, Massachusetts born and raised designer Annika Schmidt, is proudly taking on the established preconceptions of what a chair should look like. The chair is one of a progressive series of designs, and like its name suggests it is only fully functional when it i…
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Strap-On Chair - Legless Chair Looking For Love
We've heard of pop up boutiques and pop up restaurants, but now Architect Tim Pyne has designed a temporary hotel is London's trendy Hoxton. Pyne aims to start building works this summer and intends to fill the disused site for 8 years (which will be long enough to cash in on the Olympics boom). …
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One Night Stand Architecture - Demountable M-Hotel in East London (GALLERY)
I admire somebody that can string together creative string of profanity to make a point. Even more I love it when a cute little umbrella is festooned with some of the foulest language in our society. It's a standard umbrella that would be the perfect graduation or bridal shower gift. Everybody will …
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Profane Umbrella
A German man got himself in trouble with the law after flexing his artistic skills in an "art" form being referred to as glacier graffiti.
Jan Philip Scharbert was vacationing in New Zealand when he took decided to tag the ice face of Franz Josef Glacier with graffiti. The 28 year old used regular…
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Glacier Graffiti - German Tags New Zealand Ice Face
Given the choice of posting another amazing white apartment (which was truly lush) and this one was indeed a hard choice but in the end it was the Quetzacoatl Nest with its playful appeal, child-like innocence and supreme textured design that one the battle. Dark forces may have had some influence i…
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Charming Architecture Inpired by Birds - Quetzacoatl Nest (GALLERY)
The ROC professional training school in Apeldoorn in the Netherlands wanted an interior design for the reception area that truely reflects the spirit of their Care & Health department. Designers Janneke Hooymans and Frank Tjepkema from Tjep took it to heart and came up with an innovative non-traditi…
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