Cool [Upside-down] Things + Justin Timberlake

Now playing: Let It Fall by Lykke Li

Here are a few more stuff on the web that I've found a tad bit interesting. OK, a little more than just a "tad bit". Most of these are pretty rad.

Invisible Shoes by Andreia Chaves
This low-cut boot reflects its surroundings making the earth part of your wardrobe. Regardless of being environmental or not, these pair of shoes make you feel like your helping stop global warming. This interesting design is part an innovative collection of footwear concepts. I for one am excited to see her concepts materialize in the near future. (I wonder if people will wear them too?)

Fully Functional Upside-down House, South Korea. I always thought that these kind of stuff never made it past the drawing board. But, believe it or not, these houses are not just mere art installations but are fully functional. More at Modern Met & Spot Cool Stuff.

Wizard of Oz-much? Korean tattooist Kim Joon's "Tattoo & Taboo" is now on display at the Sundaram Tagore Gallery in Beverly Hills. His work is vaguely explained here.


I haven't been feeling very well the past couple of days, I've been feeling somewhat like this:

This is one from the collection of Stephen T.C. Morris in flickr. I like the concept. It hazily expresses how I sometimes feel--as if things aren't "straight"; as if things were abnormal and distorted in an uncomfortable kind of way; as if I were sick and felt like throwing up... Check out more of his stuff. Some are also pretty comical. Like this one:

Talk about getting your head dunked in the toilet, aye. Proud to say that I cannot relate.

Not to forget, here's one of Justin Timberlake with Jimmy Fallon and The Roots doing a homage of HIP HOP hits. Got this from JT's twitter page. He. Is. Oh. Some. ohhhsome. Idol.

Weirdest Animals and Others

Find Number One:

"Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum Clock stopped in time"

By Ko Fujimura

The Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum is in the city of Nagasaki, Japan. The museum remembers the explosion of the atomic bomb that devastated Nagasaki at 11:02:35am on 9 August 1945.
The first atomic bomb museum was built in 1955 to show the world the horror of the bombing and the need to eliminate all nuclear weapons. The present museum was opened in April 1996 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the bombing.

 For more information about the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum, click here.

Find Number Two:

Thought film was dead?

"...there is a very real resurgence for film.”

 

Porta 400 is not made for printing. It is designed to be scanned.

Read all about it in wired.com.

Find Number Three:

 The other day I was helping my sister with her school work and one of her exercises was to write about her favorite animal, or an unusual animal. So, I googled "Weird Animals" and stumbled on this site: http://divaboo.info/.

It had a list of the "25 Weirdest Animals" according to them.

Here are a few of the really cool ones.

The Star-nosed Mole

 

Axolotl

 A Mexican neotenic mole salamander

The Aye-aye native to Madagascar

The Blobfish 

 found in the deep waters off the coasts of Australia and Tasmania

Yeti Crab

See the rest here.

Find Number Four: 

"There are more Barbie dolls in Italy than there are Canadians in Canada" (The Book of Useless Information)

(source: Oh Yeah Facts)

Find Number Five:

by Russ and Reyn

Here’s a fun weekend project! Shadow play.

Set up a light (a big bright one!), grab a couple of friends, and snappity snap.

(Source: photojojo)

Last, Find Number Six:

Giles Barbier, L’ivrogne, 1999-2000 Techniques mixtes, 600 x 300 x 300 cm. Collection du MAC/VAL, musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne

(via iheartmyart)

What it wouldn’t be, it would...

I got this from Design You Trust - Part 6. The original post is from Here.

“What captured me the most is the title of this project: "What it is, it isn’t." beside the image of awkward looking cabinet, of course. Then, I realized the text was taken from ‘Alice in Wonderland’, which is written by Lewis Carroll and this project by Ontwerpduo get its inspiration from it.

What it is, it isn’t.
‘If I had a world of my own,
everything would be nonsense.
Nothing would be what it is,
because everything would be what it isn’t.
And, contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn’t be.
And what it wouldn’t be, it would.
You see?’
- Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland.


To describe the work better, these are exact text from Ontwerpduo:

‘Objects are how we perceive them to be. Our minds make things what they are and for us this is reality. Think of a branch hanging in the water. We see, with the refraction of light, the branch under the waterline in a different angle. But we know that in reality the shape of this branch is different. We learned how to see the world… read the rest and see more pictures here”

 Photo credits: "Alice in Wonderland" from here.