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It’s not unusual to see entire cars and buses covered in colorful yarn creations, but a double-decker seems to take the art of yarn bombing to new heights. 7up? The practice of ‘yarn bombing’ is sort of like graffiti, enlivening objects all around a city with unexpected artistic details. Sayeg lugged 20 suitcases of yarn […]

“Now they appear absurd and out of context.” CityLab puts the transition and photo series in cultural and political context: “Despite the irrationality sometimes associated with national borders, the Schengen Treaty is as much an anomaly as it is an achievement. Without the choke points created by checkpoints, much of the commerce (including illicit activities […]

Ordered now and these should arrive by Christmas – a perfect holiday gift to compliment some   urban grid dog tags. The user-friendly selection tool allows you to get incredibly precise with your pick, creating a composition that is both personalized and aesthetically pleasing through a combination of panning and zooming. Using OpenStreetMap, the company […]

I found Katy’s story and her determination to follow her big dream really   inspiring. A Family’s Little White   House on Sauvie Island Tagged as: A Mom and Her Drill blog, beach house, bloggers at home, Pantone Dewberry, Pantone Sweet Lavender, purple houses, purple paint colors, small houses, tiny houses, Tybee Island beach house […]

Shipping Container Offices Clive Wilkinson and Associates also created an incredible shipping container-based work environment for Pallotta Teamworks in a new and entirely empty 47,000-square-foot warehouse in Los Angeles. Not that they’re complaining. Developed by design studio RAAAF and visual artist Barbara Visser, the workplace design is entitled ‘The End of Sitting.’ “The installation’s various […]

The result is surreal, as if bioluminescent alien creatures were gliding on the surface of the water. “Using LED lights with custom color patterns and long exposure photography, I’m able to tell the story of movement.” “This technique reveals beautiful light trails created by paths of familiar objects. Comment on Facebook These light trails have […]

She sold this townhouse after husband Paul died. Hooked on Famous   Townhouses? Bunny   was the   horticulturist   commissioned by her friend Jackie Kennedy to   design   the White House Rose Garden, so it makes sense that she would want   gardens here in the middle of the city, too. Get Your […]

Of course, Star Trek turbolifts aside, there are always some potential dark sides to new technology, as science fiction films like   The Cube and Cabin in the Woods have explored, but presumably the ups outweigh the downs, so to speak. Whether through looping systems (like the one proposed above by Hitachi) or maglev technologies […]

Wall is Over: Art Students Whitewash Historical Street Murals In an audacious and contentious move, a group of young artists took it upon themselves to paint over   the famous John Lennon Wall in Prague, replacing decades of layered mural work, drawings and tags with the message: “Wall is Over”. The movement these students followed […]

The ‘Earth Factory’ portion of the project below is set to use   generate eco-friendly energy from temperature differentials and organically-driven chemical conversion processes. Designed by the Shimizu Corp’s, the spherical portion of the so-called Ocean Spiral forms a residential and commercial core from which a winding path spirals   9 further miles into the […]