The Street Lives : Filthy Luker

Filthy Luker & Pedro Estrellas, "Octo-Building" and other inventions.

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D. Billy: Urban Typo-Experiment

this is really interesting as its kindda like making our lives comical... swoosh n all... so fun...~



D. Billy : “After embellishing the found scenes and photographing the results, I leave my additions in place to engage passers-by for as long as the materials hold up. For me, this process encourages a reexamination of surroundings and objects that are usually taken for granted, and injects a hint of the fantastical surreality that I have established in my other work. Or, at the very least, I hope someone thinks these things are kind of funny.”

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styrobots

instead of throwing away those seemingly useless styrofoam packing shapes,
michael salter makes giant robots. ‘styrobots’, as salter calls them, have toured
art galleries around the world. the bots range in size from 16 inches to 22 feet.
this massive 22 foot robot is currently on show at the san jose museum of art.

http://michaelasalter.com






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'glazed paradise' by mark jenkins and miho kinomura at diesel denim gallery

the diesel denim gallery in aoyoma, tokyo is currently showing an exhibition of work by mark jenkins and miho kinomura. ‘glazed paradise’ will be on show until august 15th , featuring an installation which aims to create ‘a frozen hyperreality’. mark jenkins is an american installation artist known for his tape sculptures installed in urban and other public spaces. miho kinomura is a filmmaker who will be producing a film about jenkin’s process.

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Bioteknika - Wurst(Sausage) for the World

In order to say it with TITANIC: "we use only 12% of the sausage offers!" Shawn Bailey and Jennifer Willet aka. Bioteknica work on it this to change. Because the material for their art ia particularly with the butcher. Bioteknica produces meat sculptures and bioArt - and works on the interface of art, activism and sausage science.

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'walking bike' by max knight

max knight is a uk designer who was recently commissioned to create a very special bike. the result is 'the walking bike', a bicycle made from a normal frame and wheels made from 8 different pairs of shoes. the project was for intersection magazine, a local car magazine. each wheel features a set of metal bars which each hold one shoe. the wheels managed to be hooked up to the chain drive, actually making the bike move.






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Manufacturing techniques: doing with ice what cannot be done with plastic

In some of Manhattan's better Japanese-staffed bars, like Tribeca's underground B-Flat, ice cubes are noticeably absent; ordering your scotch on the rocks gets you a large ice sphere. With less surface area than the same amount of ice rendered in cubes, a globe of ice will melt more slowly, keeping your drink cold without making it watery.

As an industrial designer, your correspondent couldn't help but notice the parting line on B-Flat's ice spheres; after all, it has to come out of a mold. But now a company called Taisin has come up with a clever device for making a perfect ice sphere with no parting line.

How does it work? You sandwich a large chunk of ice in between the two metal pieces pictured above. As the ice slowly melts, gravity brings the top half to close over the bottom half, enclosing what ice remains in its spherical cavity. Because the ice is in the process of melting into its new shape as the top closes, there's no parting line. Clever!

Other shapes are available as well; what you see at the bottom right of the photo is an ice soccer ball. (Don't ask, it's Japan.)


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Joshua Allen Harris' Inflatable Sculptures

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joana meroz - ceramics

'bra cups'

joana meroz is a graduate of the ceramics department at the gerrit rietveld academy in amsterdam and is currently studying at the design academy in eindhoven. she has sent in some of her unique projects which blend design with craft production. her ceramic 'bra cups' are a clever play on one of nature's essential food sources. the 'lace colanders' combine the decorative elements of the plate with the functionality of a drain to create a unique colander. 'in&out tableware' continues on this theme and 'drain eye-catchers' add a whimsical touch to the most banal of kitchen tools. joana was also one of the participants in our 'handled with care'
ceramics exhibition.

'bra cups'

'in&out tableware'

'lace colanders'

'drain eye-catchers'

'drain eye-catchers'

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crayons - (really kewl ones)

by finnish designer heli hietala

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i can't help but keep thinkin... oooh... i'm killin people when i'm drawing!!!~~~ it juz gives me the feeling when i pick up a piece of teddie bear cookie or fish-shaped cookie... 1st bite... 1 arm's gone... 2nd bite both arms gone... 3rd bite.. a leg gone.. 4th bite... no more legs.. 5th bite.. omg.. it's headless.. and so final bite finish it up~~~ aiks... wunder if i'll b duin the same thing when i got my hands on these crayons~~~

woof! woof! (doggie speakers)

'woofer' speaker set by dutch design outfit cultivate

'pun intended, 'woofer' speaker set is a cross-over between
an addition to your sound system and your loyal 4 footed companion.
available as a co-axial speaker system which consists of two dogs.'

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Giant Rubber Ducky

woohoo... giant gigantic enormous rubber or blown-up ducky

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Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz

Walter Martin and Paloma Muñoz
7 1&Mac218;2 Female 9 1&Mac218;2 Male, 1994
Hydrostone, oil paint, gold leaf
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Dan McPharlin - Miniature Cardboard Models

Dan McPharlin created these brilliant miniature sets.... they're incredibly cute... and detailed definiteleee... i realleee admire the patience he has... cause i can't even make a detail cardboard model for my own works... the frustration kills!!! anyway to see more of he works... click on the link on the title~

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