Celebrity portraits have always captured the attention of the world, but San Francisco-based artist Jason Mecier has built his career by making portraits that tell the real story behind celebrities. His mosaic portraits are made of candy, pills, lipstick, cell phones, cigarette butts, and every other object (or substance) in between.
Ever since 2004, IMGA has picked out the year’s most innovative and
worthwhile videogames made for mobile phones. With all of the
fantastically inventive games in the running, it was a huge competition
for gifted game developers who specialize in mobile gaming devices.
Are you an animal lover that wants to shout that fact from the footops? Well, how about shouting it from your chest instead? You can’t put a hippo in a handbag, but you can certainly keep one close to your heart with these tricky 3D T-Shirts designed by Vincent Hie.
These days a lot of folks are focusing on survival and packing up their bug out bag or building a defensible bunker. The truth is you are more likely to face a survival situation when your car breaks down in the wrong place, or something goes wrong when you are out hiking or biking. You don’t necessarily need a lot to survive, but you do need something. A Survival Kit in a Sardine Can could be just what you need.
It’s nice to be a grandparent because you can enjoy spending time with your grandkids without worrying about the minutia of parenting. Plus, it’s your second go around with little rascals so you get to have fun with it. Like Steve and Jeri Wakefield, two grandparents who are having so much fun at being awesome grandparents that they built their grandkids this amazing tree house mansion. I don’t think kids have ever dreamt of tree houses this nice. More »
Would you like to make a zoo animal’s day even more fun? Create a fresh
take on an enrichment toy for Utah’s Hogle Zoo, and you’ll do just that!
For half the world, Spring is beginning to show its’ face, which means that sidewalks and bike lanes will soon be packed with cyclists who have been cooped up all winter. Before you pedal into this biking season, trick out your wheels with some of these weird and innovative ideas for cycling in style and safety.
This is about as cute as a truly "guy thing" can get. This chainsaw key cover is a fun tribute to those intrepid lumberjacks that harvest our wood. It features two small LED lights to help you find that lock in a dark alley. Not only that, at the simple push of a button it makes that special chainsaw sound. It is music to a tool guy’s ears.
Get ready to play with the sci-fi technology that’s fascinated audiences
for decades when the “Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination”
exhibit lands at The Tech Museum of Innovation starting October 19th in
San Jose, California. You don’t want to miss out on hanging out with
R2-D2, Chewbacca and Yoda!
The Empire had one last shot at destroying the Rebel Alliance, having built up an army of hundreds of thousands of ships and Destoyers with which to attack Rebel scum. Unfortunately for the Empire, the Alliance had discovered a rare species of Space Kraken. And, deciding that “Kraken” was a lame name, re-named their discovery the KR-KN, which is much more advanced piece of nomenclature.
Sending thousands of Ewoks to their unfortunate deaths on a series of suicide missions, the Alliance was eventually able to implant computers in the minds of the KR-KN that they had discovered, allowing them to control these beasts.
Their diet? Empire Destroyers.
This incredible LEGO creation was built by Iain Heath, a master of building awesome stuff, and was originally shown off at the 2013 Emerald Comicon. It is now, however, at its permanent residence in Tableau Software, shown below.
As you can see, the KR-KN Destroyer Destroyer was tactfully placed in front of the company’s “Tangled Sperm” masterpiece, which is juxtaposed with their “Floating Pieces of Goldfish” painting. Iain Heath originally created the piece because of the criticism that LEGO Destroyers were receiving for being big, gray, and boring. And, since Iain is such a logical man, he came to the conclusion that nothing adds a little spice to a work of art like a giant octopus.
New video game idea: play as the KR-KN and float around in never-ending, randomly generated space maps until you find something, at which point you hit all of the buttons at the same time and wildly swing your eight limbs until you kill it. I would buy that game in a second, especially if they added some KR-KN on KR-KN action with customizable tentacle suction cups and such.
If you love giant octopi, you are probably an octophile or perhaps an octogenarian. You should also go take a look at these Octopus Chandeliers and these LEGO Star Wars Mosaics, which are awesome.
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