Everyday objects like keys and forks and spoons and brooms and umbrellas and so forth are always designed with usability in mind. You use them everyday so they better be easy to use, right? But what if you re-designed them to make them annoying and uncomfortable to use? They’d still technically be useful objects but they’d also be hilariously terrible to actually use.
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These photos are actually pastel drawings, but these drawings are actually photos of real objects. Created by Cynthia Greig, they use no digital manipulation whatsoever. Just white paint and black pencil.
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The stuff we see, touch, and use everyday might not, at first thought, seem museum-worthy, but there are fascinating tales hiding within even the most below-average hunks o’ junk out there. Sometimes all it takes is context to elevate the mundane to legendary status.
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Like many major metropolises, Los Angeles has an international reputation, but the preconceived notions that surround the southern California hub seem to be consistently skewed. Sure, the weather’s nice—but it’s vapid, and too sprawling, and you need a car, and what about the traffic, and where’s the culture??
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