The PinPres is a unique shelving unit designed to make use of the idea of the small version that is on desks in offices throughout the world. You know the idea. Press an object into the back of it and it creates a design on the front as the pins are moved. A shelf built the same way allows you to customize the shelves or toy storage spots that meet your child’s specific needs.
The Evolution of Function to Form
Posted in: Today's ChiliEverything is created for a purpose, regardless of whether that purpose is useful or pointless. But when 100 or 1000 identical things come together, they bring about a new purpose no one had ever imagined, and art emerges. English artist Laurence Poole understands and manipulates the evolution of everyday things into art that intrigues and inspires.
Wearing Your Heart on Your Art
Posted in: Today's ChiliChina is the world’s largest beer market with over 500 breweries straining to slake the thirst of a billion potential imbibers. With production surpassing the 50 billion liter per year mark in 2011 – double that of the USA – one might expect at least a little variety among the flood. We’re glad to state that this is indeed so, and our countdown of China’s 8 coolest beers proves it.
Everyone who has been paying attention to television or movies for the last 35 years knows that it is coming and that it is inevitable. The dead are going to rise up and come after the living and we all need to be ready! There is no need to spend hours researching just what you will need. You can have it all delivered to your door in the Zombie Survival Crate.
Pulling the strings of New York artist Olek will only give you more questions to answer. Her crochet-based installments and art are riddles wrapped in a mystery inside….well, yarn. She tries to untie the knots of society and unwind her own self-expression as an artist by weaving her journey into her work.
Getting The Dirt On Soil Soup
Posted in: Today's ChiliThose in the world of cuisine are always searching for that one exotic dish or line of dishes that will make them famous. Tokyo’s chef Toshio Tanabe has gone to what some might call the ultimate extreme — using soil. This isn’t some dirt that he dug up out of the garden. It is pristine soil that come from areas like the mountains and dug from far below the surface. He uses only the best soil in his soup!