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pablo picasso's light drawings from 1949

art | 12.13.12

the series of images document pablo picasso's discovery of a new photographic technique in 1949.
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30 second time-lapse of airplanes landing at san diego airport

art | 12.03.12

the film professor has captured every airplane that landed at san diego international airport a week ago between the hours of 10:30am and 3pm.
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zaha hadid: beko masterplan in belgrade
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architecture | 11.21.12

the new masterplan concept using fluid lines in structure and landscape to tie together each individual component.
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a 170 foot long trampoline by salto architects

design | 11.28.12

developed for the archstoyanie festival in russia, the 170 foot long trampoline demonstrates the integral elements of park planning.
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aerial images capture the hindu color festival
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art | 11.22.12

the photographs capture the compelling detail exploding from each scene - seizing the infectious energy, vitality and spirit so unique to the tradition.
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gummy bear lamp by kevin champeny

design | 12.07.12

made up of 3,000 hand-cast versions of the iconic sweet, the polychromatic light spans an 18 inch diameter to fill a space with a saccharine glow.
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SANAA+ imrey culbert: louvre-lens museum complete
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architecture | 12.04.12

traversing the mining landscape in lens, france, a transparent single-storey museum detailed with anodized aluminum reflects the subtle contour changes.
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rescue dogs learn how to drive a car

technology | 12.06.12

the chosen pups - named porter, monty and ginny - are learning to drive a modified version of the mini countryman with specially developed rigs featuring paw-friendly accelerators and brakes.
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fabian oefner: dancing colors

art | 11.23.12

the vibration of music pulsing through a speaker triggers the symphonic explosions of colored pigment into the air, the artist capturing this exact moment which lasts only a fraction of a second.
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sweeping nude photography by shinichi maruyama
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art | 11.19.12

the abstract striding limbs create almost painterly strokes across a hidden canvas - a sweep of flesh filling space.
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oscar niemeyer dies at age 104

architecture | 12.06.12

the brazilian architect passed away on wednesday, on december 15 he would have completed 105 years. designboom publishes a tribute by norman foster.
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360 degree christmas book by yusuke oono

art | 12.14.12

the three-dimensional panoramic structure references the format of a book and pushes it to become a new, expansive platform for narrative and story-telling.
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fran silvestre arquitectos: house on the cliff
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architecture | 11.19.12

overlooking the sea on a steep site, the living spaces of this residence are spread over four levels, minimizing adjustments to the natural topography.
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JR and jose parla: wrinkles of the city, havana, cuba - the book
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art | 11.23.12

the series of 25 large-scale wheat-pasted portraits peppered throughout cuba's capital are now documented in a book - celebrating the work conceived throughout the 2012 havana biennial.
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chromosaturation by carlos cruz-diez

art | 11.29.12

the franco-venezuelan artist experiments with spectators' quotidian experience of color, disrupting the way light is processed by the human eye through the means of a manufactured habitat composed of (read more)
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bikini turkey for thanksgiving

art | 11.22.12

if you need some ideas for thanksgiving - look no further than the 'bakini' turkey - a roast turkey cooked till it wears a bikini and a tan!
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luminair: tree tents

design | 11.26.12

easy to assemble and installed high in the trees, these year-round retreats are made with steam-bent ash wood frames and enclosed with cotton canvas fabric.
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world’s first 3D printing photo booth

art | 11.12.12

ranging from 10 to 20 centimetres in height, these detailed personal action figures are created using a three-dimensional camera and printer.
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christian louboutin christmas boutique windows by studio XAG
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design | 12.07.12

the display features bespoke christmas trees composed of hundreds of the french designer's pigalle shoe.
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transparent roses by alexander james
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art | 11.28.12

the underwater photographs involve a complex technique that over time replaces the flower's coloring with highly purified water, leaving behind only the skeletal fibre and plant structure visible - (read more)
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dysfunctional luxuries by jeremy hutchison
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art | 11.20.12

the artist invited workers from manufacturing factories across china, india, turkey and pakistan to insert an error in the items they typically produced everyday.
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feather dioramas by chris maynard
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art | 12.04.12

the artist creates carefully sculpted scenes using the plumage of birds as his medium.
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stranded house in the middle of a newly built road in china

architecture | 11.24.12

a highway is built around a lone-standing house whose owners refuse to move due to disagreements with the government over compensation.
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floppy disk by axel van exel + marian neulant

design | 11.29.12

reminding us of a time when floppy disks were used for keeping digital files, the design features a metal shutter which can be slid across the length of the table revealing a storage area.
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