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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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craig small: biblio-mat - a random book dispenser

design | 11.19.12

conceived as an alternative to the often ignored discount sidewalk bins of old publications typical of used bookstores, the random titles distributed by the vending machine all cost two dollars (read more)
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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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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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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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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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IN-TENTA: DROP eco-hotel
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architecture | 11.22.12

DROP eco-hotel features portable, organic, eco-friendly hotel 'rooms' suitable for installation in natural locations.
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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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wearable sculptures by nick cave
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art | 12.06.12

the selection of extravagant wearable art pieces attempt to articulate the spirit of human movement through color, texture and sculpture.
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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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ceramic plate christmas tree in belgium by mooz
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art | 12.11.12

the 9 metre-high sculpture is made up of about 5,000 items of crockery donated by the local residents of the city.
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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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