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Plush Tetris pieces
By Ben on Fri Feb 3 2012 |
Plush Tetris pieces
Home | Furniture
Plush Tetris pieces by Denn Rodriguez for the upcoming Super Button Mashers show at OhNo!Arcade (aka OhNo!Doom). On sale at Etsy.
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Mina Sarenac
By Ben on Fri Feb 3 2012 |
Mina Sarenac
Gear | Pic
Photography by Mina Sarenac.
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Golden Orb Spider Silk Cape
By Ben on Fri Feb 3 2012 |
Golden Orb Spider Silk Cape
Style | Apparel
From Nancy Szokan's January 30, 2012 Washington Post story:
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The golden orb spider (Nephila madagascariensis) spins a unique silk, naturally gold in color. Last week, it made a memorable debut in the fashion world.
London's Victoria and Albert Museum put on display a remarkable cape woven from silk extracted from about 1.2 million female spiders in the highlands of Madagascar, an island off Africa’s southeastern coast. The project was the work of English textile expert Simon Peers [left] and U.S. designer Nicholas Godley [right].
For three years, dozens of workers collected spiders every morning and harnessed them 24 at a time into special "milking" contraptions that allowed workers to extract their silk. The museum notes that it takes about 23,000 extractions to create one ounce of silk thread.
Animal lovers, note: At the end of a day's milking, the spiders were returned to the wild.
Under Peers's and Godley's direction, the spun silk was hand-woven into fabric, then elaboratedly embroidered with a design inspired by 19th-century illustrations featuring —what else? — spiders [detail below]. A video on the museum's Web site, www.vam.co.uk, shows the process.
The result is a cape 13 feet long, which was modeled at the museum last week and will remain on display until June 5. Undyed, it has an intense, sunny yellow color and is described as much lighter and softer than fabric made from the silk of silkworms.
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Jacqueline Bradley
By Ben on Fri Feb 3 2012 |
Jacqueline Bradley
Style | Apparel

Boat dress by Jacqueline Bradley.
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Three Primary Colors
By Ben on Fri Feb 3 2012 |
Gear | Video
Three Primary Colors is a collaboration between OK Go and Sesame Street explaining the basics of color theory in stop-motion. :)
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Miniatur Wunderland - The Largest Model Railway Of The World
By Ben on Thu Feb 2 2012 |
Gear | Projects
This is a official video about Miniatur Wunderland Hamburg, the largest model railway in the world, and one of the most successful tourist attractions in Germany. On the 1.300 m² large layout, far more than a thousand trains, aircrafts, cars and ships move about.
  

Cycle-Skating - The New Sport of 1923
By Ben on Wed Feb 1 2012 |
Gear | Video
Cycle-Skating - The New Sport of 1923. The precursor to rolling blading. Men in Paris enjoy this new sport.
  
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A Cathedral Made from 55,000 LED Lights
By Ben on Wed Feb 1 2012 |
A Cathedral Made from 55000 LED Lights
Gear | Projects

A glowing cathedral like structure — dubbed the Luminarie De Cagna, was display at the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium. "Soaring above the street at 91 feet high and using 55,000 LEDs to light up the night sky. The canopies and columns are created out of wood and the lights, and despite the jaw dropping light and color, the whole shebang only uses 20 kilowatts per hour of energy." Cool

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Flying People in New York City
By Ben on Wed Feb 1 2012 |
Gear | Projects
To market the soon-to-be-released coming of age superpowers story Chronicle, Fox hired viral marketing agency Thinkmodo to deliver a campaign. Three human shaped RC planes were flown around New York City, Lots of fun.
"Since the three main characters of the movie have the ability to fly, we came up with the idea of staging a few "flying people" sightings around NYC. We achieved that illusion by having 3 custom-made aircraft (which were shaped like human beings) fly above designated areas in NYC and NJ."
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Urbano Trash Can
By Ben on Wed Feb 1 2012 |
Urbano Trash Can
Home | Kitchen
This clever trash can allows you to store and reuse the plastic bags. 
From the website:
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Winner of the 2005 Pratt Product Design Competition, this clever trash can allows you to store and reuse the plastic bags that you collect from shopping in a neat, organized way.
Simply loop trash bags around the cut-out sides and push them all the way down, creating a visual of stacked handles all along the side.
When you are ready to use one, just move it up to the handles and hook so that it won't fall in on itself.
Recycled polypropylene.
16"L x 8"W x 18"H.
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Green or Black.
$18.
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