While youtube and its ilk give us lots of videos, we’re unfortunately subject to “amateur” content & crap humor most of the time. VBS.TV is the only alternative tv station that has gripped my attention long enough to come back another time. Probably because it’s by the Vice guys who have been providing us great [...]
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If you love the Amsterdamer houses but can’t afford to go there all the time, maybe you should save up and buy these.
via Bloesem
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With its mobile salesman, Jewish bookstores & bazaars and dirty streets, here’s New York City around 1900. It’s a shame these times are a thing of the past now..
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Interactive design firm IconNicholson is testing out a mirror for department stores that allows shoppers to “virtually” try on clothes. The mirror is connected to the internet via camera, so friends can log on and see what you’re trying on in real time, and communicate with you through a chat window.
via Core77 & originally NY [...]
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Atari joystick coathangers by Felipe Morales
- Felipe Morales
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In the performance-installation “Turkish Island/Türk adasi“, two Turkish families, each represented by three generations, are having a picnic in traditional Turkish fashion. Throughout the 2hour long happening, visitors are invited to join the picnic.
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written, directed, performed, and edited by shahram entekhabi
In “Islamic Star” Entekhabi is dressed as a type of orthodox Muslim moving through public space. On his white shirt he is wearing a green Islamic star that reminds us to the “Judenstern” that has been common in Nazi Germany. The work circles around the Western idea of [...]
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The Mended Spiderweb’s by Nina Katchadourian.
The Mended Spiderweb series came about during a six-week period in June and July in 1998 which I spent on Pörtö. In the forest and around the house where I was living, I searched for broken spiderwebs which I repaired using red sewing thread. All of the patches were [...]
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Lovely street art from Norway. Muskelpust.
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The world of DIY ain’t nothing short of wonders. The Steampunk Workshop has modified a typical ugly keyboard into a delicate steampunk artifact. I can’t believe how cool it is. And for all Steampunk lovers, here’s a blog that loves it as much as you do. Brass Goggles.
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