Photoshoppers on the Final Gear Forum have had fun inverting the upper half of various vehicles: essentially flipping each chassis front to back.
Some of the results are vaguely plausible, some are like bubble-fronted 1950s concepts, others just look plain hideous.
Uli Westphal’s Mutato Archive is a collection of fruit and vegetables which display weird variations of shape: not as a result of pesticides or GM, but thanks to the natural vagaries of nature.
‘The complete absence of botanical anomalies in our supermarkets has caused us to regard the consistency of produce presented there as natural. Produce has become a highly designed, monotonous product. We have forgotten, and in many cases never experienced, the way fruits, roots, and vegetables can actually look (and taste).’
Long live agri-diversity! Just a Pot Noodle for me, please.
View the entire hi-res archive here.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R4xL3AjSLvM&feature=player_embedded#
Elderly armed robber Gregory P Hess boosts a convenience store in Seattle.
After taking $300 in the raid, Hess, already known to the FBI, was identified from the CCTV footage and arrested.
He said he was ‘very, very sorry.’
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As part of their Everything’s A Remix project, Kirby Ferguson and Robert Grigsby Wilson take a slick, extended look at how Quentin ‘Kill Bill’ Tarantino pays homage to cinematic history.
You may not agree with every juxtaposition, but most of them are undeniable.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek3pRQ7gp5w
Note to self: heavy crane, lighter boat. Not – repeat – not the other way round.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO3dwUKULOE&feature=player_embedded
Alex the chipmunk grooms himself at at 400 frames per second – the single cutest thing you will see today. Perhaps this week. Maybe even ever.
The Switch salt ‘n’ pepper shaker from the 2011 Collection of homeware gadgeteers, Fred & Friends.
Nifty. Want.
