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Slovakian artist Tomas Moravec has adapted the standard 1200mm x 800mm Europallet to run on the 1000mm wide narrow gauge tram tracks of Bratislava (also used in Antwerp, Basel, Belgrade, Bern, Frankfurt, Geneva, Ghent, Helsinki, Zürich and elesewhere)
Sadly fortunately, it wouldn’t work here. The Luas runs on standard 1435mm gauge tracks.
(H/T: Barry McKenna)
Parking Armour (€51) a 110cmx30cm weatherproof cushion with steel reinforced straps for rear ding protection.
Hand-crafted models of a Canon 7D and a Nikon D90 carved from high grade crystal. The lenses, handgrips, viewfinder, rear screen and buttons are carved separately and attached to the main body. Other details are etched on to the surface of the crystal.
Available for 66 (plus up to 90 in P&P) from Fotodiox.
Like Greg Klassen’s excellent river and lake furniture, the Abyss table by Duffy London also evokes marine topography, in this case, an unspecified section of am unspecified ocean in layered wood and perspex.
The images above are only digital representations of the as yet unmade tables.
The effect is lovely. The production run is limited to 25. The abyss into which your wallet will plummet, judicious buyer, is €5,800 deep.
An 80cm x 60cm glow in the dark map of the night sky based on the night sky over Berlin Zoological Gardens during the 4th March, 1922 premiere of F.W. Murnau’s silent vampire film ‘Nosferatu’.
£25 (+p&p) from We Are Dorothy
Eamon Leonard’s controversial tribute t-shirt (based on the Three Wolf Moon tee) to ‘controversial’ web mogul Niall Harbison for last night’s controversial launch of his controversial buke in Dublin.
Business Insider’s highly subjective (we’d have placed the Obamasaurus much higher up the rankings) choice of history’s 17 most significant autographs.
Other John Hancocks are available.
Furniture maker Greg Klassen takes wood from dead trees or discarded edge pieces from construction sites, aligns the jagged edges and joins them with hand-cut pieces of glass to create the impression of miniature river and lake topographies.
The former New World shopping mall in Bangkok – closed in 1997 and left without a roof by a fire in 1999 – floods during the rainy season creating a year-round haven for mosquitoes. In 2000, an unknown person began introducing koi carp and catfish to the flooded interior.
Not only do they feed on mosquito eggs and larvae solving the infestation problem, they’ve proliferated in ideal conditions creating a unique 150m² urban aquatic ecosystem.
