Category Archives: Design

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Tshark shocks by designer/überkinitter Tsarina Tsocks are no ordinary shark socks.

They come with little attachable Velcro-bellied Remora fish.

Not yet available to buy or replicate, despite growing demand.

boinboing/bookofjoe

predlidThe Predator 2 motorcycle helmet ($780) complete with dreadlock mullet and tri-laser (LED) ‘scope’.

Optional extras include tiny spearheads on the end of the dreads, and a ‘hyper real’ airbrush finish complete with scars and plasma burns.

Watch the promo video here. Then go paint your 1989 Yamaha Jog black.

gizmodo

shapeshifter

A hypnotic clip (actually a teaser for an upcoming video for ‘Sparkles and Wine’ by French electronica group OPALE) in which director Nacho Guzman shows how lighting and the angle of illumination can radically affect how a face appears, in this case the face of actress Stella Stocker.

Guzman acknowleges the influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s unfinished 1964 film L’Enfer.

io9

monsters[Key: Chucky, The Wicked Witch of the West, T-Rex, King Kong, Rancor (Star Wars VI), Megatron (Transformers), 50-Foot Woman, Mr Stay Puft (Ghostbusters), Tripod (War Of The Worlds), Gojira (Godzilla), Clover (Cloverfield) and your mom.]

accordingtodevin/eatliver

500

Italian übertuner Oemmedi Meccanica’s souped up Fiat 500/Lamborghini Mucielago custom hybrid demonstrates its throaty roar, courtesy of a 6.2l, 580bhp, V12 engine stuffed into a car weighing less than half a tonne.

Here’s how this abomination unto the Lord was made.

awesomer/autoblog

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEraRQ6MBCQ

Retired British printer Tom Bingham spends about three months at a time sourcing wood and metal from car boot sales to construct custom electric guitars, including  three based on spaceships from Star Wars (Y-wing, Millennium Falcon and B-wing fighter).

laughingsquid/swns

centre stage

A deftly edited supercut by Zack Prewitt of a time-houred movie trope where the viewer observes the majesty of a scene from behind a character’s back.

Music: God Moving Over the Face of the Waters by Moby

laughingsquid/slate

(Hat tip: Riuari Carroll)