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The XchangE – an ‘automotive study’ unveiled in the run up to the Geneva Motor Show by Swiss auto lab Rinspeed.

Built by Esoro and based ion the exterior style of the Tesla S, the car – dubbed ‘an office and living room on wheels’ – has swiveling seats with 20 lockable positions, a steering wheel with user hand recognition, a 4k gesture-controlled rear monitor and 1.3m wide html5, cloud-linked driver’s display.

The headliner has an ambient lighting system with 358 individually controlled LEDs. There’s a Swiss made ‘patravi traveltec’ watch encased in a transparent globe embedded in the dash.

Oh, and an espresso machine.

All of which will count for nought when a five year old gawks a semi-digested effusion of wine gums and chocolate milk into the rear footwell.

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Casanus is a guest house a small island nestled between Antwerp and Ghent in Flanders – shaped like a lower colon and anus.

Created  by Belgian artist Joep Van Lieshout, subsequently renovated and relocated on the grounds of the Verbeke Foundation art park, you can stay there for €120 a night

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(H/T: Temple Bar Denizen)

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An installation (running next month) by Swiss artist Andrea Hasler at the former site of the US  nuclear airbase at Greenham Common in Berkshire.

Referencing the Women’s Peace Camp of  the 1980s and the mutated consequences of nuclear radiation, the tents are made from polystyrene, wax, leather and blood.

Who would even stay in a tent like th….

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Never mind.

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Fernando Livschitz of Black Sheep Films’ absurdist clip featuring giant wind-up robots going about their business of the streets of the Argentinian capital.

Music: Going Up In The Country by Canned Heat

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Director Cary Joji Fukunaga’s single six minute, precisely coordinated steadicam tracking shot from the fourth episode of HBO’s True Detective.

Warning: contains NSFW language and (if you’re currently watching/torrenting/vaguely interested in the series) some spoilers.

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