How do you stage Antarctica in the springtime? Canadian photographers Roth & Ramberg share the secret behind what may be the coldest looking photo ever taken.
via the birdhouse
Meanwhile, over at the Unusual Suspects celebrity face building challenge, there were some amazing entries. Tom Waits, Albert Einstein, and Alfred E. Neuman, to name a stellar few.
In the end, it was the prolific Nick Seabrook (aka Yaki Niku) who – amongst his 38 other creations – wowed our judges with his multi-hairpiece rendition of beloved sitcom alien, Alf.
Nick, your hard-earned Diana+ Camera will be in the mail shortly. Congratulations!
Adelle Charles swept December’s Lightboxing round against Donna Holesworth in a community voting landslide that would make any mountain town nervous.
Many thanks to both boxers for a spirited bout, and congratulations to Adelle! She’ll receive a $250 gift certificate to spend on Veer merch.
Innovations in sled design have been pretty quiet since Clark Griswold supercharged his saucer with that new kitchen lubricant his company was working on. But coast-to-coast snow has changed that, just in time for the holiday sledding season.
You can punch it like Han and Chewie, build your case for a future insanity plea with the Slegoon, or get uppity on the way down with this little aluminum number bearing the Porsche name.
Still have saucer envy? Compensate for another jetpack-less Christmas morning with an actual rocket powered sled.
There are plenty of reasons to celebrate at this time of year, and great design is definitely one of them. This past weekend, as revelers reveled and shovelers shoveled, the Veer community reached and sped past the 1,000 portfolio mark.
Over a thousand sources of inspiration, shared among peers. Nicely done, everyone! Here's to more of the same in 2009.
If Da Vinci had designed a dining room table for 6 to 12 guests, this is probably what it would have looked like. A turn of thirty degrees doubles the size of the circular tabletop. Hopefully the undeclared price-tag includes a decent warranty, because you'd likely spend more time inviting people over to see it open and close, than actually sitting at it.
A sock monkey and a wooden donkey share a pot of stew and things go terribly awry. The third installment featuring the odd pair, Coal Car Stew is a stop motion holiday treat with silent movie stylings.
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Someone kindly sent in a copy of Robin Cherry's Catalog: The Illustrated History of Mail-Order Shopping, and it's already well on its way to being well-thumbed. The retrospective includes full-color catalog pages ranging from corsets to iPods.
There's something to interest (or boggle, or completely blow away) catalog writers, designers, and readers alike. Mussolini masks and His/Hers hot air balloons aside, did you know that in 1992 you could order a miniature donkey from Neiman-Marcus?
“Your miniature donkey arrives with halter, interstate health papers, complete vaccination records, and registration in the International Miniature Donkey Registry.”
The book also includes a healthy amount of historical context, framing the trends, language, luxuries, and indulgences of the varied social and economic climates of the last century.
The wallpaper elves have just added five new designs for your desktops and device-tops. A festive mix of cannibalism, capitalism, vanity, and existentialism.
On a side note, have you seen the holiday fireplace screensaver from stop motion master, PES? Amazing.
Slab tables. A two-way mirror. High walls lined with carefully labeled drawers. It sounds dull, or even a bit sinister, until you hear about the 100 flavors of chocolate.
Singapore's themed chocolate shoppe The Chocolate Research Facility presents its carefully wrapped wares in the guise of a research facility. There are more photos at The Dieline, but the facility's clever website is too sweet to miss.
