Archive for October, 2011

Your Nose is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle!

October 28th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

You may not want it, but it turns out that human nose could be easily turned into a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle! 

“God is the artist. I just find the ninja turtle in his work,” says the subtitle of a TMNN tumblr blog dedicated to finding these turtles. You can even submit your own photos with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Nose. However, note that it doesn’t work with a panda nose.

Your Nose is a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle! originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 28, 2011.

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Amazing Pumpkin Carvings by Ray Villafane

October 27th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Ray Villafane’s relationship with pumpkins began rather early in his life. Born in a poor farming family, he found himself having to whittle his own toys out of wood as times were very hard for Pa’ Villafane. As things got worse he was forced to give up using wood to create his toys and eventually had to make them out of pumpkins as the precious wood was needed to heat the small farm house during the winter. Because his toys rotted away a week or so after making them, Ray found himself carving nonstop just to keep his toy box from spoiling.

Throughout his academic career, Ray’s classmates and teachers also recognized his natural artistic abilities. Ray graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 1991.

Despite all of the big name products Ray was sculpting, the public seemed to be most intrigued with his on going pumpkin carvings. Ray has won back to back Food Network Challenges for his pumpkin carvings and has been featured on many TV shows and news broadcasts including The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric. In 2010 Ray was even invited to carve pumpkins at the White House!

Website: villafanestudios.com Facebook: Ray.MasterofPumpkins

Amazing Pumpkin Carvings by Ray Villafane originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 27, 2011.

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Scuba Diver Wall Sticker [Pic]

October 25th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

A super creative ambient advert promoting Senai Scuba Diving Professional Course. Don’t know about you guys, but in case of fire, I would feel really bad taking off the fire extinguisher as it’s the only thing keeping the scuba diver alive.

(Advertising Agency: Artplan, BRAZIL, Rio de Janeiro | Creative Director: Roberto Vilhena | Art Director: David Tabalipa | Copywriter: Danilo Maia)

Scuba Diver Wall Sticker [Pic] originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 25, 2011.

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20 Cool and Creative Wall Hook Designs

October 24th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Wall hook probably doesn’t sound like something very cool, but we have 20 serious arguments to prove otherwise!

We have manually handpicked a collection of 20 most creative wall hook examples which will show you that even the most common everyday object like a coat hook can become an exciting home or office accessory. Some are violent, some are naughty, one of them even requires a lot of physical strength to hang your clothes, but all of them are very cool.

Moreover, it’s a perfect way to make a good first impression to your guests (or if you are evil, make everyone jealous), because wall hooks are often the first thing a guest sees.

So, without further ado, here are the 20 cool and creative wall hook designs. Scroll down the list and pick one for yourself!

1. Paint Brush Wall Hook

This coat hook design is the result of a challenge to take an everyday object & remold, rebuild, & repurpose it to create an entirely new item while using as little additional material as possible. (Designer: Dominic Wilcox)

2. Fly

Little butterflies flying out of a magic hat. (Designed by Lamidea)

3. Dart Coat Hook

Make a playful statement in your wall! Set of three Stainless steel darts with a special wall fixing. A unique hook for hanging your favorite hat or jacket. (Designer: Anthony Chrisp)

4. 8-Bit Hanger

Mount to your wall, and then use to hang your non 8 bit stuff. (link)

5. Raindrops

Wooden raindrop wall hooks. (Designer: Jantze Brogård Asshoff)

6. Hang On

Hang On is an unpretentious and humorous coat rack that is accessible and easy to decode with its oblique expression. (Designer: Jade Barnes-Richardson)

7. Ninja Star Coat Hook

If you ever survive a ninja attack, make use of it . (link)

8. “DROP” The Flowing Wall Coat Rack

DROP – a series of functional ornaments for walls and any other flat surfaces. It offers you an innovative and ideal possibility, to give naked walls a new look – with colourful and user-friendly hooks that seem to flow. (link)

9. Knife Hooks

Show your character by making your home look like a war zone. (Designer: tc studio)

10. High Tea Wall Hooks

An interesting way to use your old teapots. (Designer: coroflot)

11. Mr.P One Man Hang

Mr.P once again proves that his hook is strong enough to withstand anything. (link)

12. En Suspend

Clocks deliver three useful items in one a mirror (stainless steel), wall clock, and hook. (Designer: diamantini & domeniconi)

13. HANG

Probably inspired by Captain Obvious. (Designer: yoox)

14. Regnah Hanger

Hanger for anyone with a crazy desire to hit a door or a wall with an axe. (link)

15. Mountain Coat Range

Inspired by excess material from our cut sheets, the contrast of Walnut to the exposed interior of Certified Maple becomes the snow-capped mountain peaks of the Grand Tetons. A functional landscape for your home that leaves little impact on the actual frontier. The mountain range’s peaks enable you to hang four or more items. (Designer: BraveSpaceDesign)

16. Office Clip Hook

Someone finally did it—improved an everyday paperclip. It’s 10 times bigger, stronger and more contemporary, too. A great catchall for your modern office, it’s made of heat-treated steel to hold coats, bags or files. (link)

17. Forget Me Not

“Forget-me-not” is a set of clothes-hooks, the petals bent so that articles can be hung from them. This is a product in the sphere of emotion, refinement, poetic beauty and harmony. As such, it can also be simply decorative and give rise to floral combinations. (Designer: Charlotte Lancelot)

18. “Here Hook”

Here’s the “Here Hook!” It’s an arrow, basically just pointing to the general area of itself. It’s a coat hook. It knows exactly where you’d be precisely in the area of cool if you want to hang up your jacket. Or hat! (Designer:Richard Shed)

19. Bird Hook

A ceramic hook in shape off a bird where you can expose your favorite accessories. (Designer: Jantze Brogård Asshoff)

20. Active Hanger

Mountain climbing posts you install on your walls, serve as both hooks for clothing, and a rock-climbing-esque wall in your house. (Designer: Ferran Lajara)

20 Cool and Creative Wall Hook Designs originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 24, 2011.

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Cool Knitted Beard Hat with Detachable Beard

October 21st, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Can’t grow a beard? Your face gets painfully cold in the winter? Then Beardo beard hat is you answer!

Beardo beard hats are the brainchild of Jeff Phillips, a Canadian-born winter enthusiast who has a passion for snowboarding. Jeff has been chasing perfect powder runs all around the globe and came up with the first make-shift Beardo in Whistler, B.C while at the Blackcomb mountain summit, at 7th heaven.

Though the very first prototype was made using an old knit scarf and far from perfect, it has been severely refined (not thanks to Jeff’s horrible knitting skills!) to the innovative and fully patented design that you see today.

Available for $39.99 at beardo.bigcartel.com

Cool Knitted Beard Hat with Detachable Beard originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 21, 2011.

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The Art of Clean Up by Ursus Wehrli

October 17th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Swiss comedian and cabaret artist Ursus Wehrli is releasing a new book called The Art of Clean Up, where he rearranges our chaotic world and its everyday objects into neat rows, sorted by color, size, shape, or type. Some might say it’s the case of OCD, but as far as we know, the artist is perfectly fine, and has a really good sense of humor.

Ursus Wehrli is also the author of Tidying Up Art, a visionary manifesto that yearns toward a more rational, more organized and cleaner form of modern art. In deconstructing the work of Paul Klee, Jaspen Johns and other masters into its component parts, organized by color and size, Wehrli posits a more perfect art world. [1]

Now let’s take a glimpse into his upcoming book. Would you like to live in such a world?

Website: http://kunstaufraeumen.ch

The Art of Clean Up by Ursus Wehrli originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 17, 2011.

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The Art of Clean Up by Ursus Wehrli

October 17th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Swiss comedian and cabaret artist Ursus Wehrli is releasing a new book called The Art of Clean Up, where he rearranges our chaotic world and its everyday objects into neat rows, sorted by color, size, shape, or type. Some might say it’s the case of OCD, but as far as we know, the artist is perfectly fine, and has a really good sense of humor.

Ursus Wehrli is also the author of Tidying Up Art, a visionary manifesto that yearns toward a more rational, more organized and cleaner form of modern art. In deconstructing the work of Paul Klee, Jaspen Johns and other masters into its component parts, organized by color and size, Wehrli posits a more perfect art world. [1]

Now let’s take a glimpse into his upcoming book. Would you like to live in such a world?

Website: http://kunstaufraeumen.ch

The Art of Clean Up by Ursus Wehrli originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 17, 2011.

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N. Korea’s Mass Games or 100,000 Human Pixels

October 14th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

Photographer Sam Gellman recently returned from a 4-day trip to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea where he was lucky enough to witness and photograph the Mass Games in Pyongyang – a propaganda-filled synchronized performance done by 100,000 people.

“Photos from a four day trip in North Korea – September 9-12, 2011. Our guides were great but also quite conscious of every step we took. So some of these images are more documentary than anything else.”

“It was an amazing four days though and a unique opportunity to see how a country separated from the rest of the world functions. While the propaganda was more than I expected, there were some moments, like bumper cars at a theme park with soldiers and their kids, that were good reminders that people are people, whether in North Korea, the US, Hong Kong or anywhere.”

Photos: Sam Gellman

North Korean kids hold up papers which create an image of the North Korean flag. There are 30,000 of them, switching the cards every second in some cases, and others holding an image for 30 seconds to a minute.

The image in the background of the mountain is made up of 30,000 “pixels” which are constantly being changed into new images, each pixel by a different Korean kid. Each time they turn the page to create a new giant picture, they cry out, mixing the shout with the noise of thousands of pages turned at the same moment.

Here are some video highlights from Mass Games 2011 in North Korea:

N. Korea’s Mass Games or 100,000 Human Pixels originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 14, 2011.

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Wastelandscape Made of 65,000 Old CDs

October 12th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

If you wonder what to do with those old, dust-collecting CD piles on your desk – don’t even think of throwing them away, because we have a much, much better idea! (Not to mention that it will take over 1 million years for a CD to completely decompose in a landfill[1].)

French artist Elise Morin and architect Clémence Eliard hand-sewed together 65,000 old CDs to create an enormous 500-squere meter undulating landscape, so-called ‘Wastelandscape’ which overtakes the ‘Halle D’aubervilliers’ of Paris’s centquatre.

In the artists’ words: ‘made of petroleum, this reflecting slick of CDs forms a still sea of metallic dunes; the artwork’s monumental scale reveals the precious aspect of a small daily object.’

Website: elise-morin.com

Wastelandscape Made of 65,000 Old CDs originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 12, 2011.

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Wastelandscape Made of 65,000 Old CDs

October 12th, 2011 by Bored Panda | No Comments | Filed in Design

If you wonder what to do with those old, dust-collecting CD piles on your desk – don’t even think of throwing them away, because we have a much, much better idea! (Not to mention that it will take over 1 million years for a CD to completely decompose in a landfill[1].)

French artist Elise Morin and architect Clémence Eliard hand-sewed together 65,000 old CDs to create an enormous 500-squere meter undulating landscape, so-called ‘Wastelandscape’ which overtakes the ‘Halle D’aubervilliers’ of Paris’s centquatre.

In the artists’ words: ‘made of petroleum, this reflecting slick of CDs forms a still sea of metallic dunes; the artwork’s monumental scale reveals the precious aspect of a small daily object.’

Website: elise-morin.com

Wastelandscape Made of 65,000 Old CDs originally appeared on Bored Panda on October 12, 2011.

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