Perhaps you think a commissioned portrait of yourself or a loved one is a little out of financial reach, but sketch artist Benjamin Hammond wishes to prove you wrong. Hammond presents One-Minute Portraits, an online invitation to submit a photograph of anyone, so he may turn it into an original piece of drawn portraiture. He’ll [...]
You’ve heard of white noise. Often broadcast to mask the common day-to-day sounds heard in offices, or public spaces, white noise lends an aural privacy to an environment because it distracts the ears with a din that’s steady, yet unimposing. Have you heard of pink noise however, or brown noise? The site SimplyNoise.com offers a [...]
Here’s a viral ad for Levi’s in which a guy named Mike ‘walks’ across America. Shot over two weeks, the vid is so good, that we’re happy to do what Levi’s wants us to do and pass it along. A Google map of Mike’s journey can be found here.
In the 1940s, the United States Navy commissioned from the Electric Machine and Equipment Company (Emeco) a chair that would be able to withstand the impact of torpedo blasts to the side of the battleship that carried it. The Emeco 1006 was born – the result of a 2-week, 77-step manufacturing process that gives the [...]
As a nod to The Cat in the Hat, One Fish Two Fish and company, Converse has just released a summer collection of sneaks that look as if they were drawn by Dr. Seuss. Sized for big kids or for real kids, (big kids will get more out of these, I think), the shoe maker [...]
We love the customization trend, so here’s a sweet Summer bit of custom ordering that’ll definitely turn some heads. Smart cars is offering a chance to wrap your new little ‘fortwo’ in any number of custom prints and patterns, including topological designs, streetmaps, houndstooth, racecar patterns – the list goes on. Available to upload your [...]
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