I scream, YOU scream !

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STOYN is a Russian advertising agency that has developed this genius range of ice creams.  They decided to materialize iconic characters from world's culture such as Darth Vader, Marilyn Monroe, Donald Duck, Che Guevara, Super Mario * <3 * and others in form of these intriguing flavors of ice cream. They really look cool, I would love to try them. The promotional event was organized under the slogan " Lick your idol" and judging by the photos from the event, looks like everyone had great fun doing so.

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Ice cream was an inspiration for one of my favorite artist couples : Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. They like to make king size public art installations of everyday objects. Back in 2001. in Cologne, they installed a giant sculpture of an ice cream cone dropped upside down on top of a building. And they had chosen not just any building, but a shopping mall to emphasize the cornucopia of consumerism.

Another ice cream related piece of art are these ice cream cone lamps for eco-friendly light bulbs which look so real and cute. Designed by studio Mixko, although I'm not sure if they can still be bought somewhere as the designers from this studio parted and they each run their own studios now.

And for the end of this post , my favorite- ice cream taking a poop.

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Titled "Everyone poops", this doodle is a work of an illustrator Lim Heng Swee who decided to do one doodle a day for 365 days hoping to bring a smile on people's faces.

balloons.

photo by Ikunori Yamamoto

This amazing balloon bench was designed by Satoshi Itasaka from h220430 studio. What's great about this bench is that it looks so real, like it's floating away. Of course, this is actually an illusion as the balloons are plastic and have to be bolted to the ceiling. Satoshi found inspiration for this design in a french movie called "Le ballon rouge" from 1956.

Le ballon rouge is a movie about a friendship between a boy and a balloon which follows him around . It has beautiful, dreamy-like atmosphere and watching it is an emotionally moving experience so if you haven't seen this classic, you need to watch it.

Another balloonish thing which looks like it's being lifted by the balloons is this replica house from Pixar's movie Up built by a team from National Geographic. Only this is not an illusion. This house really does float aided by the help of 300 huge helium-filled balloons. All this was an experiment made by a group of scientists, engineers, world-class balloon pilots and thousands of volunteers who managed to get the small house into the air just like in Pixar's movie Up.

head art.

From time to time,  I become obsessed with something. This weekend my attention was focused on hats. I discovered some breathtaking hat designs. To me they represent true sculpture art.

The exploration started with Philip Treacy .

Then I was fascinated by Stephen Jones's latest dreamy surreal collection.

And finally, I was blown away with a hat exhibition made by Japanese design studio Nendo for Akio Harata, Japan's most famous hat designer. People from Nendo have chosen a perfect way to put accent on Hirata's work: they made 4000 white "ghost hats" which float around giving a dramatic contrast to the "real" hats which are on display. I can only imagine what an amazing feeling it must be to walk through these flying hats.

photo by Daici Ano

photo by Daici Ano

photo by Daici Ano

Visual Thinking

This is the most popular sketch from Sam+Friends TV show which was aired back in the 50's. The author of the show was the famous puppeteer Jim Henson who later developed these characters and created The Muppets. I love this sketch. It features Kermit The Frog and Harry The Hipster. I find it very interesting that a character's name from this vintage TV show was Harry The Hipster. Harry was actually a black sock puppet with white shades, distinguished taste in everything and big jazz lover who always spoke in hip slang. The thing that I love about this sketch is that it explores visual thinking and especially visualizing music which in a way reminded me of my ongoing fascination with synesthesia.
"Oh I don't like jazz."  * SQUARE*

Stuxnet: Anatomy of a Computer Virus

Last year's famous virus Stuxnet is considered to be the first weapon made entirely out of code. Many speculate it was built to destroy Iran's nuclear program.

Australian designer Patrick Claire made a beautifully designed video about Stuxnet . This amazing infographic also gives you the chill because it brings up the question about the future of this powerful weapon. Watch the video here.

Rising chair.

I love this idea of a chair that rises out of nothing. Well not literally out of nothing but from the flat wooden surface. Dutch designer Robert Van Embricqs is the man behind this exceptional creation. Beautiful.

bubblegum art.

Roland Hicks's  fascinating series of chewing gum portraits are actually oil on canvas paintings even though they look as realistic as photographs. They all represent shoe stepping into a sidewalk bubble gum.

Maurizio Savini makes amazing sculptures using bubble gum and fiberglass.

Simone Decker had a project back in 1999. called "Chewing in Venice" with giant chewing gum sculptures all around Venice.

And finally, street artist Ben Wilson whose work inspired this post. He paints on chewing gums which are stuck to the pavements. This way he creates wonderful tiny peaces of art.

A love story...in milk.

Video for Friends of the Earth campaign for recycling is a charming love story between milk bottles.

a yellow submarine, a diver and a shark

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"no Game Boys were harmed during the filming of this video"

Here's some great object music made using only the Game Boy. For more experimental 8-bit music, visit Gnarl-O-Rama blog.