Tag Archive: strange

The Re-Imagined Movie Poster Art Of Sean Hartter

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Who is Sean Hartter, you ask? Just a bad ass designer who makes some kickass posters and illustrations for a variety of magazines, comic books and TV shows. One of his longest running projects, though, is the very same idea that influenced Stults to make his designs. On his blog site, aptly-named Hartter, Sean has [...]

The Bubble Hotel in Roubaix

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The French town of Roubaix, has recently opened a series of portable hotel rooms in a local park. They can be rented by people who want to feel close to nature in the middle of the urban jungle. The bubble concept thought up by French designer Pierre Stephane Dumas aims to redefine the term temporary [...]

Propeller Island City Lodge

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Located just outside the center of Berlin in Germany, Propeller Island City Lodge is an unusual hotel with “artistic” rooms that include flying beds and upside down fittings. The rooms and interior objects have all been created by the German artist Lars Stroschen, in an attempt to create a hotel that is a “living work [...]

Women with beards

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The people over at freakingnews recently held a competition to see how well photoshoppers could attach excess facial hair to famous female celebrities. The results are now in, and, goodness me, they’re good. Here’s the blurb from the site: “The normal amount of body hair for women varies. Most of the time, a woman only [...]

Final Fantasy x Prada collaboration

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Arena Homme+ magazine has found an interesting way to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the popular Final Fantasy video game franchise by removing characters from the console and placing them in front of the camera. A 12-page spread featuring characters from the game spruced up in some of the latest looks from Prada’s Spring 2012 [...]

Bug Memorials by Carmichael Collective

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“Bug Memorials” is an ongoing installation and photography project by Carmichael Collective, a creative company based in Minneapolis, MN. These tiny memorials were created to commemorate the countless fallen bugs found on the street. The project plays with the notion of surprise and aims to encourage city-dwellers to be more aware of their surroundings. Click [...]

The Sheep Hotel, Japan

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That’s right, a hotel for sheep. Where? Japan, of course. The Hotel Sheep Guest House will be the location for warm hospitality and fun time for sheep, as this is the first hotel only for sheep where other animals are prohibited. Featuring a total of 30 luxuriously appointed rooms for sheep with loving owners who [...]

Alexander Graham Bell’s Delightfully Weird Sketchbooks

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It was on March 10, 1876 that Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call. “‘Mr. Watson–come here–I want to see you,” he said to his assistant, who was in the next room. Bell recorded those early telephone experiments in his lab notebooks from the time, as he did with countless other experiments and [...]

Abandoned Pianos

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When we found this collection of abandoned pianos, we weren’t sure if we were going to post it or not. However, the more we look at it, the more we thought, this is good. This is really good. There’s also some interesting bits from musicians on why we find these dilapidated instruments so fascinating. Click [...]

Kadykchan – A Ghost Town of Chukotka

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Chukotka, located at the far eastern end of Russia – it’s closer to America than it is to Moscow – was once a bustling little town of 7,000 inhabitants. Two coal mines provided employment for the town, until an accident killed six people. One mine was closed, and the other quickly followed suit. The authorities [...]