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Is that coffee table that you picked up at IKEA not earning its keep? Is your wall clock not as involved in the game of life as you’d like? Well, designers James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau have created some rather disturbing furniture, such as a fly-powered clock and a coffee table that controls your mice population.
Let me say first that I laughed out loud before even clicking this link in my Twitter feed.
Reason number one… It’s by The Oatmeal, which consistently provides some of the best material on the internet. Two… restaurant websites are an easy target due to their staunch history of awfulness. Please enjoy, I know I did.
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When the generic and anatomically inaccurate heart-shape isn’t quite enough to express your love, then it might be time to get real. Lily Vanilli’s Valentine’s Bleeding Heart Cake is here to help.
Made from red velvet sponge, cream cheese frosting and blackcurrant and cherry ‘blood’, it will surely get the attention of your lover… and perhaps another restraining order. Happy Valentine’s Day psycho.
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Ever-evolving menus and pop-up restaurants are nothing new, but What Happens When — a temporary restaurant installation in New York City — will not only change the menu every 30 days, but also the restaurant’s entire concept, design, and soundscape.
What Happens When is a playground for food. It is a temporary restaurant installation that transforms every 30 days for 9 months, offering guests an ever-changing culinary, visual and sound experience.
This delicious exhibition is a result of the collaboration between one chef, two designers, a photographer and a composer.
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The Mutato-Archive is an art project by German artist Uli Westphal dedicated to the malformed bastard children of the produce world.
Westphal focuses on the unfortunate fruits and vegetables — such as a carrot with arms — that never make it to our produce section, and in turn are spared the ridicule of picky shoppers. Haven’t they suffered enough?
The Mutato-Archive is a collection of non-standard fruits, roots and vegetables, displaying a dazzling variety of forms, colours and textures, that only reveal themselves when lawfully enforced standards cease to exist. The complete absence of botanical anomalies in our supermarkets has caused us to regard the consistency of produce presented there as natural. Produce has become a highly designed, monotonous product. We have forgotten, and in many cases never experienced, the way fruits, roots, and vegetables can actually look (and taste). The Mutato-Project serves to document, preserve and promote these last remainders of agricultural diversity.