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Earn a green thumb every pizza night with Pizza Chef — a gardening set that will help grow your own pizza ingredients. Included are the tools needed for some of the basics — including tomato, oregano, and basil seeds.
Now we just need to plant that mozzarella and pepperoni tree in the backyard, and we’re set.
[link, via Incredible Things]
When music appreciation and tech craft meets creative wordplay, we get things like the BeetBox. Created by Scott Garner, the root-vegetable-inspired musical instrument uses six beets powered by a Raspberry Pi with a capacitive touch sensor. When touched, each beet creates a distinct drum sound. And, when roasted, those same beats make a tasty side dish.
Please watch this…
Urinal Cake Decorations is a new creative project by Carmichael Collective, which takes the concept of a urinal cake quite literally. By placing an actual cake in a urinal, it not only gives men a fun new target — but could also be a good way of showing how they might be feeling about an upcoming birthday, or a marriage.
[link, via Incredible Things]
A few things that can be learned from this blog entry… The process of harvesting cranberries is actually pretty cool. And, Red Bull can be rather creative at coming up with ways to promote their energy drink — in this case, their new cranberry version.
So recently, Red Bull took a few of our finest wakeskaters and pulled them through a harvested cranberry bog, filming the process in HD. The results are nothing short of pure awesome.
[via Colossal]
We’ve all seen our share of meticulous and hunger-inducing photos of food — whether on the internet or in magazines. But what if the world of food styling was literally turned inside-out, showing us an unexplored and darker side of food photography?
French photographer Nadege Meriau is doing just that. Filming produce and other various foodstuffs from the inside, Meriau creates a veritable underworld. In some cases, the works could even be described as resembling the ‘seventh circle of hell.’ Now, who’s hungry?
[link via Design Taxi]