Inspire Me

SHIFTED (:

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http://mongofongo.tumblr.com/

Boredom kills

2009-09-29T11:39:00.001-07:00

Shades of the rainbow by Loh featuring Billabong

Colour Lovers

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Crepe Delight

Inspired by Marche Crepe ( Taken by me)

Been playing around on colour lovers. Such a relaxing activity to do.

Forest Girl

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Don't you think this is so beautiful? This is a collaboration done by Dawn Tan and Sarah McNeil. Happened to chance upon Dawn's blog when I was browsing. She's a Singaporean student artist who currently lives in Victoria, Melbourne and she paints a lot. I love her paintings. Always wanna learn how to do watercolour painting. Anyway do check out their blogs for amazing drawings or things that intrigues them (:

Calendar by Oscar Diaz

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This is so cool can (: Read more about it HERE

What parents say, and what children do.

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So true isn't it? Advertising agency: Del Campo Nazca Saatchi & Saatchi for Hospital Aleman Kinder Plan.

'Piegato One' Shelf

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The 'piegato one' is a laser cut, powder coated steel sheet, which allows users to easily
fold into a shelf. Designed by Matthias Reis.

D Bros

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The japanese are so creative. I have a thing for post it notes. And these fruity ones are so pretty! I want! See more pictures of it HERE

On a side note, I love the simple flash thing created for the D Bros site. Simple to use, easy to view. Click HERE to go (: You'll be amazed (:

All American Breakfast

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Photography by David Sykes

Keetra Dean Dixon

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Keetra Dean Dixon is a graphic designer. Her ideas are so quirky (:

Drool please. Next time I should print my husband's face on my pillow. Heeheehee.

And I simply adore this Anonymous Hugging Wall. I would love to be behind the wall and give people random hugs. Just hope that they don't do something funny to your fingers.

Barbie Themed Football Table

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This.is.so.strange. By Chloe Ruchon (Via LikeCool.com)

Transparent Fridge

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The Japanese people are just so creative. Hehe I want one now! So cool can!

(Tokyo Mango Via Szymon)

Words can kill

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From BestAdsOnTV (via Szymon)

DID YOU KNOWs

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(Via Larissa Meek)

Perfecto Cakes

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Click HERE to see Larissa Meek's full list of perfect cakes

Pillow Blanket

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IWANTTHIS

Jung you Fly to Neverland

Apple?

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By LübeckerJung via Szymon

Bread Art Project

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Found this way cool site Bread Art Project

At the Bread Art Project, they provide a virtual “canvas” to make your toast drawing on. It’s really well designed, and you can actually make some pretty cool stuff on it. Once you’ve finished making your work of art, it will be added to the Bread Art Gallery, along with hundreds other people’s. And best of all, every time you make a new piece of bread art, one dollar is donated to Feeding America, a cause dedicated to ending hunger in America.

- Spencer

I.WANT.A BOOKSHELF.LIKE.THAT

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Ron Arad. See more of his works HERE
(Via Timothy Taylor Gallery)

Tamara Muth-King

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Via http://www.tamaramuthking.com. Pretty good pictures she got there (:

Clothes of Sorts

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(Via http://www.flickr.com/people/sancho_fashion/)

Really wacky and cool ideas he got there (:

Stuck in the wrong job?

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Advert for Monster.com

Tees for Change

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(http://www.teesforchange.com/)
I want the tee that says laugh often (:

Camille Seaman

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Camille Seaman has self-published many books on themes like “My China” and “Melting Away: Polar Images” through Fastback Creative Books, a company that she co-founded. She frequently leads photographic and self-publishing workshops. Her photographs have received many awards including: a National Geographic Award, 2006; and the Critical Mass Top Monograph Award, 2007. In 2008 she was honored with a one-person exhibition, “The Last Iceberg” at the National Academy of Sciences, Washington DC. Camille Seaman lives in Berkeley, California, and takes photographs all over the world using digital and film cameras in multiple formats. She works in a documentary/fine art tradition and since 2003 has concentrated on the fragile environment of the Polar Regions.

SHE IS AMAZING (: Check out her website! My printscreens don't do her pictures justice !

Barbie aged.

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Via Incredimazing

Laser-cut Book - Olafur Eliasson

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Artist Olafur Eliasson created this piece, a laser-cut negative space rendering of his house in 85:1 scale: Your House

It’s made of 454 slices, bound together in a book. Apparently it was quite a difficult process to put together, due to the complex constraints that were put upon the paper.

Wii

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This is funny (: Via Konrad

Floating canopy on helium balloons

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This is so pretty (: Now I would really want this for my wedding (: The design is by London landscape architecture firm Gustafson Porter, for the Venice Architectural Biennale.

Found this on The Design Files

Teddy Bear Coat

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Wear a bear around today. Talk about unique-ness. By Sebastian Errazuriz. His design works ranges from fashion to lamps to houses to furniture. (:

Ads of the World Research Competition

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Reminds me of Find Wally. By Eric (:

A thing for brollies

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Bloom by Sam Spenser

Umbrella by kh2rac

Umbrella show by Don6201
Red Umbrella by Patrick

Hiroshima Umbrellas by manthatcooks

Made from socks

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Sock models by Neta Amir
See more of it here

Home Furnishing by Donna Wilson

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Before I show you how much I like the home furnishing.
This is something from Donna Wilson too. Love the sausage dog scarf.

A grass mat to snuggle up to

And clouds you can hug.

I so love these from Donna Wilson. Check out more HERE

Papercuts by Rob Ryan

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Uber pretty papercut outs by Rob Ryan. See more of his works HERE (:

Bring me to Socotra Island: The Island of Bliss

2009-01-06T19:44:00.001-08:00

I found this in an email sometime ago. And I fell in love with this place. So now instead of going to Rome, I decided that Socotra Island would be my honeymoon destination in the faraway future!

Let me show you pictures so that you know why.

Imagine waking up on the Socotra Island and taking a good look around you (let's say your buddies pulled a prank on you and delivered you there, and lets also assume that you don't have any hangover from abuse of any substances). After a yelp of disbelief, you'd be inclined to think you were transported to another planet - or traveled to another era of Earth's history.

The second would be closer to the truth for this island, which is part of a group of 4 islands, has been geographically isolated from mainland Africa for the last 6 or 7 million years. Like the Galapagos Islands , this island is teeming with 700 extremely rare species of flora and fauna, a full 1/3 of which are endemic, i.e. found nowhere else on Earth.

LOOK SEE LOOK SEE!

(images credit: Jan Vandorpe, socotra)

(images credit: dianadrz, Irina Travina)

The climate is harsh, hot and dry, and yet - the most amazing plant life thrives there. Situated in the Indian Ocean 250 km from Somalia and 340 km from Yemen , the wide sandy beaches rise to limestone plateaus full of caves (some 7 kilometers in length) and mountains up to 1525 meters high.

The name Socotra is derived from a Sanscrit name, meaning 'The Island of Bliss '...
Is it the beaches? The isolation and quiet? or the strange and crazy botanical allure? Alien-looking plants: H. P. Lovecraft's secret inspiration? Was the famous Chtulhu myths creator aware of these forbidding mountains with their hauntingly weird flora (think of plant mutations from his 'The Color out of Space') ?

(image credit: Jan Vandorpe)

(image credit: dianadrz)

(image credit: Christian Besnier)

There is also the Desert Rose (adenium obesium) which looks like nothing so much as a blooming elephant leg:

(images credit: Jan Vandorpe)

(image credit: Denis Romanov)

Dorstenia gigas - apparently does not require any soil and sinks roots straight into the bare rock:

(images credit: Jan Vandorpe)

Also found in Socotra 's landscape is the ever-strange and extremely rare Cucumber Tree (dendrosicyos socotranum) - and yes, it's related to what's sitting in a pickle jar in your fridge:

(image credit: Jan Vandorpe)

Getting around can be a challenge, as there are almost no roads Despite the fact that this island has around 40,000 inhabitants, the Yemeni govenment put in the first roads just 2 years ago - after negotiations with UNESCO, which has declared this island a World Natural Heritage Site. I would prefer a camel ride to what is bound to be a bumpy and slow 4x4 ride... It is a quiet and peaceful enclave in an otherwise troubled world. If you decide to visit there, you can forget about beachfront hotels and restaurants; this island is geared towards eco-tourism and sustaining the local economy and way of life.

(images credit: Adele Obice, Marco Pavan, Denis Romanov)

This island is a birder's paradise as well, with 140 different species of birds; 10 of which are not found anywhere else in the world. A unique Socotra warbler, sunbird, starling, bunting, sparrow and cisticola are among the ones found here. There are also Socotra Cormorants:

(images credit: Magellan Tours, Rafeek Manchayil)

Want to see some fairy-tale (and possibly haunted) shipwrecks? There are diving tours available... Hopefully some IMAX crew would film it in all its glory one day.

(image credit: socotra)

Al Hajarah, Yemen - Walled city in the mist. So mysterious looking eh?

(image credit: Michaela Diener)

(image credit: socotra )

Pink and Blue

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Did you know:

" Pink was once a color associated with masculinity, considered to be a watered down red and held the power associated with that color. In 1914, The Sunday Sentinel, an American newspaper, advised mothers to “use pink for the boy and blue for the girl, if you are a follower of convention.” The change to pink for girls and blue for boys happened in America and elsewhere only after World War II. As modern society entered twentieth century political correctness, the concept of gender equality emerged and, as a result, reversed the perspective on the colors associated with each gender as well as the superficial connections that attached to them . Today, with the effects of advertising on consumer preferences, these color customs are a worldwide standard"

- Jeong Mee Yoon

Take a look at Jeong Mee Yoon's

1. Pink and Blue Project

2. The Colour Project

3. Space-Man-Space

4.Zoo

Pillow Wig

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A pillow wig would be so fun to wear around. And I can sleep wherever I go now.

Design: Joo Youn Paek

If I don't wanna see you

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I'll do this. Design by Joo Youn Paek So cool right. I want an umbrella like that!

Food Art

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When I was just a little girl, my mother always encourages us to create faces on our rice. Today I found this uber cool flickr account by Kitsa Sakurako (: She encourages foodart too (:

Hoodie Chairs are so cool

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I want a hoodie chair like this for my new room. Built by this Swedish firm BRDA

Broberg & Ridderstråle Design & Architecturec. Now how do I go about purchasing this?

Corner Forest

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Guess what is this!

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It is a toilet paper roll! Who knew toilet paper roll could be so pretty (:

Credits: Yuken Teruya Studio

Rubik's Cube

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The Catorialist

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Pretty pretty Russian Blue.

Visit The Catorialist by Stephen Cohen

Alicia Bock

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Alicia Bock is a very talented photgrapher. I like her style (: Do check out her blog.She has an Etsy shop too and there are really awesome stuff.Should I get something from her shop for my room?

The Quiet Life

2008-07-02T02:04:00.000-07:00

The Quiet Life is an online store that sells really cool tees (:

SHEET OF PAPER BYQL GUEST ARTIST CHRISTIAN MORIN

PAPARAZZI

SCISSORS

Chuck Close

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Kate Moss, 2003

Chuck Close is an American photorealist painter. Specialisation in portraits. His portraits are so good that you would think they are straight from the camera.

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Untitled, 2003

Paper, felt tip pen, acrylic, sumi ink, glitter, polymer resin, in wood frame

12 x 12 x 2 inches

Up close

Sang Ah Choi's multi-paneled paintings reflect the confluence of traditional Korean and Western ideals present in her Korean upbringing. The intertwining of cultures is represented by intricate, overlapping imagery created in resin, ink, and glitter, among other materials. Some of Choi's recurrent motifs are archetypal images of Venus and Aphrodite, bamboo stalks, and bubbles. Her imagery explodes into three-dimensional form in the handmade pop-up inserts created by Choi for the limited edition catalogue. The catalogue will also be available in a four-color format without the pop-ups.

HelenHats

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HelenHats
products are unique one of a kind creations, giving you a completely personal purchasing experience. Her Hats and Hoodies are all quality made from recycled materials/knitwear. All Hats are fully lined in soft, warm fleece.

crochetroo

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Crochetroo
aims to raise awareness about our Australian wildlife, and way of life through creating fun and original crochet works.

What you see are ridgy didge original designs all designed and made by crotchetroo.
Patterns are sold for personal use only.

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Przez ciebie. by ~polish-girl on deviant ART

GirlTripped

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Credits to GirlTripped

Anna ter Haar with Chris Bartels

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What an absolute idea!
Another of Anna ter Haar fantastic Gradutation Project

A short movie ( 2.32 minutes ) that illustrates the influence of a group on the identity of an individual.. and the other way around. It shows the stratification caused by the influence that people have on each others appearance.

This graduation project is a cooperation with Cris Bartels.

And this is the making of the the movie

Anna ter Haar

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Anna ter Haar's graduation project.
This research is the result of her fascination for everything that differs from the normal:
the odd man out, the freaks.
Certain appearances that are so ugly and disgusting that they become interesting.

Let's see how she does it (:

Janice J's Illustrations

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Janice J's Illustrations are inspired by towns and cities, their buildings and the snippets of life she had witness.

Polaroid Transfers

2008-04-23T09:33:00.000-07:00

Found some really neat stuff on etsy today

she hit pause studios is based out of Brooklyn,NY and make art and PHOTOGRAPH WEDDINGS. Her works consists of my version of the pin-up girl,tights,toys,candy,gumballs,records,record players,typewriters ,clouds,Coney Island and anything else colorful,beautiful and dream like.

All of her images are printed on a textured water color paper. They come matted and ready to frame.

Cocopit

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Illustrator, Cocopit finds inspiration in fashion capitals as London and Paris. He produces prints and wallpapers structured or unstructured with collage effects.