If you’re old enough to remember the VW campervan then you’re going to love this VW campervan tent. It’s a full scale copy of the van with enough room for 4 people and you can stand upright in there, unlike the actual VW van itself, lol. Those things are tiny!
Cube and gradation air vases
This week on Maison & Objet trade show in Paris Japanese studio Torafu Architects presented their famous paper air vases in two brand new colors Gradation and Cube patterns (that reminds me of M.C. Escher drawings).
Hallucinations Castle
I generally approve when people drastically changes the look of their homes and generally when artists who use LSD to “help” the creative process along but I think they’ve gone too far with this one.
Don’t Click
Don’t Click (www.dontclick.it) is the best site I’ve been on in months. While visiting dontclick.it you will need to make only one click. That’s it. At first it’s a bit confusing but then you get the hang of it. It’s really fun surfing without clicking. Go ahead give the site a try.
I’m sure you will agree that the concept they are developing is very interesting and can change the face of webpages and make us forget about clicking when surfing the web.
City with a Steampunk Spirit
The city I’m talking about is Wuppertal in western Germany. It’s home to Schwebebahn or suspended monorail which was opened in 1901. Its full name is the Eugen Langen Monorail Suspension Railway (Einschienige Hängebahn System Eugen Langen). Of course the city doesn’t have a steampunk look now. However, the old pictures of the town tell us a different story.
Here are some numbers and details about the monorail.
The route is 13.3 kilometers (about 8 miles) long, about 12 meters (36 feet) above the surface of the river Wupper between Oberbarmen and Sonnborner Strasse and 8 meters (24 feet) above the streets.
The train consist of 2 cars like trams in Eastern Europe. The cars are 24 meters long and have 4 doors. One carriage can seat 48 and stand approximately 130 passengers. The top speed of the monorail train is 60 km/h (40 mph).
The last 2 photos are of modern Wuppertal.
Oculus
Despite the economic crisis, exclusive merchandise will always be in high demand. This beauty, designed by E. Kevin Schöpfer is called the Oculus. The slick and smooth design, the open mouth-like backside combined with the eye-like socket make the Oculus look like a creature of the sea. The yacht is 250 feet long, the ceilings are 12 feet high and it can travel the seas at 25 knots.
Time Cube
It always puts a smile on my face when I see such clocks. I enjoy the different and sometimes bizarre designs but when it comes to telling time that’s where the problems start. We are accustomed to round clocks with 3 (sometimes 2) hands.
So this is a time cube but instead of hands it has triangles. The large one is the hour hand the middle one – minutes and the smallest one is for minutes. I think and this is only a guess, that you can tell time by looking at the numbers near the black line. What I like about this clock is that it transform into different shapes for 12 hours.
Cityscope
Cityscope, an installation in Germany, is a very peculiar and interesting piece of art. It reflects fragmented views on the city and composes at the same time a three-dimensional image of the surrounding facades. The beholder becomes a part of the reflections as he moves around it. During the day the triangles covered with radiant foil reflect the surrounding cityscape in different colors (the color depends on the position of the beholder) At night the installation becomes transparent as it is lit from within. Cityscope lets people observe their surroundings in a different way. This is a pretty cool and very amusing installation.
Pet Furniture
Pets play an important roles is our lives that’s why we have so much pet toys and pet foods available. We humans have a strange desire to make homes or places for our pets that look like real houses because we think it’s cute. You know, people have a big house and their dog outside has the same house only smaller. We also have invented furniture for cats so they could climb to a higher place and knock something off from a shelf. I’ve noticed that those items which cats usually knock off tend to be very fragile and break as soon as they hit the floor.
Scotsman’s Trufill
This is a very important invention that will make everybody happier. The Scotsman�s Trufill can fill you glass with cold beer in seconds so you won’t miss any moments from the football match you’re watching. It doesn’t matter whether Trufill uses magic or a valve at the bottom of the glass to fill it up, the important thing is you’ll save time on beer refills.
