Archive for the ‘ Humor ’ Category

Cardboard Arcade and An Ingenious 9 Year Old

A great story and video about a kid’s LA CardCade. Sorry Colossal for another repost, but this had to be shared! This is the story of a nine year old boy named Caine who built an elaborate cardboard arcade inside his father’s used auto part store. A dollar gets you four plays, and two dollars [ READ MORE ]

Book Igloo!

A beautiful book igloo, Via Colossal: Home is a recent sculptural installation by Colombian artist Miler Lagos. The piece was constructed at MagnanMetz Gallery late last year using carefully stacked books to create a compact dome that is entirely self-supporting. (via chris moore, thanks megan)[ READ MORE ]

Sanding Machine + Paper

Why? I guess why not? Via Today and Tomorrow: What do you think will happen when you combine a sanding machine and a pipe of paper. John Wood & Paul Harrison found out and made this awesome video[ READ MORE ]

Extinct Sporting Events

Perhaps some sports are best to be left in the past. From the Library of Congress’ Flickr page, some photos of “Auto Polo“, back when the automobile itself was still new. Pretty amazing images[ READ MORE ]

Ant Tales

Ant Tales from Russian Photographer Andrey Pavlov Via Design Boom: Russian photographer Andrey Pavlov has developed the macro-photographic series ‘ant tales‘. the whimsical compilation of images picture ants captured in moments of spontaneous or choreographed play. Many images picture the bugs using props Pavlov has crafted from raw materials from the region such as berries [ READ MORE ]

Tennis Balls in Midair

A really stunning exhibition by Spaniard Ana Soler. I’d love to see this in person. Via Colossal: 2,000 Suspended Tennis Balls Appear to Bounce Through Mustang Art Gallery Spanish visual artist Ana Soler is known for working with a multitude of objects from dangling hundreds of pairs of scissors or spoons, to creating dense clouds [ READ MORE ]

A Good Perspective in São Paulo

Great use of design, color and perspective. love it. Via CoolHunting and Arrested Motion: Five Spanish artists take graffiti and mural painting to the streets of Vila Brâsilandia in São Paulo, Brazil. The favela’s winding streets are given a 3D effect with brilliant colors and words that are legible from specific points of perspective. Boa [ READ MORE ]

Underwater Dogs

I’m a little late to this post, but it’s charming and hilarious enough to post anyway. Photographer Seth Casteel has created a great niche of shooting high-speed underwater photography of dogs, and their intense faces underwater show the complete commitment of their actions. It reminds me why I love dogs. Great work, Seth[ READ MORE ]

The Size of the Universe

Scale is sometimes hard to quantify. What is the size of a cell compared to a Redwood tree?  How big is ‘outer space’?  This clever little Flash website gives you a cartoon view of scale that will amaze you. &nbsp[ READ MORE ]

Classic L.L. Bean Covers, Recreated

Via Laughing Squid: For their 100 year anniversary celebration, Maine-based outdoor retailer L.L. Bean brought on commercial photographer Randal Ford to create modern-day photo reinterpretations of their classic catalog cover art from the past. For the photo of the 1933 catalog cover art, Ford shot the images of local residents at Maine’s Acadia National Park [ READ MORE ]

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