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Hose Cactus: Stunning Artwork About Drinking Water
Who would have thought that even a hose could be recycled into something so genuinely beautiful? The cactus is used to living in harsh environments where water is sparse. Deserts seem to be the prime location where cactus' flourish, and they have been recorded to live between 50 and 200 years whic ...
Cartoonified: Super Mario In Retro Cartoon Style Posters
I am not sure of how many incarnations of Super Mario games there are out there, but I am sure there are a lot of them, right? They are always playful, colorful and most of all immensely addicting. The first Super Mario game for the NES was, for many, the one game that made them buy a Nintendo gam ...
How Old Newspapers Become D’Eco Art
The things you can do by just recycling stuff is only limited to your imagination. I have many times written about things that have laid dormant awaiting their decomposition, even though it might take thousands of years, which have then instead been turned into things so beautiful you could swear o ...
Container Guest House: Pack Your Guests In Recycled Living
I have always found it hard to house guests to my own satisfaction. Whenever someone jumps by my place for a visit, I always want to house them like royalty instead of as friends. I don't just want to show them to a room and tell them this is the place you will be calling home for the next three d ...
IKEA Creates 3D Chalk Art In Sydney
I wish we had an IKEA store here in Manila. Whenever I'm traveling, I often drop by whenever I have time. IKEA is a Swedish corporation that designs and sells ready to assemble furniture, accessories and appliances. To date they have around 316 stores in 37 countries. They also publish a catalog ...
NES Zelda: The Reality Of A Hero Isn’t So Glamorous After All!
When I think back on the days when playing Nintendo was the prime reason to wake up in the morning and when the hero status of the characters I played meant more than the breakfast cereal at my disposal, I suddenly realize that those days were a long time ago. However, that doesn't change the fact ...
Recycled Wildlife: Mechanical Nature Is Here
So you're looking out onto your garden. There's a rabbit jumping aimlessly around looking for something to eat underneath the snow. You keep staring at it because it's not very often you get to watch these animals so closely without interrupting their everyday life. It's a treat, and it becomes a ...
Retro Seating: Now You Can Literally Sit In Your Fridge!
Many things can be modified or beautified, but few things can be turned into something entirely different and still be useful in a whole new way. I know, that sounds really weird, and the more I think about that sentence, the more my head spins. However, it's the truth, and this article is going t ...
Doily Webs: Beach Artwork Never Looked So Beautiful
When my studio was located elsewhere a few years ago, I used to take my Inlines and go for a trip down to the shore in the middle of the night during the summers. At around 3am I laced my wheels onto my feet and got myself some morning inspiration. The road was kissing the shoreline and the concre ...
The Only Bike Station Made Entirely Out Of Cardboard
In a world full of junk and garbage, it seems we are all trying to do our part in recycling whatever we can. Sometimes it's easier than others, but the fact remains that we are making a huge change by just trying. There are all different kinds of recycling going on in everyone's life if you look r ...
How To: Recycle Old Jeans Into A Cell Phone Case
For a woman, finding the perfect pair of blue jeans is like finding the Holy Grail. We try on dozens of pairs, and once we find the right ones, we love them, nurture them and keep them safe like they were our best friend.
I own two pairs of blue jeans that I treasure. I've had them both for sev ...
Design: Creative and Clever T-Shirt Packaging
My brain is confused when I look at these t-shirts because it's not often that a product's packaging is so much more creative and fun than the product itself, but in my opinion, that is what is going on here.
As we all know, a product's packaging can make or break a brand. With so much competiti ...
This Beautiful Billboard Doesn’t Advertise Anything!
Most of the time, billboards are annoying as heck, aren't they? Whenever we travel down the highway, there are signs everywhere telling us where to eat, where to buy gas, where to shop... it never ends. I suppose it could be worse, after all, some say that in the future we will be blasted with br ...
Rainbow Colored Friendship, Vomit and Tears
I'm strangely drawn to these illustrations. It's probably because I have a lot of experience with puking and crying. These illustrations below look like a twisted teenage girl slumber party complete with friends having fun popping rainbow colored zits, crying colorful tears and even puking up the ...
Cities Made With Over 420,000 Match Sticks
Dioramas are fascinating artworks! They are usually replicas of monuments or buildings that we are familiar with. They are painstakingly created by designers to the exact detail of the real structure. I'm sure you can just imagine the time and work that goes into building one.
I had the experi ...