Cat Kong

Complete with little helicopter toy, it’ll give you hours of amusement while your cat scratches away, completely oblivious. Made for recyclable cardboard, it’s an expendable way of dealing with your cat’s natural urge to scratch – saving all of your other furniture from Cat Kong’s clutches.

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Ice aquarium

The Kori no Suizokukan, or the “ice aquarium,” is located in Kesennuma in northeastern Japan, and features approximately 450 specimens frozen in ice. Bathed in blue light, presumably for atmosphere, the specimens include about 80 different species of marine life, flash frozen as they’re unloaded at Kesennuma’s port on the Pacific Ocean.

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The cubes

Finally, the drudgery of corporate life has been captured in a play set for adults! The Cubes™ spend eight hours a day, five days a week, at tiny desks in tiny cubicles in a giant room packed with countless similar cubicles in a giant building filled with countless similar rooms.

Each set comes with a 2-3/4" posable plastic figure and all the necessary plastic parts to build a classic corporate environment.

Cookie Friday - Now here's a yummy looking martini!

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back tomorrow

Went to the dentist yesterday so I will be taking a rain check today. Back tomorrow with regular scheduling

Microphotography: food

Caren Alpert is a food photographer based in San Francisco. For the last 18 months, she has been shooting food with an electron microscope. The foods featured here are Cake Sprinkles (above); then (after the jump) Brussel Sprout, Shrimp Tail, Passion Fruit, Sun Dried Tomato, Star Anise, and Blueberry. 

Microphotography: sand

This amazing picture of sand magnified x 250 was taken by Gary Greenberg. His amazing microphotography shows just how unbland sand really is. 

Eating with the fishes

Dine 16 feet below sea level at Ithaa, the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island's unique undersea restaurant. Marvel at 180° views of reef and marine life, sip champagne cocktails and sample Maldivian-Western fusion cuisine at this spectacular Maldives venue – the world’s first all-glass, undersea restaurant.

Cookie Friday - Oreo Art

Today's cookie special features artist Judith G. Klausner with her amazing Cameo Oreo cookie art. Materials: Oreo cookies  Dimensions: 2"×2"×0.25"

Furniture with personnality

Straight Line Designs makes furniture that’s anything but straight. Twisted, bendy, and explosive, their pieces seem to be pulled from a cartoon reality. 

Oolong the pancake balancing rabbit

This is Oolong. I've discovered him some time ago and finally decided to share with you, for those who don't already know him.  He is the most famous rabbit on the internet, to a point that he has his own Wikipedia page ! 

Oolong was a well known Internet phenomenon, through a large array of photographs posted by Akutagawa on his website. The site featured "photo journeys" of the domestic rabbit traveling with his master through the house, yard, and other locations <...>

 Oolong was trained to balance objects on his head, an art called "Head Performance" by his owner.The first object balanced on Oolong's head was a 35mm film canister on 25 May 1999. Soon, Akutagawa had the rabbit balance a variety of things on his head, including tea cups, bread, fruit, pancakes (actually dorayaki), and even a rabbit skull.

Unfortunately Oolong died in 2003. Akutagawa now owns a new rabbit by the name of Yuebing which he now trains him as he did Oolong. A few more shots of Oolong after the jump along with Akutagawa's website.

Reimagined nightmare-like Super Mario enemies

Here is some re-imagined amazing artwork of the monsters in Super Mario by artist Mike Puncekar.

Cookie Friday

 

A special treat for Today's cookie Friday, a charm bracelet.. made of real cookies. They even give you the recipe to make your own cookie jewelry!

Upside down world

What if the situations in our lives turned upside down one day, like for example presents unwrapping human bodies instead of the other way around, or pigeons feeding people and pillows having “human fight” instead of pillow fights? The pictures illustrate it in an almost fun and interesting way, but if those things happened in reality, they wouldn’t be so fun after all.

No dogs allowed

 

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Toilet paper roll art

Back from my brief vacation, which means back to regular scheduling!

Yuken Teruya is an artist based in Brooklyn. He works in a variety of media and often references consumer culture alongside traditional craft techniques.