These incredible images of waves were taken by the number 1 photographer of surf: Clark Little. He has dedicated his life to photographing the waves and has published a selection of the the best images of his career. The pictures capture magical moments inside the wave “tube”, as surfers say.

Brains have never looked so yummy! Red velvet raspberry cake with French vanilla cream cheese frosting and a chocolate brain by Pamela. She made these using miniature brain molds.

These 3D Stiletto Police are designer by ground-breaking designer Tim Cooper and whether this concept gets accepted or not he is definitely gonna be a favorite amongst cops.

Is your room crowded with speakers, subwoofers, computers, laptops and a TV as mine is ? Well I was thinking about making some free space by buying a dvd home cinema and connecting every “gadget” I have through it. I’d put a speaker in every corner of the room and one beneath the TV to have a nice surround sound. Imagine playing Mortal Kombat on PlayStation with surround … it would be awesome.

Do you have a dvd home cinema installed ? Which one and would you recommend it to me ?

A blacksmith is a person who creates objects from iron or steel by forging the metal by using tools to hammer, bend, and cut. Blacksmiths produce things like wrought iron gates, grills, railings, light fixtures, furniture, sculpture, tools, agricultural implements, decorative and religious items, cooking utensils, horseshoes and weapons.

Sounds like a tough job, huh ? Well … women can do it too. Here’s the most beautiful smith on this planet – Cal Lane – and some of her work :

One of my favorite TV show is Ghost Whisperer and I missed an episode … again. I’m thinking about buying a TV tuner or a hard drive recorder and I need your help on choosing the best one. What do you use to record your favorite TV shows and why ?

Thanks

The Dutch design Studio Tjep presented a collection of jewelry in the Gallery Ra (Gallery Ra) in Amsterdam. The collection is called Clockwork Love – this is six different projects, that involve human emotions.

Clockwork Love is different “heart whims” through the use of free characters, addressing topics such as transience, passion, insecurity and desire.

I was listening to music on my mp4 mp3 players and don’t know why I was thinking about the number one song in charts on my birthday. I googled a bit and found out that on my birthday ( 23 Jan. 1986 ) the number one song in US charts was Say You Say Me by Lionel Richie.

What was the number one song on your birthday ?

Throughout life we acquire possessions: from books and small objects purchased throughout travels to meaningful gifts. They end up stored in cardboard boxes, unappreciated or displayed somewhere within our homes. Rotterdam-based designer Reinier de Jong introduces a storage solution to accommodate our ever-changing needs: REK is an expandable bookcase that grows with your collection and is always full, regardless of the quantity of books and objects it holds.

REK grows with you and your space. “The more books, the bigger the bookcase,” according to the designer. Although the basic idea has been around for centuries, the application is entirely innovative. Kitchen bowls of varying sizes fit within each other for consolidated storage, and Russian nesting dolls which decrease in size, are placed one inside the other. These objects have the ability to be space-saving in their consolidated form, but individual components can be expanded out from each other to reveal themselves. The same ideas apply to REK whose five components are like puzzle pieces. “When in use, the zigzag shaped parts slide in or out to accommodate books in the resulting voids.” The relationship between solid and void changes as it is reconfigured, resulting in more or less storage and taking up more or less space. REK is anything from a solid sculptural object to a series of large open bookshelves.

“Also, the books can be arranged according to their size. The narrow spaces are excellent for magazines.” As noted by the designer on his website. REK contracts to save space or expands to reveal additional shelving. It operates like an accordion, similarly to Molo’s Softwall. The same functionality and flexibility applies to both Molo’s soft wall and de Jong’s REK bookshelf. Although different materials and operations are in effect, the idea is the same. The exterior of REK is finished with a white high gloss laminate and the inside in a warm-grey satin laminate. Even without the need for flexible storage, REK is a beautiful piece easily likened to a piece of art.

Cigarettes

1. Cigarettes are the single-most traded item on the planet, with approximately 1 trillion being sold from country to country each year. At a global take of more than $400 billion, it’s one of the world’s largest industries.
2. The nicotine content in several major brands is reportedly on the rise. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Health Department revealed that between 1997 and 2005 the amount of nicotine in Camel, Newport, and Doral cigarettes may have increased by as much as 11 percent.
3. In 1970, President Nixon signed the law that placed warning labels on cigarettes and banned television advertisements for cigarettes. The last date that cigarette ads were permitted on TV was extended by a day, from December 31, 1970 to January 1, 1971 to allow the television networks one last cash windfall from cigarette advertising in the New Year’s Day football games.
4. U.S. cigarette manufacturers now make more money selling cigarettes to countries around the globe than they do selling to Americans.
5. The American brands Marlboro, Kool, Camel and Kent own roughly 70% of the global cigarette market.

Natural leaf carving is actual manual cutting and removal of a leaf’s surface to produce an art work on a leaf. The process of carving is performed by artists using tools to carefully the surface without cutting or removing the veins. The veins add detail into the subject matter of the carving.

We all know what Durex products are for. Here are 39 beautiful creative ads by Durex:

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How much time does it take for you to plan your vacations ? I bet it takes several days at least if not weeks. It’s not so easy booking flights, reserving a hotel room, renting a car and finding all the places to visit. And as you probably know your vacations never end up the way you planned.

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Yuken Teruya is a Japanese artist who cuts trees out of paper bays and cardboard toilet paper rolls. The most fantastic thing is that in each roll, the shape of a tree is created with out adding or removing anything, just by cutting out and folding the paper from the roll itself. Except toilet roll, the Japanese artist has also used shopping bags and old pizza boxes in his collection of work that uses recycled materials to defy the defined roles of these objects.

Toilet Paper Art by Yuken Teruya 1

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Junior Fritz Jacquet is an artist that loves working with paper and has created a series of small masks by bending and folding empty toilet paper rolls. The masks are sculpted by hand, then coated with shellac and different pigments. Each mask expresses a kind of emotion of people. Isn’t it amazing to see all kinds of expressions on the toilet paper roll that should have been thrown into bin?

Toilet Paper Art by Junior Fritz Jacquet 1

Toilet Paper Art by Junior Fritz Jacquet 2

Toilet Paper Art by Junior Fritz Jacquet 3

Toilet Paper Art by Junior Fritz Jacquet 4

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Anastassia Elias, a French artist, is a master of collage. She created a winter scene with a child building a snowman, a scene with a woman taking clothes down from a washing line, a school classroom scene, a busy market scene and a model of a grandmother sitting in a living room with a cat through carving tiny scenes out of the inside of each brown paper roll while leaving the outside intact.

Toilet Paper Art by Anastassia Elias 1

Toilet Paper Art by Anastassia Elias 2

Toilet Paper Art by Anastassia Elias 3

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Perforation is one very useful technique to be used in design. From architecture facades to wall partitions to even rugs, the puncturing of a series of small holes allows a play on geometric forms, shadow and light to pretty dramatic effect.

Here are some examples: