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• Thursday, Oct 2, 2008: 12:15pm Character designs by Olivier Bucheron

  

  Bucheron’s striking robots, vehicles, and machines reflect the vivid creativity and near-obsessive attention to detail of a dedicated artisan. From the choice of paint, to the texture of the metal, to the way light is reflected, each of his characters is a highly evolved study in the boundaries of human imagination. Also check out his personal site, Zamak

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• Thursday, Aug 28, 2008: 3:12pm The Homelab ambX @ Philips

  The HomeLab at the Philips research center is a model home built to test and monitor real-world response to prototype technology. Thirty cameras and microphones record subjects as they use and interact with products for the home; then researches review the recordings to refine the products. The living room is currently configured to demonstrate ambX (pronounced “ambiex”), the successor to AmbiLight, which extends the accent lighting from around the television to throughout the room. More here

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• Monday, Jul 14, 2008: 10:29pm The world of Steampunk

  

  Sometimes there are things that are obviously popular or have a huge following and I’m just oblivious to it. Steampunk is one of those things. Actually, to be honest, I knew of the stylings of steampunk… I’ve seen it in various movies (The City of Lost Children, 12 Monkeys, Hellboy, Van Helsing, The Time Machine, etc...) but I guess I didn’t know there was such a huge following. After I did a little more online research, I found out it’s quite huge… pretty much anything and everything has a steampunk interpretation. Dolls, jewelry, action figures, cars, boats… the list goes on. 

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• Sunday, Jun 22, 2008: 11:19pm Ron Mueck does hyper-realism

  

  Ron Mueck is an Australian hyper-realist sculptor working in the UK. Incredible stuff (Yo, Ron, you need a site)
  

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• Saturday, May 24, 2008: 10:42pm ISO50 Obama Print

  

  Scott Hansen of ISO50 creates the next stunning print for Barrack Obama and his campaign in route to becoming the next president of the United States.

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• Wednesday, May 21, 2008: 1:35pm Sculpting with reclaimed wood

  

  Some amazing work done by Ron va der Ende. All his work is done utilizing reclaimed wood. Supposedly he never changes the color of the wood to fit the object he’s creating! Pretty amazing stuff.

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• Friday, Mar 28, 2008: 2:11am Create, make and trade your ideas

  

  Ponoko is the world’s first personal manufacturing platform. It’s the online space for a community of creators and consumers to use a global network of digital manufacturing hardware to co-create, make and trade individualized product ideas on demand. The ponoko.com marketplace connects creators, consumers, digital manufacturing hardware and service providers to promote, make and trade products on Ponoko and social networking websites. Brilliant!

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• Wednesday, Mar 26, 2008: 9:01pm Vintage logos

  

  Great collection of vintage logos from a mid-70’s edition of the book World of Logotypes.

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