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The Swarovski Crystal Head Fountain in Austria

This giant, glass-covered fountain is built into a hillside, guarding the entrance to the crystal-themed indoor theme park, Swarovski Kristallwelten (Crystal Worlds) in Wattens, Austria.  Water spurts forth from the mouth of this bizarre-looking head,…

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AlphaSphere Revolutionarizes the Way We Play Music

Developed by Bristol-based company, nu desine, the AlphaSphere is a brand new electronic musical instrument and controller. It revolutionarizes the way we interact with music technology, through a touch interface and a unique…

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Troika’s Kinetic Installation Mimics A School of Fish

At first glance, this striking scene appears to be a group of fish swimming and riding on ocean currents.  But it is, in fact, a permanent kinetic installation "Shoal" consisted of 467 suspended…

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400 Giant Balloons Illuminate Hadrian’s Wall

Connecting Light, a digital art installation created by New York-based digital arts collective YesYesNo, takes place across the 73 miles of Hadrian’s Wall World Heritage Site. The installation consists of over 400 light-filled, six-foot-in-diameter balloons transmitting messages…

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Pop-Up Picnic Diner en Blanc

Launched with just a handful of friends by François Pasquier over 20 years ago, Dîner en Blanc (or Dinner in White), is now the most sought after pop-up secret event which assembles nearly 15,000…

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Dom Bosco Sanctuary in Brasilia

From the outside, Dom Bosco Sanctuary (Santuario Dom Bosco) is a fairly unremarkable concrete box compared to its impressive interior.  Bathed in heavenly blue light, the walls inside the sanctuary are made of…

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Floral Paper Installation by Benja Harney

Sydney-based paper engineer Benja Harney has crafted a splendid large-scale floral installation that hangs from the central dome of Sydney's Queen Victoria Building. Unique paper sculptures of falling paper blossoms, buzzing dragonflies and lush green…

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Old Spice Muscle Music Has Gone Viral

This is the world's first ever muscle-powered commercial, which sees Expandables star Terry Crews create music by flexing his muscles.  This humorous interactive video, Old Spice Muscle Music, is a new project for the men's…

Swirling Ink Photography by Pery Burge

Striking Ink Photography by Pery Burge

British photographer Pery Burge has found a way to translate her fascination with vortices into breathtaking images.  Inspired by nature, Pery defines her role as a catalyst for natural events. She places ink…

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Mosaic Portraits Made From 6500 CDs

Milan-based artists Mirco Pagano and Moreno De Turco, in collaboration with ad agency TBWA, created these mosaic portraits of music icons, such as Michael Jackson and Elvis, for a campaign called "Piracy".  The…

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Interactive 3D Animation Created Using 2D Drawings

What you are seeing here is the world's first drawing technology to enable 3D rendering of 2D images. Live2D, developed by Cybernoids, enables smooth 3D motion using 2D drawings. The technology is already being utilized…

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Arresting Photos of Bald Men Wearing “Water Wigs”

Los Angeles-based photographer Tim Tadder found a bunch of tough-looking bald guys and started hurling water balloons at their heads.  The result is "Water Wigs," a phenomenal photo series using exploding shaped water balloons…

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Art of the Heart

This interactive installation by hippo and Chicago-based XL at T2 Studio Company, features a heart-shaped canvas that allows shoppers in a mall to paint their own work of "heART".  Using the Kinect, a motion sensing…

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Tekio Bends to Your Every Whim

TekiŌ, the Japanese word for ‘adaptation’, is a flexible modular lighting system inspired by traditional Japanese paper ‘Cochin’ lantern.  Designed by London-based Anthony Dickens, Tekio can adapt to any interior space.  The frame inside each paper tube…

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Gaming Is Coming To A Multiplex Near You

Renga is an interactive, 100 player game developed by wallFour. Ambushed and left for dead, our hero must rebuild the space ship, confront the enemy and return home.  Only this time, the "hero"…

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Brazilian Artist Paints With Marijuana Smoke

Brazilian artist Fernando de la Rocque has stumbled upon a new way of creating stencil art.  Rocque discovers that by blowing marijuana smoke onto a stencil overlaying paper, image begins to surface after…

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New Strategy Game Makes You Steal From Players

Interference is a physical game installation consisted of five suspended steel game boards.  Created by Eric Zimmerman and Nathalie Pozzi for a 2012 exhibition at  la Gaite lyrique, Paris, this strategy game is played by…

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Beach Art by Andres Amador

San Francisco native Andres Amador is an earthscape artist who uses the enormous space on the beach to create mind-blowing beach art.  Inspired by the crop circles phenomenon in England, he started drawing geometric…

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