Bread Shoes
…or maybe they should be called loafers? You can buy your own pair of Praspaliauskas brothers bread shoes here. UPDATE: If their site is down try Design Milk.
Europe
Chloe Ruchon: ‘Barbie foot’ at DMY Berlin Design Festival 09
images © designboom From Design Boom: ‘barbiefoot’ by french design chloe ruchon combines the iconic doll with table football. on one side it uses barbie’s pink, frilly world and on the other its uses the predominantly male world of table soccer, the one that is traditionally called ‘babyfoot’ in france. […]
Italy seizes $135B of US bonds from two Japanese nationals
From International Business Times: Two Japanese citizens carrying $134 billion worth of U.S. bonds were detained last week by Italy’s financial police at Chiasso (40km from Milan) on the border between Italy and Switzerland, an Italian daily said Wednesday. According to the report, they include 249 U.S. Treasury bonds each […]
The work of Belgian photographer Koen Demuynck
Koen Demuynck is a Belgian photographer/digital artist. Koen Demuynck‘s commercial work can’t really be pigeon-holed, it has black humor, sexyness, ryeness, and all with a touch of Hieronymus Bosch. Link to Koen Demuynck’s website and online portfolio.
Chemical Party – Marie Curie
Marie Curie is proud to present: “Chemicals having a party”. Sexy carbons, bored noble gases, explosive reactions. European Commission.
Banksy returns to Bethlehem
Banksy first used the West Bank barrier as his canvas in 2005. Israel says the structure is a security measure but Palestinians condemn it as a land grab. Source Previously on P&F: BANKSY’S DEBT TO WARHOL REVEALED IN LONDON SHOW
Tunick Greenpeace Installation: hundreds of naked people on a glacier
Aletsch Glacier/Switzerland 8.18.07: US-Installation artist Spencer Tunick and Greenpeace Switzerland present a living sculpture: hundreds of naked people symbolise the vulnerability of the glaciers under climate change. Bern. American installation artist Spencer Tunick is known for his spectacular actions, in which he lets volunteers pose naked in large groups. More than six […]
Banksy’s debt to Warhol revealed in London show
The Hospital in Covent Garden, London: Reuters Life: Banksy’s artistic debt to Andy Warhol is vividly illustrated at a London exhibition that displays Banksy’s Kate Moss next to Warhol’s Marilyn Monroe. The Briton’s work features a washed-out image of a fashion model, repeated in lurid colors — pure Warhol. The bouffant […]
Intelligent design vs. million year old tooth
Million year old tooth from almotamar: Spanish researchers on Friday said they had unearthed a human tooth more than one million years old, which they estimated to be the oldest human fossil remain ever discovered in western Europe. Jose Maria Bermudez de Castro, co-director of research at the Atapuerca site […]