At the recent BBC Proms the audience heard a new classical piece called Hammered Out by 50-year-old British composer Mark-Anthony Turnage. People couldn’t believe their ears. It sounded eerily like Single Ladies by Beyoncé. So somebody mashed them together. Decide for yourself…

One of the selling points for Mini Cooper Clubman – the Mini that is roomier yet still cute — is that it has room for some luggage. The Clubman’s luggage compartment measures 9.2 cubic feet (the basic Mini has only 6 cubic feet) and has a cargo cover as standard equipment. Clubman’s split-folding back seats can be lowered to increase the cargo space to 32.8 cubic feet that will accommodate not just basic luggage but even a snowboard or baby stroller.

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Non-profit campaigns tackle serious issues but sometimes they’re too serious. DDB Los Angeles managed to speak about a serious issue, with a serious tone, but with a twist.
The Majestic Plastic Bag is a mockumentary narrated by Academy-awarded actor Jeremy irons, depicting the journey of a ordinary object into his final destination, the shameful Pacific garbage patch.

The drench Cubehead: A man with a seriously mixed up head uses drench to sort out his Cubehead, and get himself back together.

For more, visit staydrenched.co.uk

“Choreographed windows, interactive flocking, custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering… this Chrome Experiment has them all. “The Wilderness Downtown” is an interactive interpretation of Arcade Fire’s song “We Used To Wait” and was built entirely with the latest open web technologies, including HTML5 video, audio, and canvas.” Make sure you run Chrome and have all other apps closed because it’s quite heavy on processor use.

Cadbury uses ‘der Lauf der Dinge‘ in their new surprising commercial

Typographers House Industries have a huge following. Lost creator J.J. Abrams says, “They’re artists; their work is extraordinary.” Even Van Halen front man David Lee Roth is a fan, proclaiming on his talk show that House “makes all the best typefaces.”

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2009-09-09 16:16:53.

Are you ready to give up your social life? and get back to the real world.

This quirky art project “Heart On Stage” is a collaboration between Leena Yliportimo and Luiz Risi, combining poetry and illustration.

The walls are located at Ody Surf Boards in Puerto Escondido, the courtyard of Hotel California in Todos Santos, in a random alley near the birthplace of Pacifico in Mazatlan and on a Venice Beach, CA hotel. More walls coming soon.

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Love these painted manhole covers photographed in Japan by photographer Remo Camerota. They all appear in his new book Drainspotting, which recently took the award for Best Art Book at the NY Book Festival…. via Gizmodo.

The Canadian Tourism Commission has launched interactive murals to inspire Americans to book a Canadian vacation. These murals are pulling content from Twitter to display real-time updates from and about Canada.

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2009-03-09 08:57:07.

Horror movie advertising via Chatroulette!

Fantastic creative hand (literally) paintings using the body painting technique.

More example on the link below.

What if you took real objects like a Lamborghini, a Panton chair etc… and reduced their resolution in 3D? Welcome to the LoRes Project by United Nude.

A blast from the past: Originally posted 2009-08-24 13:12:40.

Wonderful short film containing seemingly random slices of life.

Somewhere in NYC is $10 000 in gold hidden. Clues are provided by puppets via YouTube, facebook and the website and need to be deciphered in order to locate the gold. If you find it, it’s yours.

These posters are part of an ad campaign entitled “Everything Ages Fast,” designed by Moma Propaganda and created for client Maximidia Seminars

If you think that pencil is a tool for drawing, painting or writing notes – you’re wrong! 45-year-old carpenter, Dalton J. Paul Getty for 25 years turns ordinary pencils into incredible miniature sculptures.

Just had an amazing presentation from Janne and Michiel from Amsterdam-based Freedom of Creation. They have perfected 3D printing and with Janne’s creative design skills have produced amazing own-label products as well as models for advertising campaigns such as Onitsuka Tiger “Made from Japan” and the more recent  Asics “Left Right” campaign. Genius stuff!