Design Panoptikum – The Museum of Extraordinary Objects
Design Panoptikum is a unique Berlin museum featuring all kinds of rare and unusual items collected by Russian-born artist Vlad Korneev. “A Panoptikum”, Korneev says, “is a collection of extraordinary or rare objects” and he really couldn’t find a better way to describe his quirky museum on Torstraße Street, in Berlin. The moment you set […]
Terje Isungset’s Ice Instruments Make Cool Music
Terje Isungset, one of the world’s most talented percussionists, creates ice music with instruments he carves out of pure glacier ice. Born in the Norwegian village of Geilo, Isungset grew up surrounded by a family of musicians, and grew up to be one of the most innovative percussionists of our time, Over the years, he […]
Seattle Artist Creates 7-Foot-Long Pen
Jim Woodring, creator of a series of popular comic books, has unveiled a seven-foot-long pen that actually works. The recently finished writing tool, dubbed “Nibbus Maximus” was recently showcased at the Gage Academy of Art, in Seattle, in front of over one hundred people. Considering this was practically the first time he used the Nibbus […]
Developer Destroys Building Stairway to Evict Top Floor Residents
A Chinese family claims property developers have demolished the staircase in their apartment building to force them to move out. What do you do when you really need a piece of land, but just can’t talk one last family into giving up their home? That calls for desperate measures, but this developer went a bit […]