Street Art

I have picked  some images of three artist I really appreciate. Check out also the unurth. The website is featuring many street artists from around the globe.
ephraemer_ersilia_1_1000ephraemer_ersilia_4_1000artist: Delavega, Ephemera + Lascarr
Berlin

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artist: Rub Home Kandy / Rub Kandy
Rome

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Liu Bolin, ‘Hiding In The City’
China + London

via unurth

one-man electro-rock band

CAPACOCHA IS a one-man Electro-Rock band from the Netherlands. He has been playing lately from the smallest underground venues to big festivals around the country. You can check him out on myspace.

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Remarkable Inventions

Cigarette Pack Holder, 1955
Smoking a pack at once seemed probably a good idea back in the 50’s.
This must be the favorite invention of the tabaco industry.
Photo: Jacobsen/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1955

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Cigarette Pack Holder, 1955
Photo: Jacobsen/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1955

Baby Cage, 1937
this suspended baby cage can be attached to the outside of a building.
Photo: Reg Speller/Getty Images
Jun 23, 1937

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Finnish Portable Sauna, 1962
Some research showed me that you can oder one this right away for as little as $32.00 new. Or the image above as a poster for $69.99.
Photo: Yale Joel/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1962

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Fast Shooting Robot, 1960
And this isn’t a still from a dusty hollywood movie but a real fast shooting robot.
Photo: J. R. Eyerman./Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jun 01, 1960

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The Dog Restrainer, 1940
This is another brilliant invention of the 40’s
Photo: BIPS/Getty Images
Jan 01, 1940

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you can find the 30 Dumb Inventions gallery from Life.com here

Jérôme Brézillon – photographer

Jérôme Brézillon is a french photographer see his work at jeromebrezillon.com

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50’s & 60’s concept cars

A post war trauma, influences from aerodynamics and aircraft industry all combined with a little bit of space travel dreams of that time resulted in this futuristic and sometimes even in a bit weird shapes. I think it’s absolutely fascinating!

The Bocar was produced between 1957-1961 by BoCarnes. There are just couple of survivors.  Today the car would qualify as near-super car ranking as based on performance according to wikipedia.

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1964 CD Panhard LM64

1964 CD Panhard LM64

is a rare race car prototype designed by Charles Deutsch, French aerodynamics engineer.

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Lancia Stratos HF prototype

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1956 GM Firebird-II Concept
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Cadillac LaSalle II – 1955
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Ford La Tosca – 1955
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Lincoln Futura – 1955
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1956 Dodge Dart
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Oldsmobile Golden Rocket – 1956
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Pontiac Club De Mer – 1956
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Ford X 2000 – 1958
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Cadillac Cyclone – 1959
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Ford Gyron – 1961
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Pontiac Cirrus – 1969
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rizk-auto-ra

“Rizk Auto RA”  might look like one from the 50’s but it’s from 2009.  The body is made of some space materials. So it makes it suitable for this post :)

Reona Ueda GLOBAL IDENTITY

for background on the project(s) and more interesting things see reona.org

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Faces-book movie

1970s police photofit movie for The Jack Stafford Foundation
Directed by Dave Bell and Nick Klinkert.

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Tamara Lichtenstein
All about her own style and people

some examples of Tamara Lichtenstein’s photos.
With main object people. Expressive.

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Salva López photo diary

see http://www.flickr.com/photos/senyoriguana/

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the golden bike

This bike is plated with 24-carat gold and 600 Swarovski crystals the price €80,000. Aurumania

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