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If there is no Gravity…

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Gravity, plays an interesting role in this series by Japanese collective Nam who create one of the most exciting bodies of work I’ve seen for a very long time. In their own words, “We generally make images with a fantastic atmosphere”, which I couldn’t agree more.

If there is no Gravity, photo manipulation by Nam

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15 Innovative and Useful Designs for Dental

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Teeth is important to us, helping us enjoying our food and shining our smile. We brush our teeth every day, try to keep them clean and fresh. In this post, we rounded up 15 Innovative and Useful Designs for Dental, which not only help us clean our teeth but also keep our toothbrushes sanitized, organized and travel-friendly.

1. Two way toothpaste [link]

This “Two way toothpaste” is ideal for those who get angry with their partner for squeezing the toothpaste from the front. Simply open the other end and squeeze from the back as demonstrated below. Also quite useful for getting the last of the paste out of the bottom.

15 Innovative and Useful Designs for Dental

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Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes

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Incredibly realistic scenes from rural life have been painstakingly recreated by a British artist in her own living room – using just a needle and thread.

This patient artist is Jill Draper, 62. She creates embroidered tapestries, recreating scenes with astonishing accuracy from photographs. Each picture measuring around 15 by 30 inches contains hundreds of thousands of stitches done by hand and machine.

Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes
She picks from her thousands of colours of household cotton or Terylene and applies them with a sewing machine or darning hoop. She hand-sews special detail with pure silk. She sews for around six hours every day and relies on natural light to distinguish between the hundreds of similar shades.

Art of Embroidery, Incredibly Realistic scenes
A photograph [left] taken in Autumn 2009 of a heather path, and Jill Draper’s hyper-real tapestry of the scene.

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Eat your Cup, Save the Environment!

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We have been thinking lot to find alternatives to paper and plastic cups, or designs that reduce their waste, but what said in this post has to be a new favorite. Designers at The Way We See The World have envisioned picnickers everywhere using jelloware, an incredibly yummy version of disposable — or rather edible — cups.

Eat you Cup, Save the Environment!

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