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TODAY WE LIKE: YouTube shuts down for the night

Well, you know you're getting old when you have to explain to the intern that, yes, there was a time when the TV didn’t run for 24 hours solid. In this rather entertaining (and possibly confusing to our younger readers) video, some clever wag named Eddie Robson has imagined what the ‘night servi...

TODAY WE LIKE: Light Graffiti

Occasionally, there are times when you find works of art that leave you awestruck. Light graffiti, otherwise known as light painting, is a growing trend amongst budding photography and video artists, commonly found in urbanized centers of Paris and Cologne. This vibrant subculture harks back to...

TODAY WE LIKE: Cress mini garden

Do you enjoy a nice green view in the morning? Then grow your own whimsical mini garden! The soi-disant ‘Postcarden’ come in three different cardboard boxes: you can choose from the above seen city skyline, the botanical or the quaint allotment. The mini garden lets you grow eatable cre...

TODAY WE LIKE: Fuck you very much

As we know, in the real world it is mostly about the ‘I’ and hardly ever about the ‘we’. So, it’s a good thing there are blogs out there that are trying to change this narcissistic point of view. Fuck you very much, a picture driven “diary” that strikes a chord with its invent...

TODAY WE LIKE: Floppy Disk Paintings

Ever wondered what to do with your useless old floppy disks? Well, you could follow the example of innovative artist Nick Gentry who turns the used disks into his canvas. Gentry’s main focus is portrait studies – on this example we marveled at how he integrated the centerpiece of the dis...

TODAY WE LIKE: Painted Trees

Bare and blackened trees twine along the wall, like dark shadows reflected by a glaring Spanish sunlight, their thin indexes seemingly reaching out to one another. This beautiful masterpiece titled English Garden Spain by Spanish artist Pablo Herrero is located in Salamanca’s ‘Barrio de...

TODAY WE LIKE: Parkour Motion Reel

Elegant, smooth and efficient – in a best case scenario, this is what Parkour should look like. The sport, introduced to the world by French actor David Belle, makes people master their city simply by using their body strength. This phenomenon has now been adapted into a stop-motion video by gra...

TODAY WE LIKE: Packing books in boxes

If you wish for a cheap make-over of your dull living arrangements, wooden wine boxes, shipping crates or old plastic cartons might just be the thing for you. On Design Squish, a blog focused on sustainability, we stumbled upon a charming roundup of old boxes, put into daily-u...

TODAY WE LIKE: Dissected cuddly pets

Look away if you are a lover of animals that are small, cute and furry. Emily Stoneking from Burlington, Vermont, has neatly taken apart this fuzzy lab rat, and for only $4 she will show you how to too. The craftswoman creates patterns and complete models of these harmless-looking “diss...

TODAY WE LIKE: City Shrinker Ben Thomas

From macro to micro: Australian Ben Thomas, who graduated from the International Design Effects and Animation School in Adelaide, likes to shrink his surroundings in order to create a feeling of “newness”. By taking what was once large and reducing it to scale model size, he tr...

TODAY WE LIKE: 'La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel' by Michel de Broin

A simple steel string wasn’t enough to suspend the world’s largest disco ball into the sky; it had to be a construction crane that pulled 1000 mirrors up to a height of 50 meters. The so called ‘La Maîtresse de la Tour Eiffel’ was built by French conceptual artist Michel de Broin for the...

TODAY WE LIKE: Paper Letters by Sveta Shubina

It is common knowledge that amazing art can be made with as little as some scissors and paper. Nevertheless each time we stumble upon something like Sveta Shubina’s paper art, we are amazed by the artist’s patience and accuracy in creating art form such simple resources. Russi...

TODAY WE LIKE: Getting some real Ray Ban glasses

TODAY WE LIKE: Getting some Ray Ban glasses tattooed

Look at his face: even though you really can’t believe it, you know what’s coming, don’t you? Yes, this young man is getting a pair of Ray Bans tattooed on his face. We had a hard time deciding whether this kid should be on our TODAY WE LIKE or if we should open an entirely new column titled “Do...

TODAY WE LIKE: Snurk Sheets

If your having trouble getting to sleep then it may be due to a lack of high-quality bedding. So, what better way to remedy this, than by getting some superb sheets from Snurk, made out of 100% cotton. The Dutch company designs cozy bedding with wondrous names like Le-Clochard, Le-Trotto...