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Category Archives: Fun and Weird
Panorama House
The focal point of this Korean residence is the central multifunctional area, namely the wooden staircase which integrates a slide, bookshelves, reading nooks, and even cinema seating oriented towards a projection screen.
An interesting concept for a playhouse that has a TV/movie viewing area.
Via Inthralld.
What People Think I Do and What We Really Do
Sustainable
[Source: xkcd]
Ice Cube Architecture
Ice Cube talks architecture. Now when did you talk rap? Your turn, architects.
Research Choice
Sigh! [via PhD Comics]
Tokyo Time-Lapse
floating point from Samuel Cockedey on Vimeo.
Whenever I’m bored or tired, I take in one of these time-lapse videos. They never fail to cheer me up
The Happiness of Unhappy Hipsters
Exhausted by another episode of soft-parenting, the glass wall broke free from the framing.
If you haven’t already, don’t miss your daily dose of Unhappy Hipsters. They may be unhappy but they sure keep you smiling.
Bling Architecture
All That Glitters Is Good asks you to submit your most accomplished architectural representation that uses glitter. This includes new drawings made with glitter, old drawings pepped up with a little sparkle, as well as anything else that you can imagine so long as it satisfies two criteria:
- It’s a drawing of architecture.
- It uses glitter.
[Source: All that glitters is good]
Punk Houses
PUNK HOUSE documents a journey that most of us will have never taken; it shows us homes that most of us have never seen; it gives a small taste of a way of living most of us have never lived, and it does so in an easy yet successful way. The photos range from disgusting (the bathroom at Casa de Otto comes to mind —is that blood or hair dye?) to the artistic (is this a junk pile of sticks or is it considered sculpture?).
Timothy Findlen along with photographer Abby Banks spent three months driving cross-country to visit and photograph sixty-five punk houses—communal, low-rent houses typically crammed full of punks, squatters, and artists.