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Friday, July 30, 2010
Wallpaper Made From Newspapers
Lori Weitzner’s innovative Newsworthy wall covering takes recycled newspapers to a new level. The design is woven on a hand loom from strips of newsprint and backed for all applications from residential to hospitality.
Source :- Design Milk
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Mila Baby Daydreams
Surfer Girl
What does your baby dream about while sleeping? Mila’s mother decided to figure out this by creating amazing set of photographs. She is doing her best to imagine, create and capture her child’s daydreams. All pictures are very sweet and ingenious.
Adele Enersen in Helsinki says, "This is my maternity leave hobby. While my baby is taking her nap, I try to imagine her dream and capture it."
Bookworm
The Rockstar
Imaginary Friend
Banana Kick
Candyland
Attack of the 50 foot woman's baby!
UP!
Wonderland Mushroom
Her Pinkiness is The Batbaby
Bunny Wabbit
Nirvana
Cottoncandy Park
The Little Mermaid
Oh What a Circus!
A Little Ray of Sunshine
The Elephant Rider
A Space Odyssey 2010
Butterfly
The Rain Of Roses
The Snowman
Her SuperPinkiness
"She Loves Me, She Loves Me Lots."
It's a Jungle Out There!
Source :- Mila Daydreams
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Lucy Mcrae and her Safety Pin Art
Australian artist Lucy McRae is straddling the worlds of fashion, technology and the body in an exhibition at Sao Paulo's Museum of Image and Sound this week.
A statement from the Rojo Nova Work In Progress exhibition says that as a body architect McRae invents and builds structures on the skin that re-shape the human silhouette.
"Her provocative and often grotesquely beautiful imagery suggests a new breed; a future human archetype existing in an alternate world," it said.
Trained as a classical ballerina and architect, her work "inherently fascinates with the human body".
"The media has called her an inventor, friends call her a trailblazer," the museum says. "Either way, she relies on instinct to evolve an extraordinary visual path that is powerful, primal - and uniquely Lucy McRae."
Source :- Yahoo News Via Day Life
Marry Me
Graffiti artist Stuart Barrie engaged his skills in the pursuit of love – proposing to his girlfriend in metre-high letters sprayed on a wall.
The 37-year-old popped the question to Lucy Rutherford by writing ‘Will you marry me?’ on the side of a youth centre.
‘I wanted to do something different,’ said Stuart, ‘something bigger than most proposals, something unexpected.’
Miss Rutherford had no idea what was waiting for her when she was led to the wall in Tiverton, Devon, last week.
‘It was a complete shock – I didn’t have a clue,’ said the 33-year-old.
‘It’s very romantic. I think I’ve got mouth-ache from smiling so much.’
Miss Rutherford gave her formal reply by spraying ‘Yes’ next to her fiance’s question.
Giant Grass Sofas Growing Around Britain
A dozen huge grass sofas have been installed at tourist attractions around the UK -- in a bizarre bid to get couch potatoes out of the house.
The sofas - some of which are 30ft long - are the idea of the National Trust and are made from a base of straw which has been watered and trimmed to size, and covered in a green grass blanket.
Bosses came up with the odd idea after it was revealed the average family spends 43 hours a week sat on their sofa, even in the summer.
Each sofa is also positioned in a 'outdoor living room' and took just over a month to grow… meanwhile, your sofa at home has probably got something growing behind it.
The West Midlands was named the region with the most sofa-bound families, followed jointly by the North West and Yorkshire – spending 50 and 47 hours a week on the couch respectively.
The Sofa living rooms can be found at:
Plas Newydd, Wales
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Gibside, Tyne & Wear
Kingston Lacey, Dorset
Sudbury Hall and the National Trust Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
Uppark House & Garden, Sussex
Osterley Park & House, London
Rowallane Garden, Northern Ireland
Packwood House, Warwickshire
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
Wembury Point, Devon
Source :- National Trust
The sofas - some of which are 30ft long - are the idea of the National Trust and are made from a base of straw which has been watered and trimmed to size, and covered in a green grass blanket.
Bosses came up with the odd idea after it was revealed the average family spends 43 hours a week sat on their sofa, even in the summer.
Each sofa is also positioned in a 'outdoor living room' and took just over a month to grow… meanwhile, your sofa at home has probably got something growing behind it.
The West Midlands was named the region with the most sofa-bound families, followed jointly by the North West and Yorkshire – spending 50 and 47 hours a week on the couch respectively.
The Sofa living rooms can be found at:
Plas Newydd, Wales
Little Moreton Hall, Cheshire
Wimpole Hall, Cambridgeshire
Gibside, Tyne & Wear
Kingston Lacey, Dorset
Sudbury Hall and the National Trust Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
Uppark House & Garden, Sussex
Osterley Park & House, London
Rowallane Garden, Northern Ireland
Packwood House, Warwickshire
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
Wembury Point, Devon
Source :- National Trust
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Chimera Fetus
"This found a captive specimen of the Chimera Fetus Bizarre Gift in Greece. As described in classic representations, it consisted of a lion's body with a living goat's head growing from the middle of the animal's back. The tail ended in the head of a serpent who sinuously lashed about when the creature became excited. The strangest story concerning this Chimera was it had been raised from a kit and was docile. When patted and scratched by human hands, the lion head would rumble forth a low purr and the goat head would quietly bleat it's pleasure. Oddly though, the snake tail having a nasty temper had to be given a respectful berth while interacting with the beast. This Chimera was mated to another and became pregnant last spring. Unfortunately, the kits didn't make it through their full term and had died in the womb. I preserved the kit bodies since a sample like this doesn't present itself often. I'm happy to report the female managed to birth a litter of very healthy kits the next year, all as tame as their mother, the snake tails all as mean as sin..."
This is one of the preserved kits taken by Ada. It is housed in a fine wooden display box, on a bed of straw. The box itself has been marked with the same wax seal that Ada herself used for her own records. It also comes with a record card.
The fetus measures 4.5" and the box itself is 5.5" long x a little over 3" deep
Source:- Miss Monster
World First Full Face Transplant Man
Oscar Gun accident victim shows off world's first full facial transplant
The first man ever to have a full face transplant appeared in public yesterday.
As he returned home from hospital four months after his ground-breaking surgery, the 31-year-old bravely showed his new face to photographers.
The Spanish farmer, known only as Oscar, had been horribly disfigured five years ago in a shooting accident.
This prevented him breathing normally and made it difficult to swallow or speak.
But after two years of planning, a team of 30 doctors started work on him in March, in an operation which was to last 24 hours.
The transplant, at a Barcelona hospital, included complete facial skin and muscles, eyelids, nose, lips, upper jaw, all his teeth, the palate, cheekbones and lower jaw.
As he was discharged, Oscar said: 'I'm very happy to be here and I wanted to express my gratitude to the hospital and medical team and to all donors in Spain, especially the family of the man whose face I received.'
Doctors at the Vall d'Hebron Hospital said Oscar's face does not resemble that of the donor, whose identity has not been revealed.
He has regained feeling in most of his face and is able to speak, drink liquids and eat soft foods.
His family said that he is looking forward to sitting down and eating a meal at home with them, and to hunting and fishing again, two of his favourite hobbies.
Oscar's sister, who was with him yesterday, said: 'We are very happy and content and very grateful to the hospital because now he can start his new life.
'He is looking forward to doing the normal little things in life again, the things we do every day without having any problems - things like walking down the street without people looking at him five times.
'He's looking forward to sitting down with his family and having a family meal.
'He's very comfortable with his face, he feels very good. He used to love hunting and fishing and he wants to hunt and fish again.'
Photographs of the patient before his surgery revealed the extent of his facial injuries from the accident. He was left with no nose and no upper lip and his lower jaw was shattered.
The operation, led by Dr Joan Pere Barret, involved doctors from 14 departments including plastic suroutgery and burns, infectious diseases, psychiatry and clinical psychology and microbiology and parasitology.
Just a few days after the operation, Oscar was able to admire his new face in the mirror. He was able to begin shaving shortly afterwards.
Movement is also returning. He can now move his eyebrows, upper eyelids, jaw and external cheek muscles.
Previous face transplants carried in France, Spain, the U.S. and China were only partial.
Isabelle Dinoire was the first to receive one in France, in 2005, after being savaged by her dog.
Doctors transplanted a triangle of facial tissue around her nose and the mouth including muscles, arteries and veins.
But in Oscar's case the entire face was transplanted, including the entire facial tissues, muscles and the eyelids.
He had suffered a number of setbacks including two acute rejections in the four months since surgery.
However, his doctors described Oscar's recovery as 'excellent'.
He is having speech therapy, physiotherapy and facial therapy to help him recover full movement in his facial muscles, which will take another 12 to 18 months.
He began a soft food diet a month ago and started speaking two months ago.
Like all transplant patients he faces the prospect of taking powerful drugs for the rest of his life to help prevent infection.
Dr Barret said: 'It was a very brave thing to face everyone today because he is a quiet man who wants to live a normal life.
'He has been very isolated and wants to do what all young men want to do. He is single, he wants to go out with his friends and have fun.'
Source:- Fox News
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