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These are some of the most awkward portraits I’ve seen.

If you haven’t discerned, these are photos of people upside down! It’s called Upside Downy Face by Bruton Stroube. There are many more photographs, each unique/funny in their own way. It also seems like he offered a photobooth for this type of photography. Check them out!

Bikers are everywhere these days! In Denmark they’ve installed these railings at stoplights for bikers who are waiting at the lights. It even works great for people clipped in who might not want to unclip at a light, they can just grab onto the handrail! Great design for a problem! Speaking of the problem, the article at Copenhagenize.com highlights some examples of creative ways the bikers used to employ to keep from falling over.

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With wedding season upon us, I thought this would be a great video to share. Thankfully I only have 2 weddings this summer and they aren’t on the same weekend (but they are back to back). There are certain “traditions” when it comes to weddings. One of those is sending out invitations, and before that “Save the Dates”. A recent trend is the magnetic ones, since you’re likely to stick them on the fridge anywhere (yup, that’s where mine are).

However, Chris and Laurel have strayed away from the traditional paper-based saved the date (however they note that a “proper snail-mail invite” will be arriving soon.

Watch the video over on Vimeo.

I’m sometimes amazed at the interesting stuff that Urban Outfitters has. I usually find the really cool stuff to be way out of my price range, but these wireframe letters at $10 each are great, unless you have a really long name.

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I’ve always been interested in stop-motion animation, but haven’t found the time or the patience to try it out very well yet. Sarah Yates took the time to do some stop motion for her friend’s engagement.

Check out the video over on Vimeo.

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Nolan Herbut has created a different type of chair, using keyboard letters. They’re individually assembled, so they will actually press down when you sit on them. Now if you could only program certain ones to do certain things for you.

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After watching some stop-motion animations recently at the Bentley Film Festival, I recalled this amazing stop-motion video that I believe @mada716 had sent over a while ago. I cannot wait to have some time and purpose to try something like this! I can only imagine the patience this took!

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Back in my day I built some pretty impressive forts within my living room. I’ll see if I can dig up some images of them next time I’ve got some free time in my parents’ basement. For now, check out some of the Couch Cushion Architectures that the folks over at the Build Blog have found. They’ve given each one a grade and commented about some successes and failures of each. I wonder what they would think of mine…  (Update: apparently the first post was so popular, they included a Part 2).

Here are a few of the ones they found:

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Lisa Congdon has been blogging every day this year with a different collection over at her blog “A Collection a Day“. Here’s some of my favorites.

Day 31 - Vintage BINGO cards

Day 70 - Vintage Math Flashcards

Day 97 - Vintage Tomato Pin Cushions

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I’ve always loved simple solid rings. Aaron Ruff has created this ring which I think qualifies.

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