These Creative Face Flower Pots (10 pics)

Funny and Creative Flower Pots by: Good!
Kazakhstan-based advertising agency GOOD! was already well known for creating some really fun and inspiring stuff in the past, and now once again they proved to have a really good sense of humor by introducing these face-pots.

However, as cool as they look, the idea isn’t quite new, and the guys from GOOD! don’t deny it.

“We do not claim this is a novelty idea (there are advertising campaigns based on the effect of combining plant and a human face), but we wanted to implement this technique in the form of a specific object. The trick is that we liked that flower pot and a person’s face have a similar shape, which contributes to their visual association, the effect is complete and pretty funny” – says GOOD! on their website.

And like Jeff from CraziestGadgets has pointed out, the concept is simple enough that anyone with a flowerpot, a closeup portrait photo, some scissors and glue can easily replicate this in their own home. With the right combination of plants and facial expressions, the results can be hilariously awesome.

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Dita Von Teese with Her Pink Top (6 pics)

Dita Von Teese with Her Pink Top - I’ve never understood the appeal of this Dita Von Teese chick, sure she’s pretty good looking for a pale chick, but I just don’t understand her artsy fartsy cabaret show. Who made Dita Von Teese’s black bag, sunglasses and pink short sleeve top that she wore in Los Angeles on March 18, 2011? Sunglasses - Louis Vuitton | Shirt - Zara  | Purse - Chanel.

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Fantastic Illustrations by Serge Birault (25 pics)

Fantastic Illustrations by Serge Birault
Horror films have been placing ravishing women in close proximity with hideous monsters for over one hundred years, and Serge Birault seems Hell-bent on preserving their perilous plight for time immemorial. Thankfully, his stylish renditions of devilishly distressed damsels are at once respectful of their ancient roots, and subversively modern as well.

With lovingly-distressed proportions and a knowing wink, Mr. Birault’s clever twists on classic horror and pulp themes consistently create playful pinups and portraits that drip with wit and charm. Tentacles must hold a special, clammy place in his heart, but rancid fly-men and lecherous were-squirrels also torment the lovely ladies he paints.

Mixed in with his warm appreciation of these subjects is a thin thread of macabre insanity. yet, while death and danger are never far, they are easily overshadowed by deceptively capable and unbelievably beautiful women that populate Serge’s illustrated fantasies.

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Some Largest Bugs of the World (16 pics)

Some of the Worlds Biggest Bugs - These are some of the largest insects in the world. Some of them are actually huge. I hope that they are all harmless because some of them look like that could do some serious damage if the decided to attack.

1 — Titan Beetle: French Guiana and Brazil.

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All Motorists Now

Budget comment rolled in yesterday. PRs flattered people we’ve never heard of that somebody wanted to know what they thought. Emails tsunamied. Airwaves brimmed with rubbish. And you could tell where he was coming from when Jon Snow on Channel 4 News said “motorists”. Real people hardly ever say motorists. It’s like “bloated plutocrats” or “spivs”, loaded with innuendo, “gnomes of Zurich” and “idle rich”. The Today programme was at it too. Predictably. Motorists are posh people or “fat cats” driving “gas guzzlers”. It’s archaic, out of date. We are all middle class, we are all motorists. George Osborne’s fuel prices affect everybody, the District Nurse, the dairyman and the supermarket van driver. Yet Jon Snow kept challenging Danny Alexander as though motorists were a race apart, gaining privilege at others’ expense. Unfortunately the usually astute Alexander didn’t manage a riposte. TV presenters and smart radio commentators use words carelessly, like “poverty” and “hard-working families”, which silly politicians work into their own lexicon along with tiresome claims that they have “done the right thing”, when what they mean is “what I think was the right thing.” Bah, I say. Humbug.

Toyota and John Cobb

Loch Ness. The John Cobb Memorial. It is opposite the site of his accident on 29 September 1952 attempting the world water speed record in jet-powered Crusader. This photograph, taken later in the 1950s is of drivers on a Scottish rally, including brother Craig (in dark jacket) and John (middle facing left) as well as two whom I used to navigate. Jimmy Murray (facing camera in front of Craig) rallied an MG TD with some success. Directly in front of him, Bill Cleland. They said I was brave sitting alongside Bill in his Ford Zephyr but it wasn’t like that. I was never a good passenger. All the serious accidents I ever had were as a passenger. But I had no qualms with Bill. It was like sitting beside Stirling Moss on the Mille Miglia. It was a lesson in car control. He was very quick. No surprise young John Cleland won two British Touring Car Championships. Toyota has noticed Loch Ness is famous for more than John Cobb.

Ford's cleverest idea

Every car should have one. A feature of my first Institute of Advanced Motorist driving test was preliminary drives with an IAM member. He only had to ask, "What was the last traffic sign you passed?" a couple of times to demonstrate that my observation of them was imperfect. Well, it was worse. I used to pass without seeing them. Went to the launch of the new Focus last week. It's a fine car. Too much road noise perhaps, but the cleverest thing is its traffic sign recognition system. It has a camera in the windscreen that sees them and reproduces them on the facia. What a boon on one of those roads where the speed limit changes so often that even the most observantly virtuous driver doesn't remember what the prevailing limit is. A little 30 or 50 comes up on the instrument panel. It fades after a time but it will be a blessing to any drivers with a few penalty points on their licence. I'm OK at the moment; three crept on to my previously clean licence last year, but with so many cameras about you could get a driving ban in an afternoon. I'll be amazed if more of these don't appear elsewhere. The camera installation takes up quite a lot of windscreen but after a few minutes' driving you scarecely notice. The Driver Assistance Pack is a £750 option, and includes a lane keeping aid and blind spot monitoring that reasonably alert drivers shouldn't need but for peace of mind the Traffic Sign Recognition kit could be almost priceless.

Peugeot BB1 - The Future Electric Micro Car (17 pics)

Peugeot’s BB1 Electric Micro Car – the future of electrical urban mobility
Peugeot BB1 Electric Car - front photo The BB1 is Peugeot’s foray into the world of micro electric cars and is quite an extraordinary design concept too, inspired by Peugeot’s electric VLV from the 1940s. The vehicle is a cross between a scooter and a car, is powered by two electric motors, mounted in the rear wheels and represents Peugeot’s view for the future of electrical urban mobility. Peugeot says the BB1 is a logical addition to a vehicle line-up that incorporates bicycles and scooters, as well as cars.

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Carmen Electra Super Flexible Yoga Class at Poolside in LA (15 pics)

Carmen Electra's Super Flexible Yoga Class at Poolside in LA
I don’t know where in the world Carmen Electra is….You know since her career died and she pretty much disappeared. I’m witty like that, you know almost comedic genius except for the whole 'it’s not funny' part…at least not funny according to her ex husband and my twitter best friend Dave Navarro who told me I was an idiot when I wrote that…which would have hurt my feelings if I had feelings.. That said, here are some pictures of Carmen Electra, clearly still alive, dressed for St Patrick’s day, stretching in all kinds of good ways next to the pool, even if she’s wearing too much clothes…it’s good enough for me coz I’m the kind of guy who likes watching local yoga troops in action…if you know what I mean...Well enjoy Carmen Electra's Yoga Pictures after the break.

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Solowheel - The Self-Balancing Electric Unicycle (10 pics)

Solowheel - The Self-Balancing Electric Unicycle

Are you a lover of green technology? If yes, then you ought to check out Inventist’s latest self- balancing electric unicycle – a small compact fun vehicle that will attract the biggest stares as you go cruising around town.

Company Inventist presented a compact self-balancing electric unicycle. The new “vehicle” was named Solowheel. It weighs only 20 pounds and very portable, it consists of one wheel with a fold-up foot platform on either side. The unicycle reaches a top speed of 12mph.

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Trafford Park, Manchester

A hundred years ago this month (March) Henry Ford’s man in Britain wanted to lease a Manchester tramcar factory. Henry was not convinced. He may have thought history bunk but knew his geography and it didn’t make sense to assemble Model Ts 40 miles inland. Their components from Detroit were cheapest by ship. Henry knew Manchester wasn’t on-Sea.

Bristol-born Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry had taken over the American Motor Car Agency of Long Acre, London in 1905 and knew a good thing when he saw one. He had unpacked the first Model Bs from wooden crates at Vauxhall Bridge Wharf on the Thames. Perry’s ocean-going ships would bring vanadium steel frames and engines from America. They would bypass Liverpool by the Manchester Ship Canal and unload straight into the old tram factory, to make brand new Model Ts.

Perry’s agency partner of 1905, Aubrey Blakiston had been worried too. They had been selling only one car a month, so Blakiston resigned in 1907, leaving Perry to sell the Model N (above); a bargain at £120. Perry poshed them up with landaulette bodywork and sold 50 from the new Perry, Thornton and Schreiber. It had seven employees and moved to Westminster Bridge Road for the launch of Model T in October 1908. Eight were sent over for the Olympia Motor Show.

Now Perry needed help with the tram factory. He went to Detroit and asked Henry Ford for support. It didn’t amount to much at first. Yet Henry knew exports were essential for his vision of cars by the thousand. Almost as soon as he had started making them he was sending them across the Detroit River where Ford Canada held the concession for the Dominion, in effect the great Edwardian British Empire. Henry convinced Ford Canada’s proprietor, Gordon McGregor, to waive its rights to the United Kingdom. McGregor agreed: “The rest of the Empire is enough for me,” and Perry returned, reassured.

Ford company secretary James Couzens had an idea. If Perry wanted to build cars in Britain he needed a bigger organisation. So, in March 1911 Ford Motor Company (England) Ltd began selling Fords from 55-59 Shaftesbury Avenue. Then, as now, Ford had designed a car for the world.

1912 Model T Town Car
Henry had stipulated his European factories should be next the sea, to be supplied by the shipload. His line across the Atlantic made landfall in Ireland, from where his father had emigrated in 1847. The tramcar factory won the race, although by the 1920s Ford was building tractors on the quayside at Cork.

Manchester was fourth largest port in Britain. Only London, Liverpool and Hull did more trade. Canny Mancunians finished their Ship Canal in 1894 because it was costing almost as much to bring goods and raw materials from Liverpool, as it had to ship them across the Atlantic. Canal managers built factories at Manchester docks. Ford’s had belonged to the British Electric Car Company (BECC), which made tramcars for everywhere from Ayr to Egypt, until a rival bought the company and closed it down. The buildings on the corner of Westinghouse Road and First Avenue were empty until Percival Perry came to set up Henry Ford’s first factory outside America.

Its neighbour on the canal side was a crane manufacturer, Frederick Henry Royce. Born, like Henry Ford, in 1863 he too went into cars.

Trafford Park had its own railway siding and by 1914 Ford sent Model T cars, vans, lorries, ambulances and buses in covered wagons to 1000 dealers. Perry thought Manchester, “The best geographical and economic centre for our business,” and workers welcomed Ford. Its 10d to 1s 3d (4p to 6.25p) an hour were the best rates in the industrial north. Prosperous pre-First World War Britain became Ford’s second biggest market after the US. Ford was more stable and consistent than the indigenous motor industry and by the time the 250,000th was shown at the Empire Exhibition, Wembley it was not just assembled in Britain. King George V and Queen Mary visited the stand that advertised British Cars made of British Parts by British Labour.

Ford became integrated so completely into industrial and manufacturing life that it was often regarded, sometimes even in Detroit, as British.

The Ford in Britain Centenary File, now on sale, £27.50. Link to Amazon

Kelly Brook Candids in Bel Air in Tight Leggings (11 pics)

Kelly Brook Candids in Bel Air, shopping and shows her tight leggings. Kelly loses her car in a parking lot in Bel Air. She spent several minutes walking around the lot clicking her remote before finally finding her Lexus SUV on February 28, 2011. Lol.

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Interesting Custom Built Furniture (12 pics)

01 — Accordian

If you wonder what our furniture would look like if designed by kids -  you have to see these wacky cartoon-like furniture pieces by Straight Line Designs.

Straight Line Designs is a one-of-a-kind workshop that has been operating out of Vancouver, British Columbia for the past 25 years. In addition to installations, sculptures and private commissions, designer Judson Beaumont and his staff of eight full-time craftspeople have designed and constructed a variety of custom-built furniture and projects for public institutions and children’s exhibitions throughout North America and abroad.

Focused on quality and custom design, Judson’s studio stays far away from mass production. Their workshop’s building capacity is restricted but Jud’s designing ability is not! 

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