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It’s finally spring! (or at least its been behaving lke spring here in Connecticut) So to celebrate the warmth and sunshine here are some gorgeous images by Singapore photographer, Fong Qi Wei. The photographer has taken bright, colorful bolssoms and carefully pulled them apart to give an exploded view of the flower. The effect is really cool, i always enjoy seeing what things are made of. More Images after the jump.

Via Booooooom.

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Victoria Vergason opened The Hour Cocktail Collection in 2009  in the Washington DC metropolitan area. Victoria has a passion for vintage glassware and has been amassing a collection since her grad school days. Her store combines vintage glassware and barware with new cocktail products like our Whisky Stones.

The interior of Victoria’s shop is beautiful (as you can see in this photo) and we got her to answer some questions for us about her shop, see the full interview after the jump.

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This is awesome video of Wrecking Crew Orchestra, a Japanese dance crew who performs in complete darkness while wearing electroluminescent light suits designed by iLuminate. The video was filmed live and is unedited, the dancers are actually moving in snyc with each other and their suits are carefully times to come on and off at the perfect moment. There’s no denying the effect is really cool.

I love the eclectic contrast of this room. The black and white walls, and the rustic wood elements against the vintage industrial pieces. Even though there are a lot of opposites at work, everything in this room plays really well together. If you’d like to try this sort of eclectic style in your own home this reclaimed wood table from Pottery Barn is a great starting place. This retro factory style lamp and large industrial restaurant cart (for use as shelving). Our Ekke Stacking Votives look great on light wood surfaces like the reclaimed wood table.

- Benchwright Reclaimed Wood Table

- Dakota Lamp

- Industrial Rack

- Ekke Stacking Votives

This silly internet meme inspired drawing just went up at Gallery 1988 Melrose in a show Entitled “MEMES!” In keeping with the show’s name all of the artwork is inspired by the many internet memes in existance. The cutest (at least in my opintion) is Leontine Greenberg’s two pieces, “Oh Noes” and “They be stealin my bucket.” based on the very popular “LOLrus” meme shown above.

See all of the work form the show here, and more of Greenberg’s work here.

via Notcot.

The newly redone (by Checkland Kindleysides) global headquarters of airline Virgin Atlantic at Gatwick is a fun and refreshing expression of the company’s brand image. The predominant red and white speaks to the overall brand while the bits of orange and blue create a pleasant area for both employees and visitors to pass through. The walls are adorned with quirky line drawings of some of the airlines destinations as well as some familiar company icons and images that allude to it’s British roots. My personal favorite aspect of the space is the feeling of movement it conveys, the futuristic reception desk is sleek streamlined as if it were moving through the space. It plays nicely with the long neon light tubes suspended overhead, these really remind me of when the Millenium Falcon makes the “jump to hyper speed” in Star Wars, the sense of movement is just awesome, it only gets better when you see how they reflect on the polished red floor. Overall very cool.

via Notcot.

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Cape Town based artist Pierre Fouché has recently finished this portrait in a relatively unusual medium, lace. The work was made over a four year period of time and is constructed of bobbin lace made form polyester thread. I can’t even imagine the patience required to create somehting like this, it truly is an amazing piece of art.

See more of Pierre’s work here.

Via Colossal.

I think this all black kitchen is so cool. I’m not quite sure how the appliances got to be matte black, it almost looks like everything is painted with black board paint. There’s no denying it looks awesome and makes a great back drop for a sort of rustic, industrial feeling room. If you’re looking to create such a feeling (regardless of whether your kitchen is all black) try finding a  vintage industrial over head lamp, like this one. A reclaimed wood table always looks great, especially with a pop of color vase or pitcher on it. Our Avva Carafe in gray woudl look really sleek next to a bright pitcher like the on in this photo.

- Industrial Holophane Light

- Reclaimed Wood Table

- Red Pitcher

- Gray Avva Carafe

Minjae Lee is a 23 year old South Korean artist who uses a variety of tools (markers, pens, crayons, acrylics) to create his beautifully complex illustrations. The dramatic colors contrast brilliantly with the dark tension of the subjects to make a unique experience for the viewer.

Se more of Minjae’s work here.

via The Cool Hunter.

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