House of Wolf

I know that this isn't necessarily what I'd normally post about but i found this place when researching pubs and bars in London for a brief. Its quite hard for me to describe what it is so I'll say it in their own words, "House of Wolf is a multi-functional, multi-sensory experimental pleasure palace, dedicated to the creative pursuits of dining, drinking, art and entertainment." This place to me looks simply incredible, with its victorian steampunk style I can imagine the likes of Dorian Gray popping in for a drink. This place isn't just a fancy drinking hole for the wealthy, it is an experience with its experimental cocktails cooked up in the same style in which alchemists would turn lead in to gold. But don't just think you can walk in, this place has quite the list of reservations!
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Alternative Movie Posters

As a fan of film and cinema I happen to read Empire magazine quiet a lot, and each month they show a fan made alternative poster for a film that they are either reviewing or that has recently been released. I really like these posters as they give a different approach to the film but still manage to stay in the theme that the film has with most often than not a few subtle hints to the actual film. These posters can be in the style of a rorschach test made to look like Bane the main antagonist of the resent Dark Knight film, a gunshot in the dark lighting up Bond's face in Skyfall (an image from the films opening scene) or just simply an image of one of the key scenes from a film like that of the Avengers Assemble poster which shows IronMan flying into the portal to face the aliens in space.

Up, up and away!

In 2009 Disney Pixar released "Up" where an old man flies his house suspended by hundreds of coloured helium balloons. Now in 2012, Jonathan Trappe has brought that child fantasy to life by flying a small model house 20,000 feet in the air over Leon, Mexico. Trappe is now planing on making a Trans-Atlantic journey in the helium balloon suspended and if he gets the funding, make a documentary on his incredible journey.

Crazy and clever packaging!

When selling a product the packaging is just as important as the advertising itself and here is some great examples of incredible packaging! We have some high protein buns in a box imitating a six pack quite literally, water proof watches sold in a bag of water and a bag designed to emphasize what you are putting into your body. These few examples of very abstract packaging are great as it makes the product into something much more than just a drink or just some bread. It makes the product into something exciting and fun and in the case of the oragami bottles, a piece of art.

Super Heroes are all for minimalism these days

Here we have a few pictures from a larger collection by Mozcreative. The fact that I could name each and every super hero from the collection either means that I need to get out more or that because of pop culture these images have become so well known we no longer need to see a full picture to identify who it is!

I believe that these are some very clever and very cool looking designs.

Ghosts of War

Dutch historian Jo Hedwig Teeuwisse tries to demonstrate that history and the present day are very much entwined. She does this with her Ghosts of War photo series, where she blends the present day and the original World War II pictures of the same place into one. She spent hours looking for the locations and taking pictures that match the originals, and then photoshops them to combine the war ghosts into the current settings to give a haunting view of what some of these places were like during the war and how life for the allied forces was.

More Than Human

A renowned London-based photographer Tim Flach presents his work of seven years in his new book called “More than Human“. By taking striking close up shots of various animals, he attempts to demonstrate how close animals can get to humans through different poses and the way they act. What looks like images of unselfconscious and spontaneous reactions of the animals, is actually a result of long research and observation done by the artist. The carefully lit and cropped images evoke unexpected sense of intimacy and empathy even with the less cuddly animal models. Tim did everything to create individual settings for all of them, and his magnificent pictures prove that all the efforts paid off.