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A Smashing Idea: Fight Club Lets You Kill Your TV. A Smashing Idea: Fight Club Lets You Kill Your TV Article by Delana, filed under Gaming & Computing in the Technology category.

A Smashing Idea: Fight Club Lets You Kill Your TV

It’s well known that smashing something – a dish, a TV, a watermelon, or whatever else is within reach – is great therapy when you’re stressed. All over the world, clubs and organizations are popping up for the sole purpose of bringing frustrated people together to smash stuff. But there is nothing else quite like The Destruction Company, an exclusive private club in New Jersey that allows wealthy people to whack the stuffing out of just about anything. (all images via: Daily Mail) The Destruction Company is not your run-of-the-mill plate-smashing operation. For a confidential annual fee (plus the cost of whatever the member decides to wail on) rich folks can destroy expensive electronics, cars, clothing – as long as it’s not a living creature or documents of any kind, The Destruction Company will acquire the target object.

Egg Mosaics. Oksana Mas est un artiste ukrainien qui utilise des oeufs en bois peints à la main pour assembler des mosaïques incroyables.

Egg Mosaics

Récemment contactée pour participer à la Biennale de Venise, ses oeuvres peuvent être composées de plusieurs milliers d’oeufs, tous peints à la main. Techchai - Technology Tips, Tutorials, Articles and Updates. Here is a list of 10 amazing sites that will help you to create logo free online without the use of any software.

Techchai - Technology Tips, Tutorials, Articles and Updates

The logo is the mark that distinguishes and gives your blog, website or business a different position from your competitors. It is essential for your product or service to be noticed and a logo helps you get that recognition. But, it is not always possible to take professional services to get your logo designed. But at the same time you can create your own logo for free with a lot of options available online and using freeware. That is what I will address in this article. Sites to Create Logo Free Online 1. Report Potholes, Graffiti & Neighborhood Problems With Startup Mobile App.

SeeClickFix SeeClickFix helps users report non-emergency issues to the appropriate government agency. Making reports easy and public with a mobile app There was once an ugly piece of graffiti on Ben Berkowitz’s house in New Haven, Connecticut. He was staring at it while on hold with city hall in a frustrated attempt to request the graffiti’s removal when he decided that there must be a better way to report it. “It was the epiphany that my neighbors had probably reported the same thing,” he says of this moment, “and I would have no way of knowing or communicating with them about it.”

He invited two friends over for an impromptu Saturday brainstorm on the topic, and four hours later they emerged with the first version of SeeClickFix. When Berkowitz first tested the new app to report a new batch of graffiti, city hall had a much different response than it did to his previous phone calls. “I came out of the house two hours later, and there was already someone removing it,” he says. Kinect Graffiti™ RED BULL STREET ART VIEW. QQ PaperChat. Shoe tossing. 30 Classic Music Albums Recreated With Lego.

Its the turn of musical album covers to get a Lego make-over, you will find album covers of Nirvana, Oasis, Radiohead, Bob Dylan, Iron Maiden… and many more.

30 Classic Music Albums Recreated With Lego

Yep, its official, there really is nothing that can not be created with Lego. Pop Culture Dollars by James Charles. Trimpin film coming to DVD! Guerrilla Labyrinths. Crate Man, Crate Men, Crate People... street art at it's most creative. Le blog srap. Am I Yours? - Home. Reticula - Carteles Desgarrados. De purperen punaise. Wooster Collective.

Op-Ed: Sticks and Stones; Ai Weiwei and the Uses of Architecture. Weiwei's installation on the facade of Haus der Kunst in Munich, inspired by the presence of hundreds of backpacks in the wreckage of a school in Sichuan.

Op-Ed: Sticks and Stones; Ai Weiwei and the Uses of Architecture

The backpacks spell out a quote from the mother of one of the dead children: " lived happily for seven years in this world. " This op-ed was initially conceived as a series of critical Twitter messages by Fred Scharmen, aka sevensixfive, directed at blogs (including Archinect) that have been providing ongoing exposure of new architecture projects in China, considering China's unfair capture and treatment of artist/activist Ai Weiwei. In an effort to investigate this issue further, and hopefully spark a little productive debate, we invited Fred to pen this op-ed. BBC Memoryshare. Streamlining Social Data Storytelling [Video] Check-ins, blog posts, tweets and likes — as the amount of social data exponentially multiplies, the emerging question is just how these ever-growing databases of personal experiences will be collectively organized (and shared).

Streamlining Social Data Storytelling [Video]

Memolane is a web-based ‘memory-management’ service – essentially a centralized digital scrapbook for all aspects of a user’s online identity. Linking with a host of expected services like Facebook, Twitter, Picasa and Foursquare (among others), the site also boasts the capability to backdate and upload (analog!) Memories. Recognizing the importance of privacy in the memory-sharing equation, Memolane affords users the crucial freedom to tightly edit and dictate just who can glimpse what.

Its streamlined and time-based visual layout adds a unique fluidity to the experience as well. Memolane – Your time machine for the web from Memolane on Vimeo. Graffiti Research Lab Archive. Find the Future at the New York Public Library Game Trailer.