Out of all the items we purchase every day, how many do we keep for over a year?

Not many.

Now more than ever, we seem quite at ease constantly discarding and throwing away items at will. You might take one last sip from a plastic bottle and toss it aside in the bin or your keyboard dies and you launch it onto the scrap heap for the council to pick up. We seldom keep anything and whilst we might recycle, we often don’t reuse.

With that in mind, today’s post is designed to give you little inspiration and some examples of every time items that you can reuse and convert into some pretty cool items for you home, plus they’ll prove to be a major talking point!

So next time you’re about throw away an item, just think – it might look really good on your wall, hanging from the ceiling or even make a unique chair to sit on. If you have any suggestions, please leave us a comment in the post below we’d love to hear them!

1. A Chandelier Made From Jam Jars

2. A Key Holder Made With LEGO

3. Stylish Handbag Made From Keyboard Keys

4. A Fruit Crate Used As A Toy Box

5. License Plates Into A Bowl

6. Old Skateboards As Stools

7. Pet Bed From An Old Mac

8. Bottle Ends As Purses

9. Hollowed Out Books As Plant Pots

10. Old Canvas Used As A Play Tent

11. Corona Bottles As Glass Tumblers

12. CD Spindel As A Sandwich Lunchbox

13. A Tote Bag Made From Recycle Juice Packs

14. Exhausted Lightbulb Turned Into An Oil Lamp

15. Piano Case As Bookshelf

16. A Sawn Off Cointreau Bottle As A Lampshade

17. Clock Made From A Bicycle Wheel

18. An Old Oil Drum As Bench For Two

19. A Lampshade Cover From X-Rays

20. A Street Sign As A Modern Chair

21. Unique Clock From Vintage Record Player

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If you’re a leading actor in a movie franchie, you can expect a miniature figurine of yourself to be created and sold by the millions. George Lucas has made more money from Star Wars figurines & merchandise than the movies themselves. And lets not forget the rock band KISS who have licensed their likeness in hundreds of dolls, toys and action figures.

But for regular individual in the street, having an action figurine of yourself was something of a dream…until a Clone Factory located in Akihabara, Japan stepped in to fill the void.

Using a combination of SLR’s, 3D rendering and plaster moulds (plus a fee of $1,300) you can now have yourself cloned in miniature  It’s both awesome and quite nightmarish in equal amounts. Japanese blogger Danny Choo decided to find exactly what went on behind the scenes and below are some images from his day trip to the centre as well as the final result. Did we mention they even clone pets?

Let us know what you think by leaving a comment below, would you be tempted to have yourself immortalised in miniature?

Via Danny Choo

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With so much investment needed in making featured length film, one of the few things that film studios are incredibly strict on is the script itself. Directors are allow “creative license and actors are allowed to interpret their characters as best they can – but the diagloue, that’s pretty much locked down tight. Teams of writers spend limitless hours going back on forth setting the tone, linking scenes and attempting to give their characters some unique qualities. 

That is unless, you’re one of these 25 movies you’re about to see.

It’s here you’ll find entire scenes completely improvised and bite-sized quotes utterly unscripted – a moment of inspiration and chemistry from the actors themselves. In fact, they were so seamless in the context of the overall film, they even made the final cut.

You might be surprised just how many scenes and films you recognise, we certainly were!

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Iconic Italian car manufacturer Lamborghini recently celebrated its 50th birthday – quite an achievement for a brand that is the epitome of style, class, and luxury. It’s even more impressive when you consider their world-famous cars start at the low-end of six figures. For 50 years they’ve been highly sought after by the ultra-rich and admire by virtually everyone else.

They kicked off the celebrations with a 4.5 km convoy of Lamborghini supercars, driven by people from 29 different countries.

But the big reveal came, when they decided to showcase their latest car the ‘Egoista’ (translation ‘selfish’ in Italian) – it is frankly breath-taking.

Chief designer Walter De Silva had this to say about the concept car:

This is a car made for one person only, to allow them to have fun and express their personality to the maximum. It is designed purely for hyper-sophisticated people who want only the most extreme and special things in the world. It represents hedonism taken to the extreme, it is a car without compromises, in a word: egoista (or selfish).

He’s right about zero compromises, to get out of the seat you have to physically remove the steering wheel first, flip open the roof and clamber over the body of the car itself. Underneath it’s futuristic exterior is a 600HP, 5.2liter v10 purring away, but if that’s got you drooling to get your hands on one by selling your grandmother and everything you own – you’ll be sorely disappointed.

Only one will ever been manufactured. Essentially it’s Lamborghini’s present to themselves, and like any birthday gift, the rest of us duly have to sit back and admire, secretly wishing that we too could have a piece of the action.

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You’ve probably heard countless news reports of people claiming they’ve seen the face of Jesus appearing on all sorts of objects from toast, household items to rock formations and pita bread. And how many times have you looked at a building or group of objects and thought they make out some kind of face?

It’s actually a real phenomenon, but not a supernatural occurence. It’s called ‘Pareidolia‘ and it’s purely psychological (unless you believe in miracles) there’s even an entire subreddit, dedicated to the concept

Your brain randomly perceives an image as being significant in some form, drawing a pattern, shape or recognizable element from the meaningless scattered data in front of you. But in these next 20 examples, faces will either leap out at you, slowly fade into focus, maybe even fade out of focus or not appear at all. They’ll vary from scary, to funny, to sneaky to happy and everything in between.

See if you can spot these 20 unique faces in these 20 unlikely and often hidden places….

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Photographer Unknown

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Photo via lighthugger on Reddit

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Photo via I f*cking love science on Facebbok

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Photo via wideeyedrevelation on Reddit

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Photo via Barbara Dunkelman | @Blawndee on Twitter

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Photo via Pray_IV_Reign on Reddit

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Photo via editthis7 on Reddit

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Photo via Donkeyslapper84 on Reddit

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Photo via Sergio Morchon (Dr. Jaus on Flickr)

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Photo via photomonde.fr

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Photo via CollegeHumor

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Photo via Qoen on Flickr

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Photo via mulletarian on Reddit

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Photo via Andreas aka raumoberbayern on Flickr

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Photo via briansbrother34 on Reddit

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Photo via PotentialBillionaire on Reddit

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Photo via Paul Galvin on Flickr

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Photo via zarx on Reddit

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Photo via Patrick A. Albright, U.S. Army

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Photo via Wout (eworm on Flickr)

via TwistedSifter

One of our favourite Twitter hashtags is #1stworldproblems a cheeky reference to that fact it isn’t easy being a privileged citizen of a developed nation.

So it wasn’t going to be long until someone decided to combined some of the most superficial & narrow-minded tweets into a visual series. It’s amusing, depressing & dumbfounding in equal amounts. It might suck that you don’t have wifi right now, but none of us should ever lose sight of the fact there are scenes like this happening every day in 3rd world countries.

Kick back, relax and prepare to  shake your head at 140 characters of self-indulgent first world problems.

Via Sad And Useless

Daniel Sierra is studying his MFA at the School of Visual Arts in New York, he’s now officially an A grade student on the back of his fascinating animated video titled Oscillate.

It’s an experiment that he says “aims to visualize waveform patterns that evolve from the fundamental sine wave to more complex patterns, creating a mesmerizing audio-visual experience in which sight and sound work in unison.” and it’s truly mesmerising and even therapeutic to watch.

It was rightly award Vimeo’s Staff Pick Of The Week, watch it below to find out why.

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The great Leonardo de Vinci once stated that “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” and now more than ever in our fast and furious lives, we need have a desire to know what is happening, instantly, visually and easily.

That’s the premise behind a Tumblr account titled 9 Film Frames, where some of the most celebrated movies of our time are summarised neatly and succulently in just 9 frames. Each week new films are distilled into their key scenes and added to the list, but today we wanted to show you a few of our personal favorites from their current selection including The Dark Knight, Memento, Melancholia, Mulholland Drive and more.

If you’ve watched the films previously, they will instantly jog your memory but if you haven’t – see if you can you work out the plot using just these 9 snapshots

Melancholia

Mulholland Drive

Memento

Taxi Driver

Bullitt

Inception

Ghost World

The Dark Knight

A Clockwork Orange

The Shining

Via Laughing Squid

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It’s amazing what can be achieved when nobody is fighting over who takes the credit isn’t it?

Here’s a story of one such scenario, it began when a civil engineer, two visual artists, a PR professional and an architect formed an art collective called Boa Mistura in Spain. Their name actually translates into ‘good mixture’, a reference to all the individuals and their professions within the group.

They recently headed to one of the poorest and long forgotten house estates in Panama City called El Chorrillo with a goal to restore a sense of pride, vitality, community and creativity to an area which had long fallen into disarray, a concrete blight in a discarded neighbourhood.

They opted to injected some much-needed vibrancy into the house block, working closely with locals, they painted the entire facade in rich tones and eye-popping colours. What’s even more impressive is the fact those colours were selected by the tenants themselves and then moulded into one unified design. A multitude of colours, chosen and painted by a community of individuals with their own unique stories.

The final design spells out the phrase “Somos Luz” which means ‘We Are Light’ – a shining example that by working together, we can make the world a better place for every individual.

Via URdesign

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We’ve previously feature several artists who are masters of photorealism (tricking your vision into think you’re staring at a photograph, when really it’s been created by hand) – but Spanish artist Juan Francisco Casas is unique in that he only use the trusty and humble Bic ballpoint pen.

No fancy paints, oils or expensive brushes – just a regular 99c Bic ballpoint and infinite about of skill, patience and finesse.

Many of the people featured in Juan’s work are in fact his friends, images captured from nights out, crazy parties and rendevous with more than a few seductive ladies – which just adds to the sense of realism, movement and vitality in his images.

Those images can reach up to 10ft in size, so you can imagine just how many hours are required to complete them. You can see more of Juan’s pheominal handywork via juanfranciscocasas.com or get hold of a copy of his book ‘Juan Francisco Casas‘ which features the entire stunning series.

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