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The floors of Heike Weber

From bumbumbum:

"Heike Weber

draws

with

permanent markers

on

acrylic floors

and

walls —

surfaces

that have reached

up to

600 square meters."

[via TRIANGULATION]

Keith Haring Chair

Wood.

 

Made in France.

$155.

[via Fancy]

A page from the catalog of an imaginary company

Banana Handle Gripper

The website poses the question, "Have you ever seen a monkey burn himself working over a hot stove?"

nuf sed.

$10.98.

Fractal Building

[via Locitrom]

NHIZ x Bamford Watch Department Rolex Deepsea Custom

From Hypebeast: "Bamford Watch Department, a company specializing in bespoke and customized Rolex watches, has teamed up with NHIZ (a collaboration between NEIGHBORHOOD and IZZUE) to design a custom version of the Rolex Deepsea model.

"Using the original design, they've updated it in all-black, with an adjustable nylon strap and branded face.

$22,500 ($175,000 HKD).

Apply to: I.T Hysan, 1 Hysan Ave., Causeway Bay, Hong Kong.

[via Fancy]

World's first interactive atlas of the human brain

Wrote Robert Lee Hotz in this past Wednesday's Wall Street Journal, "Scientists funded by Microsoft Corp. co-founder Paul Allen unveiled a $55 million computerized atlas of the human brain Tuesday, offering the first interactive research guide to the anatomy and genes that animate the mind."

"The [Allen] institute is making the atlas freely available at www.brain-map.org as a resource for scientists studying brain diseases, along with a set of computational tools to help them analyze the data for clues to conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, autism and mental-health disorders like depression."

 

 

NYC Playing Cards

Ellen Tien in this past Thursday's New York Times "Browsing" feature 

wrote that they "feature faces of hometown royalty, like Woody Allen and Martin Scorcese."

How many of the 12 individuals pictured above and below can you identify?

Includes score pad, hand-painted pencil, and canvas carrying case.

 

$55.