The inhabitants of ancient Athens were laughing at the fact that Diogenes lived in a barrel.  But the residential module Rollit, created by students of the Germanic University University of Karlsruhe, he hardly wanted to make fun of. Indeed, though he looks like a barrel, but is spacious and multipurpose.

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Polar bears and penguins committing suicide is the focus of a series of provocative art installations by Taiwanese artist Vincent J.F Huang. Dubbed the Suicide Penguins, Huang’s art explores the negative effects global climate change is having on the animals of the world, in particular the creatures living at the North and South Poles.

The Suicide Penguins art installation, located under Millennium Bridge in London, England features two glass penguins and a stuffed polar bear hanging from nooses.

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Traditional versions of Tetris move the stacks of blocks down by a distance exactly equal to the height of the cleared rows below them.

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Really weird idea.

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Flying Sauna  above the Elbe River. Sauna is a cube measuring approximately two by two by two meters. A climb into the sauna of the H3T will have a boat.

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Pretty cool idea for a bookshelf by furniture design guru Ron Arad. A bookshelf shaped like the United States with each state having their own space.

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Black Hole…huge ball 4 meters in diameter,  is made of … 72 ordinary office chairs and Dead Star – taken from the set of used batteries. As its name suggests, the sculpture “slowly cooled since then, as it does not happen any electrical activity.  Interestingly, while no longer able to be a source of energy, batteries nonetheless become a source of new life: the life works of art.

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An ambitious project to create the world’s first moon clock powered by the tides is currently planned for the edge of the Thames River in London, England. Designed by UK artist Laura Williams while she was in her third year of a study in an Arts & Design course at Central Saint Martins, the completed Aluna Moon Clock, will be larger than Stonehenge and forty metres wide.

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Inspired by a report for the press, La Chute and photographer Denis Darzacq perfectly seized dancers, without special effects, in mid jump to link photojournalism and contemporary art in perfectly mastered compositions. [via]

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