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Review: A month with MonkeyLectric LED Light System for Bikes

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2008-07-29 13:02:47 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
...surrealist masterpiece The Third Policeman , the anonymous one-legged protagonist (who is also dead, but don't worry too much about that) incites a riot in the Irish countryside amongst his fellow one-legged countrymen. The local constable, thinking quickly, puts the riot down the only way he knows how: he paints his bicycle an impossible...
 
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Jim Henson's Time Piece - 1965 Experimental Film

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2007-12-03 12:48:00 by Watchismo in Watchismo Times - A reliquary of obscure timepieces from bygone eras as well as the cutting-edge des
...surrealist filmaker For more, visit the Time Piece Wikipedia page here--> Link Check out my $100-$100,000 holiday gift guide!--> LINK Watchismo Blog | Watchismo Shop | Contact Us | Subscribe Subscribe to The Watchismo Times Enter your email Delivered by FeedBurner
 
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Pencil Scarf

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2008-01-29 12:48:43 by HASH0x8471ecc in Cool Hunting
...surrealist trends in more haute fashion circles (like Marc Jacob's infamous deconstructed shoes last season) and with decidedly more lowbrow circles, like the Bacon Scarf . Sure to elicit smiles on the subway or on the street, the pencil's smirk and splash of pink eraser make for a humorous addition to drab winter wardrobes Available in...
 
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Toaster Phone Doesn't Run on Butter [Concept]

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2008-02-25 10:11:23 by Jesus Diaz in Gizmodo
...surrealist moron while using it, which is always a plus. We like the toaster charger and the fact that it comes with two sets, which we want to believe will communicate with each other, allowing Jason and Benny to play Loafman and his sidekick Buttermelter. [ Coroflot via Techdigest
 
Tags: toaster phone concept, play loafman, toaster charger, surrealist moron, sidekick buttermelter, sets, coroflot, benny, simple
 
 
 
 
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Paul Julius Martus' hand shaped wrenches

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2008-06-02 13:57:45 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
Paul Julius Martus' hand tool wrenches are wonderful, like the lug-tightener of some French surrealist or a construction-themed sequel to M.C. Escher's Drawing Hands Handwrench [Coroflot via DVICE
 
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Vintage Atari 2600 ad explains the genesis of Yar's Revenge

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2008-08-11 10:58:51 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
 
...surrealist idea association as he simultaneously stuffs wads of blotter LSD up his nostrils. "A fly! I'll have a mutant fly. There we are. You'll need some potential. Now an Ion Zone. Yar. Yar's Revenge There's a big part of me that doesn't want to admit that this isn't the way games are made Atari Commercial [YouTube
 
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Nokia asks users to design them a set of cans, surrealist masterpieces result

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2008-10-03 08:13:12 by John Brownlee in Boing Boing Gadgets
Nokia's Music Almighty Headset Competition throws downloadable Maya, PDF and PostScript templates of their stock stereo headset and invites users to go crazy nuts on them, promising that winners will see their headphones turned into (probably non-commercial) reality Nokia shouldn't be so cagey about whether or not they'll actually sell the...
 
Tags: nokia, stock stereo headset, strange soar headse, swedish jazzband, crazy nuts, invites users, beats, winners, postscript
 
 
 
 
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Virtual Shalom Harlow on the virtual catwalk for Viktor & Rolf The end of the fashion show as we know it?

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2008-12-24 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
 
...Surrealist art it is often compared to, can be high concept and more than a little bizarre. And so, when Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren decided to create a fashion show for the Internet, they began with a typically unusual notion: this would not be an ordinary production, in which footage from a live event is later posted online. This would...
 
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Angels in the modern world

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2008-12-25 16:01:00 by bookofjoe in bookofjoe
...surrealist poet, imagined a boxing match with an angel under magnesium lights. He ended up winded and defeated, blinded with feathers. Pia Northrup, a Danish poet, spots angels in her modern Danish kitchen (An angel came in;/we fled from him/as though we had got too near the fire Poets and artists see strange things. But angels are notable...
 
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