Category Archives: Fun

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en.light.en Interactive Lamps

en.light.en interactive lampen.light.en interactive lamps are designed by Barrangan Studio in Colombia. Apart from the basic lamp function of lighting their environs, en.light.en lamps contain different narratives that can be triggered by the user, creating a more “poetic and metaphysical relationship” between man and technology. One lamp seems to answer your questions à la Magic Eight Ball. Another will keep your ego in check displaying messages determined by the user’s psychological needs and desires. It can uplift those who are down, and bring down those with overinflated egos, creating a healthy equilibrium. Oh, and finally, one of the en.light.en lamps displays the time in scrolling LED type as well, (for the more practically-minded), while reminding the user that time is limited and they will not live forever.

For those who understand Spanish, here’s a video of all the different en.light.en lamps and what they offer…down to serving as an egg timer.

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Cube Works

Cube Works PortraitsCube Works Studio is a Toronto-based collaboration of graphic artists who aim to repurpose common objects into complex pieces of functional art…and, obviously, they are a group of master Rubik’s Cubers to boot! Their large-scale works include images of celebrity icons as well as recreations of Pop Art pieces and classic works. Though they are most known for their Rubik’s Cube tableaux (which are created by twisting the cube to the desired configuration, not by taking them apart, in case you wondered,) Cube Works also features art created with dice (see two at bottom left) and spools of thread (see two at bottom right.)

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Slap Watches

Slap WatchIt may have become apparent by now that the three of us have a weakness for watches…or maybe time pieces in general. It’s not that we own that many of them, but we just tend to notice and appreciate them possibly more than most. Recently, Daniela spotted one of these Slap watches on someone’s wrist and was immediately smitten.

The Slap watch is a silicone watch that implements the mechanism of the spring coil bracelet popular in the 90s. It comes in nine, mostly bright, colors with interchangeable faces, creating 81 possible color combinations. Plus, at under $20, it seems very reasonably priced.

You can learn more about them and visit their online shop, here.

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The Weird Girls Project

The Weird Girls ProjectGranted, my exposure to Icelandic culture is limited to, well, Björk, but based on that and now The Weird Girls Project, it certainly seems like a creative, and zany, place to be. Artist Kitty Von-Sometime (a British expat) started the Weird Girls over four years ago noticing her female friends’ social self-consciousness and lack of creative outlets. It has grown to almost 60 Weird Girls and 12 episodes that include spandex, bunny masks, and glow-in-the-dark effects. There’s a Busby Berkely-meets-Björk element to some of them.

The Weird Girls Project is an ongoing art experiment created and produced by concept artist Kitty Von-Sometime. It evolves ‘Episode’ by ‘Episode’ and the participants mix between those involved from the beginning and new members increasing with every event. Each Episode is planned for approximately three months with the participants knowing as little as is possible about the event excluding the date, this includes the concept, location and costumes. The experience is one of empowerment, overcoming self-consciousness and body image, comradery, as well as (for lack of a better term) girl power.

Filmmaker Adrienne Grierson, after a two-year wait, became a Weird Girl and, along with Martina Moor, is documenting the whole experience and the 13th Episode in her upcoming documentary “I Want to Be Weird in Iceland.” Here’s her kickstarter trailer, well worth watching:


You can follow Adrienne’s progress here. And you can watch The Weird Girls Project Episodes here.