In simple terms, the unpretentiously named 'Story Pod' is a pod inside which you can read books. But as with most 'simple' narratives, the is more to the nifty scope than that meets the eye. Designed by architectural studio AKB in the town of Newmarket, Toronto, the structure in its default form embodies a black…
A Toronto, Canada resident, Dan Tanenbaum has been collecting parts of vintage watches for quite some time now. It was through this hobby of accruing vintage timepieces that Dan came upon his true passion: crafting miniature motorcycles from old watch parts. Since 2010, Dan has sculpted several such Steampunk-inspired pieces, and has indeed become quite…
The first light-emitting diode (LED) was developed back in 1927. It took several decades, since then, for the first commercial LED lighting to be successfully launched in October 1962 and a few more years before it was available at a price that common people could afford. Although LED today has a variety of applications, ranging…
David Irvine is an artist of a different breed. His forte lies not in conventional art, but in adding somewhat bizarre and often humorous pop-culture characters in older paintings. Going by the name of the "Gnarled Branched", Toronto-based Irvine calls his art form 'Re-Directed Paintings'. (more…)