Things I Think Are Kinda Cool

Stunning shadow art created by Kumi Yamashita:

-Check out more of Kumi’s work here. (via Random Good Stuff)

Check out this cool ‘Equinox’-clock designed by Bram Knaapen…it trashes standard clock hands and replaces them with LED lights around the edges.  Nice.

-Link via The Daily What

LA artist Robert Therrien transforms people into Mini-Me’s with his GIANT versions of everyday household objects.  I can almost hear a teeny-tiny Lily Tomlin screaming “Concepcion!” at the top of her lungs while she’s trapped in her kitchen sink.

-via Neatorama

Didn’t get my Lily Tomlin reference?  Check out this clip from the 1981 film “The Incredible Shrinking Woman”.  If you did get it, enjoy!  (By the way, I don’t remember Concepcion being such a babe!)

Designer Christopher Niemann doesn’t need 5000 legos and 50 hours of painstaking work to build his NYC-inspired creations.  The former New Yorker’s refreshingly simple vignettes were originally dreamed up using his son’s toys during a bleak winter in Berlin.  Whether it was homesickness or boredom that sparked Niemann’s creativity, there’s something undeniably charming about the images that fill up his book, “I Lego NY“.  Here are some of my favorites:

-Grab a copy of  “I Lego NY” on Amazon.

Artist Peter Callesen gets excited when he sees a sheet of boring A4 paper…he uses his imagination and an X-acto knife to create stunningly detailed works of art.  Callesen says he’s “found a material which we are all able to relate to, and at the same time is non-loaded and neutral, and therefore easier to fill with different meanings.  The thin white paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic themes of the work.”  Here are some of my favorite pieces from Callesen’s ‘A4 Papercut’ collection:

-”Half Way Through” (2006)

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-”Impenetrable Castle” (2005)

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-”Snowballs” (2005)

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-”Down the River” (2005)

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-”Do Not Enter” (2006)

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-”Little Erected Ruin” (2007)

-Take a look at Peter Callesen’s full collection here. (via @terrinakamura)

I’m not exactly sure what the point of this table made out of compasses is, other than the fact that it would be really fun to play with while drinking your morning coffee.  (Santa, if you’re reading this, sure…I’ll take one of these – why not?)

-via Unique Daily

Artist Maurice Bennett combines his love of toast with a blow torch to create stunning pieces that make my mouth water.  These are some of my favorites:

-link via @artglobe