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Child’s Play: A Book Bed

In the East, it is not uncommon for people to use thin mattresses in lieu of a bed. The mattresses are folded/rolled and stored away during the day to save space. (This is, in fact, how my family slept when we lived in Korea.) Creative photographer Yusuke Suzuki has taken this concept and transformed it to a short but fun series of photographs. The Book Bed allows you to literally crawl into the pages of a book; the pages act as blankets that you can use to keep yourself warm and cozy at night, while the bed itself can be folded/closed to create more space during the day. A short web search shows that the Book Bed is not available for sale, but...

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Latest Additions to “Disney Dream Portrait” Ads

The Disney Parks Blog has posted the latest additions to Annie Leibovitz’s "Disney Dream Portrait" series. The three new photos include Olivia Wilde as the Evil Queen and Alec Baldwin as the magic mirror from Snow White, Penelope Cruz and Jeff Bridges as the title characters of Beauty and the Beast, and Queen Latifah as Ursula from The Little Mermaid. Some have criticized the photographs as being overly photoshopped with a poor choice of actors, but I think they perfectly convey the surreal, dream-like aura that these fairytales are meant to provoke. For the rest of the photos from this series, check out Super Punch. (And just in case you're wondering, my favorite remains Rachel Weisz as Snow White.) Via The Daily What....

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Photo Opportunities: Hundreds of Tourist Photos as One

Conducting online keyword searches for world-famous monuments and tourist hotspots, visual artist Corinne Vionnet culled thousands of tourists' snapshots for her series Photo Opportunities. Each image in the series was created by superimposing hundreds of pictures of the monuments — the effect is quite haunting and ethereal, and inevitably wistful. Saint Basil's Cathedral, Moscow Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China Taj Mahal, India Mecca, Saudi Arabia Acropolis of Athens, Greece The (former) World Trade Center, New York Coliseum of Rome, Italy Eiffel Tower, Paris, France Himeji Castle, Japan Head on over to My Modern Met for more from the series. Via Geekosystem....

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Model-Morphosis

I don't follow fashion, so the only reason I was even aware that New York Fashion Week is currently underway is due to the Facebook feeds of my fashion-forward friends. That being said, I stumbled upon a series of posts from the NYTimes Magazine Blog called Model-Morphosis and I couldn't help but be intrigued. Because who doesn't like looking at before-and-after pictures? Because who doesn't like looking at before-and-after pictures of models, hoping that their "before" versions will at least resemble us mere mortals? (They don't. They're still gorgeous.) Because what geek doesn't like playing with sliders??? Perhaps it's due to the fact that high fashion style is not always street-friendly, but in the majority of these photos, I much preferred the "before," makeup-less looks. This...

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