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samedi 6 mars 2010
mardi 23 février 2010
La maison en LEGO de James May est finie
James May and his full-size Lego house nobody wants. It could be the biggest bargain on the property market: a two-storey house that’s being given away for nothing. The only drawback is that this des res is made entirely out of Lego – and you’ll have to find somewhere to put it.
Top Gear presenter James May has just built the world’s first full-size Lego house – including a working toilet, hot shower and a very uncomfortable bed – using 3.3million plastic bricks.
James May and 1,000 helpers built the 20ft-tall Lego house on a wine estate in Surrey. A close up picture of the fully functional house, which was built using 3.3million differently coloured bricks
About 1,000 volunteers built the 20ft-tall house in Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey – but now the vineyard needs the land back to harvest its grapes.
If no one collects it by 8am on Tuesday, it will be hacked to bits with chainsaws.
May says Legoland reneged on a deal to take it to their theme park in Windsor, Berkshire, after deciding it would be too expensive to move.
Meanwhile, miffed Legoland managers criticised May for building the house without their help.
May said: ‘I’m very unhappy about it. I feel as if I’m having my arm twisted into saying “knock it down”.
Blocked sink: The bathroom with a working taps and basin made from Lego
‘Legoland only told us on Thursday they were not going to take it.
James May
'Knocking it down is just wrong on every level. It’s a really lovely thing – it would break the hearts of the 1,000 people who worked like dogs to build it.’
May believes that an art gallery, a children’s home or a wealthy private collector might be interested in the house.
But any entrepreneurs hoping to make money from it would face legal problems as Legoland has an exclusive licence to use the plastic bricks as a public attraction in Britain.
Lego has also banned May from dismantling the structure and giving away the bricks, which the company donated for his forthcoming BBC show James May’s Toy Stories.
‘It would dilute Lego’s sales – we can only give them to charity,’ May said.
May slept in the house on Friday night, on ‘the most uncomfortable bed I’ve ever slept in’ – when he also discovered the house was not waterproof.
Martin Williams, marketing director of Legoland Windsor, said: ‘We’re disappointed we were not consulted as our model-makers could have advised on building a movable structure.
‘In our opinion, the only way to move the Lego house now is to cut into it, which would compromise the structural integrity and present us with health-and-safety issues.’
Building blocks: James even used Lego to make a host of utensils including a toaster, whisk, bread bin and iron
'We considered all the options but due to cost, timings, logistics and planning permission, we have decided it would not be viable to move the structure to the park.’
Earlier this year the TV presenter made his debut in the Chelsea Flower show with a garden made entirely out of plasticine.
His Paradise in Plasticine boasted palm trees, bushes, a vegetable patch, grapevine, lawn, rockery and pond and featured two and a half tonnes of plasticine in 24 different colours.
The 46-year-old claimed his effort is the biggest and most complex plasticine model ever made.
He produced the the garden as part of his BBC 2 series James May's Toy Stories, where he aimed to 'get kids out of their bedrooms and away from their Playstations'
(Lu sur le Daily Mail)
Top Gear presenter James May has just built the world’s first full-size Lego house – including a working toilet, hot shower and a very uncomfortable bed – using 3.3million plastic bricks.
James May and 1,000 helpers built the 20ft-tall Lego house on a wine estate in Surrey. A close up picture of the fully functional house, which was built using 3.3million differently coloured bricksAbout 1,000 volunteers built the 20ft-tall house in Denbies Wine Estate in Dorking, Surrey – but now the vineyard needs the land back to harvest its grapes.
If no one collects it by 8am on Tuesday, it will be hacked to bits with chainsaws.
May says Legoland reneged on a deal to take it to their theme park in Windsor, Berkshire, after deciding it would be too expensive to move.
Meanwhile, miffed Legoland managers criticised May for building the house without their help.
May said: ‘I’m very unhappy about it. I feel as if I’m having my arm twisted into saying “knock it down”.
Blocked sink: The bathroom with a working taps and basin made from Lego‘Legoland only told us on Thursday they were not going to take it.
James May
'Knocking it down is just wrong on every level. It’s a really lovely thing – it would break the hearts of the 1,000 people who worked like dogs to build it.’
May believes that an art gallery, a children’s home or a wealthy private collector might be interested in the house.
But any entrepreneurs hoping to make money from it would face legal problems as Legoland has an exclusive licence to use the plastic bricks as a public attraction in Britain.
Lego has also banned May from dismantling the structure and giving away the bricks, which the company donated for his forthcoming BBC show James May’s Toy Stories.
‘It would dilute Lego’s sales – we can only give them to charity,’ May said.
May slept in the house on Friday night, on ‘the most uncomfortable bed I’ve ever slept in’ – when he also discovered the house was not waterproof.
Martin Williams, marketing director of Legoland Windsor, said: ‘We’re disappointed we were not consulted as our model-makers could have advised on building a movable structure.
‘In our opinion, the only way to move the Lego house now is to cut into it, which would compromise the structural integrity and present us with health-and-safety issues.’
Building blocks: James even used Lego to make a host of utensils including a toaster, whisk, bread bin and iron'We considered all the options but due to cost, timings, logistics and planning permission, we have decided it would not be viable to move the structure to the park.’
Earlier this year the TV presenter made his debut in the Chelsea Flower show with a garden made entirely out of plasticine.
His Paradise in Plasticine boasted palm trees, bushes, a vegetable patch, grapevine, lawn, rockery and pond and featured two and a half tonnes of plasticine in 24 different colours.
The 46-year-old claimed his effort is the biggest and most complex plasticine model ever made.
He produced the the garden as part of his BBC 2 series James May's Toy Stories, where he aimed to 'get kids out of their bedrooms and away from their Playstations'
(Lu sur le Daily Mail)
Quelques pubs en panneau cools
Remember those Nano-Chromatic iPod spots where the iPods bleed in technicolor? For client Rona, which recycles paint, the illuminated minds at Bos/Montreal erected a banner just beneath an iPod Nano billboard.Nous recuperons les restes de peinture” — “We collect the leftover paint” 
No, this isn’t Photoshopped. It’s an ad for Nationwide Insurance showing paint dripping off a three banner spread across the north side of the Atlas Building in downtown Columbus Ohio.
This is a really cool and innovative billboard done by Ogilvy & Mather (Indonesia location) for Formula Tooth care, quite the visual.
This is a billboard in Ann Arbor, MI that doesn’t seem to be an advertisement… Of what could be an alien or could be a man.
Cingular showcases another dramatic way to highlight the issue of dropped calls on this billboard outside the Marriott Marquis in Times Square 
“Look your Best” From the designers at New Zealnd’s Clemenger BBDO.This billboard illustrates the importance of wearing fashionable underwear.
Brilliant: Fruit Juice Packaging by Naoto Fukasawa
Japanese industrial designer Naoto Fukasawa has created a series of creative fruit juice packages that have the look and feel of the fruit they contain.
“I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.”
Alongside banana, strawberry and kiwi fruit “juice skins” Naoto Fukasawa also offers a wild card “silken tofu skin” for a carton of soya milk.
“I imagined that if the surface of the package imitated the colour and texture of the fruit skin, then the object would reproduce the feeling of the real skin.”
Alongside banana, strawberry and kiwi fruit “juice skins” Naoto Fukasawa also offers a wild card “silken tofu skin” for a carton of soya milk.
2 idées marketing à caractère sexuel cools
Penis reduction pills
This is marketing genius. Buy a prominently-labeled bottle of Penis Reduction Pills and make sure you leave them in a place in your home where everyone can see them. Hell, leave them on your desk at work!
Break Glass In Case of a Sexual Emergency
You never know when your lame come-ons might actually impress some extremely drunk woman in a bar, which is why this Emergency Fire Alarm Condom Holder can give you peace of mind. Just break the “PRESS HERE” plastic plate when an emergency strikes. Reinstallation of the plate is easy too—just in case a miracle occurs and you get lucky twice.
This is marketing genius. Buy a prominently-labeled bottle of Penis Reduction Pills and make sure you leave them in a place in your home where everyone can see them. Hell, leave them on your desk at work!
Break Glass In Case of a Sexual Emergency
You never know when your lame come-ons might actually impress some extremely drunk woman in a bar, which is why this Emergency Fire Alarm Condom Holder can give you peace of mind. Just break the “PRESS HERE” plastic plate when an emergency strikes. Reinstallation of the plate is easy too—just in case a miracle occurs and you get lucky twice.
3 pubs géantes cools
(Pub pour Axe)
(Pub pour les lumières Mini Cooper Xenon par Philips HID)
(Pub pour McDonald's)Plus de photos ici.
La plus grande piscine au monde
San Alfonso del Mar est une résidence de vacances située à Algarrobo au Chili et fréquemment notée grâce à sa piscine de plus de 1,000 mètres de long pour 8 hectare, la plus grande au monde selon le livre Guinness des records. La résidence utilise l'eau de l'océan avant de la filtrer et la traiter.
Plus de photos ici.
Plus de photos ici.
jeudi 18 février 2010
Haïti, Tahiti, c’est kif-kif
La Roumanie a confondu Haïti et Tahiti et envoyé un bataillon et 2 000 tonnes d’aide humanitaire en Polynésie française, révèle le site roumain Times.ro. “Ce n’est pas la peine d’en faire un plat, franchement, Haïti, Tahiti, Papeete, toutes ces îles ont des noms qui se ressemblent”, a déclaré le ministre de la Défense roumain, Gabriel Oprea. La bourde a fait un tabac sur la Toile russe, et la télévision colombienne a illico épinglé l’affaire, comme le montre l’extrait de JT mis en ligne sur YouTube. Seul hic, la nouvelle était bidon : Times.ro est un site satirique, rappelle le quotidien roumain Adevarul.
(Lu sur Courrier International)
(Lu sur Courrier International)
samedi 6 février 2010
dimanche 24 janvier 2010
mercredi 20 janvier 2010
Les blobs: les nouvelles caravanes pour bobos?
Une nouvelle création architecturale design, marrante, utile, originale et très... bobo?
Plein d'autres photos sur Gizmodo, dont:
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samedi 2 janvier 2010
Bruno Candida souhaite la bonne année à tousse
dimanche 9 août 2009
dimanche 10 mai 2009
vendredi 3 avril 2009
Casimir est de retour
Incroyable! Casimir (sur la photo ci-dessous avec son cousin Hippolyte en train de manger du gloubi-boulga) devrait revenir à la télé en 2009. Ca, alors ça, ça va faire des enfants heureux. Au pays de l'île aux enfants.
Avis aux esprits curieux: cliquez sur la photo pour lire l'article.
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mercredi 25 mars 2009
Voitures contre femmes
Et je peux parler, j'ai pas de voiture, moi...
Hot blonde or a hot car?
1. Go means go, stop means stop, left means left, right means right. Nothing is implied.
2. It’s perfectly fine to have more than one.
3. The tyre bill is considerably less than a woman’s shoe bill.
4. Aside from the fuel tank, its weight does not change.
5. If you don’t like it anymore, you can sell it and get another. (Without going through hell)
6. If you take good care of it, it’ll look the same as the day you got it.
7. Too change it, you don’t have to talk to it, you just MODIFY it.
8. Even a LARGE heavy one like the Pontiac G8 GT, can look sexy. You can have fun inside it and no one will think you’re weird.
9. You can redress it with a new body kit for less than the cost of a wedding dress.
10. You can give it accessories whenever you feel like it, irrespective of birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
11. It never asks questions about it’s rear.
12. The airbags are not just for decoration, they save your life.
13. Regardless of the time of day, season, day of the month, it is ready to give you a ride when you want it.
14. Every year, it only asks for new oil, not jewellery.
15. Ever now and then, you’ll be able to drive a friend’s one, without any guilt.
Hot blonde or a hot car?
1. Go means go, stop means stop, left means left, right means right. Nothing is implied.
2. It’s perfectly fine to have more than one.
3. The tyre bill is considerably less than a woman’s shoe bill.
4. Aside from the fuel tank, its weight does not change.
5. If you don’t like it anymore, you can sell it and get another. (Without going through hell)
6. If you take good care of it, it’ll look the same as the day you got it.
7. Too change it, you don’t have to talk to it, you just MODIFY it.
8. Even a LARGE heavy one like the Pontiac G8 GT, can look sexy. You can have fun inside it and no one will think you’re weird.
9. You can redress it with a new body kit for less than the cost of a wedding dress.
10. You can give it accessories whenever you feel like it, irrespective of birthdays, anniversaries, etc.
11. It never asks questions about it’s rear.
12. The airbags are not just for decoration, they save your life.
13. Regardless of the time of day, season, day of the month, it is ready to give you a ride when you want it.
14. Every year, it only asks for new oil, not jewellery.
15. Ever now and then, you’ll be able to drive a friend’s one, without any guilt.
dimanche 22 mars 2009
12 strikes sur 12
Ou alors, il y a trucage, on peut plus vraiment dire maintenant. Parce qu'ici, par exemple, je sais qu'il y a trucage.
mercredi 20 juin 2007
Bruno Candida et le bouclier anti-homo
Brillant. Le sketch Voisinage, avec le bouclier atomique anti-homosexuel restera dans les annales. Lien.
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