brass anchor door knocker on a blue door, great contrast

brass oyster door knocker

the classic crab door knocker

antique style anchor door knocker

blue crab door knocker – bright, but looks good on natural light wood

I love the brass / bronze crab door knocker on a red door

quahog door knocker

seahorse door knocker (I think they have this one at Castle Hill Inn)

I think the left one is tacky, but the lobster door knocker looks awesome

A variation on the anchor door knocker

This dolphin door knocker is really cool, I couldn’t find the source

Of course, the dolphin door knocker

and the unique mussel cluster door knocker

The shockingly candidate is currently gathering signatures in order to be able to candidate for president of the Czech Republic in 2013.

Again, don’t let his appearance fool you!  Franz is actually a drama professor at one of the most prestigious universities in Prague, a talented painter and a successful opera composer.

This Man Is Running For The 2013 Czech Presidential Election

“The Page Turner”, Brooklyn, 2012, featured in the New York Times – Joseph Herscher

Watch this incredible kinetic page turning machine as it goes through a sequence of amusing and entertaining steps to turn the page of a newspaper.  If you like this video below you might want to check out Joseph Herscher’s website as well.  He’s a kinetic artist/genius.

Not what you expected

Amazing Tiger Body Painting by Craig Tracy

This unique bodypainting was created to increase awareness and benefit a cause that is near to the heart of the artist. Tigers have always been his favorite animal and when asked to aid in the effort to protect, repopulate and re-wild this the most endangered tiger in the world, Craig immediately said yes. “Only 100 South China Tigers are reported to remain alive and if my bodypainting can help increase that number by one then I’ll have lived with purpose.” states the artist.

Here is an awesome behind the scenes video as well:

I’m not too into iPhone docs but this one is exceptional.  This iPhone dock is handmade and signed by Artist Scott Freeland.

Fuses Art With Function.

The iRetrofone is a fully-functional, stationary iPhone dock with working handset and complete compatibility with USB cable. Each individual iRetrofone is hand-sculpted and hand-cast in urethane resin. The iRetrophone is made of heavy-duty urethane resin creating a stable, functional work station that routes voice communications through the included handset. Designed to be compatible with all iPhone’s (iPhone 3G, 3GS & iPhone 4G & 4S), it accommodates sync and charge functions via a USB cable (not included). The iRetrofone base also helps eliminate concerns about radiation.

Add the Retrophone app to make your iRetrofone complete, available on iTunes.

You can grab one of these phone on Etsy for around $200.  There’s also a gold and black one that reminds me of my recent gold and black vintage fan restoration.

Here are some more flavors:

My favorite finger portraits have to be these: Steve Jobs, Spock, Ronald McDonald, Clockwork, fluffy and Shrek.

Japanese artist Riusuke Fukahori tediously paints three-dimensional goldfish in layers of resin.   Ruisuke paints his 3d goldfish layer by layer revealing slightly more of the goldfish each step of the process.  He even captures incredible elements besides just the goldfish.  In the above pictures you see a tipped bucket where it looks like the goldfish are spilling out, one with air bubbles (made to look like an aquarium aerator), and one with a ladle that is probably the most popular piece he’s done. You can visit his website to see more, although it appears to be in Japanese.

I knew the housing market was on a huge decline, but these pictures the problem to a whole new light.  Kevin Bauman began photographing abandoned houses in his home town of Detroit, Michigan 10 years ago.  He started taking black and whites then converted to taking pictures in color.  Soon he started 100 Abandoned Houses in Detroit, a website with a gallery of all of the houses he captured.  In reality, he says there are actually around 12,000 abandoned houses.  He also says Detroit’s rapid population decline has led to the occurrence of abandoned houses.  If you are interested in checking out the whole 100, check out his website.  You can even purchase limited production prints.