Real cats should learn from this.

French artist Frederic Levesque joins a long list of countrymen who’d choose finicky felines over feathered friends with his tongue-in-cheek sculptural birdhouse! Though it takes a brave bird to approach the piercing green eyes and deceptive "welcome mat" tongue of this humorously sculpted, quality designer resin sculpture, your "invitation" is easily mounted to tree, wall or fence for instant garden gaiety. Bird not included.

More info: Bizarre Cat Head Birdhouse

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Tron Guy how made it on the Random Good Stuff list of 8 reasons why women stay single has to sell his Tron Plane due la CRISIS.

I am Jay Maynard, the Tron Guy. I bought this airplane new from AMD on June 12, 2008. It’s a fully equipped Zodiac XLi, the last CH601XLi built before AMD switched to the CH650LSi. This is not an experimental aircraft, unlike most Zodiacs flying, but a factory-built SLSA.

It’s loaded to the gills with a full IFR panel, including a Garmin GNS430W nav/comm/GPS, a Garmin GTX330 mode S transponder, a Garmin SL40 backup comm radio, a Garmin GMA340 audio panel, and a TruTrak Digiflight IIVSG two-axis autopilot with GPS steering and vertical speed select. There’s a mount for a Garmin GPS496 on the center console, and the unit is wired in to aircraft power and audio panel. It’s fully certified and legal to fly IFR.

The airframe has nearly every option AMD offers, including a leather interior, Temperfoam seating, canopy cover, parking brake, wheel pants, electric aileron trim, dual trim controls, fuel flow meter, Koger sun shade, tow bar, and a Tanis heater system for the O-200 engine.

I designed the paint to match my TRON costume, without going completely overboard. The green color is a direct match for the color of the costume, done specially by AMD’s paint supplier. It’s unusual, but everyone who sees it loves it. The airplane turns heads everywhere it goes. The same goes for the interior, which I designed – and it’s never been smoked in. (My preflight passenger briefing includes the sentence "If you smoke in my airplane, I’ll assume you’re on fire and take appropriate measures.")

Auction Link: Tron Guy Airplane Auction

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Hmm … maybe the most creative thing I have seen in a while but ties with with first sport of weirdest thing as well.

There’s nothing wrong with having a bit of fun with floral arrangements… and Bloom My Buddy certainly promotes just that. This unique vase is made up of three separate parts, each with their own reservoir, and perforated all over so that you can dress it in any way you like. It could be a girl, a boy, or maybe even a strange alien creature. In the end it doesn’t really matter though as, no matter what, it’s sure to give you a laugh.

More info: Weird Vase – Flower Buddy

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Ok, my lady … anything you want! As long you don’t swing an other kick at me.

Rancho is the new ankle pony boots style with well made wood wedge and aluminum horse iron. Comfortable shape for easy walking. Irons could be easily removed if needed. Made in real leather, transparent lining. Totally handmade by Punitiveshoes craftsman with first quality Italian leather.

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Koziol is a famous German company which specializes in designer plastic products for the household.  I recently visited their  headquarters in Odenwald, Germany, and am doing a series of posts about what I saw.  This is the second… if you missed the first one, click here.

Every Koziol product is first produced in small scale on a 3D printer before it goes into production.

What I like about Koziol besides their products is their company philosophy. They could easily move production to China to increase profits, but they’ve stayed true to Odenwald, Germany, and have given a lot back to the region which helped them become a successful company.

Most everything is designed and produced in Erbach. Some designers are hired out of house, and they also have given design students a chance to have their work produced.

Here are some images of Koziol’s molding forms:

Koziol stores all their molding forms right next to the production hall. So in the case of a big order, they can run & grab the necessary form without delay.

The forms have recently been cataloged to make finding them faster.

The molding forms which Koziol users are very complex, since they have to produce sometimes very delicate pieces.

The machines which produce these kind of forms:

Once a form has been built it needs to be maintained well, because forms will malfunction after they’ve been in use for a while.

As an example of a malfunction, this little bunny has nasty lines on his sides:

The bunny was created by this molding form:

When something like this happens, the workers have to resolve the issue by hand:

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Weird and unique design – I wish you could do something with is as well. You know how much I like 2 in 1 products. Hmmm…. what about nose picking?

The clock consists of two adjacent rolls, contained in a clear acrylic tube. A red mark indicates the line that should be read to tell the time. The left roll spells out five minute increments of time. The right roll contains the numbers one to twelve, spelled out. The gearing is such that as the minutes turn to “twenty-five minutes to,” the hour roll advances.

More info: Word Stick Clock

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Ohhh … Shanghai! Man, not sure what’s wrong with me but it looks like I need a vacation. Haven’t had one in 2 years. I’d give anything to go to Shanghai again. And I would even blog live from the Hello Kitty house, if access it granted.

But wouldn’t stay a week .. might cause brain damage!

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