I saw this submission from Hot Dish to Ikea Hacker a while back and every time I revisit it I love it more. There are more awesome comments on how to get the glasses etched and still have them safe to drink from. (The original version used frosted glass spray which was toxic!)

One of the comments linked to this post on how to make your own frosted glasses with patterns and such which looks like a ton of fun. Here's another post on how to accomplish the same look.

You can find the original Ikea shelf online here for $80 CAD.

How cool is this? Wallpaper that emits light?! I have no idea how it works but apparently you can turn the wallpaper "on" and "off"...


(via getConfused)

DNA 11 is an Ottawa based company that has come up with some very cool concepts for personalized art. They started off with DNA Portraits, where they will actually send you a swab kit by mail, and then process your DNA in their lab and turn the images into works of art. Very cool and they promise to destroy your DNA sample afterwards, just in case you're worried about being cloned :)

Since their launch, DNA 11 has also come up with Fingerprint Portraits and Kiss Portraits, so if DNA isn't your thing, there is definitely other options for you. Check out their gallery to see more art.

So I recently, and rather impulsively, purchased a Polaroid Sun 600 LMS camera on ebay and I'm pumped. I've always loved the pictures that Polaroids take and the vintage feel they give. So, in anticipation of receiving my camera (which should be here any day) here are some awesome flickr shots!

• Polaroid
• Long Live Polaroid
• A cup of coffee
• Polaroid -one-
• My polaroid SX-70
• "Polaroid_Polaroid"
• save polaroid!
• polaroid. 2008.
  

The project is called Inner city snail. Combine my love of all things tiny and cute with my love of snails (I used to keep them as pets when I was a kid) with my love of art and voila. A "slow moving street art project" indeed, the blog has posted a bunch of pictures of graffiti style art on snails' shells and then set them lose in the city. The addition of little dudes riding on their backs or "spray-painting" the shells is just awesome. I look forward to more!