Portable North Pole

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messages, personalised, santa

Ah bless personalized messages from Santa here…

Banksy dramatic chipmunk

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banksy, chipmunk, dramatic

Drunk nativity scene

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beer, funny, nativity, scene

via Neatorama

Justin Timberland – gingerbread man

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ginger, gingerbread, justin, man, sesame, street, timberland

Don’t worry after this post I am spent on the gingerbread front!

Never say I am not good to you – here is an unintentionally petrifying clip from Sesame Street – Muppets in fancy dress (in this instance gingerbread men) is a concept far too complicated to get my head around.

Gingerbread haka

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funny, gingerbread, haka, video

Super simple, super effective viral video to promote a New Zealand bakery – oh yes it is the Gingerbread haka!

Gargantuous crystal kingdoms

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cave, crystal, gypsum, mexico, mine, naica, selenite

This seems a fit post as sometime over the festive period I am sure journey to the centre of the earth will be shown on TV… Whist this may look as if it is from the set of said movie I can promise you it is all real. So coooooooool.

As always Atlas Obscura have done it proud:

In 1910, in the Naica Mine of Mexico, the Penoles mining company discovered what came to be known as “Cueva de los Cristales,” or, Cave of Crystals. The cave was a 80 meter hallway filled with gigantic selenite (gypsum) crystals up to two meters in length.

Ninety years later, two miners working on an excavation tunnel 300 meters below the Earth’s surface discovered another, much larger, cave. Here, the crystals measured up to 12 meters long (over 36 feet) with a single crystal weighing approximately 55 tons.

Gingerbread house

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gingerbread, house, joseph sandy

This was featured on Notcot (via Joseph Sandy) as a tiny gingerbread house, but I have to say it is looking more pretzel to me!.. Either way it is AWESOME!

D*Face skull skate pools

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bowl, california, D*face, skateboard

(via Nerdcore) A lot of artists are arsing around with street art and skateboarding at the moment but this is quite simply one of the best examples out there – fuck Selfridges I doubt there are few pre-xmas activities that beat painting an abandoned swimming pool for skateboarders in California.

And as the disguise gets smaller it appears he is actually quite hot too. So all good then! Read a full length article on this over at Environmental Graffiti.

Christmas lights powered by lightning

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ART & DESIGN, christmas, katie, lightning, paterson, vauxhall

Streetlight Storm from Katie Paterson contemplates the ecosystem in a new commission for Vauxhall Motors. It is taking place until the 30th January 2010  at Deal Pier, Kent.

I have to say it is AWESOME in reality…

Katie has transformed Deal pier into a monitoring system for global storm patterns after being  commissioned by Vauxhall Motors to create an art work on the theme of re-inventing British classics -  taking  a British seaside town as her inspiration in creating this work (which runs along the length of the pier, and out to sea). Whilst the installation is in place, the lights will flicker in time with lightning storms as they occur live across the globe. Honestly it looks GREAT in real life.

Starting on the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year (21st December), Streetlight Storm will take place throughout the darkest months of the British winter, silently conveying the weather patterns of a whole planet. The film I am making about this is coming soon… like tonight. Will post here Meanwhile enjoy this image of a very cold film director…

Panda Birthday Party

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Read the article here, and enjoy the images below.