We all sure loved playing with our LEGO bricks as a tiny tot and wished to have a million bricks to build our own mini castle. Too bad that fantasy could not be realized! But if there is still something of that sort on your mind, like getting your own LEGO brick replica, there is hope. But hope, only for those with an ever expanding bank balance! Neiman Marcus, popular for custom built or built to order concepts and products, have hired the services of the renowned LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya to offer a life size replica of any individual who chooses to see him self modulated as a LEGO.
Nathan Sawaya is one of the only six certified LEGO professionals in the world, and is obsessed with LEGO bricks, so much so that his New York studio is filled with more than 1.5 million of the interlocking toy building blocks. And he sure can sculpt anything out of them, a full-size Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton for example!
Just shell out $60,000 of your hard earned money plus your photographs, 8 full body photos from 360 degrees, and 8 of the face and head from 360 degrees preferably, and Nathan’s skill will take care of the rest. Just give the dude some time to brick you!

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This will surely set tongues wagging the moment people step into your house. You need only two qualifications to own this nerd-gasmic Raygun. A love of Steampunk and some serious money to burn. The WETA Steampunk Raygun will cost you anything between $4,500 - $7,900. Dr Grordbort’s Rayguns are a line of 1:1 scale antique styled, limited edition(only 50 units), sci-fi hand weapon props. Above you can see “The Unnatural Selector”. So, this is what WETA is doing when they aren’t making big screen magic in Lord of the Rings.

Its100% designed and crafted at multi Academy Award winning Weta Workshop in New Zealand and its major features are:

Ø  The material is metal, glass and rare Venusian Worm Oak

Ø  To add to the product a personal touch, the breech block will be engraved with your name and individual edition number

Ø  Is endowed with triggers, levers and switches

Ø  Comes with a custom built stand to make it more suitable for displaying on the mantelpiece or hanging on the wall.

Ø  Certificate of Authenticity signed by Creators

Ø  Packed in Grordbort’s Laboratories sturdy, wooden delivery crate.

Ø  Edition Numbers 1 - 9 Only: An illustrated “Raygun Operator’s License” designed by Greg Broadmore with your name and photo

Ø  The dimensions are: 115cm x 20cm x 30cm, or 45″ x 8″ x 12″( Length x Muzzle Cone Diameter x Height)for the Unnatural Selector and 65cm x 19cm, or 26” x 7.5” (Length x Width) for the stand

So before it gets too late, prepare to grab your edition because this, my friends, is some serious Steampunk.

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For all you lovers of sloth, this product is sure to awaken you off your cozy sleep. Jamie O’Shea is sure to be your deity from now on as he has designed the epitome of lethargy. Now you can relax and have a small nap whenever you want with this compatible Vertical Bed. Supported by a harness that is craftily secured which ensures the user doesn’t fall over, nappers can catch up on beauty rest at any subway stop or back alley of their choosing. As an added bonus the wearer can be made impervious to the effects of the outside world through the use of noise canceling headphones and mirrored glasses, and the ensemble comes with an umbrella for convenient use in a variety of weather conditions.
All that you need to do is to carry this portable bed in its briefcase. Unwind it as you feel the urge to snooze a little, help yourself in its comfortable structure and ease yourself. Rest over and you wrap it over and get back to work.

So next time when you go to office, don’t forget your portable suitcase!!

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The world seems to have endless millionaires despite millions who might not even know how many zeroes comprise a million! Now don’t be surprised if you soon meet an affluent guy boasting of a bike as one of his prized possessions because this bicycle is any thing but ordinary. Gold was always the world’s favorite metal and designers of all sorts keep inventing splendid ideas to play on it. A Scandinavian design company Aurumania has launched a limited edition run of 10 of the world’s most expensive bike. Each bike is hand-built and gold-plated with 24-carat gold, then decorated with over 600 Swarovski crystals.
Hand-sewn leather grips and a Brooks leather saddle provide finishing touches to the bike, with each limited edition number embossed with gold leaf and set into a leather badge onto the bike’s headtube.This “Golden Beauty” would ease you of €80,000.you would love to ride it but its something to flaunt off the track! Being in line with this thought the Company has also created a 24-carat gold wall holder for the bike, to be displayed as a work of art. Go on then and get the Golden Display for your wall, if you are lucky enough to do so, but make sure no one rides away with it!

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Talk about technology going retro! If you thought gadgets and gizmos would only take you into the future well, think again. Who would have thought of Steampunk and Bluetooth together? Nicrosin has come up with a Victorian-style Bluetooth device which is powered solely by winding and should be mass produced. His creations are a compilation of sculpey and watch parts lined with leather for comfort. Wondering what you might hear- voice from the calling end or the winding chimes of the clockwork? Though it might look like it will drill your ear through, rest assured as the prop is fully adjustable and flexible and what’s more, one actually gets the dissection of the piece! Though covering it up might just be a better option lest dust interferes!

This might not be just everybody’s type of Bluetooth but if you are in any way fascinated by steampunk and would like to find yourself in a Steampunk alternate reality, you just might be able to use this baby to call your favorite Steampunk Droid!. So wind up your minds about it! Are you are still wondering about he caller hanging up while you are winding it up?

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A true artist never lets an experience go waste. The challenge of the art is to immortalize what appeals to heart, through art. That is what Amy Rice did after she got inspiration from seeing beautiful Zinnias flowers blooming all over. She made Zinnia flowers the theme of a complete range of furnishings including tables, chairs and boards. All this reminds me of the painted leaf in O Henry’s Last Leaf; true to life, these flowers can lighten your mood anytime.

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I think that art can be done with a piece of clay also. It does not have to be Swarovski or pearls to be called an artistic creation. With pleasure, I am going to tell you about Jon Kuhn and his latest piece of art. Jon is a leading glass artist, who has recently joined hands with the Bösendorfer to make a glass piano using various types of glass work. It has nearly two hundred intricate designs in which more than one fifty pieces have been used in every design. That means that it uses more than 3000 glittering pieces of gorgeous glass. Coming for $1.2 million, that is not very modest but then its art!

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Spend a month in the populated urban vicinity (if you haven’t) and you’ll get to see kids driving hard with mobile sound systems singing loud. Really annoying! But if you have spare amount of dough piling with you then this unusual model of DJ mobile car can be yours. Designed and developed by Dutch artist Olaf Mooij, the creation targets the filthy-rich music lovers. Coming from Western Europe, the Dutch novelty has been abridged by an intelligent mind after taking inspiration from ‘God is a DJ’ and the car of our HOLY-POPE and the result is before your eyes.

Embellishing aerodynamics, the mobile DJ art car nicely accommodate two turn-tables together with number of speakers. On first look, I doubt the functionality of the speakers attached on the face of the car and this arouses my curiosity to meet the Dutch national and ask him to untangle the mystery.

For sure, DJ Mobile car is developed using a drivable PA system that allows you to park and then operate from a DJ platform while hosting it from open sunroof.

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If that junkie stuff can put an end to your ongoing hunt for something unusual then here is your bait. All set to offer a magical touch to your interiors, here is a LED table with a structure similar to that of a wrist watch. Designed and developed by former aircraft toolmaker and art wangle Lee J Rowland, the colossal LED wristwatch clock table is a masterpiece. The table respects its functionality and appeal and hence features programmable touch button display. Priced at £18,500, the Deja Vu series of tables screams luxury and only a nerd can dare to ink a deal with it.

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Setting a new record for the category of world’s most expensive living female artist is a South African born artist Marlene Dumas. And this is made possible via her painting, popularly known as The Visitor, that generated sales of £3.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction. The painting was picked up by the New York private dealer Nancy Whyte during Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Evening Sale scheduled on 1 July. The sales figure overshadowed Dumas’ preceding testimony of £1.8 million marked in February 2005.

The illustration is defined by Sotheby’s as an expressively demanding and noticeably beautiful. Spread over a canvas of 180cm x 300cm, the Visitor portrays a group of six-female sex-workers eyeing towards an illuminated door. The standing position of the women implies that they are contending for their deal while expecting the looming entrance of a punter. More than anything, Dumas work has invited criticism evoking issues like birth, death, sex, life, race, identity, motherhood and feminism.
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