Zachary Abel is student in the MIT Mathematics department, and his Research focuses on the interactions between geometry and theoretical computer science. He is attempting to reveal hidden geometric beauty in office supplies and other modest materials. Everything will be more clearly when you see these images…

Intensegrity

A swarm of colorful hair ties twists and dances through a framework of lollipop sticks; the structure is held in a delicate balance by their mutual tug-of-war. The entire structure is quite small—7cm in diameter, or about the size of a tennis ball.

Möbius Clips

Putting yet another twist on binder clips, these 110 colorful clips are linked by the handles to form a Möbius-like strip. Much like a Möbius strip, this strip has a single side and a single edge. But whereas a true Möbius strip has a single half-twist, this figure has five.

Paperclip Snub Dodecahedron

A snub dodecahedron made from 120 paperclips. I designed this in response to George Hart’s paperclip snub dodecahedron challenge, imposing a few additional constraints of my own: the paperclips should support themselves without glue, solder, etc., and the pieces should be recognizable as paperclips, with as little modification as possible. In this design, half of the paperclips have been bent at the middle, and the other half are intact and outline the central triangles.

Impenetraball

The Impenetraball protects its hollow interior with a dense, chainmail-like mesh made from 132 binder clips. The weave pattern complements the dimensions of these binder clips, exploiting the fact that a handle just barely fits around the body of a neighboring clip (both lengthwise and widthwise). This also makes for an assembler’s worst nightmare; a good pair of small needle-nose pliers and a great deal of patience are essential.

Stressful

The handles of six binder clips weave together in a way that holds all clips open. This “explosive” configuration is quite stable despite its high potential energy. I will leave the construction method as an entertaining puzzle. Here’s a hint: you should need to strain your hands no more than when normally opening a binder clip.

Zodiac

Many binder clips are interlocked into an airy ball composed of 20 hexagons and 12 stars. There are 90 clips but only 120 handles: each clip in the middle of a star is missing one handle. If these were put back in, the polyhedral structure would correspond to a “rectified truncated icosahedron,” obtained by replacing each vertex of a “soccer ball” polyhedron with a triangle.

Triskewers

A subset of an infinite, repeating arrangement of interwoven cylinders, made from 144 wooden skewers and held together with glue. The skewers form four identical, intersecting triangular prisms, giving the figure chiral tetrahedral symmetry—or chiral cubic symmetry if the spiked and non-spiked ends are not distinguished. The high density packing and repetitive lattice pattern create mesmerizing networks of passageways through the sculpture.

Black Hole

Thirty lollipop sticks are pulled toward the middle of the Black Hole by rubberbands; the sticks desperately oppose their crushing doom by bracing against each other. From the equilibrium emerges this dodecahedrally-symmetric form. Each stick is supported against the central pull by four other sticks, and in turn it helps brace four more sticks. So in total, each stick touches eight others.

Polypolypolyhedron

The Polypolypolyhedron is an orderly mess of 60 woven plastic rods. The rods come in six groups of 5 and 10 groups of 3, where the rods in each group bend their way through the busy central interchange and have their ends fastened to each other with rubber bands. All of the 5-fold groups are identical, as are all 3-fold groups: the figure has dodecahedral symmetry.

Poker Faces

Thirty standard playing cards are carefully slit and assembled into a configuration of six intersecting pentagonal prisms. Four of the prisms display royal flushes, the luckiest hands in poker. This sculpture is quite lucky geometrically as well: it is only possible because the aspect ratio of standard poker cards, namely 88mm/63mm≈1.397, is sufficiently close to 5−5√2≈1.382. This number is the unique rectangle size that allows the prisms’ edges to meet at 12 five-way junctures.

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Benetton is now promoting a new initiative, called simply Unhate, in support of the Unhate Foundation. It’s meant to promote peace and harmony between people of different cultures – and what better way to do that than by presenting leaders of different cultures sharing the love. One photo shows the Pope kissing another man in the mouth, and it will be pulled from the campaign.

Pope kissing Ahmed Mohamed el-Tayeb

Benetton said on Wednesday that it was pulling a photo montage of the pope kissing Egypt’s Sheikh al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb that was part of a new global ad campaign and that had outraged the Vatican. In a separate statement, Benetton says it was never its intention to offend, but rather to use the Pope’s image to spread a message of peace and love, or, as the name of the campaign says, Unhate.

This is the celebration of the vegetarian festival in Phuket, Thailand. The local Chinese community believe that abstaining from meat and other stimulants, as well as self-punishment, drilling of body parts, can bring them peace of mind, health and welfare. The festival begins on the first evening of the ninth lunar month of Chinese calendar and lasts for nine days. How can sticking of diferent weird objects bring you peace? We don’t know the real answer and maybe these vegetarians doesn’t know too, but what we know is that these pictures are  not recommended for those with a weak stomach!

Beatriz Feres and Branca Feres are born on February 22, 1988 in Brazil and they are Brazilian synchronized swimmers, models, and actresses. They are identical twins and as models these beauties have appeared in a number of photo shoots, including one for Brazilian magazine VIP in July 2008, where they appeared on the cover. If you are wondering why check out this beautiful photos of one of the most desirable twin sisters ever!

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Who said that cooking has to be a boring? There are many fun and clever kitchen gadgets to help you there. This is collection of unusual kitchen gadgets and creative product designs that promise to make the cooking experience more enjoyable. If you are tired of boring kitchen gadgets you should definitely get one of these. Which one is your favorite?

Billboards are one of the most powerful means of advertising. Each one is very creative designed to attract attention to a potential client, and we have selected some of the most interesting for you…

This ambient advertisement campaign was launched by Oldtimer restaurants, a leading Austrian chain of motorway rest stops. The campaign aims at enticing people to take a halt at the restaurant to which provides almost everything that one can eat. The huge poster was placed at the entrance of a tunnel at the highway that gave impression that vehicles going inside is disappearing into the woman’s mouth appearing on the poster.

In Indonesia, Ogilvy & Mather created for Formula Toothcare a creative billboard showing a man trying to rip it with his teeth. The ad is an attempt to convince people to build better teeth by using the toothpaste brand of the company. Even though we don’t know whether it worked to drive up sales, we are sure that it caused people to have a wider smile.

Here is a unique way to remind people to buckle up in the back seat. Created by Clement BBDO in Austalia, this billboard displays a huge slingshot in 3d which appears to propel a passenger into the air. The message is clear, belt up or your body will be slinked.

Masterfoods worked with Colenso BBDO to encourage the consumption of chocolate during the summer months. The creative team came up with the concept of a product so cold it would affect the body’s extremities..

Anando Milk – Superhuman Powers. Advertising Agency: McCann Erickson India, Mumbai – Cannes shortlisted.

“Coca Cola” – is there something more to say?

When Jim Grote founded Donatos back in 1963, he did it with only $1,300 dollars in his pocket and a simple philosophy: “To make the best pizza and to treat others the way I would like to be treated.” Today this philosophy is still the driving force behind everything they do at Donatos-both in their restaurants and the communities they serve.

Advertising Agency are Scholz & Friends, Hamburg, Germany, creative directors are Matthias Schmidt, Gunnar Loeser, Heiko Schmidt, photographer is Eike Schleef and
other additional credits belongs to Sven Horror. This billboard is released on December 2006.

Playboy billboard promoting its online services in Germany – self explanatory.

AMV BBDO become the biggest agency in the UK. They work with 73 brands and have one simple aim with all of them: to help solve their business challenge with creative ideas that change the competitive landscape. This piece from AMV BBDO for The Economist won a large number of awards back in 2004 including Gold in Eurobest, for Publications & Media for their bright concept. The billboard shows a light bulb that illuminates whenever someone walks underneath it by hooking up a motion sensor. Brilliant idea, let’s just hope it doesn’t rain!

A volume billboard imitating the consequences of a car accident. Amélie Company.

“The Day After Tomorrow”. Contract, Mumbai, India.

This billboard is one of the most creative advertisements found on the highways. Created by Bic, it shows a giant razor that shaves the grass all the way up to the billboard portraying the image of a powerful razor. Except for the constant trimming of the lawn, this advertisement looks very effective.

Razors Martor Solingen: Extremely sharp. Memorable outdoor ad for Martor Solingen extremely sharp razors featured sliced in half birds under the billboard.

The golden age of travel lives on aboard the Eastern & Oriental Express luxury train. Winding through some of the world’s most beautiful and exotic landscapes, it voyages through Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand, and on into Laos. Mountains, forests, fascinating towns and golden temples create a rich tapestry of life along the way.

‘Trains are wonderful… to travel by train is to see nature and human beings, towns… and rivers, in fact, to see life…’
Agatha Christie

Yann Arthus-Bertrand – French photographer, journalist, knight of the Legion of Honor and recipient of numerous other awards. “Earth From Above” is the result of the Yann Arthus’s five-year airborne odyssey across six continents. It’s a spectacular presentation of large scale photographs of astonishing natural landscapes. Every stunning aerial photograph tells a story about our changing planet.

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In the process of scarification, scars are formed by cutting or branding the skin. There are many reasons why people may turn to scarification. Aesthetically, scarifications are usually more visible on darker skinned people than tattoos. Also, unlike tattoos, scarifications are a product of one’s own body.

There are also religious and social reasons for scarification. According to some tribal belief in Africa, producing scars on newborn children helps preventing vision related illness. There may also be religious expressions used in the scarification process.

Scarification is not a precise art; there are many variables, such as skin type, depth of the cut, and how the wound is treated while healing, that make the outcome somewhat unpredictable.

The body creates the scar, not the artist; it is important to keep in mind that a method that works well on one person may not work so well on another. Also, the scars tend to spread a bit as they heal, so scarifications are usually relatively simple designs — small details can easily get swallowed up in the healing process.

Roads are always there and they always catch your attention and gradually fade into oblivion as you immerse in the bigger things that nature offers you. The United States has the largest network of roadways of any country with 6,430,366 kilometers (3,995,644 mi) If you are a road lover you can just imagine how many beautiful landscapes exists in this enormous network that connect you with your loved ones – and these are some of the best examples for you. Enjoy.

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