Revisiting our Arboreal Habitat

You do remem­ber play­ing in tree houses, don’t you? The excite­ment of clam­ber­ing up the tree to reach your secret perch; the impor­tance you rev­eled in because you had a secret hide­out that few peo­ple were privy to; and the joy that came from the sim­ple knowl­edge that you had a place to call your own.

Today, what can beat the plea­sure play­ing war games in your tree house or sim­ply sit­ting there lis­ten­ing to the call of the birds and watch­ing the trees sway in the wind? Stand­ing at that height you must have felt almost dizzy with the sense of power you seemed to have over all things under your feet – Lord & Mas­ter of all that you saw!

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A Feast For Your Eyes

Opera Houses, a sym­bol of nation’s wealth, are a great rep­re­sen­ta­tion of nation’s culture.

David Lev­enti takes us on an amaz­ing jour­ney around the world.   You are able to stand cen­ter stage as well as expe­ri­ence the van­tage point of the per­former.  This is once in a life­time opportunity.

Our eyes can feast on the incred­i­ble detail from gilt dec­o­ra­tions, to vel­vet seats to the most exquis­ite chandeliers.

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A Beautiful Design is Always Magic

At a first glance, this chair appears to dis­obey the laws of Physics.

The Magic Chair comes from designer Davide Conti and seems to only stand on one foot. This opti­cal illu­sion is made pos­si­ble due to a trans­par­ent mate­r­ial which is used …to help main­tain the bal­ance of the chair. But since this mate­r­ial is almost invis­i­ble, when look­ing at this prod­uct from a cer­tain angle, the user will sur­pris­ingly only see a bunch of straight thin lines. (more…)

Sneakers for All Kind of Geeks

We must really dig unique and geeky sneaker designs because we’ve writ­ten about them a lot here on Bit Rebels. Maybe I’m more of a dork than I thought, but when I saw these Twit­ter sneak­ers, I instantly started drool­ing. I would totally wear these!

Daniel Reese, a 21-year-old sneaker designer, takes reg­u­lar Nike sneak­ers and turns them into works of art. In addi­tion to Twit­ter, he also cre­ates Pac Man, The Simp­sons, Google, Michael Jack­son and many other cus­tom sneak­ers, how cool is that?

These shoes, which sell for around $200 – $250 per pair, are only avail­able for a lim­ited time. Accord­ing to Daniel’s web­site, since he only cre­ates these on a part time basis, he will close down his store, with­out notice, when he has as much work as he can han­dle. Then, when he fin­ishes that batch, he will reopen again. You can pur­chase a pair by going here. Nice work Daniel!

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