Shaka - Unknown 3D Artist

I follow the Art world closely but never heard about this artist Shaka. You would have heard about Nilko and Jaye, Obao, Muto, Opare, Sirius, Popaye etc etc.. I stumbled up on Shaka a year back while reviewing some paintings in a gallery. There was an instant connection to his paintings and that led me to notice him more.

Shaka aka Marchal Mithouard is from Evry, France. Got into painting by doing graffiti on walls but later joined another artist Nosbe to merge his style of painting to create unique 3D creations. According to Shaka, graffiti is illegal and paintings are legal, so he turned into painting pictures and started selling his signed copies of original paintings online. Most of his paintings are pop-art, icons from hip-hop and regular people with usual emotions. And he's amazingly successful in capturing those emotions in his paintings.

He's not sponsored, so if you can help him any ways that will be of great help to him to continue creating beautiful paintings and 3D arts. Here's his mail id : infoshaka@gmail.com

Joe Jin HIS & HER's

Cute Cotton Pillow filled with goose feathers and goose down to go with any bed spread, especially white just giving a crisp white clean look with minimal accessories to decorate your room.. So cute, it should be in our list of things under 50$ gifts for XMAS 2012. Visit them here. They also got a green rug which is also pretty beautiful but very pricy for such a small thing.

Parrot ZiK

If you are a music lover then you know this is a very vulnerable position to be a headphone manufacturer. There is BOSE, Beats by Dr. Dre ( which is owned partly by HTC ), heard 50 Cents ( rapper from NYC ) is launching one, Nakamichi, Sony, JVC, Denon etc etc. And there are tonnes of bud speakers available in the market. But there is one stand out product in this scene too. That's ZiK ( sick in brooklyn means beautiful ) which is the best headphones available to be paired out with your phone.

After iPhone came into limelight, almost all the gadgets are having big touch screens and all the activities are controlled by gestures. Here's a head set which don't have a volume rocker or any buttons like on / off outside the head set, but all controlled by gestures. If you rub your finger up on the speakers volume increases, swipe down, it reduces. Move horizontally it takes the next song or the previous song, all while paired via bluetooth.

Guess what happens when a call comes in while you are listening music, it stops playing the music and starts ringing.. And if you wish not to take the call, touch the headset for 2 secs. Or if you want to pick the call / cut the call, just tap on the head set. Its speakers swell so you can easily carry it around in a bag or briefcase and it won't bump out.

It comes with an app on the iOS and Android to control the effects like theater, movies, arena you can select. App come with an equalizer to set the bass - treble controls. All the while being absolute noise cancelled music.. Now you tell me you love it or not.

Beolit 12

There are plenty of iphone speakers came out in last 4 years. But there a few that wins in their design and sound quality. BEOLIT 12 is listed in the best gadgets to own if you are an Apple fan. You can do lot more than playing just music, if you are watching a movie in your iPad you can airplay that too. If are an outdoor person, still you can carry it around and it will provide you flawless music all across. More over you can't find from where the sound is generated if you keep it hidden. Ain't it cute ?? Its costly though, but you will like it.

This land is mine

An amazing animated history of Palestine.. So much of bloodshed had happened there. Here's the original post by the designer Nina Paley 

Note : Keep the sound on

Anamorphism

Anamorphism is a trick from the renaissance age where you use a contrast of colors to make a picture look 3D. Street artists use this trick to make a waterfall in the street or a raging bull rushing towards you. And it amazingly look real. Here's a small video by which you can draw images like that within 10mts. And for sure it will wake the artist in you.

Thabto Creations UK

Absolutely cute and stand out designs for most simple things you use in life. Some nice picks from them are featured in Newyork this week. This time of the year with ThanksGiving around the corner, if you are looking for some quick gift purchases, this can be one place to look for. Beautiful coffee mugs and pepper & salt tablewares etc etc.  Have a look - Thabto

Mustang V6 - Pony Package 

The Fundamental Shop

Here's a cute design from a German firm Fundamental Design. A cute corner shelf-cum-display stand where you display your costly artifacts and store some small pieces which you keep safely. Nice wooden block design. Check out here The Fundamental Shop

Its Simply Beautiful

If you are looking for furniture with royal touch, but couldn't find fine one's for a good price ( still considerably more than IKEA ), you just struck gold. Here's a small company from Austin, TX producing high quality furniture for much lower price than any famous furniture studios making it.

The problem was that, even if you are willing to you pay top dollars you don't find such a high quality furniture at one place. And the shop owners and mall owners adding their cut, the price is already sky rocketed. Still you have very limited choice, that's the worst part.

What's amazing about this company is, the amount of craftsmanship and details they put into each piece is really phenomenal. And its an order to make, that means they don't have cost of running a shop or maintaining inventory. They ship all across US and US only. And no returns please, so be sure what you want. See for yourself here.