Celebrities Show: December 2011

Friday, December 30, 2011

The 10 Most Tattooed Cities In America

No. 10: Los Angeles, Calif

No. 9: Kansas City, Mo

No. 8: Honolulu, Hawaii

No. 7: San Francisco, Calif

No. 6: Austin, Texas

No. 5: Portland, Ore

No. 4: Flint, Michigan

No. 3: Richmond, Va

No. 2: Las Vegas, Nev

Most Inked City: Miami Beach, Fla

Honda Scraps 1000 Flood Damaged Cars In Thailand

Thailand's worst flood in 50 years claimed the lives of 610 people and caused billions in damage, but with the waters slowly receding, the extent of the damage is coming into focus.

Among the tens of thousands of businesses affected by the disaster, Honda hasn't been spared – its factory in the Ayutthaya province was hit hard, and in an effort to assure that damaged vehicles never make it to consumers, the Japanese automaker has begun to scrap over 1,000 vehicles damaged during the flood.

Honda workers have begun disposing of row upon row of Brio and City subcompacts submerged during the flooding using construction equipment and vehicle crushers to demolish the 1,055 vehicles.

Outdoor Escalator Opens in Medellin Slum in Colombia

December 26 in the Comuna 13 Colombian Medellín put into operation outdoor escalators. This is the first of its kind escalators installed in the slums. They have replaced more than 350 concrete stairs. Officials say that their use will reduce the 35-minute hike down the slope to six minutes. All this for free.

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Controversy Tram Hotel

In the Dutch village of Hoogwoud, Irma and Frank Appel have turned the garden of Controversy Farm into a tram hotel. It all began in 2006 with two trams: one from Amsterdam and the other from Germany. They remodeled the train cars in their own idiosyncratic style and named it Controversy Tram Inn after the 1981 Prince album Controversy. Each tram is outfitted according to the nationality it represents: French, Italian, English-American, or Mexican. Probably the most unique feature you’ll find at Controversy is the sombrero -shaped Jacuzzi inside their most recent tram conversion. Then again, you can also rent movies from a UFO. It would seem that Irma and Frank have succeeded in translating the funk of Prince’s Controversy into their own funky aesthetic.

10 Story Building Transform the Facade 1000 Recycled Doors

South Korean Artist Choi Jeong-Hwa used 1000 brightly colored recycled doors to transform a bland 10-story building into an eye-popping visual indulgence. Jeong-Hwa is a master of using found objects to make provocative spaces, and the project is one of his most ambitious attempts to place normal things in an extraordinary way. The doors stretch up the scaffolding of the mid-rise, giving the hulking mass a pixelated charm.

Choi Jeong-Hwa’s imagery is born out of his desire to let art engage with the greater population. His work is almost delusional – he takes ordinary, often discarded items and uses them to create unique spaces.

1000 Doors engages with the entire city of Seoul through its immense scale. The mass of doors reads like a crazy advertisement from afar. Up close, the juxtaposition of the common doors scaling the full height of the building is a bit jarring, if not amusing.

The piece makes a statement about how art changes how we see, as Jeong-Hwa puts it: “People think you can only find Korean Art in Museums and Galleries” for “other artists”. The ambiguity and strength of his work rests in the tactile quality of the discarded object itself.