Artist Walter Martin and Palmoa Munoz construct eerie detailed artistic scenes inside of snow globes. They sculpt miniature figures set in snowy outside scenes that depict sometimes horrible situations. Each snow globe tells a story and it’s up to the viewer to fill in the blanks of those stories. Some of these miniature people seem trapped in a fairy-tale like story. Traditional snow globes house relaxing winter scenes of Evergreen trees, snow-capped houses and horse drawn carriages, however, these haunting snow globes tell a different story. If that doesn’t leave you shaken and stirred, then I don’t know what will.

To view more of Martin-Munoz’s works, check out at www.martin-munoz.com.

If you are not in mood for Christmas cheers, these creepy snow globes are perfect for you. You can have it for about $750 if you look for it via internet somewhere.

Sources: Gizmodo, Dvice, InventorSpot.

Mad Props to David Friedman for coming up with this incredibly clever idea for a bar name, The Progress Bar. Ideally, this bar could be a great addition to the newly constructed Park Point complex at Rochester Institute of Technology campus. Apparently, we spend too much time on our computers as it is, but I think this bar is a good way to vent and get loose. I’ll have to ask David for his permission to pitch this idea to somebody in charge of the Park Point. David Friedman’s blog is at Iconic Sans.

I’ve been meaning to post this blog about Japanese seafood buffet restaurant called Minado a while ago. My girlfriend and I went to New York City for our Christmas shopping for about a week while visiting our friends there. Well, yeah before I got really broke, we decided to do the final damage to my wallet at pricey Minado, which is located on the Long Island (Carle Place, NY), to satisfy our sushi fix before heading back home to Rochester, NY on the next day. It was well worth the trip.

Minado serves a variety of all you can eat dishes including sushi, tempura, beef or chicken teriyaki, barbecue ribs, savory udon noodles, and meaty selections of seafood. Don’t forget about delicious Japanese salad and desserts as well. The bite size sushi allow to try different ones til you’ve had your fill of ‘em.

Of course, the “buffet” term may cringe some because of quantity-graded foods that you would normally find anywhere else. You don’t often align the words like fresh and quality together when it comes to buffet, but it really does at Minado. The buffet foods are being replaced constantly before they even lose any freshness just to maintain its high-quality reputation. As a proof of this, I’ve snapped few pictures before having my camera banned (which is quite surprising).

www.minado.com

These Japanese dancers can really move and they be poppin’ too.  Seriously, the moves at the end are among my favorites and it left me awestruck. Watch and y’all be trippy, yo!

I’ve got mad respect for Neal Bailey, the man who designed and conceived the Bailey Blade concept car. The Bailey Blade is seriously cool car that’s about to become reality in early 2009. I’ll just let his work in progress to speak for itself with his video clips here:

Bailey Part 1

Bailey Part 2

Click here for Part 3.

Click here for Part 4.

The end result will look like this:

check out his Bailey Blade website at www.baileyspeed.com.