Denver furniture duo David Larabee and Dexter Thornton have been doing a little self-promotion around the mile-high city in preparation for their upcoming show at the 400. It’s kind of like graffiti, but instead of getting up with spraypaint you sort of get down with… seating. Using a fairly solid-looking powertool, David and Dexter (i.e., DoubleButter and Milkweed) have been prancing around Denver’s newest art museums, throwing benches (of their own designs, I presume) into cemented areas primed for a seated pause. You can check out the video of the boys in action here, and browse their beautiful and modern full line here. And, if you happen to be in the area this Friday, head to Denver’s best shoe gallery to check out their first foray into upholstered (read: hairy) furniture.

I’m exhausted. For the past few nights I’ve been glued to Shred or Die, watching pro and regular extreme sports enthusiasts get their skate/snow/surf/BMX/moto on, and as a person who isn’t accustomed to the quick energy burst from these types of short clips, I’m having a pacing problem. I went from watching pro skateboarder Bucky Lasek squeezing blood clots out of his elbow earned from some gnarly incident and Ryan Sheckler manualing around Tony Hawk’s backyard pool (for that one I tapped the video player’s slow-mo and frame-by-frame viewing options) to surfer Joel Parkinson coasting along in a barrel, and then I voted at the end on whether each video shredded or should die. It’s a ton of fun, not to mention addicting. The site depends on user participation to weed out anything that sucks, so the most yawn-worthy videos get stuck at the bottom of the list. Last night’s session got me into the Bails section, where viewers can watch skateboarders eating rock or concrete; and the inspiring Tips/Tricks sections, full of good advice I’d take if I could just even learn to ollie. Unfortunately, like the sports themselves, this site practically encourages me to go play instead of work, so I think I’m going to be up tonight again.

With all your monthly expenses, It’s kinda hard to be an avid collector of influential art. Well what if we told you that you could afford a DALEK? You’d probably say, “that’s crazy, his original works were selling for as much as $8K each at his last show.” And while we’re not talking about an original DALEK, we’re talking about a print, the folks at Ring Decoder have gone through a grueling 80 hour process using 26 screens to produce a series of 100 brilliantly vivid prints to ensure you feel almost as special. You’ve got to act fast though, only 80 of the works are available to the public and the cost runs on a sliding scale. “The first 50 orders will be $250. The next 15 will be $275 and the final 15 will be $300. One customer will be eligible for a free doodled test print which can be viewed at the end of the view process feature.” The only other way to get a Dalek might just involve spending your life savings.

Via Complex

I know we’ve been remiss when it comes to Halloween this year (despite Josh pinging me a link to a $500 Chewbacca costume, prefaced by the letters “OMG” yesterday), but these verspertilium clothespegs are way too badass to not point out. The team at Art. Lebedev Studio make me want to don an apron, some black eyeliner and install a clothesline, just to scare the neighborhood kids for the day…too bad I already sent my laundry out this week.

Via MocoLoco

“Hacked” furniture seems to be all the rage right now — there are even entire websites devoted to hacking together customized creations out of the endless rows of colored, angular Ikea furniture. It was only a matter of time before someone took it a step further, and that someone is Moebler, a small design group based out of Germany. Moebler specializes in seemingly “hacked” furniture, creating an interesting and artistic take on the mundane items like bookshelves that usually hide in a corner. For example, have a look at their King of Siam shelves.

Moebler has also taken to the big blue box themselves, creating a line of their own Ikea hacks. Their designs, however, are a little different than the others I’ve seen. Usually people are hacking their Ikea wares to make them function a little differently without changing the appearance too much. Moebler, on the other hand, puts their hacks out for everyone to see. I particularly like their take on a Lack table, which they call Greenwich Tea Time.

For the record, I don’t like bugs. My old roommate calls this disease “city-ism,” but I blame my fear of creepy crawlies on lingering childhood trauma that still to this day causes me to run from the room whenever a daddy longlegs gets too close. But also, for the record, Sang’s bugs don’t freak me out. They resemble critters like earwigs and flies in their appearance, but they’re creatively made of bits of, well, for lack of a better description, whatever. Whatever meaning tool parts, wheels, even lettuce. One of his flies appropriates toy airplane wings for its own, and a beetle has red and blue electrical wires for antennae. I guess I should be creeped out by the use of doll parts for the arms and legs of these insects, but they’re done in such a whimsical way it’s hard to feel threatened. Sang is a Korean artist who lives in Brazil, and his work isn’t just limited to just bugs; he’s got comic-style people under his belt too, and animals. From Sang I’ve learned you can definitely get over your fears by changing your perspective. So come here, you daddy longlegs, you…