Haute Fox Den

Canada's hitchhiking robot, parasite tintypes, Patagonia's weed wetsuit and more in our weekly look at the web

The masterfully crafty French design duo Zim & Zou have constructed one of the most magical displays to grace a shop window and it’s for Hérmes—at their Barcelona location. Made entirely from leather and paper, the meticulously created fox den is highly ornate, from the whiskers to the detailed placement and lush patterning. The fox’s style choices are also applaudable, as is his love of …

Golden Flies

Canada's hitchhiking robot, parasite tintypes, Patagonia's weed wetsuit and more in our weekly look at the web

Self-taught artist Hubert Duprat has found beauty and creativity in a pretty unremarkable insect: the caddisfly. He noticed that in their larval stage, the flies used materials found in their environment (such as wood and stone) to build an outer shell until they were ready to metamorphose into a fully developed (still unremarkable) caddisfly. But see what happens when Duprat adjusts the flies’ environment to …

The Hitchhiking Robot

Canada's hitchhiking robot, parasite tintypes, Patagonia's weed wetsuit and more in our weekly look at the web

Here’s one hitchhiker we can safely endorse picking up. The hitchBOT is part of a Canadian university’s research project examining the changing relationship between humans and technology. Equipped with 3G and GPS, the wandering solar-powered bot is making its way across Canada entirely by voluntary pick-ups. Follow the journey on social media where hitchBOT can be seen in selfies with new highway buddies.