<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/35c408c4-a4a6-4491-93a3-d62238d651c3/28C6C397-A969-418A-B63B-EC411D65E30C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/" href="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/" style="font-size: 11px;">weburbanist.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><H2>Habitat Machines</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/049ADF3C-24D4-4C22-AFC3-CC0D663AFA62" alt="David Trautrimas waffle iron heights" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/5462CA4D-F42A-42AA-AB3A-298824146257" alt="David Trautrimas stand mixer mews" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/33841CE5-6B36-4A98-80EB-3BFDD9680735" alt="David Trautrimas coffee pot towers and iron apartments" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><P>David Trautrimas is a Canadian artist whose ideas about architecture are bigger than zoning laws and the laws of physics will allow. Housing developments and apartment blocks feel bland to him, so he decided to create his own fantastical worlds. His digitally-assembled art features items which most of us will find very familiar.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/5A1A7A4B-F1A7-463A-B497-8E0D1539A1CD" alt="David Trautrimas sprinkler house" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/5DC184D3-AEF4-4C14-A45F-2FBA105AAF36" alt="David Trautrimas space heater place" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/2167EE74-A3F7-4B67-9363-75A6353C543A" alt="David Trautrimas oil can residence" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/2C2DCAC8-3733-4C4C-9612-D5C28579E4E0" alt="David Trautrimas electric razor cooperative and vacuum towers" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><P>Trautrimas’ pictures consist of actual photographs of everyday items. Waffle irons, oil cans, vacuums, space heaters – anything that interests him may be disassembled and photographed, then the pieces digitally reassembled to form an unexpected cityscape. The backgrounds are real, as well: he roams his home city, Toronto, looking for interesting settings to piece together with his disassembled household items.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/6B92CBED-A745-4160-A9F8-70E4BD35202E" alt="David Trautrimas measurement district" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/ED9A33D4-9C33-40B3-971C-AF2A232EF373" alt="David Trautrimas hole punch flats" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/BBF7B421-D0C3-43DD-97D4-B23870407418" alt="David Trautrimas fishing complex" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><H2>Industrial Parkland</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/EB1C537E-B62A-483E-B813-CD9CACC98E6A" alt="David Trautrimas bicycle factory and sewing machine factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/107F1B95-B527-4685-BDD0-D0F53C292B5E" alt="David Trautrimas the organ factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/607BD85C-30D2-4ED9-86EB-E1CB14231C5C" alt="David Trautrimas the projector factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/55F95D88-301E-4BC2-AAE4-6B696087240F" alt="David Trautrimas the stapler factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/1366E929-A8E7-4AAD-AF1D-6D40D007C859" alt="David Trautrimas the automobile factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/A68470C0-DC12-4096-8C3E-0CE8D37098D2" alt="David Trautrimas the cooler factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/EC4D7D75-B11C-4A27-BC65-7868FB6D400C" alt="David Trautrimas the fan factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/37F4A80F-0245-47BB-A6C3-30ABB06B935F" alt="David Trautrimas the lamp factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/02D9AF52-3FA6-4CD1-BD88-53DF8B20AE6D" alt="David Trautrimas the match factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://weburbanist.com/2009/09/12/steampunk-futuristic-cities-homes-and-factories/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/weburbanist.com/img/612F3EC3-5381-46B5-BAEA-C0BB4ED953DA" alt="David Trautrimas the toaster factory" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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