Hiraga Gennai (1729-79) was an Edo period Japanese pharmacologist, physician, author, painter, and inventor who is well known for his Erekiteru (electrostatic generator). This cool little box replicates his early work in creating static charge.
We’ve come a long way from the Peashooter Era: with the advent of modern household products and office supplies–binder clips, clothespins, rubber bands, ballpoint pens, toothpicks, paper clips, plastic utensils, and (of course) matches and barbeque lighters–troublemakers of all stripes have the components needed to build an impressive, if somewhat miniaturized, arsenal.
Get the new Subversive Cross Stitch Halloween Patterns Kit that comes with 4 patterns, instructions, black material, orange floss, needle, and glow in the dark floss! (Disclaimer: The other 2 patterns not pictured above contain profanity.)
I really love this illustration (“Golem”) by Randis Albion (Andre Weiss) of brainy kids summoning a tectonic entity made of toys. It’s the details that make Albion’s work: The nervous look of the ravens outside the window, the fact that the wizard-child is in a wheelchair. His website is NSFW by some folks’ standards, I suppose, but well worth the click.
s this rightly called a “hologram?” Either way, it’s pretty sweet. David Hartig of Santa Clara took a short video clip of his daughter in creepy makeup and an Alice-in-Wonderland costume, mirrored her image, and projected it onto some cardboard cutouts draped in muslin. “Come and play with us, Danny….”
More than a dozen New York yarn stores are participating in the first ever NYC Yarn Crawl this weekend in an effort to “encourage exploration of the city’s yarn shops and promote the needle arts.” The NYC Yarn Crawl is a free, self-guided tour for knitters, crocheters and other fiber artists to the city’s premier […]
Victoria Reynolds paints these evocative scenes reminiscent of an underwater butcher shop, like the one above titled Flight of the Reindeer from 2003. [Thanks, Fil!]
