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Year: 2010
Made On Earth — Camper Van Bicycle
Kevin Cyr’s vehicular art series, including the Camper Kart, Camper Bike, and paintings of vans, reflects his interest in the industrial working class.
Made On Earth — Emotional Aquatics
Axolotl was inspired by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar’s short story of a man’s emotional obsession with aquarium life.
Made On Earth — Bright Idea
Eric Lawrence made the first Styrolight a few years ago from the molded styrofoam his new Apple computer came in.
Made On Earth — Cranked-Up Creativity
In his spare time, Mike Adair builds brightly colored wooden crank toys in his basement workshop.
More playing card (and pencil) geometric constructions
Inspired by George Hart’s work (our Math Mondays columnist), Flickr user fdecomite has been constructing these awesome geometric models out of playing cards, pencils, paper, and other materials. Fdecomite’s photo sets More: Math Monday: Playing card contructions
Crafty State Pride
I’m from Michigan and, yes, I use my hand as a map on a weekly basis. Much like learning our state stone is the petoskey and our tree is the white pine, Michigan children are taught at an early age that hands also double as maps here in the “Mitten” state. And why not? We’ve […]