QQQ is a piece of art made by modding copies of Quake III. The artist, Nullpointer, has modded the Quake III engine so that it renders out crazy, haunting, beautiful high-speed graphics instead of levels. Sometimes he gets people to play public games of Q3 on an Internet-connected server and renders out their movements in the QQQ engine at his gallery installations. The videos are just wild. [via] Link.
If you messed up your monitor with a magnet…have no fear, grab a high rpm drill.. strap a couple of magnets on it. (Hard drive magnets work great. You’ll need one at least as powerful as the one that messed up the monitor.) Bring the drill to a high rpm, and point it at the monitor like a ray gun. It’ll tweak the monitor something fierce. But after you pull it away from your monitor whilst it is running, the spots will be gone. (It may take a few passes depending on the strength of the spot and magnet.) Link.
…Zazzle, a company targeting mass customization by allowing shoppers and store owners to create individually tailored clothes, prints, and other items. For example, customers can choose an image from a large image library, design a T-shirt using the image with online tools, and then have the T-shirt delivered to them. Lands’ End, CafePress, and other online clothing stores offer similar mass customization services on a small scale, but Doerr clearly believes that there is a substantial opportunity ‘for every individual who wants to create products that are as unique as they are.'” [via] Link.
MAKE pal Scott Moschella has a good round up of how to make animated GIFs using fee and free tools. The video to image to GIMP tip is really handy if you’re a GIMP user. Link.
Wow, even the lamps and teapots are made from origami…Origami House exhibition opened on March 5th at the Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria, Australia. A culmination of many months of planning, hard work folding, fun and many late nights, the show opened quietly and has only begun to awe visitors to the gallery. [via] Link.
Awesome covers for your iPod- Choose a picture for your cover. Bold images work best. It could be a picture you already have on your iPod, a favourite photo, a name or an iconic image. They then convert your picture into a stitch pattern. Stitch patterns are made up of around 20,000 – 30,000 stitches, depending on size and the number of colours needed to reproduce your design. [via] Link.
A tablet PC replaces the sketchbook for one caricature artist in London’s Leicester Square…for one day Emil has swapped his notebook and charcoal for a tablet PC. And instead of sending tourists on their way clutching their caricature on paper, he is emailing them out via a wireless net connection. [via] Link.
