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Customize Your Crayola

Like a typical Target trip for me, I went for shampoo and ended up buying a lot of crayons. I got sucked in to the “Customize Your Crayola” display. Have you seen it? Packs of Crayola crayons, sold in sets of eight, are packaged together by color and theme, such as “Cupcake My Day” (yes, […]

Gary Schott’s Whimsical Mechanized Objects

Metalsmith and artist Gary Schott talks about the whimsical mechanized objects he creates in this beautiful video by Walley Films. It follows Gary as he makes Eskimo Kiss, a cranked device which shows motions of love and affection mechanically. He says, “I quite enjoy that the work itself is very time consuming and yet all of it is just to make this device do this almost ridiculous, intimate action.”