Here’s a beautiful video detailing designers Marc Newson’s process for making an hourglass. A huge cylinder of glass is placed on what appears to be a special lathe, and is then spun while heating to create the hourglass shape. Finally, metal beads are added until they take the appropriate amount of time to fall through the timepiece, and it is sealed up.
Watch pyrotechnical artist Sanela Jahic create paintings with fire.
My friend Mike is making a trapeze bar, cool stuff – Recently, while watching me splice a thimble for the 2nd time, a friend of mine made the observation that a trapeze bar is made entirely of work… and a little bit of rope. Indeed. Sewing the covers on is even worse. I put off […]
Great find over on Recyclart, from Carey Dougan, aka Flickr user lovedc. Somebody needs to put a curse on it and put it up for sale on a dusty corner shelf in some out-of-the-way antique shop.
This is a cute way of making some “map art” with just a map and colored strings.
This looks so fun: make your own paint brushes with the help of this guide by missannie. The best tools are the ones you make yourself!
Misbehaving technology got you down? Here’s a pretty video to relax to. Titled Valsa das Máquinas (Machine´s Waltz), it features equipment from a Brazilian textile factory set to a waltz. Throw in a spinning jenny or two, and we’ll have a full party! [via Kottke]
