(en)Gadget cakes
This is the most insane collection of gadget related cakes for Engadget’s 2nd birthday, my favorite is the one that has licorice as wiring – ours pals at Instructables even laser cut one! Link.
art
Nike shoes as art
Our pals at ExtremeCraft point to artist Brian Jungen who deconstructs/reconstructs Nikes into various forms reminiscent of dinosaur skulls, mandalas, ceremonial masks, and other sundry objects. Nike athletic footwear, collection of Michael J. Audain and Yoshiko Karasawa, Vancouver – Vancouver Art Gallery – [via] Link.
Figures made from wires
Incredible solider figures made from lots of wire – the photos are a good how-to for making your own! – [via] Link.
Tattooed Shoes
I don’t think I could make up my mind about what type of tattoo I’d want, so these tattooed shoes seem like a good alternative. It could also be a good way to practice tattooing and make yourself a spiffy pair of shoes – [via] Link.
Autotelematic spider bots (photos)
John writes – “Images of the opening of Ken Rinaldo & Matt Howard’s Autotelematic Spider Bots show at Sunderland Museum & Winter Garden on Tuesday 7th March, 2006. The structure of the bots is amazing and equally impressive is the $50,000 of donated rapid-manufactured parts that it took to make them. The Autotelematic Spider Bots […]
HOW TO – Make a dodecahedron from discarded CD’s
RickB writes –“I wanted to do something with plastic CD’s besides adding them to the land fill – My solution was to use them build 3-D geometric constructions. I describe here how I used 12 CD’s to build a Dodecahedron. I also built a 32 CD trucated Icosahedron, 12 of the CD’s must be cut […]
Art in a petri dish
Stunning photos of “Billions and billions of bacterial landscape architects” – spotted on kottke.org and pruned – here’s a round up of all the ones I could find. Gardens-in-a-Petri – Link. More More Gardens-in-a-Petri – Link. Prof. Eshel Ben-Jacob of the Tel-Aviv University – Link. Magnetic Liquid Weirdness (metal, not bio) – Link. Symmetric Science […]