Month: May 2006

Power Tool Drag Racing

Power Tool Drag Racing

The Power Tool Drag race is this Sunday in San Francisco, the MAKE team will be there filming, taking photos and covering the event! (We’re going to try and post videos “live” to Flickr/YouTube/MAKE). If you want to meet up, post in the comments or drop me a note! – Link. Sunday, May 7th, 2006 […]

Cylinder mirror optical illusions

Cylinder mirror optical illusions

Vurdlak writes – “These people figured out some way of doing an incredibly distorted drawing so that when they stood a reflective cylinder (cylinder mirror) in the middle of it, the reflection showed the picture as intended. One of these is of Mission San Rafael, the exact view you’d see if I tilted my Nikon […]

Gas Tank Orchestra

Gas Tank Orchestra

Here’s an entire orchestra made up of discarded automobile gas tanks – “Gas Tank Orchestra is a trash-picking do-it-yourself reprocessing project featuring electro-acoustic instruments built from junked automobile gas tanks salvaged from New Orleans’ side streets. The tanks have been fitted with strings, pipes, hoses, mouthpieces, etc. and born again as bass, harp, zither, brass, […]