Artist Chris Burden and a crew of eight assistants are in the midst of erecting his latest work, titled “Metropolis II”. Consisting of 1,200 custom die cast cars cycling across 18 lanes, Burden claims that 100,000 cars circulate through the miniature cityscape every hour.
Typophile Shaun Chung created this Rubik’s cube stamp featuring Chinese characters that combine to form verses from a traditional children’s poem. He laser-etched the characters from wood and affixed them to the cube. Shaun writes: Chinese has a long history with the printing. In 105 AD, Cai Lun invented the paper. In 200 AD, the […]
Dirk Vander Kooij is taking 3d printing to a whole new scale with his series of chairs made from recycled fridge plastic.
The Bell House in Gowanus, Brooklyn his hosting the 5th annual Carnivorous Nights Taxidermy Contest next Tuesday: Calling all science geeks, nature freaks, and rogue geniuses! Your stuffed squirrel got game? Got a beaver in your brownstone? Bring your beloved beast to the Bell House and enter it to win! The contest will be judged […]
Knit winner! The idea behind this installation at Mediamatic in Amsterdam is that installation participants play a game, and the winner gets his/her winning “panel” knit into a banner by a computerized knitting machine. I’m super happy to see the knit hacking Limor Fried and I did cited as preliminary research for getting this (way […]
Pipe Wrench Coffee Table by Jonathan Niemuth via NOTCOT. Love this, if I ever start drinking coffee again *and* get room for a coffee table, I’m making one of these.
