Burning Man art car round up
Nice gallery round up of kooky art cars (and bikes) from this year’s Burning Man. [via DudeCraft] The Art Cars of Burning Man 2010
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Human PAC-MAN Performance by Guillaume Reymond
Human PAC-MAN Performance by Guillaume Reymond… PAC-MAN was played by real human-beings sitting in a cinema: it’s the 5th video performance of the GAME OVER Project from the French-Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond. This stop-motion video was shot and played for the new ProHelvetia’s programme GameCulture http://www.gameculture.ch at the Trafo cinema (Baden, Switzerland) on August 28th […]
Wave Machine simulates the motion of water
This wave simulation machine, by Duncan Malashock should come in handy when we all live in space, and miss the gentle oscillations of gravity-based water.
Building-top monster: Brooklyn Griffin
From NYTimes.com: Perched high above an industrial stretch of East Williamsburg, a menacing robot nine feet high and seven feet wide surveys the street below, watching cars steal past graffitied factory buildings as if they were prey. Its fierce head sways and dips when a wooden rudder protruding from the back of its neck catches […]
Homemade engraver’s ball
I don’t think the captions from Ganoksin Project user Shaun750’s video, embedded above, showing off his clever kitbashed engraver’s vise, are intended to be appreciated as blank verse. But it’s working for me. [Thanks, Jason!]
Sandcast aluminum ray gun, with bonus pour vid
Craig Bush saw our recent post about Ryan Palser’s Fallout 3 replica weapons and thought we might be interested in this photoset of his home-poured aluminum Call of Duty ray gun replica. He was right. As much as the prop itself, I really dig his video of the pour, embedded above. If you’re interested in sandcasting aluminum at home, there’s a lot to learn, in the 120-odd seconds of this video, about how to do it right.
Walking house by N55
The latest from Denmark-based conceptual group N55: WALKING HOUSE is a modular dwelling system that enables persons to live a peaceful nomadic life, moving slowly through the landscape or cityscape with minimal impact on the environment. It collects energy from its surroundings using solar cells and small windmills. There is a system for collecting rain […]