Atari console lamp
Check out this zany lamp from instructables.com user Seamster. It’s made from an old Atari console and a few spent cartridges.
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ITP spring show at NYU
Don’t miss NYU’s ITP spring show 2010: ITP’s graduating students will be presenting a wide variety of highly creative and interactive projects that they have constructed over the course of their final project seminars. ITP is a two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative […]
Laser jacket!
Wie-Chieh Shih made this somewhat intimidating laser jacket using 200 laser diodes.
Origami model + reflection = skull
This amazing origami model, which appears to be a skull when resting on a mirror, was designed in the late 90s by renowned paper-folding artist Herman Van Goubergen, who seems to have no web presence of his own. The upper model was made and photographed by Flickr user M_V_origami. Instructions for folding the model are included in OrigamiUSA’s 1999 annual collection, which is available for sale here.
Gorgeous origami cobra
From deviantART user orsobrusco. [via Neatorama]
Simulated swimming pool with room inside
Argentinian artist Leandro Erlich created this installation, simply called The Swimming Pool, for The 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan. A 10cm layer of water over a piece of glass separates above from below. It must be a pretty serious piece of glass; some back-of-the-envelope math based on the published dimensions gives 1,100 kg (2400 lbs) of water that it has to support. Plus its own weight. [via Dude Craft]
Biomechanical “Terminator” mic stand
Artist Chris Conte created this gorgeous custom microphone stand for Adam Gontier of Three Days Grace (Warning: Auto-play music). More info at Wired. [via Dude Craft]