Paper chair, a chair carved from paper
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Here’s a neat idea from designers razy2. Instead of casting a chair out of foam or silicone, they decided to build one up layer by layer out of what looks like a giant Post-It pad.
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Steampunk exhibition documentary
Here’s a very nice bit of video documenting the recent Steampunk exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford. Steampunk Art @ Oxford
BIBI, the “plastician”
BIBI is a French artist who almost entirely uses trash plastic in his art. He calls himself a “plastician.” [Thanks, Karen!] BIBI, Plastician Artist
Dragon skeleton sculpture made from real bones
Virgil England installed and photographed this life-size dragon skeleton in Chugach National Forest in Alaska in 1990. In his own words:
Bandsaw beautification
The first time I saw a circuit board where the board designer had broken through the boundaries of a grid pattern and made traces that curved playfully and made decorative shapes, it was a revelation. You can make a PCB any damn shape you please! (So long as it takes into account the component shapes, […]
Audiocloud
This tangle of corrugated plastic tubes is the Audiocloud, a collaboration between Piotr Adamski and mode:lina. It’s got some high-falutin’ conceptual roots, but I gotta admit I’m just charmed by the series of tubes. [via Core77]
Tentacle-box: A mobile music station with beat-synched lights
The music is from a car stereo, and the lights are multiplexed by an Arduino. Check out the link for more information, and the Arduino source code.