Artist makes monsters out of balloons
New York artist Jason Hackenwerth makes quite an impressive array of creatures using that staple material of clowns, the venerable party balloon.
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Precious larvae
French artist and naturalist Hubert Duprat used the hermit crab shell switcheroo technique to make these precious and semi-precious materials available to a group of caddis fly larvae. The larvae used the materials to construct protective casings for themselves. Hubert Duprat interview [via Teagan Tall] More: Hermit crabs in glass
Wearable eyeball sees what you can’t
This conceptual sensory augmentation device is one of the creepier ones I’ve seen, I think because it seems to have a mind of it’s own. The Miruko wearable eyeball attaches to your body, and continually scans for monsters that only it can see.
Open Source Embroidery in San Francisco
Open Source Embroidery opens at the SF Museum of Craft and Folk Art October 2.
Don’t phage me, bro!
Apologies to Jason Morrison for stealing his macro for the title, there, but I just wasn’t going to be able to live with myself if I went with one of the obvious “computer virus” gags. Because these are viruses, you know. Made from old computer parts. By sculptor Forrest McCluer. [via Neatorama]
Paintball pop art
Andy Warhol’s famous Marilyn recreated by a team of paintballers!
Prop art
There is in fact no evidence that this wonderful perpetually-drumming-fingers automaton by Nik Ramage was ever intended to be anything but a piece of art. But it had the bad fortune to come across my desk in the midst of the Make: Halloween Contest 2009 frenzy so I am hereby diminishing it to the status of Halloween prop. At least potentially. Personally, if I could afford one I’d leave it out all year under a spotlight. Beautiful.