Fruit-flavored superweapon
Evil Mad Scientists on sci-fi fruit modding: One cantaloupe, a knife, and five minutes. Your very own (and very tasty) planet-killing superweapon. “That’s no melon!”
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Robotic ‘marinelife’ of Shih Chieh Huang
Seen @ Santa Monica’s Glow arts event – EX-SE-08 by artist Shih Chieh Huang combines video, lights, fans and plastics to create the undulating life-like robotic sculpture seen above. – Shih Chieh Huang [via NOTCOT]
Papercut art of Béatrice Coron
Rag and Bone points us to the amazingly complex papercuts of B̩atrice Coron. In addition to paper, she uses Tyvek, aluminum, and stainless steel. More: HOW TO РMake Paper Cuts with Skinny laMinx
Incredible typewriter sculptures
Jeremy Mayer makes these really fantastic evocative sculptures from old typewriters. I’m amazed by what he uses for each body part, and how he could have imagined to put things together the way he does. Via BoingBoing.
Cassette tape skeleton
(Photo by Andrew Huff) This skeleton of melted audio cassette tapes was created by artist Brian Dettmer. Titled “Skull #11”, we wouldv’e also accepted “Phantom of a Hot Summer’s Dashboard” – Casette Tape Skeleton on Flickr More: Old books sculptures (also by Brain Dettmer)
Animatronic hand plays by fan
Artist Kitty Clark bent several circuits to shape this piece entitled “Remote Controlled Hand” – A hybrid of a remote controlled car & mechanical hand generates random music. The car is controlled by an altered remote, which is triggered by 2 desk fans. When the fans are directed at the remote, contacts are blown together […]
1000 Journals documentary
I’ve been excited about the forthcoming 1000 Journals documentary. In case you don’t know about the 1000 Journals project and documentary, here’s a synopsis: 1000 Journals is a film about people whose lives are touched by 1000 traveling journals. These blank journals were released into the world in the summer of 2000, by Someguy, a […]