Guyrobot – one-of-a-kind handmade creations via NOTCOT. Genesis: The piece parts that go into each Guy Robot flow from a range of industrial tributaries: aerospace and avionics surplus suppliers, automotive salvage yards, long-haul microwave equipment recyclers, decommissioned plumbing and refrigeration remnants, vintage hand-tool swap-meet winnings. And, yes, truth be told, sometimes the perfect Guy Robot […]
TG Daily has an amazing story on this unique and historic find for all your programming anthropologists! Original Ada Lovelace painting purchased on eBay via /. Computer geeks on opposite ends of the Earth have found the original sketch of the world’s first programmer. In a story worthy of a Hollywood movie, a United States […]
Check out this nifty pop-up alphabet book by Marion Bataille. The video is entrancing. Via Geekologie.
Wow, someone may have figured out how to change the giant digital billboards in LA… via F.A.T., Anti-Advertising Agency & Supertouch have more.. Turns out, by “figuring out how = paying” — not interesting, not a hack, not Billboard Liberation… Right now the enigma that is known only as SKULLPHONE is easily Clear Channel Communications’ […]
Jean-Pierre Martineau made an instructable for making a pocket-sized watercolor set from an Altoids tin and some Fimo clay. Portable and practical!
Artist Niall de Buitléar writes in with some of his latest works… Various sculptures by Irish artist Niall de Buitlear using a range of found materials including cable ties (collected from poles and lampposts after election posters had been removed), plastic cables from bales of concrete blocks and burnt matchsticks. I use various labour intensive […]
Regine’s write up from the Billboard Liberation Front’s talk at Vooruit, Ghent. A lot of great history and insight in to this group – via Beyond the Beyond. “Improving outdoor advertising since 1977” is the catchphrase of the Billboard Liberation Front. The idea is simple: by making small adjustments to billboards, the BLF creates ironic […]
