Chairs made from Champagne bottle parts…
Design Within Reach held their annual Champagne chair contest, chairs made from cork, wire, etc… check out all the entries! Design Within Reach – Champagne chair contest 2007 – [via] Link.
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HOW TO – Make an animated cartoon in 10 minutes with a whiteboard and webcam!
Leevonk writes – I always liked to draw and was thinking of becoming a cartoonist as a kid, but the tedium of the technique at the time (1980s) drove me away. Now we have computers and everyone is making flash animations. Flash attracted me because you don’t have to redraw the thing every frame, you […]
Resonating-With-Light – music from the sun
VWORK points to Artist Edo Paulus who made these sun-sensitive musical instruments – check out the video for moving pictures and sound… Resonating-With-Light is an installation that consists of multiple small electronic units in a natural environment with sunlight. Each unit collects solar energy and transforms this energy into a repetitive bouncing of itself onto […]
Glasses made from bike parts and more…
Scott from Urban Spectacles of Wood makes the most incredible glasses frames in the world, some from wood, others from vinyl records. His latest builds are frames from bicycle parts, sheet aluminum, goggles inspired by super8 cameras and detailed carved frames from wood, check them out. Urban Spectacles of Wood – Link.
The origami lab
The New Yorker has a great article about Robert Lang, physicist turned origami pro (we’ve covered his work on MAKE a lot)… One of the few Americans to see action during the Bug Wars of the nineteen-nineties was Robert J. Lang, a lanky Californian who was on the front lines throughout, from the battle of […]
Accordion chair
What a great chair – The ends of this accordion-like chair appear to be made from wood and the middle parts corrugated cardboard or perhaps thinner slices of wood. Might be worth playing around with some materials to see if it can be remade, for small apartments this chair/couch looks perfect. YouTube – Folding Chair […]
Petroc Dragon Sesti’s – Fluid Icon
Here’s a really cool animated sculpture – plinth, electric turbine, glass, & fluid – there might be a spinning magnet in there or the plastic goes through the plinth… whatcha think makers? – [via] – Link & video.
