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Carved crayons

Carved crayons

Artist Pete Goldlust has an amazing series of carved crayons – the other sculptures, wall drawings and installations are great too – [via] – Link. Related: Sculptures carved from crayons – Link. Portrait made from crayons – Link. Art @ MAKE – Link.

Moonwalker shoes

Moonwalker shoes

Andrew made a pair of shoes that control Michael Jackson songs when plugged in (using Force-sensitive resistors)… “The initial idea involved a pair of old sneakers, repurposed, to dynamically manipulate a sound file. Basically I wanted to build shoes that would BOOM! when you walked. The louder you stomp the louder the BOOM! In a […]

Awesome Arts

Awesome Arts

Alee_anne writes – “This year AWESOME ARTS Australia invited 10 communities throughout regional and remote Western Australia to participate in an engaging and fun project, using art as a context for equitable and productive exchange. Bike Lab uses a purpose built, self-contained kit featuring bicycle parts reinvented as enormous meccano-like components, with computer cut plates […]

Coral reef made from junk

Coral reef made from junk

Steven writes – “In keeping with your coverage of the crocheted coral reef, I thought you might be interested in the coral reef that my friend sylvia has been working on since last year. She uses pipe cleaners, balloons, coffee filters, rubber typing fingers and god knows what else to make the individual pieces.” – […]

Pencil art…

Pencil art…

Artist Jennifer Maestre makes incredible aquatic themed sculptures from colored pencils [via] – Link. Related: Power drill pencil sharpening… – Link. Pencil Carving – Link. Portrait made from crayons – Link. Sculptures carved from crayons – Link.