Willard Wigen’s tiny sculptures…
Willard Wigen makes sculptures a fraction the size of a grain of sand worth millions of dollars via Buzzfeed.
Made On Earth
Shanghai made in dice and poker chips
Cinghialino has some great photos of Chinese artist Liu Jianhua’s recreation of the Shanghai skyline from dice and poker-chips.
Recycled speakers and tangled wires make beautiful music
London based artist Haroon Mirza makes interesting handmade music projects out of old speakers, homebrew amplifiers, old radios, motors, and buckets of water. This piece is called “Canon Remix” and plays off of the vibrations that these speakers cause. Check out the site for lots of videos of his other musical projects. Haroon Mirza
RepRap Build-a-thon at HacDC
We’re going to be holding a free, two-day RepRap Build-a-thon at HacDC, on Jan. 24 & 25th. HacDC, the Washington, DC-area technology and arts collective, is presenting a free, open to the public two-day event over the weekend of January 24th – 25th. Attendees will participate in the construction and use of a remarkable open […]
Crossword puzzle apartment building
Crossword puzzle apartment building via BuzzFeed. People of Lvov city in Ukraine decided to add another attraction for the visitors of their city. According to the artistic project it was decided to place a giant 100 feet (30 meters) tall at the wall of the one of the multi-stored residential houses. There is one interesting […]
Sound sculpture pummels you into the ground
“Hybrid Sound” is a large-scale sculpture that doubles as a high-powered speaker system that distorts and causes a large echo effect. Interesting build and check out the project page link for a Quicktime movie of this thing in action. Hybrid Sound via VVORK
Homemade titanium?
Using a mixture of titanium dioxide, drywall plaster, aluminium powder and ground fluorite, Theo Grey of PopSci.com was able to smelt his own titanium, via a thermite reaction. The results are not pretty, and you probably don’t want to try this at home, but hey, DIY titanium! Yet I was able to make titanium using […]