This appears to be a video of a homemade airplane made in China by a farmer called the “Shanzhai huaxiangji” via Kottke. It’s hard to tell what’s actually going on, it could be a fake but there are some interesting things about what it’s called — more about the airplane (name) here. “Shanzhai” means homemade […]
Did you meet your significant other on the Internet? This couple decided to take the advent of their Internet-meeting and eventual wedding to the ultimate level by baking two laptop-shaped wedding cakes, attaching their profiles to the screens, and even connecting them together with a candy ethernet cable with hearts on the plugs. Pretty “sweet” […]
This 10 x 7 foot poster of Astro Boy pixel art is made from 138,000 recycled Tokyo Metro tickets and was created to mark the opening of Tokyo’s new Fukutoshin subway line. Really nice design with subway appropriate materials to boot. [via]
More “cocopunk” goodness, here a round-up of wooden bikes from around the world on Kevin Kelly’s Street Use. Wooden Bikes Related: Is Gilligan the next Jules Verne? Wooden bike
On EMS Labs, Lenore shows a simple way that her dad rigged a trellis for growing hops, using some scrap soaker hose, antenna wire, and a handy tree as the main structure. Hop Trellis
The “Telectroscope” is a large-scale optical device connected up to a “secret” tunnel that was built underneath the Atlantic ocean, connecting New York City and London, England. The project was designed and implemented by artist Paul St. George and translates his interest with late 19th century industrialization and optical communication devices into an attraction for […]
This lamp is built from 121 recycled plastic knives collected over the course of countless BVD group lunches from a fried chicken restaurant. Pretty funny that it actually resembles something that people would pay a lot of money for, but costs less than the lunches it was taken from. BVD Collective, [via]
