Crawling wooden automaton
A newly posted work from Japanese kinetic sculptor Osamu Kanda, whose elegant praying mantis automaton I blogged two weeks ago. This one is called Crawl. [via The Automata / Automaton Blog]
Toys and Games
Genre-fiction generator
Dave Malki, who does the awesome Victorian-era webcomic Wondermark, has created a hysterical steampunky genre-fiction generator. Liam Cooke created an automated version of the chart. Here’s the story synopsis I got: The Psychopunks In a metaphorical Outer Rim world, a young milquetoast office drone stumbles across a time-traveling soldier which spurs him into conflict with […]
Buy wholesale Cthulhu and save
I just checked the freezer and discovered I was down to my last bag. Don’t let Halloween sneak up on you without stocking up.
How-To: Cast cheap foam skulls
There’s Jake, there’s Elwood, and there’s Dr. Kreepy. In this video he shows you how to cast cheap prop skulls by blowing canned expanding foam from the hardware store into a blow-molded plastic master. Good stuff. Wear work clothes!
Eat my arm. Gain my power.
I’m expecting a lot of prawn-armed Wikuses (Wiki?) this year, but the award goes to YouTuber GrafixFan for producing the first bloggable District-9 related Halloween costume images I’ve seen. We must harvest his tissues immediately.
Post-apocalyptic pneumatic werewolf
I have to say that of all the improbable phrases I’ve run across blogging, “post-apocalyptic pneumatic werewolf” may well be the the weirdest. Which only makes this haunted house prop by Terra of HalloweenForum.com (her tagline: “Terror of the Cul de Sac”) just that much more, well, wicked, than it already is. (Sorry.) Make: Halloween […]
Meet Sniff, the RFID dog
Sara Johanssons’s Sniff toy is finally ready for prime time. This adorable plush dog uses an RFID reader, vibrating motors and Arduino WaveShield to make a really awesome toy with all kinds of fun interactions. The video is oh-so sweet and a must-watch. [via Touch]