⇒ Classy GIFs

this website is hella-cool: from me to you
they seem to specialise in really classy GIFs, which take on a magical quality, mostly because of the high-quality photography

note: just appreciating Jamie Beck's work, not pinching it--I don't own or have any involvement in it.




best thing since Bokeh and tilt-shift

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⇒ Dominaludus sexagentaquad

Modern fossils by Christopher Locke

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⇒ staples + patience

via MAKE

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⇒ catchup: MAKE

How education threatens creativity …
Agreed--I've been institutionalized/crippled by the blank canvas problem


I love holepunched-halftone megasized art

Jacob's ladder bound book

vid is not too exciting but I am interested in the product

Combo

COMBO a collaborative animation by Blu and David Ellis (2 times loop) from blu on Vimeo.

a weird time-lapse+graffiti vid

ASPEX crowdsource their Scanning Electron Microscope samples

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⇒ sand painting

in writing, it sounds like an activity for 'special' people, but when you see it, it's really something else.

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⇒ Machinarium's out

don't stop get it get it.
Read RPS' writeup here.

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⇒ The Berlin Reunion

Epic puppetry and public arts going down in Berlin.

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⇒ everyday

Just watched The Simpsons' Eternal Moonshine of the Spotless Mind, which featured a surprisingly moving parody of an art video that 'til now I've been unaware of, Everyday Noah. Below is the Simpsons' version, followed by the original (13,000,000+ views to date):




Learn more about Noah Kalina's photog project here:


I think the beautiful piano music really made the piece(s) for me. Perfectly sums up my fugue and/or existentialism.

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⇒ Beach callig

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⇒ camera time:

Olympus EP1 feedback


Bokeh filter


scenes from Pinewood studios underwater studio

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⇒ it's about light

Light art




solar powered world


Solar roadway

great idea, make double use of the surface area of a road

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⇒ kitsune noir

paper+foam monsters + landscapes

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⇒ more MAKE

3,604 cups of coffee

I'm surprised this didn't turn out more jaggy, edgy.

LEDs and photography


Online mechanical puzzle index


Real-time capillary action colors calendar

inconvenient but awesome

Printing press tron-ified

how'd they get the ambient area so dark?

Zubbles:

some fancy tech went into making this possible, click the image to read the how then follow link to buy.

Timer/recipe book by Emma Caselton:


Escher-esque water feature:

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⇒ refreshing

game factories (no, these are not real):


3D dot game heroes:

see! that's what i like, creativity! Take something old and do something new with it! Rebel! Instead of super-realism, why not super-unrealism?

I just hope there's decent gameplay under that pretty shell * final fantasy *

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⇒ courtesy of MAKE

Hellraiser Le Merchant box:


DIY Inclinometer:

It measures the inclination using water

Mercury fountain:

quicksilver fascinates me

Beetle shell ceiling:

take a closer look

Amputee Elephant:


one of my favorite sea creatures, in Lego form: Nautilus


Paper carving:



Detonography: Sculpting metal with explosives

"a technique for embossing thick metal plates by blasting them onto a mold with sheets of plastic explosive"

Pitch drop experiment:

need to know: bitumen, started in 1927, eight years for the first drop, about one every 11 years = eight to date

DIY trebuchet bundle:


Willow architecture:


Python in a browser

3D etch a sketch:


NY sand table challenge:


Infernal machine art:


Rare lumber


related:
Shapeways
printing in stainless steel

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