roclar on Worldwide Travel Adapter
roclar on Worldwide Travel Adapter
Tommy on The World's 18 Strangest Bridges
roclar on Complex Highway Interchanges
roclar on Sun's Project Blackbox
Jabberwock on Complex Highway Interchanges
roclar on Vacu Vin Pineapple Slicer
DrFaulken on Microplane Cut Resistant Glove
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Atomix: full of love, full of wonder by Nike Savvas is a curious sculpture comprising of 50,000 spray-painted polystyrene balls suspended in air with fishing line. The balls vibrate “like a heat haze” when the wall mounted fans are switched on. The sculpture took ten days to install. Definitely reminds me of Sony’s Colored Balls commercial. |
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215 Points of View is artist’s Jonathan Shipper’s attempt to build an invisible sphere. It is constructed on a steel frame with 215 monitors displaying the image from one of the 215 cameras placed directly opposite from it on the sphere. Due to the massive 5½’ diameter of this 800-pound sphere (SciFi Blog Source) it is hardly invisible, but it looks interesting. |
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A few years after getting the idea of building a lamp from a worn out suspension fork, the founder/designer/sole employee of Treeline Design was finally convinced to sells his unique lamps online. Made from old bike barks and a few parts from his local hardware store, these lamps allow parts of the bike to live well past their prime. At present, there are three lamps available based off Manitou suspensions for $140 or $200. |
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To complete today’s cube trifecta we have the Business Card Menger Sponge. In 1995, Dr. Jeannine Mosely, a software engineer, set out to create a level/depth three Menger Sponge which is the first 3D fractal that mathematicians became aware of. The resulting structure was built from 66,048 business cards folded into 8,000 interlinked sub-cubes. The sponge is 54″ cubed, weighs about 150 lbs. and took nine years to build “involving hundreds of folders all over America.” |
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The Institute For Figure Link
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Petroc Dragon Sesti in collaboration with the British military created a human head and torso in hard wax, heated them to body temperature and then fired a 20mm round through them both. The result is quite disfigured. Riflemaker Contemporary Art has more information on these pieces and Succession another one of his works with a 20mm. |
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This is funny in a sort of b-grade horror movie sort of way. Its basically a few minutes of a walkman playing a scream-track while sliding on a zipline caught on tape. |
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In October, I linked to an educational site on stacking cards. Today we have site that has instructions on using coins to build a host of structures including bridges, domes and pillars. |
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Not sure who created these (the best guess from the Fark thread was Chakaia Booker), but the sculptures look cool and provide a non-landfill location for the tires. |
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I would have never guessed that latte’s could look so good. The linked site even has a latte art guide. It would seem these images are courtesy of pouring countless drinks every day. |
