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Sets for a Film I’ll Never Make

Absolutely fantastic

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There seem to be quite a lot of things in Georgian Display Jars (or whatever you call them) these days (retro is a thing of the past man. Don’t even go there)… I expect you can buy them off the internet (goes off and looks)… yea, you can… only that link says they’re “huge right now”, which is disappointing – I thought I was one of those people who liked things before they were cool.

I do like them though – they make things look important and dignified. That’s why I’ve started wearing glasses etc. It also makes it possible to read.

Gorgeous Staying-Put-Bots

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A whole bunch of art-gadgets who’s job it is to stay where they are.

Lovely

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Spherical Solar Concentrator

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This is the coolest thing I have ever seen

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It’s a series of experiments in tracking solar-concentrators. Art for Art’s sake I think… despite the graphs and things I doubt this is more efficient than simply covering the same area with solar-electric cells… though it certainly looks cooler

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Loads more photos here.

Crochet Playscape

This is the coolest thing I have ever seen.

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It’s a massive crochet thing that looks like some sort of alien… thing…

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BUT KIDS CAN PLAY ON IT

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Although those long gloopy bits have holes at the top… and if a kid falls down a hole, there’s no way of getting out again so it basically just gets digested… acting like a giant pitcher-plant etc.

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Which is how it sustains itself, probably.

The Mouth Factory Guy

Mouth Factory-5 Sequences.mp4 from Cheng Guo on Vimeo.

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Not sure why I find this stuff so compelling… it’s not a million miles away from the face-twitching guy.

Light and Air

It’s been a while… we finally opened http://wellingtonmakerspace.com yesterday… looking lovely etc, now all we need to do is make stuff to pay the rent… and 101 myriad expenses that running a place like this involves.

It’s all been a little harder than imagined – because getting delicate glassware out of China has proven to be really hard – ie: laser-tubes turn up broken. We’re on our 3rd attempt… and shipping delays etc have delayed our opening by about 3 months… which has seriously wrecked our budget. It probably would have been cheaper and faster just to go to China and physically pick the things up ourselves.

Still… laser-tube #3 is due to turn up this week sometime… and apropos of that (in a really disconnected sort of way)….

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Beautiful grotesquery… you put some wine in it, then fruit-flies fly into it and can’t get out, so drown. Prettier than a fly-strip… less irritating than having fruit-flies drowning in the wine you’re trying to drink… but still… an insectoid death-pond. Only 20 euros as well. There’s also a hanging version… which look like delicate little christmas decorations of death.

Inflatable Tent.

Because everything made out of Geodesic domes is instantly cool.

And finally, radioactive people, looking for magic mushrooms

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Which is from Madrid… and appears to be one of a series of LED driven hit-and-run art-pieces. Like a cross between Banksy and Throwies.

Anyway – sorry for the outage… more later.

Flying Turning Inside Out Thing

Brilliant. Festo makes incredible stuff

Eraserhead Sex Blob

Brilliant

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In a fairly sad, creepy sort of way.

Nice apartment though – looks exactly like this therapists place I used to go to… except without the insane blob thing. I had other issues. Probably less serious etc, in retrospect.

Syringe Seat

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When you sit on one seat, it transfers your sorry arse to the other seat, but in reverse. Genius

Little Wings

From Dukno Yoon

Who also makes loads of finger-driven versions

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A celebration of laterality.


If you come they will build it.


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