This is actually fairly cool in a funny sort of way.
Someone’s made a mechano centrifuge to see if a lava-lamp will work on Jupiter. Because that’s the sort of thing you do.
And much to everyone’s surprise…
Note use of Android phone to measure G-force. I tell yer – the smartphone is the breakout device for the internet of things. It’s the Intel Outside.
Genius
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A proper artist apparently : Walter Wick. Really good art, like really good hallucinations generally, is quite often instantly recogniseable… a distillation of something you already know. Really, really good art annoys the sort of people I hate. The only way to improve it from there is to make it really, really big.
I don’t think this needs that though. It’s hits closer by being made out of actual toys.
We used to do this when we were kids. Make flimsy castles then use other toys to knock them over. And lo, I have become Nickwit, destroyer of worlds.
ok, ok, it might not actually be proper art – it might just be someone taking the piss… but who’s to know?
Marvelous
From James River Branch via Hackaday.
Cheating slightly, but what the hey. It could go with these little house-rings:
From Philippe Tournaire, who has loads of them. This came via not only Notcot.org, but this site : http://ifitshipitshere.blogspot.com who’s page-height clocks in at a rather impressive 252604px… which on my screen-resolution of 42px a cm, makes it about 60 metres tall.
About 20 stories high in other words… almost exactly the same length as Firefly, off Firefly, according to this http://www.merzo.net/
Someone’s somehow managed to find the time to take classic bits (apparently) of classic movies and edit them down to 3 frames, and then loop them.
This is what modern entertainment’s all about. Something that takes ages to do, but which can be watched and moved-on-from in less time than it takes to say “wahtevah”
The essence of art. Pick out what’s good, amplify it and ditch the rest. Reminds me of Spacemen 3 from back in the day
They’d take MC5 songs, take the bits they liked, and just play those over and over again, until the end of time. Fuckin Art-Rock Rocks. You think Heavy Metal was loud? It was never as loud as Art-Rock.
I was in a band with Debs from the thing above for a while. Too loud for me man. 20 years later and my ears are still ringing.
At last !!!
A handy set of instructables for making your very own Light-Sabre Dildo…
Vegetable Vibrators to cater for every taste…
Vital PC Case-Mods for him and her…
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It’s all here, from solar-powered vibrators, to DIY frankenstein sex-toys….
….and a special section on how to organise your toys should the whole thing threaten to get out of hand.
You’ll wonder how you ever did without
My Dad used to work with this kid who’s “thing” was to tie every single thing in a room to every other thing with long pieces of string. You’d leave him alone, come back and there would be all this string spanning the room… connecting everything and keeping everything in place. If you tried to move any of it he’d have a conniption.
The thing above is a similar sort of thing I think, except done by crazy people.
Ok – not a crazy person. Julie Sherman. Artist. Brilliant.,
from Peter Root, about whom very little is known (his website is vague on this point), but who also makes amazing roller-coaster/future-blade-runner-high/low-rise slums out of transformer laminates.
Well, obviously it started with this:
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An alarm clock of sorts.
And then there was this
A magleved table. (ermmm… why?)
Which kindof morphed into this:
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and
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None of which is really my cup of tea. Apart possibly for the table, though it seems to be going to quite extreme lengths to solve a problem I don’t actually have… or at least don’t really understand.
So. Pebbles. These are cool.
Marvelous. That’s what I want my camper van to look like.
Reminds me of the ice hotel thing up in Sweden…
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Which is so cool, I can hardly stand it, even though it is from 2006. Was designed by an Australian apparently – there’s a PDF (which is the document format of the devil) of the construction etc on his site.
Occasionally something comes along which is so obvious and essential, that it seems incredible that it hasn’t been done before.
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Although personally, I’ve been waiting (for a long time now) for barbie chess.
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