Results for sculptures

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on December 3rd, 2007:

• Bicycles That Carry Powerful Beats, and Even a Rider or Two – Bicycles outfitted with elaborate stereo systems installed by the youths.

Guy with big sound on his bike (photo by Tyler Hicks/The New York Times)

• Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft – This classical music recording giant that’s owned by Universal Music Group, launched its own DRM-free online music store.
• Dollar Store Parabolic Microphone – A folding plastic umbrella hat on a paint roller handle.
• Boex Pencil Bench, – Pencils + bench = pencil bench!
• Flickr: Photos from Phillip West – Amazing paper sculptures of animals and Star Wars figures.
• Jason Hackenwerth – Wonderful balloon sculptures.
• Futurama Vol. 5 – Heads In Jars – Iconfactory icons by Gedeon Maheux. Famous celebrity heads from the Futurama TV series (16 icons).

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 28th, 2007:

• Drop.io: Simple, Private Storage & Sharing – No signup, no email, just drop and tell whoever you want to share your stuff with where to find it.
• Making Old Hardware Play New Tunes – Working with screwdrivers and soldering irons, chiptune composer Jeremiah Johnson painstakingly reprograms the rudimentary sound chips in the game machines to create songs that play right from the console.

Jeremiah Johnson @ the 2006 BLIP festival (photo by minusbaby)

• JOSH – Beelden van Roest – Dutch artist Joshua Pennings makes amazing animal sculptures from metal and old tools.
• Doom3: Project Mars City – Amazing PC case mod in Doom 3 style, with video and images
• City 7: Toronto Conflict Half-Life 2 mod – Gordon Freeman is stuck in Toronto due to a teleporting accident in Kleiner’s lab. Explore what has become of City 7 in areas like Dundas square, Eaton Center , Mel Lastman square, St. Michael’s Hospital and TTC system under the Combine rule.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 5th, 2007:

• mickey feio – An ‘International Ugly Mickey Contest’ blog. The contest is over now, but the blog will keep posting the ugly mickeys people send from all over the world.

mickey feio – some ugly Mickeys

• Creating the barbarian series – Cool paper sculptures. Every model created on this page is fashioned from only one uncut square of paper.
• Gov’t Commissioned Study Finds P2P Downloaders Buy More Music – P2P might help people find new music which they end up buying, but P2P users looking for music would be the ones buying more CDs to begin with anyway, right?

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on November 4th, 2007:

• Strictly No Photography – A website dedicated to photos taken inside places you’re not supposed to take photos. Art galleries, government buildings, religious sites, science and technology exhibits, all user-submitted.

Strictly No Photography

• Brian Dettmer 03 Ram Skull [lo] on Flickr – A ram skull sculpture made from old cassette tapes.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 24th, 2007:

• Non-lethal mousetraps by Roger Arquer – These traps might not be very efficient, but they make for great photography.
• Heckling Hare: step-by-step construction lesson – John K explains (in a video tutorial) how to draw this frame from Tex Avery’s “Heckling Hare”. It’s a hilarious scene animated by Rod Scribner.
• Fearing Crime, Japanese Wear the Hiding Place – Though street crime is relatively low in Japan, quirky camouflage designs like this vending-machine dress are being offered to an increasingly anxious public to hide from would-be assailants.

Can you spot where the person is hiding? Hilarious and sad at the same time…

• Gmail IMAP – Gmail now supports IMAP!
• PlusDeck – Cassette-to-MP3 converter – Still have old cassette tapes worth saving? You can easily convert them to digital formats with plusdeckEX and plusdeck2c. (or just don’t be lazy and hook up your old cassette player to your computer…)
• Chris Gilmour – Beautiful cardboard sculptures, including a typewriter, 12 speed bicycles, a grand piano, a coffee machine, and a life size car.

Some interesting things I bookmarked on del.icio.us on October 4th, 2007:

• Chilli-based anaesthetic won’t leave you drooling – Clifford Woolf and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School have discovered a way of blocking just the pain neurons using capsaicin – the active ingredient in chilli peppers – along with a version of lignocaine that can’t diffuse through cell membranes unassisted.
• Big Daddy Hands – The bigger version of the soldering tool, useful for holding more than a small circuit board.
• InfraRecorder – a free CD/DVD burning solution for Microsoft Windows. It offers a wide range of powerful features; all through an easy to use application interface and Windows Explorer integration.
• Sketch Furniture by FRONT – Pen strokes made in the air are recorded with Motion Capture and become 3D digital files; these are then materialised through Rapid Prototyping into real pieces of furniture.
• Mustaches of the Nineteenth Century – A Daily Celebration of The Golden Age of Upper Lip Hair.
• Ryan McLennan – Beautiful acrylic on paper paintings of wildlife.
• Mike Leavitt – Action Figures – These are articulating, miniature, interactive sculptures, aka. “action figures” or “toys”, each hand-sculpted with synthetic polymer clay, wood and elastic by Leavitt.