You never know with a handheld photograph. Will it be sharp? Or will it be a smear. But for this week’s Shooting Challenge, we shared a simple trick to make sure your shots come out great, no matter the camera. More »
I have a gigantic case full of CDs that I have no idea what to do with. Do I toss them out? Do I save them for my kids? I’m sure other people have the same questions with their dead physical media—CDs, video tapes, DVDs, soon to be Blu-Rays—what’s going to happen to all of that? Why not turn it into a giant skull like what artist Noah Scalin did? More »
If you have played Fallout: New Vegas, then you know ED-E. You might even have a special place in your video gaming heart for him.
Well, Geekologie reader Will Brown made this amazing looking replica of ED-E from the postapocalyptic classic. He went the extra mile and photographed the steps so that other crafters might even be able to make their own as well. What a nice guy. He wouldn’t just shoot you randomly in the wasteland.
With a little bit of skill and some hard work, you too can make your own ED-E, although this one won’t follow you around New Vegas under it’s own power.
[via Geekologie]
The latest episode of the Made by Hand series profiles Martinez Cigars, a New York City-based factory and store where they’ve been hand rolling and selling cigars since 1974. Watching one of their craftsmen take a stack of dried tobacco leaves and effortlessly roll it into a cigar is mesmerizing, and the art is made all the more beautiful through the black and white lens of this video by Bureau of Common Goods. More »
When a car goes out of commission, it’s usually sent over to a junkyard. That’s a huge chunk of solid waste that requires a lot of energy before it can be recycled. A possible solution? Biodegradable cars. That kind of technology is probably still a few centuries away, but these images from at CMP Block in Taiwan give us all a preview of what to expect if and when that does eventually happen.
What you’re looking at is actually an art installation that attempts to merge “art, aesthetics, and nature.” I think it does manage to do all that and more.
What do you think?
[via Colossal]
If you can believe it, the first Johnny Depp movie I saw was Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas – and I’ve been a fan ever since. It was an unconventional take on the quest to find the American dream. On a side note, I had no idea that they needed to do that many drugs to find it.
Jonathan Baldwin found the movie so inspiring that he created an entire board game based on it. It’s basically an attache case filled with all sorts of tiny vials, petri dishes, and lighter–aka drug paraphernalia. Of course, he didn’t actually use real drugs, because that would be illegal.
Baldwin described it as a “a scientifically-accurate, organic chemistry board game based around Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.” The chemistry geek in me totally loves the idea and the attention to detail Baldwin gave to the board game.
No idea if Baldwin is going to be putting this up for sale, although I have a feeling he won’t be.
[via NoPuedoCreer via Oh Gizmo!]
In case you sometimes struggle to visualize the RGB color space on a computer, American artist Tauba Auerbach has created a handy reference guide: a cubic book that shows off all the colors in existence. More »
I love art that’s made out of old junk. Especially if they do something really clever. These Space Invaders mosaics made out of junk keyboards are very clever indeed. I wish I had one for my wall.
They’re a great mashup of computer and pop culture. They may not actually type anymore, but wouldn’t be very intuitive for typists anyhow. It beats throwing keyboards in a landfill somewhere. Now if someone can just make one of these that controls an actual game of Space Invaders on a nearby monitor, my life will be complete.
They were created by ThreeHeadedMonkey on Flickr who definitely knows how to make some awesome retro art. I wish I had thought of this. I guess I still could make one anyhow.
[via Craziest Gadgets]
The pigeon is a nasty bird. Sooty, dingy, generally unpleasant to behold. But right now, as part of the currently underway Venice Biennale contemporary art festival in Venice, Italy, the city’s unsightliest tourist attraction (its plethora of pigeons) has been given a stunning makeover. More »
We’re all stuck in a rut. We go to the same places, eat the same things. Yet we’re at our most creative when we’re doing something new. So for this week’s Shooting Challenge, all of you did just that. More »
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