Learn Laboratory Safety with the Safety Song!
Wondering what all that strange stuff is in your DIY chemistry lab? Well, then you should definitely watch this lab safety video by the The Sounds of Science!
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Pill art by Andy Diaz Hope
Andy Diaz Hope takes photographs and slices them up ti put inside UV treated gel capsules, to stunning effect.
Mechanical flower blooms in light
From the MAKE Flickr pool Pedrobrito shares some footage of his Arduino powered Flor Automata responding to changing light levels. Nice construction! – see more of his structural explorations on Flickr.
Steampunk leather masks and helmets
Tom Banwell is one of the artists featured in the currently-ongoing Steampunk exhibition at Oxford’s Old Ashmolean building. Shown here is “Sentinel.” via Propnomicon]
Pop-up Lego Zen temple is itself wonderfully Zen
It’s like a pop-up book, kind of, except way more complicated and expensive and made of Lego elements by YouTube user talapz. Words fail me, too. [via The Brothers Brick]
Galaxy quilts
Rachel @ CRAFT writes: This collection of space-inspired quilts from artist Jimmy McBride have left me breathless.
Emperor’s Castle amazing papercraft
Geoff at BLDGBLOG writes: For his student thesis project at the Bartlett School of Architecture, Thomas Hillier produced an immersive narrative world, complete with origami-filled hand-cut book pages and an elaborate model of the story’s architectural landscape. Hillier’s project was called The Emperor’s Castle and it was inspired by the work of Japanese printmaker Hiroshige.
