Open Source Embroidery in San Francisco
Open Source Embroidery opens at the SF Museum of Craft and Folk Art October 2.
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Don’t phage me, bro!
Apologies to Jason Morrison for stealing his macro for the title, there, but I just wasn’t going to be able to live with myself if I went with one of the obvious “computer virus” gags. Because these are viruses, you know. Made from old computer parts. By sculptor Forrest McCluer. [via Neatorama]
Paintball pop art
Andy Warhol’s famous Marilyn recreated by a team of paintballers!
Prop art
There is in fact no evidence that this wonderful perpetually-drumming-fingers automaton by Nik Ramage was ever intended to be anything but a piece of art. But it had the bad fortune to come across my desk in the midst of the Make: Halloween Contest 2009 frenzy so I am hereby diminishing it to the status of Halloween prop. At least potentially. Personally, if I could afford one I’d leave it out all year under a spotlight. Beautiful.
Working cello made from LEGO
LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya built this functional cello out of LEGO bricks.
Tick-talk clock amuses, might tell time
Nicholas Wallen’s tick-tock clock takes an interesting look at what constitutes a clock.
Art deco Cthulhu idol
If you’re a Lovecraft fan and have not yet seen the HPLHS’s 2005 silent-film adaptation of Call of Cthulhu, well, there may be nothing, anywhere, that’s more important than that you go do so immediately. So. Very. Good. The look they achieve on a low budget is amazing, and a lot of that is due […]
