These amazing welded creations from Brown Dog Welding are so characterful and detailed, it’s hard to imagine they’re basically constructed of nuts, bolts, screws, and bits of scrap metal. Brown Dog Welding photostream
An old friend of mine, photographer Billy Baque, once told me of a rumor about gardeners in the early 20th century reusing unwanted glass plate negatives to build greenhouses. This idea–a sunlit glass room full of growing plants, dappled with the accidental shadows of unwanted memories–is to me almost too beautiful to explain. So I […]
Japanese farmers create some amazing works by way of carefully planned planting. The above works from the village of Inakadate use no paint or dye – their color variations are created solely by the different types of rice planted. [via Pink Tentacle] Update: Mike also posted some video of the art growing a while back […]
Il-Gu Cha‘s Trace of Time clock incorporates a whiteboard-esque erasable face and an eraser built into the hour hand – See a video of it in action here. [via Tinker.it]
Protozoan Flagellates from Jessica Field on Vimeo. MAKE subscriber Rob Cruickshank sent us a link to the site of Canadian artist Jessica Field. Jessica makes these wonderful, funky little robo-critters, some BEAMish, others more sophisticated, with computer-control. I like how she “programs” failures/shortcomings into her robot creations. (Wait, don’t most robots do that on their […]
Looking to live simply and in harmony with the land they would raise their children on, one couple in Wales set out to build a hand crafted house on a modest budget. The basic construction is a series of vertical posts in an oval, the tops of which are connected with horizontals. This ring of […]
The entryway of The Standard Grill, in Manhattan, is tiled with thousands of US pennies, set in a black matrix. Looks like between one and two dollar’s worth of pennies per square foot, which is comparable to ceramic tile, price-wise, but a whole lot more interesting IMHO. Via NOTCOT. More: How-to install a penny countertop […]
