It’s construction paper
“Self portrait in a state of fragmentation,” is not, in fact, the title of this amazing work by American everyday-object sculptor Tom Friedman. Formally, it’s “Untitled.” Anyone care to guess what it recently sold for?
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Construction equipment ballet
Anne Troake is a choreographer and filmmaker from Newfoundland. Her film Pretty Big Dig is, IMHO, the best of the many “dancing heavy machinery” videos I’ve seen on YouTube.
“Golem,” by Randis Albion
I really love this illustration (“Golem”) by Randis Albion (Andre Weiss) of brainy kids summoning a tectonic entity made of toys. It’s the details that make Albion’s work: The nervous look of the ravens outside the window, the fact that the wizard-child is in a wheelchair. His website is NSFW by some folks’ standards, I suppose, but well worth the click.
Ladyada gets EFF Pioneer Award!
We’re thrilled to announce that MAKE pal, and Advisory Board member, Limor Fried, aka Ladyada, has been honored with an 18th annual EFF Pioneer Award. Well-deserved, we say. Congrats, Limor! Here’s the little bio from the EFF announcement: A pioneer in the field of open-source hardware and software hacking, Ladyada helps the general public engineer […]
Fascination: Bruce Hood
Are you one of the nine out of ten adults who purportedly believes you can tell when someone is watching you from behind? If so, does it occur to you that this is a kind of supernatural belief? Dr. Bruce Hood, Director of the Bristol Cognitive Development Centre at the University of Bristol and the latest subject of our ongoing series of interviews with notable Makers, has some fascinating theories about how such “routine” supernatural beliefs come about as natural consequences of the normal psychology of child development. He also talks briefly about how his own childhood enthusiasm for the paranormal eventually came full circle in his mature scientific interest in the psychology of paranormal belief. Fascinating stuff.
Raphael from NYC Resistor and Twitchie on TV in Japan
Watch Raphael Abrams teach a Japanese TV host how to build the Twitchie robot kit, among other things, at NYC Resistor in this adorable video in two parts.
Hand-tied paracord sling
I’m really digging all the manly knot-tying going on over at Stormdrane’s blog.
