Bronze Rubik’s cube
Artist Marshall Astor created this working Rubik’s cube in cast bronze. There’s tons of detail on the creation process at his personal website. [via Neatorama]
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Life-size boat model kit sprue
Swedish artist Michael Johansson made this life-size dinghy “model kit” from a real boat and related equipment. The pieces of “TOYS’R’US,” as it’s called, are fastened together by a welded tubular frame and painted a uniform gray. Michael has done several of these 1:1 “model” kits made from life-size original objects. [via Dude Craft]
Tactical assault carriages for babies
I recall late great UT-Austin Philosophy professor Robert Solomon once saying in lecture, “We’re lucky babies are so helpless, because if they had any power at all they would destroy the world.” Well, Chinese artist Shi Jinsong is apparently trying to immanentize that particular eschaton by arming the world’s infants with engines of destruction worthy of a Space Marine Terminator. Way to go, dude. [via Dude Craft]
Fist sledgehammer
Spotted in the online portfolio of design firm Martus & Silvio, of Grand Rapids. It’s a sculpture, technically, entitled “Early Tools,” but I’d have a hard time not using it at least once, Office Space style, on something that really made me angry.
Bread Heads
Bread Heads By Anna Dilemna One of the most popular animated children’s characters in Japan is a superhero named Anpanman (Mr. Sweet Bun), who is made entirely of bread. Together with his doughy cohorts (who have names such as Mr. White Bread Man and Mr. Curry Bun), Anpanman fights malnutrition by allowing hungry people to […]
How-To: Sculpt open eyes on lifecast heads
Keeping your eyes open during a life-casting of your face is probably impossible and in any case is certainly a very bad idea. So life-cast heads always have closed eyes. YouTuber brickintheyard, affiliated with BITY Mold Supply, has provided a great video tutorial on how to sculpt those eyes back open.
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]
