Archive for June 2010

Poor dead bird.

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It’s a dead robo-bird! Artist/illustrator/futurechologist Justin Chase Black, more respectfully addressed as Mr. ThrowingChicken, recently finished the awesome looking  Creatures of the Mechazoic Era, a series of sculptures that look like fossilized remains from a time yet to come.
According to monsieur ThrowingChicken,…

The city of Melbourne, Australia currently has two suns. There’s the normal one that it shares with the rest of the world and goes away during the night, and there’s the one in Melbourne’s Federation Square, rising at night, about 100 million times smaller than the real Sun.  This little…

Jonah Block aka biotwist has finally cracked the formula:

Uhh, that last one doesn’t look right. Still makes for a good shirt though. Vote for it now on Threadless.…

This incredible Transformer truck sculpture was recently erected by students at the China Central Academy of Fine Arts.

The statue measures in at nearly 32 feet-tall, and weighs in at a staggering 4 tons! Incredibly, it’s almost entirely made from parts from an old truck. Other than some parts on…

In an alternate galaxy far far away, R2D2 was a brilliant billionaire astromech who built himself an armored suit to fight the bad guys. Cue AC/DC… music:

Download digital artist Mike Verta’s R2-Iron Man wallpapers for free on Facebook.

American designer Victor Vetterlein‘s Trash Me lamps are made to be transient, but useful and Earth-friendly.

Each lamp is made from nothing but four egg cartons, water, and some aluminum screws.…

This is how you summon a Norse god:

According to NASA, the incredible, awesome Thor’s Helmet… is an interstellar bubble 30 light years across. It’s located 15,000 light years away, which is weird because last I heard the god of thunder set up their new digs in Oklahoma. Now you

The guys over at Make: are reporting that an enterprising DIYer has managed to use a MakerBot out of parts printed by another MakerBot.

Thingiverse member Christian Arnø (aka “Webca”), designed and printed about 150 individual MakerBot pieces using another Cupcake CNC-based MakerBot. As you can see from the CAD…

Boy, I feel like it’s been a billion years since I even saw an 8-track tape, let alone listened to one. This kooky mod-job breathed new life into an old 8-track deck, letting it play tunes stored on an iPod.

Modder themadhacker managed to rejigger the innards of this old…

I’m really not a fan of fancy display typefaces. Maybe it’s my early eye-scarring experience with the San Francisco font on my original Macintosh 128, but I really prefer fonts that are readable over cool looking. That said, I’ll make an exception here.

ConsoleFont was designed by artist Varun Vachhar,…