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R2-D2 and C-3PO: 19th Century Droids

A while back, we shared some of Greg Peltz’s Victorian Star Wars… portraits, which made our favorite characters into Victorian gentlemen. Though at the time, we didn’t find the droids we were looking for.

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January 20th, 2012 by: Conner Flynn

5,500 Toy Soldiers Make Portrait, Not Toy Armageddon

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This has to be the coolest use of toy soldiers that I’ve ever seen. Have you got a few tins full of toy soldiers somewhere your garage? Check out what one artist decided to do with a bunch of those little plastic fighters.…

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January 1st, 2012 by: Range

Cave Johnson Talking Portrait: for Daily Inspiration and Insults

portal 2 cave johnson portrait by thinkgeek

This officially licensed portrait of Portal 2′s… Aperture Science CEO isn’t just a bunch of ink on paper. It has been enhanced by science! It will blast one of 13 embedded quotes from Cave Johnson when it detects movement or when you touch the plaque at the bottom of the

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November 9th, 2011 by: Lambert Varias

Star Wars Family Portraits

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These Star Wars… family portraits turned up over on Steven Quinn’s Flickr page, and they’re truly awesome.

I can’t decide which one I like best, but I just love the uncomfortable look on Luke’s face in both of these portraits. I’m sure he’s worried about how embarrassed he’d beif his

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December 14th, 2010 by: Technabob

Got Some Spare Cat5 Lying Around? Why Not Make a Self-Portrait?

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If you’ve got a bunch of spare network cable or wires lying around? Maybe you should try and make something constructive out of them, instead of letting them accumulate dust. How about a self-portrait? That’s just what Los Angeles artist Kasey McMahon did.

This piece is called Connected …and it

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April 23rd, 2010 by: Range

Dorian Gray Gets LEGO-Fied: Legos Go Lenticular

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Will we ever run out of creative uses for those primitive little LEGO bricks? I think not. Brickfan (Reasonably Clever) Chris Doyle has created a functioning LEGO remake of the infamous Picture of Dorian Gray. Chris actually retitled his version A Portrait of Dorian Bley,… a reference to a

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February 11th, 2010 by: Technabob

Robot Artist Draws Portraits

Artist Robot by Sylvain Calinon

This humanoid robot holds a pen in its hand and can draw an image of any person who stands in front of it.

Created by robotic researcher Sylvain Calinon, the robot recognizes when there’s a face in its field of view, then snaps a digital photo and extracts the major…

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December 28th, 2007 by: Technabob

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