Tag: Art

Luke, I am your candy! Nooooooooo! I don’t want cavities! (Luke jumps.) This cool and tasty Darth Vader helmet made out of Gummy Bears was made by Crummy Gummy. It’s a 1:1 scale replica of Vader’s helmet and it took over 1,000 of the squishy candies, and an unspeakable amount of patience to complete.

Emoji.ink is a new interactive site that lets you use emojis to draw pictures. It’s pretty fun, even though I not much of an artist. The interface lets you switch emojis and the size of each to create different shapes and colors.

This is Beachbot, the world’s first autonomous sand art robot. It was developed by ETH Zurich and the Zurich division of Disney Research. Basically, it’s a Disney Mutant Robot Turtle – further proof that Disney wants to take over the world with cuteness.

Admiral Ackbar wasn’t exactly a big character in the Star Wars films. We only remember him because of his fish-like features and his famous “It’s A Trap!” line in Return of the Jedi. Ackbar has found new life on the web as a meme, and some geek genius has burnt his face onto an actual trap.

DC Comics has been releasing monthly themed variant covers for a while now. We saw their LEGO variant covers back in August. For March 2015, DC reached out to the big screen for inspiration – and a bit of tongue-in-cheek humor.

The Harry Potter books have certainly inspired a lot of young people’s imaginations. That’s why their covers should be more magical. Well, art design student Kincso Nagy has made it so. These covers are much more enticing to wannabe wizards.

Growing up, we always saw this a glass blower at a booth in the mall on the weekends. It was awesome to see the guy make glass bowls and little figures. I always though it look like a lot of fun, but was very complicated to do.

Why do things alone when you can do whatever it is with a friend? Checking out new phones, attending a comic con, picking out costumes for a party… It doesn’t even have to be an activity.

Most Pokemon aren’t terribly frightening. Take Pikachu and Weezing, for example. One is a tiny yellow rodent with a goofy smile and Nutcracker-esque red cheek circles and the other is a pair of dull looking floating orbs.

Hey, even I can be Van Gogh with this crazy contraption and I have zero artistic talent. Basically, the WaterColorBot is a robotic painter that gets it’s input from vector artwork on a computer. It can also will copy real-time sketching, transferring the design to paper with its brush arm and a set of watercolor paints.

Artist João A. Carvalho has created some very cool artwork on pages that look like standard notebook paper. The art has so much depth that it looks like it was created using some sort of embossing machine, but it is actually completely flat on a plain sheet of paper.

I’ve never been a regular viewer of The Simpsons, but I do remember the part of The Simpsons Movie where Homer adopts a pig and has it walking on the ceiling while singing “Spider-pig, Spider-pig… does whatever a Spider-Pig does.”

If you thought the Doom cover art diorama was awesome, check out John Hite’s Icons of Doom. The sculpture, which Doom fans will recognize as the final level in Doom II, is partly made of found objects.

This piece of cyberpunk wearable art from artist Dominic Elvin will upgrade your brain with some side mounted LEDs and built-in optical targeting with threat analyzing systems. Nah. It will just make you look like an early Borg model.

Even if you use the Internet only casually – thanks for spending time here! – chances are several companies have gathered a bit of data about you, or at least your online habits. These trawlers range from big fish such as Facebook, Google or your government to obscure advertising companies and perhaps even hackers.

Artist Diego Trujillo built a highly unusual printer that’s way more secure than Snapchat. Inspired by reports of a Russian security’s decision to revert to typewriters and The Guardian destroying computer hardware that allegedly stored leaked NSA files from Edward Snowden, Diego made This Tape Will Self Destruct, a machine whose output sets itself on fire shortly after being printed.