Swans on Tea

Coaxing bees into making honeycomb sculpture
“I knew they were ordered and regimented,” the Pennsylvania artist says about his honeybees, which built the three otherworldly sculptures on view at Eleven Rivington. “I had an intuition that I’d be able to organize that, architecturally.”

Crappy balloon art.
Much, much simpler than “your lower intestine”

Lots of great stuff on kottke recently
Dan Baum: The Following Account of My Short Career at The New Yorker Ran as a Series of Tweets on May 8, 11, and 12, 2009
Three tweets: (Thufferin’ Thuccotath!)
of arms. Tom Wolfe is right, I think, when admonishes young writers to ignore the old advice about “writing [...]

I-Movix SprintCam v3 NAB 2009 showreel
Here is the first SprintCam v3 showreel, made for NAB 2009 exhibition. Mostly 1000FPS shots, made during a recent rugby competition in the Stade de France, Paris.
I am particularly enamored of the dropped gelatin cube, starting at about 2:00. Mmmmmm, vibrational modes. Watch it — there’s always [...]

Shock doc’s new electrifying party trick
The project, which Dr Peter Terren calls the Modern Thinker, involves passing about 200,000 volts of electricity over his body, a routine that transforms him into a human sparkler for all of 15 seconds.
Tesla Downunder

10,000 pages
10,000 pages of line art, suitable for coloring.

The P-bomb
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All 120 Crayon Names, Color Codes and Fun Facts
Crayola crayons currently come in 120 colors including 23 reds, 20 greens, 19 blues, 16 purples, 14 oranges, 11 browns, 8 yellows, 2 grays, 2 coppers, 2 blacks, 1 white, 1 gold and 1 silver. Although Crayola crayons come in 120 different colors, the labels are only [...]

Reuben Margolin’s techno-kinetic wave sculptures.
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Machines that Almost Fall Over
A system of sculptures that is constantly on the brink of collapse. My intention was to capture and sustain the exact moment of impending catastrophe and endlessly repeat it.
While at rest, or with the hammer slowly moving, the pieces stay upright because the center-of-mass is located somewhere over the base. [...]

Because you can’t slip and mess up the pattern when you’re 95% done.
Guilloché Pattern Generator

Previously: Not the Same as Gauche

Letter Monsters. A Flickr set