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Do Birds Do It, Too?
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.”
Balloon Art for the Beginner
Much, much simpler than “your lower intestine”
Potpourri for $200
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 what
you know,” and instead write about what you don’t know. If you have to learn about something from scratch, he
argues, you don’t bring any lazy preconceptions. John said I was welcome to give it a try. “Think about trying a
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Only-slightly-3-d art: Simon Schubert (small folds in paper) and Marco Maggi (slides 06-9 through 06-12 are “pencil on aluminum foil”)
Slo-Mo
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 time for Jell-o.
Rodin, Meet Tesla. Tesla, Rodin.
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.
Take One Down, Pass it Around
10,000 pages of line art, suitable for coloring.
New Danger from Antarctica
The P-bomb
Colour My World
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 made in 18, which cover the full color spectrum. Nearly 3 billion crayons are made each year, an average of 12 million daily. That’s enough to circle the globe 6 times with color!
Also, the Hex and RGB values of the crayons.
Very Moving Art
Reuben Margolin’s techno-kinetic wave sculptures.