Author Archives: Niall Murphy

US sculptor and modeller, Mike Libby customises real (dead) insects with antique watch parts and other mechanical components to create the unique, delicate, unsettling steampunk cyborgs you see above.

His work has been exhibited alongside that of Damien Hirst and Dorothy Cross and the tiny clockwork corpses sell online from $600 to $1200 each.

Insect Lab

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cDJLkBMdkc

The UR-110 indicates time by means of a revolving satellite complication on planetary gears featuring three parallel hour/minute modules resembling torpedoes. The time is displayed on the right side of the watch, with the satellites following a vertical line – 0 to 60 minutes – in a downward motion.

What? It’s a watch?

The Uwerk UW 110 watch (Uncrate)

David McCandles at Information Is Beautiful compiled the most commonly used words in 22,000 star sign predictions, then crunched 4000 horoscopes to create the ultimate one-size-fits-all version, below:

Profound.

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