Jason Allemann’s wonderfully bonkers LEGO walking (or, more accurately, scuttling) machine, inspired by Theo Jansen’s giant kinetic Strandbeest sculptures.
You can build your own, if you’re so inclined.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
Critique (of style but not necessarily sentiment) spotted yesterday morning on a Parisian trottoir by Jim Redmond who sez:
I think the white one means something like a bad stencil (like the green one) is like a shit on the path. True. Stay classy Paris.
Some of the graphic work done for film adaptations of JK Rowling’s Harry Potter novels by Miraphora Mina and Eduardo Lima.
Hundreds of seen and unseen props from the Harry Potter series, including packaging for potions and poisons, newspapers, magazines, adverts, posters and letters are on display at Soho’s Coningsby Gallery this month.
Mark Cox writes:
I shan’t try and understand what this is, but a friend of mine, Daniel Nolan has made this beautiful video and I thought you kind folk might enjoy it. He’s a creative young boy is our Daniel.
Daniel sez:
This is my entry into this year’s MEDS workshop, a conceptual video exploring the theme of “reaction”.
French graffiti artist Mathieu Tremblin’s faux Getty Images watermark.
Copyright reserved when viewed from certain angles.
Actually, it’s a 9,500 brick model of the ATLAS particle physics experiment at the LHC in CERN built by scientist Sascha Mehlhase. We’ve mentioned it before.
But you knew that.
If the 10,000+ upvoters at the LEGO beta-bulding site cuusoo have their way, it may yet make it into the official LEGO range.
More details and pix here.
Fan art from the Regular Show and Adventure Time exhibition which opened today at the Mondo Gallery in Austin, Texas.
Above: ‘Mordecai and Margaret’ and ‘My neighbor Jake’ by JJ Harrison, ‘Mordecai, Rigby, etc.’ by Jublin.
If you happen to be in the Austin area, please pass on our most heartfelt ‘Ohhhhhhhh!’
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Phil Postma’s entirely believable reimagining of Flash Gordon as a Pixar movie.
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Artist Elizabeth Patterson‘s hyperreal pencil drawings of rainy windshields.
Pencil drawings.
Each one is inspired by of several of her own photographs but the finished pieces are considerably more detailed, immediate and dramatic than the source material.
More of her work can be seen at her website, and also here.
(Video: La galerie Louis Carré)
Lecher-repelling hairy stockings – a popular current post on the Chinese micro-blogging site Sina Welbo.
Pervert magnets, more like.
(Hat tip: PK [via BS app])