A guitar detailed with runes, Nazgul, Minas Tirith, the Eye Of Sauron and all manner of Middle Earthiness rendered with Sharpie pens by talented 16 year-old Vivian Xiao.
Category Archives: Art/Craft
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(Thanks Colum Cronin)
A 14m tall 16.7m long inflatable duck created by conceptual artist Florentijn Hofman was towed into Hong Kong’s Victoria Harbour this week, and will remain on display there until June, spreading teh happy, unless it’s destroyed by Gojira first.
The artist sez:
The Rubber Duck knows no frontiers, it doesn’t discriminate people and doesn’t have a political connotation. The friendly, floating Rubber Duck has healing properties: it can relieve mondial tensions as well as define them. The rubber duck is soft, friendly and suitable for all ages!
Thanks Niall O’M
A self-portrait project by animator Kevin McShane, in which he’s drawn himself in the style of 100 different animators from Windsor McCay to Walt Disney, Osamu Tekuza and Pixar.
As commenter Crafty points out, he’s not the first to do this.
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Incredibly lifelike paper birds created by Dutch artist Johan Scherft, who creates the paper templates on computer, prints them, paints them by hand and assembles the model. The process can take up to a month per bird.
Water rockets don’t soak people.
People holding water rockets like RPG launchers soak people.
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The ASL1000 system from Lunasee uses four 1W LEDs to activate strips of photoluminescent tape attached to the rim of motorcycle wheels.
They say it increases safety by enhancing side visibility at night, but really, it’s all about the Tron.
($150 for single wheel, $200 for two wheels)
For bicycles, see Revolights.
Screengrab – a recursive illusion by filmmaker Willie Witte, who sez:
An experiment in transitions. None of the visuals are computer generated. All the trickery took place literally in front of the camera.
The “Ripe Tomato” (kanjuku tomato) hairstyle created by Hiro of Trick Store salon in the ‘hipster youth’ district of Amemura in Osaka, Japan.
(Hat tip: Michael lecool)
(Top pic: textile restorer Rachel Phelan breaks it down for Squee, invited guests and the assembled Labour Massive.)
The newly conserved Starry Plough flag that once flew over the Imperial Hotel (now Clerys) during the 1916 Rising, unveiled at the National Museum of Ireland, Dublin, last night.
The conservation was funded, in conjunction with National Museum of Ireland, by the Labour Party as part of its centenary celebrations.
(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)