Calvin Nicholls makes stunning art from bits of chopped up paper.
Here’s a gallery where you can watch how the action unfolds. I’m astounded.
Category: Curiosities
Your Mo Dummy…
From Etsy. So that babies can participate in Movember or something…
Extreme Dog Shows: Dressing dogs up to look dumb since 19whenever
Some part of me thinks this is innately cruel. Another part of me thinks, wait, who am I to impose my values on these poor dogs. Maybe they like looking stupid.
Sadly, and bizarrely, there are more pictures of depressed dogs here in this Daily Mail story.
Nananananananana nananananananana… Mathman
This is pretty cool. I knew graphical calculators played some useful purpose. I once spent a couple of high school math lessons drawing a Happy Meal. But this is better. Somebody figured out the equation, or series of equations, for producing the Batman logo.
Via BoingBoing so it must be true.
The old Batman logo is mathematical, the new one is apparently whimsical. It appears to be based around a baby unicorn. Who knew.
Melonus Prime: why transforming your food is ok
So you were told not to play with your food as a kid. We all were. I still get told not to play with my food now. And I’m no longer a kid.
But I thumb my nose at all those naysayers (except my wife. I won’t thumb my nose at her. I’d get in trouble).
Because the proof, as they say, is in the watermelon sculpting.
Bizarrely, this isn’t the first time I’ve featured watermelon carving (there’s a second time too). Or Optimus Prime carving for that matter. I guess it’s true what they say. They being Qohelet, the writer of Ecclesiastes. There is nothing new under the sun. Though that Optimus Prime link wouldn’t do so well under the sun, given he’s made of ice.
That melon prime was featured first (where I saw it anyway) at That’s Nerdalicious.
Lego head will solve your storage dilemmas
I love Lego. That’s like saying “I love air.” It’s obvious. I don’t think I’ve ever met anybody who doesn’t love Lego. If you’re looking to spruce up your in house storage options you could do worse than getting hold of one of these Lego head containers.
It’s almost worth it, just for this photo. Imagine what people would say if this was your Facebook profile.
A bit clever: a drill based pencil sharpener
You’ll never have to manually sharpen pencils again. Which is great. Because we all spend so much time sharpening pencils these days. Isn’t there a saying about necessity being the mother of invention? Not here.
At the very least it makes making art like this a little bit easier.
Make your notes a chip off the old block
There’s some sort of post joke to be made here. But I’ve got nothing.
This would be cool if it was a chunk of wood with something really sharp to cut slithers off. Like a laser. But it’s not.
You can buy them though, via Lushlee
Put the chop back in your chop suey
Or at least in your San Choy Bow… with the karate chopper lettuce buster thing.
The Executive Colouring In Book
I shared this on Twitter a while back, but forgot to blog it. How remiss of me. A colouring in book for the executive types. A great way to kickstart your career, or at least to catalyse it. Buzz words that render the difference between sentences essentially meaningless are another part of this process.
It is pretty excellent, and there are more pages here (including evidence that it is a real book, or at least a convincing fake).
Mobius Ship: bottle this and I’d buy it…
This is a truly sensational pun based sculpture.
Just amazingly clever and intricate. It’s not for sale. It’s art. Incredible art from a bloke named Tim Hawkinson.
Zombie Gnomes: for the black thumbs out there
I don’t have a green thumb. By some miracle the coffee pot plant I bought 18 months ago has seemingly died and been resurrected multiple times since I purchased it, other pot plants have not fared so well. My gardens have been full of dead things for as long as I can remember. Including multiple dead pets (mostly birds… mostly finches… mostly dead in one day… well, 12 of them). Anyway. Should these dead flora and fauna ever plan to come back to haunt me, this gnome (available from Etsy) will provide all the leadership they need.
Absolutely the best image to come out of the News of the World scandal
Wendi Deng’s amazing boxing skills notwithstanding, this is probably the only real legacy of Rupert Murdoch’s “I don’t know, I wasn’t told” appearance in Britain last week.
Via Tumblr somewhere.
Light reading: Five books repurposed as lights
I love books. Physical books. I like reading on my kindle, and even more on my iPad. But the tactile experience of a book, and the visual thrill of a well-stocked set of shelves will keep me heading to second hand bookshops, the book depository, and whatever physical bookshop is still solvent after this year.
Turning books into lamps is now old hat. Well. I saw these ones a while ago. I meant to post them, but then I forgot. The light comes on when the book is opened.
There’s a how to, including a video, here.
I love these ones for the steampunk bulbs. I can’t imagine they’d be cheap to replace if you kicked a soccer ball, or a shoe, or some sort of miscellaneous projectile into it.
This one, from Suck UK is a lamp/bookmark combo.
And here’s another that has a little more spine… each lamp uses a single book.
But for something a little more classy, you could always have a crack at putting together a book chandelier (or just buy one for 440GBP).
Monkey see, Monkey shoot
It turns out it’s less dangerous (as you’d expect) for a monkey to get hold of a camera, where they’ll take delightful self portraits…
… than it is for a monkey to get hold of a machine gun.