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Life in a shop of flux

Cool stuff comes from Sweden, take my friend Mattias for instance. He’s from Sweden. He’s cool. He even likes lakes.

Anyway, this Flux Shop also comes from Sweden, like Ikea, and sells cool stuff for you to put together at home. Also like Ikea.

Like this box. It comes with a bunch of test tubes holding different coloured paints and some paper. And you shake it all about. And you get a painting.

Or this one, where you get a reversed artwork, and 100 questions to figure out what’s behind it in order to get the key. After you’ve bought it.

Their commitment to mixing and matching also led to the creation of this “religious” text, where readers can mix and match between three books, I think one is the Bible, but I can’t tell what the others are…

November 21, 2010

Bacon Kevin Bacon

So Kevin Bacon has never played Bond, James Bond, but doubtless he’s connected within six degrees to all the guys who have. I did almost call this post 360 degrees of Kevin Bacon. That may have been cleverer.

But his claim to fame¹ is his name – and here he is being represented as only a man named Bacon can be.

¹Other than being at the heart of the six degrees of Kevin Bacon experiment.

October 22, 2010

Nice Shots: A life through the lens of a shooting gallery

Ria van Dijk has visited the same shooting gallery almost every year of her life. A shooting gallery that spits out a polaroid of people who successfully hit the target.

Here she is at 16.

She’s 88 and still a dead eye.

From this gallery here.

October 19, 2010

Matchstick Tirith

You know you’ve got too much time on your hands if you can recreate an incredibly complex structure from a piece of fiction entirely out of matchsticks. But if you go to the trouble your work kind of deserves the international attention it garners on blogs around the world.

From a website called matchstick marvels, which is as awesome as it sounds.

“Iowa artist Patrick Acton has glued over 3 million ordinary wooden matchsticks into more than 60 incredibly detailed scale models of life-like sculptures, complex machines, and world renown architecture. Acton has used the tiny 2 inch long sticks to build huge models like his 13-foot long true-to-scale model of the battleship USS Iowa, and a 12-foot lighted model of the United States capitol. The Matchstick Marvels display has drawn visitors from all over the United States and dozens of foreign countries. “

October 5, 2010

Wookie of the year

Winnie the Pooh stories would have been cooler if Winnie was a wookie. Right?

Here’s proof.

From artist James Hance, there are more.

September 1, 2010

Transform(er) your church

I would really like to slip these windows into a church. Just to see how long it would take an eagle eyed child to notice. Given the amount of time I spend looking at the windows, while preachers studiously try to make eye contact with me, I reckon it’d take less than five minutes.

From this DeviantArtist – AutoBotWonko.

April 28, 2010

Cool stuff, everyday

Just to prove my point about art last week – this guy produced something cool almost every day of 2009. The M&Ms and shattered photography below are examples. Here are some more that I like.

1/12/09: Scrapped / Crushed Matchbox Car - matchbox car + sledge hammer + clay

1/12/09: Scrapped / Crushed Matchbox Car – matchbox car + sledge hammer + clay

1/03/09: Rules – blank paper + thread + tape + exacto

7/16/09: fencing

4/4/09: fatal paper airplane crash

April 13, 2010

Shattering photography

These “shattered” everyday objects are tops.

1/24/09: Shattered coffee cup

1/25/09: Shattered banana peel

1/26/09: Shattered rubber ducky

1/27/09: Shattered cap

1/28/09: Shattered pacifier

1/29/09: Shattered queen of diamonds

Via here.

April 13, 2010

Pop culture M&Malism

These are cool. I’ll be posting more from where they come from shortly.

2/28/09: the simpsons

3/2/09: the blue man group carving a pumpkin

3/3/09: kermit the frog about to walk across hot coals

3/4/09: papa smurf gets angry, turns into the hulk

Via here.

April 13, 2010

The emperor’s new cups

I am of the opinion that Styrofoam cups are a single use affair. They’re lucky to last a whole use in my hands. I like to rip them into shreds. This guy likes to turn them into art, selling them on the Internet for a tidy profit… though reading through his description of the effort one of his pieces took on Flickr makes me wonder if it’s all worthwhile.

If you want to pay $190 for a $0.03 cup then this guy wants to talk to you… I’ll scribble on a cup for just $5.

April 2, 2010

Paper Mario Bros

This Mario is made entirely out of paper. Which is pretty awesome. And if you want to make your own (but who would? Seriously?) then you can get the template file here.

March 27, 2010

Dust to dust

Dust makes me sneeze – and getting rid of it makes me happy. This artist, Paul Hazleton, collects dust and turns it into art.

February 22, 2010

Uninstallation Art

This is a cool sculpture. Created by artist Caleb Larsen, it is set up to perpetually sell itself on eBay.

Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet connection to check if it is for sale on the eBay. If its auction has ended or it has sold, it automatically creates a new auction of itself.

If a person buys it on eBay, the current owner is required to send it to the new owner. The new owner must then plug it into ethernet, and the cycle repeats itself.

It’s currently listed at just over $6,500.

February 9, 2010

Pet sounds

There’s a character in Douglas Adam’s Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency who made his mark in computer world by writing a program that turned financial spreadsheets into music.

This guy wrote a program that turns pictures into music – taking the RGB values of every pixel and converting them into a three note harmonic.

It sounds clever – clever enough to be worth patenting. Only somebody else has already done that. So he’s closed down the program that used to be online. One day though people. One day I will hear the sound of turtles… they don’t actually make noise.

January 21, 2010

The bread of life

An artist who was perhaps tired of unverifiable claims of Jesus appearing in believer’s daily bread has recreated the crucifixion using slices of toast.

From here.

“British artist Adam Sheldon recreated Jesus’ crucifixion using some pieces of burned toast and a scraping knife. His work of art is now on display at the Anglican Church of St Peter, in Lincs.

33-year-old Adam Sheldon took on the project at the request of his mother, who worships at St. Peter’s Church. Before starting work on his 1.8 ,meters long, 1.1 meters wide masterpiece, Adam scraped the Last Supper on three pieces of toast, to perfect his technique.

He used a regular toaster to burn the pieces of bread, then dried and flattened them so they would fit in a giant frame. Using a scraping knife he managed to create the lighter parts of the artwork, and darkened the background with a blowtorch.”

January 21, 2010