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March 17, 2015
Uncanny DC & Marvel Miniatures Fooled Us With Their Realism
Deviant Artist Xiang Zhang (aka NightT47), from Shanghai, China, paints (and implants hair on) 1/6 scale models with such proficiency and realism that he’s frequently accused of tricking us with Photoshop. He isn’t. Check out his Deviant Art gallery to see him work his magic on Heath Ledger’s Joker, […]
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Hypnotizing Sculptures Are Like Real Life Optical Illusions
Since she graduated in 2008 from the Royal Academy of Fine Art in the Hague, Jennifer Townley has been creating kinetic sculptures. Two of these amazing pieces are featured below. The first sculpture, “Asinas,” was built in 2015. Looking at the video, it’s difficult to see where it starts and […]
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March 16, 2015
Video: Really Elaborate Classic Split-Flip Display
Split-flap displays are found, most commonly it would seem, on older-style alarm clocks. These displays rotate through a sequence of images (12 hours, for instance), showing items in order. Time is one thing to display, but this largely-forgotten mechanism can be used for much more interesting purposes with modern electronics. […]
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It Took a Lot of Clamps to Make This Gorgeous Ukulele
If you really want to prove your woodworking chops, building an acoustic guitar, or a ukulele in this case, is a great way to do this. Woodworking skill aside, you will, apparently, also need an incredible array of clamps to hold everything while gluing, as seen in the original imgur […]
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New Project: LED Lamp With Sleep Timer
I designed a simple LED Lamp with a sleep timer that will automatically dim itself over a set amount of time.
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Adorable Easter-themed Yeti Will Maul Your Heart Apart
Fill your baskets with some woolly cuteness this Easter. Check out these egg shaped toys created by California based artist, Vicky of Asher Jasper. I can’t get enough of her cuddly creations, like this yeti with removable bunny ears. Things made of wool are generally pretty cute by nature, but […]
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Upcycled Pallet Map Has the World on a String
Recycling pallets into other items, generally furniture of some kind, often yields interesting results. Combine this with “string art,” where string is hooked around nails to fill in an area, and you get something quite unique. As shown on this imgur set, or in the gallery below, the setup for […]
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Owl Be Back: Squirelinator 2000 Guards Your Garden
Squirrels may be interesting animals most of the time, but when they are digging up your garden, they need to be dealt with. Some might be tempted to use more lethal methods, but imgur user “metroSFVogange” decided to instead humiliate them with an automated “scare-owl.” This plastic owl was retrofitted […]
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March 15, 2015
Beautiful Map of the World, Burned Into Scrap Wood
Pyrography, or wood burning, is an art form that has been around for nearly as long as mankind. This particular piece, a burned map of the world, however, would only have been available sometime after 1492, or perhaps earlier if you happened to live in a Nordic country. Historical geography […]
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7 Clever Reuses for Retro Video Game Consoles
Video game technology gets updated pretty often, but that doesn’t mean when you get sick of your old games and consoles and update to new ones that you have to get rid of them. Instead, here’s a few pretty awesome ways to repurpose video game equipment so that you can […]
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