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seeking to incite select individuals from the public at large, perhaps you

Potomac Avenue — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:53:05 -0800

Under the rainbow: an introduction to the off-kilter world of Mark Jenkins. Since Tapemen in 2005 (previously on Metafilter) he's progressed to more realistic individuals embedded in strange and stressful situations.

"All I got in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break either of 'em for nobody!"

bigmusic — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 16:43:12 -0800

Before the mouse, there was the trackball. Built for DATAR in 1952, DATAR turned out to be a complete failure. The next user interface device that used a ball was the mouse at Xeroc Parc in 1972. Trackballs are a dying breed of interface devices. But sometimes a trackball just seems more natural choice for certain applications - not so obvious for others. Would you sit on one?

Art with perspective

hippybear — Sat, 02 May 2009 10:40:21 -0800

Hand-drawn holograms. I've stumbled across a technique for drawing holograms directly upon a plastic plate by hand. It sounds impossible, but I've been sitting on the livingroom sofa making holographic images of floating polyhedra, words, 3D starfields, opaque objects, etc. No laser, no isolation table, no darkroom, no expensive film plates. This takes nothing more than a compass and some scraps of plexiglas. Too cool, if I say so myself! But are they actually holograms? The process has been published, and the author has a pretty good analysis of why the answer is "yes, they are." Evidently others are also working with this method. How can this have been around since 1995? Really? Jeez, where have I been?

Zines!

Kattullus — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:35:23 -0800

The Zine Library has hundreds of zines in pdf format for your perusal. They are organized into categories ranging from the common political (anarchism, political prisoners & animal liberation) and identity based zines (indigenous, race & gender) to the more esoteric (anarchist history, primitivism & theory) as well as the useful (cooking, DIY & organizing manuals) and arty (art, comics & music). Now, zines are by their very nature hit and miss but there are some real treasures to be found. I recommend these three: [all links pdf] The Rebel's Dark Laughter - The Writings of Bruno Filippi, Barefoot in the Kitchen and Delivery from Below, Resistance from Above - Electricity and the Politics of Struggle in Tembisa, South Africa. Note: Many if not most zines are set up to be printed out and bound together in chapbooks. That requires a bit of going back and forth when reading in pdf-format, but they wouldn't be real zines if they were straightforward to read ;) Don't know what a zine is? A pretty good overview is provided by zine librarian Jenna Freedman in Zines Are Not Blogs: A Not Unbiased Analysis. [This site has been posted previously but was buried deep in the weeds of more inside]

The Japanese Garden

Effigy2000 — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:54:57 -0800

Paradise: The Gardens of Tokyo. A collection of amazing photographs of Japanese gardens as taken by Tim Porter. Impressed and want to see more Japanese gardens? Look here and here for more links to more photos of some beautiful Japanese-style gardens from around the world. For further reading, check out Meditations on the Japanese Garden and The Modern Japanese Garden. And if after all of that you feel inspired to turn your garden into a Japanese garden of your own, The Japanese Garden Journal has you covered. Mind you, building the bridge sounds kind of tricky...

Can you make yarn from beard hair?

betaray — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 08:52:54 -0800

Scandinavian Grace's beard cap has inspired the internet. Now plans are available to make your own bearded cap. Have a large head? No problem! Skeleclavas lack a beard, but make warming your head a little more hardcore

Clockwork tiger.

loquacious — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 08:13:15 -0800

Clockwork steampunk rideable tiger. (via YouTube.) Flickr photos here. Artist's site here.

Asphalt art

edgeways — Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:59:15 -0800

Asphalt mosaics: Forget spraypaint, a DIY to a more permanent form of public art.

They make my head hurt.

thatwhichfalls — Sat, 22 May 2004 13:48:33 -0800

Impossible Objects
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Do it yourself art projects (by Yoko Ono, Bruce Nauman, Gilbert & George, Nam June Paik Natthew Barney and more)

hypnorich — Sun, 11 Jan 2004 17:09:19 -0800

Do it yourself art projects – a how-to manual (by Yoko Ono, Bruce Nauman, Gilbert & George, Nam June Paik, Matthew Barney and more). I can't wait to try and turn my washing machine into a pinhole camera, to create a photo "in the time it takes to bake a cake". (warning: Quicktime)