Dad sends his son's favourite train, Stanley, into space
posted by jontyjago on Sep 21, 2012 - 44 comments

Levitated Interaction Element Move, record and playback a ball along a path in a three-dimensional space.
posted by urbanwhaleshark on May 10, 2012 - 18 comments

Making water appear to levitate usually requires a strobe light to trick the eye. If you don't have a fancy system to control water flow, you can run water through a tube taped to a speaker playing very low frequency sound, and again use a strobe light to make the water appear to defy gravity. Or you can ditch the strobe, and sync the sound waves to the frame rate of a video camera to make water drops appear to hover.
posted by filthy light thief on Apr 12, 2012 - 15 comments

Love love is a floating sculptural installation by Julien Berthier.
posted by Devils Rancher on Jan 27, 2011 - 13 comments

Does it suck? Or does it rock? No, this is NOT like Will It Float? or Will It Blend? It's a cute use of the Google API to search for how often your inquiry comes up as "x sucks" or "x rocks" or a small number of other similar phrases. MetaFilter rates 8.7 out of 10 (87% rocks, 13% sucks). A delightfully evil way to rate - and compare - various things.
posted by wendell on Mar 14, 2007 - 92 comments

Float (youtube) is the first of a series of short films designed to stir the imagination. The brief film shows the streets of Melbourne as the letters & numbers from every sign in town begin to peel off & float away on the wind. The project lives here, and open contributions are being listed here.
posted by jonson on Oct 6, 2006 - 16 comments