Mario Marín has made an incredible collection of models and sculptures based on polyhedra, often using everyday and readily available items. The site is in Spanish, but click on the links on the left and there are plenty of photographs, and more can be seen in Mario's blog.
This is a true story. an instructable about how to be awesome, based on my friend, Andranick Smith. He has an afro (which he can stick pencils into, as seen in the photo above), and is, in all aspects, awesome. This is the first post of many, a story about How To Be Awesome.
Just a Christmas pic, not for a challenge. I got the Big Lens App after seeing Cerek's photo I love this group! Merry Christmas to everyone!
This week's post on creating 6-sided Kirigami Snowflakes got me interested in seeing whether I could use the process to create tessellation snowflakes using the method. I still haven't succeeded, but I did decide to make some ornaments based off a few of the tessellations by M.C. Escher that have a 6 sided symmetry.
I saw this car as i was driving home on Thursday morning, Thanksgiving. after a heavy night of partying, and thought it would make a great image. Taken with my Galaxy S Samsung Epic 4G, then imported to lightroom for some tweaking
Just watched PBS origami doc Between the Folds last night. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend it. It's a beautiful film, really inspiring. Lots of Math Craft-related subject matter. Available instant on Netflix, or for rent on iTunes.
This is just too cool. As soon as I saw this, I thought, "Math Craft!"
Just when I thought I'd scoured the internet for every cool existing PVC project, this thing came up.
TANK DOG!!! Most hilarious costume I've seen this year. YouTube user darkbluedrew won first place at their local Petsmart's Howl-o-ween costume contest. Complete with a real enough weapon...
I'm sure many of you have already seen this, but being Halloween and mathematically inspired, I thought I'd dig up an old favorite for those who may have missed it. Original post with quote from Cyriak here. More fractal hands: Tim Hawkinson's "Fruit" Series
Are you excited about the "Dark Knight Rises"? If you're looking forward to seeing Bane in the movie, try to bring him to life this Halloween by dressing up as him yourself. This Bane cosplay tutorial will show you how to build your own costume. It's so convincing, it'll look like you're straight out of the Batman movie yourself.
Today, I'm on an art kick, and sadly (happily) I'm finding things that are cooler than the things I make. I love seeing waste turned into art!
I built this the other day from the weird gear plans at http://lisaboyer.com/Claytonsite/Claytonsite1.htm
After seeing your tutorial on making PVC sculptures, I remembered Theo Jansen. His sculptures are so beautiful. Are they made with PVC? It's some kind of plastic tubing...
Redstone inventions are a staple of Minecraft, and computers designed with it have been a popular form of construction. User dudearent006 takes this to another level with this staggering creation - a highly advanced redstone computer! Featuring 150 bits of RAM, a 10-bit processor and a GPU advanced enough for its own topic, this mind-blowing creation has to be seen to be believed.
This guy has a lot of cool projects, and he's one of my influences toward seeing what else this pipe can do.
Saw this while going through some Minecraft 1.8 how to guides on YouTube. These guys are a bit silly with their accents, but it is a pretty cool video of how to use the bow and arrow in the new release of Minecraft.
I saw this dead cat on the side of the road going to my school. He was struck by a rushing car. #Teary eye
I can't remember who this was, but saw them at the Troubadour. They were opening for another band. There was like two people there for the opener. Felt kinda bad, but that's life.
This is the best game related short I've ever seen. Everything is so well done it's hard to believe it's not a major motion picture.
Vincent Laforet shot this beautiful narrative short film in less than 72 hours, amazingly, without any pre-production time. It's said to have "...created a storm of curiosity about the potential of the EOS 5D Mark II." And now that you've seen it, go behind the scenes with Laforet as he talks about how the shots were lit, how the camera was rigged, why certain lenses were used, and how it was edited.
(Warning, cuss words throughout)
Ofer Shapiro, Vidyo's CEO talks with Robert Scobleizer and shows of their new telepresence architecture that scales video quality with each individuals connection. The result is a very high quality stream that works across several platforms: Mac, PC, Linux, iPhone, & iPad.
Star Fox meets David Bowie in the best thing I have ever seen.
Watch this beautifully shot film and try to guess what the product is.
All you Pixar Cars fans out there have surely seen the Cars 2 trailer by now, but now you can watch it done all with LEGO. Awesome job and great advertisement for LEGO and PIXAR.
Wow. I'm not much of an MW or BF player but the first 12 minutes of the game are visually impressive, probably the best graphics and animations I've ever seen. Lots of game has great graphics but if the animations are not up to par (The Witcher 2), the game suffers considerably.
Scrabble Cooking Scrabble Gardening
Above are the first 2 movie posters released for Pirates 4. 2 More posters were released today which are found below.
Its a quick slip and dive to the finish, well the end of the course,The idea is a slip and slide down a rough course of mud and water, snaking about side to side, while having hay and saw dust thrown at you at first, then the nasty stuff begins!horse dung is thrown at you while you slide down and then there is a ramp, and at the other end, is a huge pile of horse and cow dung!...The diving is judged by a panel of 3 judges and the person scores the best dive wins!Its that simple!
People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.
"Need some help with your Oscar pool? Mike the Greek is back with day 2 of Oscar Week on thesubstream.com. He's seen all the Oscar nominated films and so he even knows which ones are gonna win in the categories that nobody cares about."
Presidential Portrait Bust of Stephen Colbert was created in 2008. I made it after reading his book, and seeing how far he took the running for President joke.
Photographer Sara Naim creates an oddly beautiful visual documentation of sound: Beethoven's classic Moonlight Sonata, envisioned with milk.
WoooofTTttTTTtT...! God Running Windows; Ah Yes I Seen The Light, & Rotten Apple CorezZz...LOL..
Here are the 3 movie trailers for the feature film Battle Los Angeles.
Taste of Beirut is one of my new favorite food blogs. Joumana grew up in Beirut during the sixties and seventies and her blog is a tribute to her national food. I saw this recipe for arak-spiked chocolate cake and thought it looked delicious!
Amazing places to visit - which ones do you want to see, or have you seen?
We've seen it before, but India's Wall of Death never ceases to awe and amaze. Below, taken from the Guardian's Eyewitness photo series, a man performs the incredibly dangerous stunt during Jhiri Mela, in India ("a fair held every November in memory of a farmer who killed himself in the face of unjust demands from a landlord").
Mike and Rajo saw Tron Legacy in Imax 3d at Aintitcoolnews' Buttnumbathon after being awake for 24 hours and it melted our faces off.
