When does playing with toys become an artform? When you stop calling it a Hot Wheels track and instead dub it kinetic sculpture, apparently. Chris Burden has crossed the admittedly hazy line between Hot Wheels fan and Hot Wheels artist with Metropolis II, a super-massive construction that runs 1100 toy cars in constant motion over […]
New York-based filmmaker Kirby Ferguson has just released Everything is a Remix: The Elements of Creativity, the third of a fourth part series exploring how innovations truly happen. Check it out: [Everything is a Remix]
Thousands of blinking LED lights were dropped from an helicoper over the bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee last week. The only indication about what this is all about leads to missionicefly.com, a site that features a countdown and a mention that “test subjects are needed now.” [Mission Icefly]
Last week we brought you the news that a British city was officially acknowledged as being vulnerable to a zombie invasion. Now we can tell you that such an invasion happened… and Leicester survived. The city made the headlines after a man wrote to the council and, under freedom of information laws, requested details of […]
Click picture to enlarge! We geeks are a varied lot, that’s for sure, but people are always assuming we’re all alike. They couldn’t be more wrong, and now there’s a simple illustration to show them just how not right they are. [source via Flavorwire]
This pretty awesome origami model of batman was made by origami wizard Brian Chan. Brian has also folded another version since the first one only looked good from a certain angle. We’ve also included a papercraft model of the batmobile by paper folder Claudio in the picture gallery below. [Sources: 1, 2, 3]
It’s Father’s Day and dads everywhere are getting ties and keychains and coffee mugs they’ll totally use all the time. Thanks, kids! Get the old man some coffee in that new mug and keep the paternal theme going with these [GAS]-approved tidbits. Then gather ’round the garage and make a rocket together or something. Dads […]
No longer is the art of cross-stitch reserved for the elderly or cat-obsessed. As geekiness sweeps its well-versed arm over the masses, all manner of awesome things are happening, even in something as old-fashioned as embroidery. These aren’t your grandma’s alphabet samplers; this is the Internet, and we can has art. (Click thumbnails to enlarge!) […]
James Franco, the actor-artist-author-director-resident weirdo, has a brand new (and appropriately strange) collaborative project underway–MONA: the Museum of Non-Visible Art. That’s non-visible as in “invisible” as in “there’s nothing to see here.” According to the project’s Kickstarter page (which was fully funded and then some in a blink and a half): The Non-Visible Museum is an extravaganza […]
We still don’t have hoverboards or robot maids, but a collaborative effort between Samsung and the University of California San Diego may make sure we do still live at least partly in the future we imagined. Behold, geeks, I give you: Smell-o-Vision. Virtual smells have long eluded developers by being too difficult to control, impractical […]