More on the Phoenix Lander
I think I’ve got a crush on the Phoenix Lander — I can’t stop looking at it. The New York Times has a write up and a slide show about the upcoming 7 mintues of terror I posted about yesterday. Some cool tid-bits from the article: After traveling 422 million […]
Open Source Monsters
Stefan Bucher has been making a series of illustrations of joyous monster by laying down a blob of black ink, streaking it with compressed air and sketching over it. He posts nifty time lapse videos of each creation that expose the tricks of his style. What’s really cool is he […]
The Work of Greg Brotherton
I just came across Greg Brothertons web site and found some great figures done entirely in sheet metal. If I had made these figure I’d want to complete all the welds and grind them smooth. But he resists that temptation and incorporates the tack-welds (all the small dots you see […]
The Searchers Flicker Stream
I just came across a fantastic flicker photo stream belonging to an artist calling himself The Searcher (Derek Chatwood). He has a series of “pop comic inspired artwork” called Color in which each image is pared with a short story/blurb. Go check them out. Here are some of my picks: […]
Iron Sky
Towards the end of World War II the staff of SS officer Hans Kammler made a significant breakthrough in anti-gravity. From a secret base built in the Antarctic, the first Nazi spaceships were launched in late ‘45 to found the military base Schwarze Sonne (Black Sun) on the dark side […]
Feast Your Neardly Eyes
Feast Your Neardly Eyes Upon These Retrotastic Sciencefictional Illustrated Novel Covers And Know You Are Not Alone In Your Dreams Of Battling The Nine Tentacled Moshmogular Beast Of Neblous 9 With Your Quadphasic Ray Emiiter!!
Cardboard Institute of Technology
If you live in the bay area I seriously recommend you that you head down into the Mission district and check out the new super cool instillation by the Cardboard Institute of Technology called Cardburg. They have built an incredible detailed, miniature city out of cardboard. There is a cave […]
Very old school forging.
My buddy Ben has this great video on his blog, Backbone Metals. The black and white film does not do this justice. Keep in mind that the huge glowing thing they are working is around 2300 degrees F. The best part of this film is towards the end as the […]
Cosmic Motors: The Universe of Daniel Simon
One of things that drew me to the Steampunk Treehouse project was the groups shared philosophically goal of trying to create a complete world. We wanted it to seemed as if the Treehouse was part of some neverwas world. I also attempted to create something of a world around the […]
Jeff Koons Hanging Choo Choo
Artist Jeff Koons wants to dangle a replica of train from crane in down town LA. You can read more here and here. I’m not sure I really connect with this piece. I like the idea of a running, hooting, train suspended above people but I think the crane is […]
The Phonautograph of Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville
This is simply the cools it’s thing I’ve seen all week. Yes, I think it even tops the Two o’Clock Titty. The image below is a “phonautograph”machine invested in 1860, 17 before Edison and and his wax cylinders, by a French inventor Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville. It was invented to […]
Measuring Jug by Harry White
By Harry White Design.
The Eiffel Tower Extension — Wow
Sorry to just cut and paste, but I found all of this info fascinating: The Eiffel tower in Paris suffers from its success. Since its creation the amount of visitors coming to reach its top has increased to reach its limit capacity. 6.5 millions People wait between 35 minutes to […]
Steampunk Treehouse — Coachella update
Well Coachella is coming up really soon and the Steampunk Treehouse crew has been hard at work getting our little treehouse ready. We’ve gotten a bulk of the basic upkeep and repair work done and can now take some time to do some cosmetic work. One of the first things […]
The Art of Shawn Barber
Beautiful, sensual, solefull painting of tattoo artists, their tattoos and their tools.