If your looking for decorating ideas that are a little out of the norm…
Category: Artistic
Vacuum Tube Sculptures
Here are some amazing miniature dioramas and sculptures that are built inside vacuum tubes. Opening up a vacuum tub can’t be much harder than opening up a light bulb, I’ll have to give this a try.
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Sageous Galleries, Vacuum Tube Sculptures by Peter A. Luber
We Don’t Need No Stinking Dramatic Chipmunk, We Have Shocking Cats!
In the fine instant tradition of the Dramatic Chipmunk (ok, prairiedog) that has been sweeping the Interweb like a firestorm, I give you ‘SHOCKING CATS!" You can thank me later.
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SHOCKING CATS
ArtRage 2
ArtRage 2 is a rather nice little illustration program that gives you the feeling that your working in the actual medium that is being simulated. I have a 4×6 Wacom graphics tablet with a pressure sensitive pen and all that stuff so I get a big kick out of being able to actually use the eraser in a program,. Oh sure, I could use Photoshop if I wanted to but that’s like chartering a bus just to go to the corner store. I like being able to doodle around with different kinds of ‘media’ effects with the pen. ArtRage 2 does just that and more. It’s easy to switch from pencil (variable lead hardness available by the way) to felt tip marker to acrylic paint just by clicking a button. It even blends paint like on a real canvas, except canvas doesn’t have layers and an erase feature. The whole thing reminds me of the old program ‘Fractal Design Painter’. That program is gone and any replacements cost quite a bit. ArtRage 2 is under $20US. Sweet!
ArtRage 2
Theremin Cover Version of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy
Wow. This is just an amazing display of elite Theremin skills.
What is a Theremin? It’s an instrument that is played by disrupting an electric field with your bodies natural capacitance. The disruption produced odd and ethereal tones.
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Laughing Squid » Theremin Cover Version of Gnarls Barkley’s Crazy
Wikipedia – Theremin
Wooden Binary Adding Machine
Quite amazing. I hope he builds some more computer parts out of wood.
… a few months ago, I had an idea as to how the divide by two mechanisms from my first marble machine could be cascaded together to actually function as a sort of adder or counter. Once I had that idea, I knew I had to try it at some point, and recently, I finally got around to building my marble binary adding machine.