These are quite nice. An artist builds one of a kind lamps from old bottle, pipes and bit of antique brass. This should serve as an inspiration to anyone looking for a project.
[via Boing Boing]
Category: Design
Glide Multi Format Panoramic Camera
This camera is for you only if your very serious about photography. The GILDE 66-17 MST Super 3D is simply amazing. It shoots on 120/220 film (kept in a removable magazine for easy ISO swapping mid roll) in formats from the traditional square 6×6 to the mega panoramic 6×23. It will even accept a variety of stereo lens boards. And if that isn’t enough, it will also do tilt shifting to correct perspective distortions. This is some serious camera hardware! A base camera will set you back about 4,000 Euros, fully loaded runs around 20,000 Euros. To me, if I had the money, it would be a perfectly fantastic camera. It’s got all the bells and chrome you could want in a medium format camera.
An Isometric New York by Eboy
Nothing like a little isometric fun on a Saturday morning. Pixle artist Eboy has another masterpiece that you can oogle online or even buy if you want. I love these things, the level of detail is superb and you can look at it again and again and still find little hidden details that you missed the last time. Eboy even has a book
[via Boingboing]
Fonts, Fonts, Fonts Galore!
You can never have enough fonts. OK, I guess you can if you have to keep them loaded in memory all the time. that would be a drag. Anyway, if you ever wanted to spell something in a font from a movie, game, product, or just about anything else you can find them here. Best of all, it’s free! Cool, eh? (BTW, this goes in the ‘to be used for evil’ category just because of all the fun you could have by doctoring things like DVD covers, not that I’d suggest that of course…)
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day
On the last Sunday in April (the 30th this year), finish that box of oatmeal that’s been laying around in your cupboard for years and build your self a pinhole camera ’cause its World Pinhole Photography Day! That’s right, it’s the time of year when all are encouraged to take a lens less photo and share it with the world. I love taking pinhole photos myself, in fact I’ve gotten quite good at not using glass in my photos. If your a bit stumped on how to go about making a camera the WPPD site has some resources for you. You can even use a pinhole in the body cap of a DSLR if you want. I hope to see your photos up there on the 30th.
Last years gallery is good if your looking for inspiration.
Apollo Lunar Module Paper Project
Every now and then a paper project catches my eye and I just know I have to share. This is one of them. Here is a 1/48th scale paper model of the Apollo lunar lander that will blow your mind. the detail is breath taking. He’s got more paper spaceships (or links to them) on his site as well. This is going to keep me busy for a while…