Star Wars Origami
How can one not be impressed by origami in the form of Star Wars ships and characters? *drool* Link Link Link Link How do they DO that? Related site: Top 176 Star Wars Lines Improved By Replacing A Word With “Pants”
Peter Callesen
http://www.petercallesen.com/
Fractal Weave – Public Sculpture
Austrailian artist, David Jensz, was commissioned to create a sculpture for the Civic Library & Link project in Canberra's Civic Square.
Mathematic Origami
Jeremy Shafer of BARF (Bay Area Rapid Folders) and author of Origami to Astonish and Amuse is a connoisseur of entertainment. He juggles fireballs, unicycles, handwhistles… and probably most impressively, he folds. He folds paper, that is, and he folds it into the most ornate tessellation patterns! “One of Shafer's signature pieces is the “flasher.” The flasher hat below folds
Cool Stuff Made of Legos
Techeblog presents their
Thing in a Jar
How would you like to find this in your fridge, or perhaps have it given to you as a gift? Drew Olbrich has one of these sitting in his office at work. He calls it “thing in a jar.” omigod. gross. (but it sure beats the candybar in a jar of apple juice gag)
Wood that Works
Artist David C. Roy has always been fascinated by mechanics and motion. He graduated with a degree in physics that led him to the creation of these unique kinetic sculptures. He has handcrafted over 90 limited-edition and one-of-a-kind scupltures that require no battieries or electricity; they just need winding, then the spring-driven mechanism takes over, providing 3 – 20 hours
Ceramics and Pottery
http://pottery.netfirms.com/ Teaching and learning the basics of working with clay
George’s Geometric Sculptures
Artist George W. Hart creates geometric sculptures out of common household objects, paper, plastic, metal and wood. When asked how he gets ideas for his work, he says he just visualizes the forms and usually knows exactly which material he wants to use to execute the visualization. He often makes paper models woven with ribbon to work out the details
Pencil Carving
Mizuta Tasogare and Kato Jado have taken up a cool hobby. Pencil carving. With fascinating skill and precision, they carve unique patterns and intricate designs out of the ordinary wood pencil. You'll have to see it to believe it.
Exploring the Fourth Dimension
Adrian Ocneanu, professor of mathematics at Penn State, designed a stainless-steel sculpture that's not only an aesthetically interesting work of art, but a mental portal to the fourth dimension used as a teaching tool. “In the three-dimensional world, there are five regular solids — tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron — whose faces are composed of triangles, squares or pentagons.
Geometric Sculptures by Bathsheba Grossman
Bathsheba Grossman is an artist who creates 3D geometric scupltures out of metal. They are remarkably beautiful, not just because of their unusual shapes, but because of the 3D printing technology that allows the artist to build a physical metal sculpture from a digital 3D object created in CAD. The handheld sculptures are very reasonably priced. I love miniature objects,