Sunday, January 31, 2010

Stelarc: The Artist On The Edge Of Humanity


Boxo21



Yawn, I have been dragging to get anything done today, But pushing on, I will do. I for the most part have been lost in my own thoughts the most prescient being the idea that the universe may in fact only exist as far

The Wooden Sculpture Of Brian Andrews



Here is the work of another member of the GAG who's work will inspire and amaze. This piece like his other work is sculpted wood, beautiful stuff. Brian Andrews is a long time member of the group pretty much since

Behold The Similarities Between The Universe And A Brain Cell



Originally reported by Mark Miller of Brandeis University

Nothing Is For Sale On Amazon

The Biggest question I have is when you buy nothing for a penny do they still expect you to pay the $4.99 Shipping and handling?... OMFG this guy may be a genius! here's the link to buy nothing.

UPDATE: I looked into it and yes you do in fact have to pay the $4.99 shipping and handling charge for your shipment of absolutely nothing at all, making the jerk who thought this up, a freaking genius. Why waste my time trying to make products, when I can sell nothing at all and make dough on the shipping.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Franken Gerbil- Franken-awesome!



Created by Ugly-gerbil, He's the coolest thing right at this moment! He can be found over here.

Pin Barrel Harp, Preparing Our Ears For Our Future Robot Overlords


On a geek level this is incredible eye candy, from a mechanical point of view its truly Hypnotic. Musically it alternates between exquisite and unbelievably horrible its The Long And Winding Road as a train wreck.

Boxom 10



So its a little dark, theres nothing wrong with that. Some rooms in fact require things just like this, mine does.

'Liquid Chaser', Beautiful ,Surreal and Hypnotic



Be sure to click on the High Definition button, then just kick back and enjoy. Posted by Mind Pie with images from Royalty Free HD and music by Tom Fehy who can be found here he also happened to be quite an 

Rational Circles Detail By Stephen Schiller


Stephen Schiller's beautiful image can be found in the Generated Art Group on Flickr. This is a small section of a larger work. His photostream is here, where you can find a number of wonderful things.

Peter Callesen Paper Crafter, Extraordinaire!



Truly amazing work, He has a great website with many examples of his art. from small single sheet pieces to huge installations taking up entire galleries. It can all be seen at www.petercallesen.com

Oliver Sacks On What We Can Learn About The Mind From Hallucinations



This a great talk, Oliver Sacks is brilliant, and the best part is that he talks about Charles Bonnett syndrome.

Friday, January 29, 2010

A Big New Yermit, 'Scooter Yermit'




This new Yermit might be my favorite from Jenny Croal. He comes with a pizza a laptop and a messenger bag. As a proud Yermit owner I can assure you that you'll love him. More Yermits By Jenny can be found at

Boxo22



I am getting impatient for spring and the colors it brings. Join me in my yearning by staring at this picture for a few moments. If after a few moments you decide you want to go on staring at the image, Then this can be arranged here.

Reggie Watts 'Binary Existence'


Heres another by Reggie Watts 'Binary Existence' This ones a little more heavy handed and a lot more political. But, I have to say It carries a message which is worth repeating, Its a little bitter but Its good for you.

...of Unity and Mourning By Lach Franquemont


This is a piece from the artist Lach Franquemont. He takes floral and landscape compositions to incredible extremes. His process creates a pallet of colors which always seem more grown or evolved rather than simply snapped into being. The result is pieces which are as dense verdant and beautiful as nature itself. His Flickr stream is here.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

George The Monster




This is George as far as one eyed purple monsters go he's great. He was created by riolane. Here's some text from his page on Etsy.
"George's lack of depth perception has been a source of great embarrassment for him. He has fallen into

BoxoWR13




I was going to give up this essay I've been working on with this piece but Its turning into bigger project than I was originally anticipating, so I'm not. You are getting this image however and this link to its stuff.

Reasearcher Kamal Meattle Teaches Us How To Grow Our Own Air



When I first read of this guy's work I was blown away and have been telling people about it any chance I get. This guy actually saved his own health by doing this and its simple grow these plants and be

I Updated The Post On The Artist v4w.enko,




The above picture is 'elctr23' also by v4w.enko
UPDATE: Heard from v4wenko and I was pointed to some videos check out this one. link to updated post with video!

Clark From 1st Ave Machine

The Gömböc What Is It?




The Gömböc Is truly a strange object and or a while it existed only in theory. The defining characteristic is its ability to self right, and this is achieved by its having only one stable equilibrium point and one unstable

Monday, January 25, 2010

Boxo 42




You know, in quilt form this could be a great birthday gift for me. Come on!. (you know like Jiprang would say it) oh well, its stuff is over here.

Reggie Watts Performs "I Just Want To"



"Gage" At This Moment Is The Greatest Thing There Is!



Gage is pretty great, and I knew people loved Millie so I had to introduce him to you. Gage and Millie are both from a species called Chimians, apparently. The maker- Morninglori has a whole mythology around

Crayola's Law "Colors Double Every 28 Years"




Those responsible for the site/blog www.weathersealed.com did the work. Text from Weather Sealed-
"To create the chart, Velo gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added

Thank You!

Wow, folks I can't believe the response after just one day of having the fan page, You're all Awesome!

from.skin.2


from.skin.2
Originally uploaded by mark knol

This is a piece from the artist Mark Knol, who is among other things out to destroy fonts text, and symbols, and whatever else gets in the way. He is also a member of; you guessed the Generated Art Pool on Flickr and his stream can be found here.

AudiOdyssey- A Video Game I Suck At




AudiOdyssey is a game which was created by the tech labs at MIT to level the video game playing field for the blind. I've been struggling at this game for like a year now, and the whole plan was, I get good at it. Then

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Curl- I Know Its Out Of Turn Here, But I Wanted To See It




Who's running this show anyway? Its things are here

Hall Of Light


Hall Of Light
Originally uploaded by k erickson photos

My knowledge of K Eriksons work was limited to generative design and I was happily surprised to find this wonderful example of classic black and white photography while looking through the artists Flickr stream. I hope you enjoy it.

I Love Octoplushies




The're the best. super soft and so huggable. You can't help but like them, I know I can't and you can find them here at Etsy and they are made by jaynedanger.

Be Hypnotized By The Spectacular SprintCam v3 Showreel




Beautiful!

The Museum Of Unworkable Devices




This is a great site for anyone interested in the subject of perpetual motion machines. These day's they talk about over unity or zero point energy devices, but its all the same thing energy from nothing. So far nobody

The Very Entertaining Michael Shermer Of The Skeptic At TED




Micheal Shermer is very funny. Few people do a better job at calling bullshit on a subject. This time he uses music and video to do the job and its all about why people people believe in the strange things they do. Here is a link to The Skeptic.

Boxo 3




This ones great and I don't care what you you think, well a little. Do you like it? a bit? well regardless of what you think. About half way irregardless of your opinion it's stuff is here.

Saturday, January 23, 2010

Zombie Bunny- You Know You Want It!




A very dear friend of mine, and follower of Steadfast As Thou Art, fell in love with the last bunny who I featured here. He happened to be a Ogre. Many said he would never find love, but look at him now. Moving

2s_sq



This is a piece by a v4w.enko, who is also a member of the Generated Art Group. I am proud to call myself a fan of the work. I know very little about the creator because he (or she) lives in the Ukraine and

Mandelbulb Amazing 3D Expresion Of The Mandelbrot Set




Mandelbulb is truly a holy grail of sorts (nearly) realized after many years of attempts. Simply put, its a new way of looking at the original equation discovered by Mandelbrot in 3 dimensions which was itself a kind of

The Great Elaine Morgan Talks On the Subject Of The Auquatic Ape Hypothesis




The aquatic ape hypothesis in short supposes that at some point in our evolutionary development we were much more aquatic then we are at present. this can be a jaw dropping idea the first time you hear off it, and at

The Unsettling Case Of David Fratus




I first came across this letter many years ago on Donna Kossy's Kooks site and devoured the whole thing in a night, I have to say it was time well spent. The site is described by its creator as
""THE FREEZE-DRIED KOOKS MUSEUM". Open for all time and eternity, ceaseless, all-knowing and

Friday, January 22, 2010

BoxoWR9




How about something with color, rich deep colors the kind that leave a mark where they once were hanged.
and its stuff is here.

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Musings, A Very Nice Blog; Behold The Melon!




I really enjoy this blog that I found called Musings. The pictures and words are alway's great. Yoli does a great job at making you feel at home there. Like a part of the family. Like her I also fenced when I was younger * and its rare

Raining Right Now

Its raining right now, and I love it, because I got to put in some good umbrella mileage this morning.

I Found It, The Coolest thing For Today!




Here they are Carnivorous Rabbit Suit Dunnys and I think they're the bomb. You can find them on Etsy. They are created by KillTaupe who say's  "He knows he's not like the other rabbits. As they sit nibbling their

Noise Grid

Pretty sweet, This is a new piece from the artist Holgerlippmann. Who just happens to be in my Generated art Group on Flickr be sure to check out his stream as well. Lots of great things in there.

TED Talk - The X-ray Art Of Nick Veasey




This is the truly amazing work the artist Nick Veasey. he specializes in X-ray Photography on huge scales with enough radiation to kill someone. He gets around  that little problem by using models who are in fact

Beautiful, Reversible, Skeleton Watch, Absurdly Expensive!



Jaeger-LeCoultre's beautiful, reversible skeleton Watch, Is so expensive that the makers website won't give you a price. That's rich!. The whole face of the watch can be turned around so you can view the gears on the

Charlie Brown Miro!




I really can't get enough of this I found it at worth 1,000 and was originally posted by Whoshallisay

New Giant Spider Discovered




The newly discovered trapdoor spider is from Israel's sand dunes of Samar and can grow to 5 or 6 inches across. the scientists who discovered it were from Israel’s University of Haifa-Oranim. They Named it Cerbalus Aravensis, For arachnophobes the fact that its beautiful offers no consolation.

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Igor Siwanowicz's Got Bugs




Amazing high resolution bugs! that will blow your mind. Here is his gallery link where you can view hundreds of pictures of his work. I was reminded of him by coming across a site that had 60 pictures (and misspelled his

Monday, January 18, 2010

Gertie Returns Completed And Awesome!




Wow! this is really some incredible craftsmanship here. Every detail is thought out and executed wonderfully.
Whoever ends up with Gertie is sure to love her. Created by Zafras i'm sure we'll be seeing more of the

BoxoZ27




I hope you like this one Its one of my more simple compositions but I think it has a very interesting balance to it maybe you do too? Cards and prints, can be had here.

I Want To Be Carl Sagan But I Can't From NeuroDojo



I came across this very funny post at NeuroDojo a science blog by Zen Faulkes a biologist at the University of Texas Pan-American It begins with-    "I am nearly ready to throttle the next person who mentions Carl Sagan.

The Latest From Toy-A-Day Jay And Silent Bob




These guys are both from the Toy A Day blog. The best part of the site is that the creator of the blog actually makes available as PDFs of all the Toy A Day toys! for free, which are great examples of simple paper craft.

I Know; I Know-

Its been a light day on the posts, but its a holiday, what did you expect?

Incredible Perfornamce Of Then 11 Year Old Sirena Huang




Sirena plays with emotion and skill far beyond her years, and in this performance on TED we actually get to hear her speak for a change (about halfway through) prepare to be impressed.

Tohu777 Makes Awesomeness!




Originally uploaded by tohu777


This guy makes some truly amazing things, and he can be found on the Generated Art Pool on Flickr. Visiting his stream could make you crap yourself, Its that good. Click here to crap yourself
p.s. is that how you spell awesomeness? are there dictionaries for made up words?

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Clifford The Cookie Loving Alien




I could go on and on about how much I love this one and I don't really feel the need to explain why or how awesome this knit creature is, I would do it no justice. Clifford can be found here. and was created by "The Wool Goddess"

A Curta Gets Disassembled Then Successfully Reassembled




A Curta is a mechanical calculator If you are unfamiliar with what that is I suggest you check out the Curta Calculator Page. To people who are familiar with it I am sure you will understand how insane it was to even

Splat7 Well?




This one has a few things which set it apart from the rest of my work. First it’s the closest thing to a traditional landscape which I've done and just about the most representational and most colorful piece to date. In many

Lamebook Is Sometimes Funny!

Here's one I thought was funny. Did I say funny? I meant sad, I don't know. here's the link



A Very Large Sized Thank You To Everyone Who Has Purchased A Calendar


Watch 1902's A Trip To The Moon




I know everyone has seen this still, or the few seconds before and after when the rocket crashes into the moon. I also know very few have ever seen the whole film. For anyone who claims a love for film, science or

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Reggie




By Flibbertygibbits Well i guess I don't know what to say, other than cool! Reggie can be found over here.

Aimee Mullins Talks About Her Amazing 12 Pairs Of Legs On TED




This is a must see TED talk by a lady who is changing the common notions on the limits of the human body.
"Athlete, actor and activist Aimee Mullins talks about her prosthetic legs -- she's got a dozen amazing pairs -- and the superpowers they grant her: speed, beauty, an extra 6 inches of height ... Quite simply, she redefines what the body can be"

"Untitled" By The Smartest Fish




This is truly one of my favorite pieces from the generated art group. I'm pretty sure you will like it too. Here is a link to the group pool and here is the Flickr stream of the artist The Smartest Fish.