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Helmets

retro vintage motorcycle helmets Pictures of boxes full of sweet vintage motorcycle helmets

One Man Basement Band

one man band
I feel like I could be getting more mileage out of my right foot.

Liberty

liberty vintage motorcycles An Etsy portrait. Thanks, Danny.

Tequila Sleeve

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Champs sleeve

Wolf-Stelzer Book Lamp

Book Lamp
My friend Tess just made the cover of ReadyMade with her cool lamp design.

Tree Stump Bug

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Can this be for real? The design is so awesomely Thunderbirds. Via

The Nothing Box

nothing box

Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds are go
Are Go!

Command Center

command center
Sweet assemblage spaceship’s bridge.

Four Drano’s

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Watch the sink slowly, all but disappear from the design .

Toothpaste Aerosol

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Aerosol toothpaste

Girl From Ipanema on Stylophone

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Girl From Ipanema. Watch this short documentary to learn more about the Stylophone.

Light Stencils

light stencils
Cool photography technique.

Funny Video Tutorial.

Evil Mad Science Larson Scanner

larson scanner
Lovely and mesmerizing. The best $13 I have spent in a long time (get the 10mm).

Make an LED Color Organ

LED color organ light organ
Colin Cunningham builds an LED light organ.






Archive for May, 2007

Needle Anaglyph

Wednesday, May 30th, 2007

this image is set up for right eye RED glasses.
Stereo nerds! Pull out your 3D glasses.
After I was done photographing some dirt under my stereo microscope the other day, it occured to me that I might be able to make some 3D micrographs. I took one shot through each eyepiece of [...]

Is This a Meteorite?

Tuesday, May 29th, 2007

They’re falling all the time

You see, just becuase you’re not awakened at night by a crashing sound, then wander into the living room to see a smoking crater in the floor and a hole in your ceiling that you could drop a refrigeratior through, doesn’t mean that a meteorite didn’t land on your house.

How to Make Concrete Steps

Monday, May 28th, 2007

Got a spot that needs a set of concrete steps? Readymade wood stair stringers make great, easy forms for small concrete stair jobs. Intended for use as a structural part of wooden staicases, they also save you the brainwork of figuring out the proper rise and run when bulding forms for concrete steps.

I’m [...]

Trashballs!

Friday, May 4th, 2007

There is looking at life’s debris (see finkbuilt masthead), and then there is encapsulating it in one-inch diameter clear plastic balls and selling it in gumball machines. D.C. junkman/artist Christopher Goodwin does the latter with his wonderful Trashball! project.
Mail Order Trashballs
If you’re not in the D.C. area (currently the only city that has [...]