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Orange Peel Art
7:05 pm by admin in Sculpture
Bored and wanting to boost your vitamin C intake?
While many will discard the peel when they eat an orange, others will save the zest for later use. There are a few who will turn it into a work of art. Jeu d’oranges is a site that hosts a monthly orange peel sculpting contest. The name of the site means Orange Game, or Game of Oranges. To enter your creation, you must carve it out of one whole piece of peel and photograph it on a black background, without letting it harden and dry. Every 15 days, the peel with the greatest number of votes will be posted on the homepage.
More Robots - The LongPen
8:36 pm by admin in Uncategorized
Apparently, Margaret Atwood hates signing books. Note that the picture is not actually the LongPen, as it has yet to be unveiled. Stay tuned…
Margaret Atwood of Canadian Sci-Fi author fame has created a little gadget to help her laziness and potentially piss off her fans and fellow authors. She has invented a robotic hand called the LongPen, it will help her do book signing tours by allowing everything to be done remotely. The LongPen will include a video screen so she can still communicate with her fans and she will also still do actual signing remotely and the robotic hand will emulate the strokes.
Medici’s Influence not Just Art, But Chocolate
10:21 am by admin in Crafts
A new exhibit at the Civic Museum of Monsummano Terme, just north of Florence, explores the history of chocolate in Europe. The show pays particular attention to the ways in which the patronage of the Medici dynasty furthered the art of chocolate making in much the same ways it advanced the areas of art and architecture. Cosimo III de Medici commissioned new chocolate recipes in order to compete with those of the Spaniards and to impress other aristocrats. One of the results was a jasmine-infused chocolate drink, often presented to visiting dignitaries as an example of the Medici splendor. The exhibit, “Chocolate: from Spanish perfection to the exquisite courtesy of the Tuscan court” continues through April 30.
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Oldies, but Goodies!
Tracing Shadows
Many, many chalk tracings of hydrants and bicycles started cropping up all over Brooklyn this past spring.
During daylight, the outlines did not make much sense. Shopkeepers and bar owners had little information. Deliverymen muttered to themselves as they moved their outlined bicycles indoors. Parents were just as confused as their young children.
But under […]
Beautiful Hand Painted Mice
These crazy kalinka-rinky dinks from Ekaterinburg (Ural, Russia) are too precious. Buy one now for your sweet babushka.
Haha, Wedding Robots!
I just saw a Google advertisement on this site for ‘Welding Robots’, which I had mistakenly read as ‘Wedding Robots‘… which turn out to exist!
Wedding photographers could be put out of a job by a robot developed by scientists at Washington University in St Louis in the US.
The machine, called Lewis, looks like an […]
Pop Art Stampede in Paris
A fibre-glass cow titled “Time for Seduction,” and dressed by French lingerie designer Chantal Thomass.
The herd of fibreglass bovines will be spread through the centre of the capital from Thursday, including along some famous landmarks, such as the Champs-Elysees, the Garnier Opera and in the chic Saint-Germain district.
Among them is a sculpture of a cow […]
Orange Peel Art
Bored and wanting to boost your vitamin C intake?
While many will discard the peel when they eat an orange, others will save the zest for later use. There are a few who will turn it into a work of art. Jeu d’oranges is a site that hosts a monthly orange peel sculpting contest. The name […]
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