Category — Projects & DIY

Obviously someone, somewhere has a need for this torture device doll eyeball removal tool but enough already with the graphic imagery. Yeesh…

Easy out! Best reborn eyeball-removing tool i’ve found (via Boing Boing)

On one hand, these designer cardboard dividers are the epitome of recycled playtime chic. On the other hand, they cost $88 (or $110 for non Museum Of Contemporary Art members), which kind of defeats the object.

Enzo Mari’s Cardboard Divider Offers Plenty of Scope for Imaginative Play (via Inhabitots)

When dismantled, the pieces of Eric Ku’s Flatpack Chair spell out the word CHAIR. Fun! Just to confirm, it definitely does not spell out the word COMFORT.

Fabulous Flatpack Furniture (via Inhabitat)

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Thomas De Bruin has made an alphabet display from sections of Google Earth’s satelite photography. There’s an upper case (as above) and lower case version plus a set of numbers and punctuation – all taken using only Google Earth images of the Netherlands.

Satellite photography alphabet (via Boing Boing)

Unfortunately us UK-based folk are not blessed with the very American, very Nightmare On Elm Street and very iconic yellow school bus. We do, however, have the double decker. And if someone wants to turn an old one into a bus shelter like sculptor Christopher Fennell’s frankly marvelous creation above, i’d probably be more inclined to catch one. Here’s how it’s done…

Decomposed school buses resurrected for bus shelter (via The Design Blog)

This table was crafted from reclaimed strips of wood from an abandoned bowling alley by designer William Stranger. A hands-down highlight from his Second Life collection, currently on display at LA’s Fifth Floor Gallery until 14th November.

Anyone who shares my penchant for Wii Bowling will understand why this thing rocks so hard.

Recycled Bowling Lane Furnitiure is Right up Our Alley (via Inhabitat)

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This 10-story monstrosity known as Minister’s Treehouse belongs to Horace Burgess of Crossville, Tennessee. It’s 100 ft tall and cost (so far – he’s still building) $12,000 in reclaimed wood and (approximately) 258,000 nails!

World’s Tallest Treehouse Built From Reclaimed Wood (via Inhabitots)

French artist Vincent Bousserez takes photos of miniature plastic people in normal sized surroundings. There are men climbing to the summit of a human nipple, workmen quarrying a slice of cake, window cleaners traversing a watch face and (my favourite, above) a man mowing a lawn of stubble. The stubble lawn seems to perfectly blur the lines between a father’s adult features and a child’s imagination.

You can see the whole of Bousserez’s collection, called Plastic Life, on Flickr.

Amazing miniature art is a Lilliputian gallery (via Metro)

Born to grace your entrance hall. Even if it does present a fire hazard.

Hangeliers by Organelle Design (via Inhabitots)

This is a working Z scale model (1:220) of an N scale (1:160) train layout, which is – as its maker David Smith points out – “the equivalent of modeling at 1:35,200″ (that’s 35,200 times smaller than a real one). The whole thing measures 0.2 inches wide with a five-car passenger train running around the track and through a tunnel. It’s not actually a working train (nano technology isn’t commercialy available yet!) – instead the train is cut into the edge of a plastic tube connected to a geared motor.

Planet’s smallest model train set revealed to macro lenses, microscopes (video) (via Engadget)