This is a video of artist Bobby Duke carving a pencil into a snake wrapped around its graphite center, slithering towards a mouse atop the eraser. The result is pretty impressive. Not to brag or anything, but I’ve done a little bit of pencil carving myself. Unfortunately, by the time
This is a video of mad engineer Shane of Youtube channel Stuff Made Here (previously) attaching a chainsaw to an industrial robotic arm and programming it to carve a dog sculpture out of a block of foam. Its first effort is an absolute disaster, but the second dog it produces
As part of the 12th Annual PumpkinMania Festival at Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, this is a video of hundreds of jack-o-lanterns (including one carved with a Chevrolet logo and ‘VROOM VROOM’) lining the steps of the historic Old Morrison administration building at the school. So, who else didn’t know
This is a video of godly gourd carver and 2-time Halloween Wars winner James Hall discussing and demonstrating the techniques (and tools) involved with 13 increasingly difficult levels of pumpkin carving. I learned a lot by watching it. Mostly, that there’s no f***ing way I’m letting James compete in my
Because apparently art is everywhere (including in the crisper drawer), these are a couple shots of the fish that Japanese fruit and vegetable artist Kishimoto Takehiro carved into a stalk of broccoli. How about that! I know some kids complain about eating their broccoli, but I love it. Granted I’ve
This is a video documenting Mr. Tiger’s creation of an apartment in the side of a rock mountain, slowly excavating the space then customizing it to his liking. The result is most impressive. Way nicer than my basement apartment, and probably with fewer bugs. You know I called my landlord
Because everybody needs a hobby and coffee beans are cheap, this is a timelapse video of artist Valeriano Fatica carving a series of Marvel character faces into coffee beans, including Nick Fury, Iron Man, Thanos, the Hulk, and Groot. He does a great job. Me? I could never work with
This is a shot of Arnold Schwarzenegger smoking out of the Terminator head pipe hand carved by Redditor RadonLab. Apparently RadonLab carved the pipe to celebrate Arnold’s birthday and posted the pictures to Reddit, where it was eventually spotted by Arnold, who offered to buy it. RadonLab insisted on gifting