Because dream it and (with enough cans and a recycling center paying 5¢ apiece) you can achieve it, this is a video of luthier Burl of Burls Art crafting an all aluminum electric guitar after melting some 38-pounds of aluminum cans (over 1,000) to cast the neck and body. My
This is a video from a Korean foundry where giant hex nuts are made (imagine the Erector Set you could build with those things!), detailing the process in which steel rods are transformed into some of the biggest nuts I’ve ever seen. The North Atlantic right whale excluded of course,
Because for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction (typically me making a sour face that indicates I’m utterly unimpressed), this is a 9-minute video of a “multiverse” reaction machine. It’s multiverse because it was made by 14 different creators in different places, with each of the 31
Crochet artist Nicole Nikolich recently completed this double-sided Windows home screen blanket, with Windows 95 on one side, and Windows 11 on the other. It took Nicole over two months and a respectable 104,800 stitches to complete the 8-pound, 5′ x 3.5′ blanket. And, I think I speak for everyone
This is the office chair created by Japanese natural stone workshop Factory-M after founder Koichi Hasegawa discovered a massive seat-shaped chunk of amethyst for sale during a trip to the United States. It, uh, it definitely makes a statement. One not about comfort. The chair weighs around 218-pounds and features
Weebles wobble but they don’t fall down. Trust me, I did a lot of experimenting as a kid. And now Colin Furze has gone and transformed himself into a real-life Weeble using a piece of semi-spherical molded concrete and a harness to attach himself to it. That looks like fun.
This is a video of engineer and tinkerer JBV Creative constructing ‘The Corporate Machine’, a piece of kinetic wall art for his apartment that represents the tireless churning of big business. Using 99% 3D-printed parts, the machine launches ping-pong balls and catches them, repeating the process indefinitely until a power
Seen here showing off the rolls made especially for giants, this is a video tour of the Marutomi Paper Co. factory in Japan, which produces millions of rolls of toilet paper every month. Me? Personally I use about four rolls a month, plus several emergency magazine pages and a sock