Previously seen letting mushrooms play a keyboard, Youtuber BionicandtheWires is back with another video, this time allowing a colony of oyster mushrooms to paint a picture. The mushrooms’ natural fluctuations in electrical activity is transformed into brush movement via attached solenoids. That painting, wow — way better than anything my
Because I was just thinking the real world should be more like the music video for A-ha’s ‘Take On Me’, these are a handful of videos from California artist Joshua Vides, who wraps vehicles and paints them to look like they’re pen and ink drawings reminiscent of pop-art comics. The
This is a video of an artist painting a Corona bottle to disappear into the serene park background when viewed from the same angle its being painted from. From the rear it still looks like a Corona bottle though, as seen at the end of the video. Give me five
Artist Hanif Panni’s neighbor got a letter from the city of Seaside, California, stating he had to build a fence to hide his boat from view from the street. So what did he do? What anybody who hates local government would: asked Hanif to paint a reproduction of the now
This is a video of a married couple showing the results of attempting to paint each other’s portrait. The woman did a fair enough job of capturing her husband’s likeness, but his looks like somebody tried painting a yeti they saw while tripping on mushrooms. I imagine if I’d attempted
These are a couple videos of a raven named Odin (of course) at the Tropical Butterfly House in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, producing abstract paintings, using her beak to pick up and use a brush. Admittedly, I wouldn’t mind having an Odin original hanging in my home. “That was painted
Because innovation is everywhere, this is a video of artist Bond Truluv using a spray paint can he modded to spray five parallel lines simultaneously. The resulting piece he creates is neat looking, although I can’t say with confidence I’d want it on the side of my home. Want to
This is a video of builder John Malecki upcycling an old ping pong table with a custom swinging pendulum paint job, which he then tops with a coat of clear epoxy. The finished product is stunning, and I would happily backspin some balls across that thing. Or play beer pong.