Ich würde ja auf die X-Wing-Fighter aus Pariser Metro-Tickets von Hubert De Lartigue verlinken, wenn ich das nicht schonmal vor viereinhalb Jahren hier getan hätte. Und die Bilder in diesem Forum damals waren auch größer, als diejenigen auf seiner Website. Dafür hat er auf ihr aber noch ein Tutorial für den Falken aus Tickets.
(Youtube Direktpapercraft, via Notcot)
Ich liebe diesen Trailer zum neuen Buch „Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper“, das Video gibt’s in besserer Qualität auf der Website vom Gestalten Verlag und wer mir verrät, wie der fantastische Track ab Minute 1:30 heisst, gewinnt ‘nen Keks.
From playful and whimsical to downright painstaking, paper is resurging among young artists and designers worldwide as an experimental material for design. This video teaser for Gestalten’s upcoming book, Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper, showcases the often bright, punchy and pop-culture-relevant work from artists Jeremais Boettcher, Julien Vallée, Asif Mian and more — who employ techniques as simple as cutting and folding to cutting-edge like embossing and laser cutting.
A true best-of collection, the book gathers the most extraordinary creations independent of discipline; all demonstrate reaching towards new artistic heights. An accompanying DVD includes printable templates for creating paper toys plus a curated selection of stop-motion animations.
Amazon-Partnerlink: Papercraft: Design and Art with Paper
Ausdrucken, anmalen, zusammenkleben, headbangen. Snip von Flickr:
Put two fingers in the air for STANLEY SIMMONS, my new blank papertoy. I´d give you a big “Hell, Yeah!”, if you print this and give him your very exclusive Design. Hit me up with your best shots on yoisnumberone at yahoo.com or feel free to post them in a comment on my flickr.
Spread the word and bang your head for true metal!
Feed Your Metalmonster: Open-Papertoy-Design-Battle (via Just)
Tektonten hat Trons Bit in Papier nachgebaut und einen Bastelbogen online gestellt. Die Figur war der erste CGI-animierte Charakter der Filmgeschichte und außerdem strenggenommen ein inhaltlicher Fehler. Denn Bit hatte drei Zustände: Ja, Nein und Neutral. Ein Bit kennt allerdings keinen neutralen Zustand, sondern nur an und aus. Egal: Trons Bit zum Selberbasteln… Aaaaaaaw!
Als ZeFrank nach der US-Wahl den Republikanern die Hand in Form seines „From 52 to 48 with Love“-Projekts (vorher auf Spreeblick) reichte, bekam er nach einiger Zeit auch jede Menge Hate-Mails. Für die hat er sich auch was tolles einfallen lassen: Er bastelt Origamis daraus.
from52to48withlove generated wonderful, heartfelt and poignant responses in the form of pictures, comments and emails. However, as it became more widely circulated, it also provoked intense anger and outrage. Buffering the project from this anger became a bit overwhelming, and pretending it didn’t exist seemed silly.
Angrigami is an attempt to devour the entire carcass, bones, bile and all.
ZeFranks Angrigami (via MeFi)
Marshall Alexanders Foldskool Heroes sind Designer-Bastelbögen und eher so Standard, der neueste aber ist fantastisch: ein C64, ein Atari 2600 (in der Junior Version von 1986, pah!) und eine Pong Arcade-Machine als Papiertoys zum Selbstausschneiden und Zusammenkleben.
Marshall Alexander (via Notcot)
(Youtube Direktorigami, via Japan Probe)
Dieses Video zeigt Origami in Zeitraffer und eine Fingerfertigkeit, die ich niemals nicht haben werde. Ich habe keine Ahnung, wie nahe das Teil den Evangelion-Figuren am Ende tatsächlich nahekommt, ist mir aber auch wurscht. Origami-Zeitraffer reicht mir.
Dahin ist also das ganze Geld hin verschwunden: Deviant-Art-User orudorumagi11 hat aus dem ganzen Finanzkrisenwahsinnsgeldhaufen fantastische Tie-, X-Wing-Fighter und Enterprises gebastelt. Dieser Schelm!
Flickr User Joseph Wu hat ein ganzes Set mit Origami Octopi hochgeladen, die haben zwar im Gegensatz zu den mutierten Exemplaren nur acht Arme und sind auch viel kleiner, aber dafür kann man sich diesen Hoschi hier selber basteln und im Gegensatz zu dem Riesenkraken aus „20000 Meilen unter dem Meer“ im Wohnzimmer ins Regal stellen, gleich neben die Jules Verne Bücher. Und das ist ja auch schonmal was.
Build your own space exploration fleet with these NASA papercraft models. You can construct famous NASA spacecrafts such as the Pioneer 10, Mars Express, Cassini and more. The PDF files are free to download.
Robert Lang is a pioneer of modern origami — using math and engineering principles to fold mind-blowingly intricate designs that are beautiful and, sometimes, very useful.
Despite wanting desperately to watch The Dark Knight, I still haven’t gotten a chance to rush out to my nearest movie theater and bask myself in the two-or-so-hours of nerdgasmic delight I know is waiting for me. So as the stellar reviews pour in from the papers and from friends, I need to find creative ways to scratch that Batman itch. Like papercraft! Here’s an amazing Batmobile Tumbler design created by paper model expert Claudio. With hundreds of individual pieces, I bet this thing will distract me until my man in shining (black rubber) armor whisks me off to the cinema.
Combining two novel approaches to vinyl playback, Member Luis2048 made a paper-cone record player on a familiar plastic-brick structure – and yes, it works!
Check out the Paper Wars show, opening May 15 at the Craze Gallery. It’s themed around the papercraft AK-47 and features many pieces based off that kit, as well as other sculptures like the one above.
Deviantart’s ~ryo007 has published a set of plans to make your own papercraft Super Nintendo Entertainment System, with a tiny cartridge!
If you’re into paper toys, then I’m sure you will fall in love with these funky characters (with their tongues all sticking out) in Jason Harland’s Boxpunx series. They are free to download.
PaperKraft.net is a site with more papercraft geekiness than you can shake an Xacto blade at. Characters from video games, movies, anime, and sci-fi are all represented. You can start your recreation of the Battle of Hoth with K-3PO, forever immortalized in 2.3 seconds of movie and soon, glue and card stock.
Mythos Joy Division
Hintergründe zu Joy Division, viel rares Material – vor dem in Kürze ausbrechenden Joy Division-Hype.
No Money, No Music?
Mal sehen ob Boingboing und die anderen Techno-Optimisten den Nachtrag zu dem Wired-Artikel mit David Byrne auch noch so oft verlinken. Byrne erhielt als Reaktion auf seine Äußerung “Recording costs have declined to almost zero”, ein oft gesehenes aber selten mit Fakten unterlegtes Argument, interessante Reaktionen von Musiker- und Produzentenseite.
Interscope Sucks My Dick: Antiquiet Interviews Josh Homme Of Queens Of The Stone Age
Josh Homme: Sounds like a bunch of fucking idots to me. Sounds like you don’t know your business at all. If we were selling shoes, it wouldn’t be like ‘you evil shoe selling fucks.’ It would be like, ‘how come you’re trying to sell shoes to cows?’ You know? I THINK OF INTERSCOPE AND ALL THESE LABELS AS THE BIGGEST FUCKING IDIOTS ON THE PLANET. And print that in capitals, because they can’t do anything to me.
Top Ten Career Turn Arounds in Rock Music
1) The Beatles smoke pot
It sounds really awful when I put it like that but yes its true The Beatles best material came after meeting with Bob Dylan smoking weed and giggling for hours upon hours.
AC/DC Full Concert From 1977
Full Live Concert With Bon Scott, Angus Young and the rest of AC/DC’s Original Cast
Wo gibt’s Musik? 15 Quellen für Topmusik
Das Netz ist voller Musik, man muss nur wissen, wo sie steckt. Wir stellen dir die besten Musikempfehlungsdienste, Startups und Websites für neue Musik vor.
LastGraph – LastFM als Grafik
Gebe zu, LastGraph verwandelt die Daten die von einem auf Last.fm rumschlummern in ein ziemlich beeindruckendes PDF, in dem man, so man denn selbstverliebt in den eigenen Musikgeschmack ist (bei mir weniger so), gerne rumzoomt. Irgendwie Barock 2.0 das ganze.
Kosmars Topliste: Die 18 besten Musiklinks
Live und direkt: Berliner Designer, Blogger und Blogpiloten-Gastblogger Markus Angermeier aka kosmar zeigt dir, wo er neue Musik entdeckt…
Great Zombies Of Science Fiction
When you think zombies, you think weird magic. But really, a lot of the greatest zombies in movies, TV and books have resulted from pure science. Okay, maybe not “hard” science, but at least some kind of scientific process involving lab coats. We list the greatest zombies of science, below the fold.
Audio: Michel Gondry and Mos Def Talk at the Apple Store
Gondry talks in depth about his new film Be Kind Rewind before opening the floor up to questions. An Interesting exchange happens where Gondry tells Mos Def that he will direct a music video for the rap artist for free if he comes to Sundanceto do press with him for Be Kind.
Greatest Sci-Fi Porn Of All Time
Porn has always wanted to be science fictional, ever since the influential Barbarella. Weird aliens or “cyberpunk” touches can help to liven up otherwise repetitive porn scenarios. And the line between a science fiction “B” movie and a soft-core porn epic is often more seethru than Jane Fonda’s breast bubbles. Click through for a history of the mutant genre, with some racy but probably work-safe clips.
X-Wing Star Wars-Origami
Here are step-by-step instructions for how to make an origami x-wing, as seen at Picocon 22, and as described by Alex Crosse. He is a proper Origami club person; the terribly un-technical descriptions are entirely my fault.
TONS of Photos from the UNDER THE INFLUENCE – A Tribute to Stan Lee
the same gallery that held “Crazy 4 Cult” opened a new exhibit tonight called “Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee.” So I’m sure you can guess the theme from the title… but if you can’t…100 artists have created original work depicting their favorite comic book characters.
PET Project
I love the idea of using liquid containers to make water animals. Contained/containing, trash/not-trash, like the jelly-fish or anemone: Living/non-living
Michael Bierut interview
Here is an interview with graphic designer Michael Bierut, where he talks about the evolution of type, the various covers of The Catcher in the Rye, the ugliness of ITC Garamond, and all sorts of other intriguing things.
100 Excellent Free WordPress Themes
DDR-Modellautos
Hier erwartet Sie ein Überblick über die Fernlenk- und Schwungradautos der Firmen Presu, Elmes, MSW, Anker, Piko, Gevo, Plasticart und Sommermeyer. Der Bereich Firmen enthält einen kleinen geschichtlichen Abriss der einzelnen Firmen. Unter Presse finden Sie einige Veröffentlichungen und Berichte zur Seite, sowie ein paar Bilder von Ausstellungen zum Thema DDR-Spielzeug. Das Anker-Kinder-Logo führt Sie zurück zu dieser Startseite.
How do ants know what to do? Deborah Gordon on TED.com
Armed with a few students, a backhoe and a handful of markers, Deborah Gordon digs up ant colonies in the Arizona desert in search of keys to understanding complex systems. How do these chitonous creatures pass crucial survival information from generation to generation with no language, memory or visible leadership? How can animals without sentient thought get down to business, and even multitask when they need to? The answers could lead to a better understanding of all complex systems, from the brain to the Web. Thanks, ants.
Dark Matter Is Strangling Our Galaxies
The blue smears in this photo, and the shears of light, are evidence of dark matter between distant galaxies. The Deep Lens Survey looks for areas of “weak lensing” where the light from object gets smooshed in one direction by dark matter. To get meaningful results, you need to survey tons and tons of galaxies. And a new project, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, expects to be able to capture even more detailed images of the whole night sky from its perch in Chile. Click through for more pictures, including an awesome rendering of a space/time warp.
heise online – Großbritannien plant Lockerung des Urheberrechts
Die britische Regierung schlägt eine Reihe von Modifikationen des geltenden Urheberrechts vor, durch die beispielsweise Privatnutzern erlaubt werden soll, private Kopien von rechtmäßig erworbenen CDs in einem anderen Format wie MP3 zu erstellen.
Pimpstar animated wheels — “a huge leap forward in the evolution of the wheel”
The PimpStar is a huge leap forward in the evolution of the wheel. With the PimpStar’s built-in full color LED lights, microprocessor and wireless modem, you can display virtually any image, including text, graphics, logos, and even digital photos!
(another) 5 extremely cool research facilities
i’m currently hooked on these structures so, hot on the heels of the first 5, here’s another bunch of amazing facilities and fascinating machines that have been created for research purposes. there are still plenty more so it probably won’t stop here.
Christian Atheism at Speaker’s Corner
The History of the Devil
The idea of God’s evil enemy has been around for thousands of years & it’s still as powerful as ever. Where did Satan’s story begin, where did he come from & how did he become the Prince of Darkness? This documentary seeks to answer these questions.
TP: Mediale Gewalt verhindert reale Gewalt
Was mediale oder fiktive Darstellungen bewirken, ist seit der griechischen Antike umstritten. Löst das Betrachten von Gewaltszenen im Film, auf der Bühne, in der Literatur oder im Computerspiel ein Nachahmungsverhalten aus, also steckt es an und macht die Konsumenten bzw. Spieler aggressiver? Oder senkt die vorgeführte und erlebte fiktive Aggressivität gerade die Wut und macht die Menschen letztlich friedfertiger? US-Wissenschaftler von der University of Calfornia, San Diego, und von der Unhaben eine Studie vorgelegt, nach der es so aussieht, als könnte das Betrachten von Kinofilmen mit hoher Gewalt die Gewaltkriminalität senken. Katharsis scheint aber dabei nicht der Grund zu sein.
TP: Die MP3-Elektroschockwaffe
Taser will seine Waffen für Frauen anziehend machen und bietet sie in bunten Farben oder auch mit Leopardenfellmuster sowie mit einem MP3-Player an
Bloog: The RSS Mod-Synth
a machine that scrambles the words and sentences of real-time blog posts, based on the look of a 1960’s Moog synthesizer. It pulls in any RSS feed (for demonstration I used Technorati to create one that fetches all new net-wide blog posts about ‘music,’ har har). The knobs and sliders scroll through the text and add or subtract words from the screen, creating new ideas from the existing sentences.
OMNIBOT FANBOOK
Today I found this new book in a bookstore in Shibuya. Omnibot Fan Book, published by Mycom, has been written by Techn’o’taku a famous Japanese otaku who loves design, techno and toys. The book covers the history of toy robots from the early sixties to the just released i-Sobot (that’s the natural evolution of the Omnibots produced by Takara Tomy more than 20 years ago).
Kick Up Some Waves With This Flying Sea Pod
Antigrav will give us flying cars, but more importantly it’ll reinvent jetski technology. These seacraft hoverpods look sexier than those pod racers in Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. Plus you could zip up onto the beach and spray sand in the face of the jock who bullied you during high school.
Two very different milbloggers post from beyond the grave
“Milblogging” is new enough that it’s still easy to set milestones for the genre, and two recent blogs have done just that. Both are posting messages from beyond the grave, but the postings are separated by nearly a century.
AT&T to Filter Internet Traffic; Comcast Investigated by FCC for Filtering Internet Traffic
Mr. Cicconi said that AT&T has been talking to technology companies, and members of the MPAA and RIAA, for the last six months about implementing digital fingerprinting techniques on the network level.
Top100 Funny Quotes
Religion has convinced people that there’s an invisible man…living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn’t want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money. (George Carlin)
Consoles I Have Known – A Very Weird and Blocky Future
How many video games does it take to make a man? TODD LEVIN begins an epic new series to trace his life in gaming systems. Part one: paddles to jump-start your heart, and the end-all, be-all red fire button.
The $27,000 Apple computer
The really expensive bits are the 32 GB of RAM ($9100), the NVIDIA Quadro FX 5600 video card ($2850), the four 15,000 RPM hard drives ($800 each), the two 30″ Cinema Displays ($1700 each), a Fibre Channel Card ($1000), and an unlimited-client copy of Mac OS X Server ($999).
Pakistan airlines ad, 1979
Bios For Everyone on the Sgt. Pepper Album Cover
If you’re a Beatles fan with some time to kill, check out the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography’s version of the Beatles’ iconic Sgt. Pepper album cover. It lets you mouse over any person to see their name, or click them for a detailed biography.
ccMixter
This is a community music site featuring remixes licensed under Creative Commons, where you can listen to, sample, mash-up, or interact with music in whatever way you want.
Neuf Music Kampagne aus Frankreich
Sehr schön…
NY Jedi School Trains Lightsaber Enthusiasts (To Be Bigger Geeks)
We’d heard of the NY Jedi School before—for those who haven’t, it’s pretty much exactly what it sounds like—but we’d never seen a class in action until we spotted this clip on ABC. Given that lightsabers don’t actually exist, we were confused just how the…logistics…worked out. Now we know.
BlinkBox
blinkBox enables you to create a clip of your favourite scene from a movie or TV show, add a personalised message and send it to a friend’s mobile or PC as a ‘blink’. You can also purchase and download said movies and TV shows.
Titles available at launch include classics such as The Wizard of Oz and Vertigo, recent hits such as Syriana and Superman Returns, along with cult favourites like The Matrix and A Clockwork Orange. You can sign up for the open beta now.
1000 Storys
Ein amerikanischer filmemacher reist einmal längs durch das bundesgebiet und filmt dabei begebenheiten, spricht mit den menschen die er trifft und versucht eben das einzufangen — wie ticken die deutschen? auf der anderen seite des atlantik macht ein deutscher filmemacher selbiges mit der USA und beide sind unterwegs unter der schirmherrschaft des goethe-institutes.
das richtig tolle an der sowieso schon interessanten geschichte ist, es wird alles gebloggt und gevloggt.
Lord of the Rings Origami
Origami artist Eric Joisel created these Lord of the Rings sculptures of the Three Hunters (Gimli the Dwarf, Aragorn, and Legolas the Elf) out of single uncut pieces of papers.
Designing Happy
Designing Happy is a set of guidelines, for design practice and design education, which identifies some key tips that design work can incorporate so that the design is better positioned to be productive in the manifestation of happiness and contibute to our wellbeing.
Der Platzverweis
Man wartet immer, bis etwas zu Ende geht. Man wartet immer, bis etwas beginnt. Man erwartet die ganze Zeit. Man wartet, bis man zur Ruhe kommt und wenn man es tut, wartet man, bis endlich wieder was passiert. Der Buddhist sagt, Leiden bedingt sich durch Wollen. Man könnte auch sagen, Leiden bedingt sich durch Warten.
Datamancer’s Steampunk Laptop (Mirror)
This may look like a Victorian music box, but inside this intricately hand-crafted wooden case lives a Hewlett-Packard ZT1000 laptop that runs both Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux. It features an elaborate display of clockworks under glass, engraved brass accents, claw feet, an antiqued copper keyboard and mouse, leather wrist pads, and customized wireless network card. The machine turns on with an antique clock-winding key by way of a custom-built ratcheting switch made from old clock parts.
Youtube: Halflife in 60 Seconds
Bla Bla Bla, Mr. Freeman
The 15 Dumbest Apple Predictions Of All Time
Sony To Buy Apple: “Within the next two months, Sony will acquire Apple. … Sony will be the white knight who will step into the picture.” — former Apple VP Gaston Bastiaens, in January 1996.
StumbleVideo: High speed video of popcorn kernel popping at 5,400 fps
Rosarote Brille
Der Beweis: Eine rosarote Brille mag zwar die Sichtweise verändern, aber man sieht trotzdem aus wie ein Depp.
Interview mit Cory Doctorow von Kottke
I can’t think of anyone better suited to answering questions about the state of culture in the Age of the Blog than Cory Doctorow. Whether it’s running Boing Boing, writing (and giving away—while still profiting from—his novels and short-story collections), or speaking out for our electronic rights, Cory is a ubiquitous presence on every vector of this discussion. I caught up with him by phone at his London flat.
McSweeneys Open Letters
“An Open Letter to a Guy I Work With Who Always Comes Into My Office To Tell Me He Sent Me An Email Right After He Sends Me an Email.” by Jason
Dear Louis,
You’re a very nice man and I do enjoy working with you. The fact that you own a donkey and a rooster makes me laugh. I don’t know many people who own a donkey and a rooster who don’t also live on a farm. You’re sincere and there is not a whit of vitriol in your body. I don’t think I’ve ever seen you mad. Often you share your lunch with me when you can’t finish it.
That’s why this is difficult for me.
Every time you come into my office I already know what you’re going to tell me. You’re going to tell me that you sent me an e-mail. And usually, just about the time you’re walking into my office, the boingy sound that I set up to alert me that I have received an e-mail is boinging. Or it boings right while you’re standing there. Then we say the same things: You say, “I just wanted to let you know I sent you an e-mail!” I say, “Yup, just got it.” And then you say, “Great, thanks! Just wanted to let you know!”
I know you’re a bit older and not technically inclined. I know you still use words like “facsimile” and “teleconference.” But here’s the thing with e-mail. When you send me one, I get it. That’s the whole point of it. Really. It’s why they invented it. So you can send me stuff electronically, and I can get it.
I want you to know I dream of killing your donkey.
Sincerely,
Jason
Papier-AT-AT inklusive druckbarer PDFs… Ich bin dann mal schneiden und kleben uns sowas…
(via)
[nachtrag] Whoooooooozaaa! Merken, nie zu faul sein, um auf japanischen Websites ein bißchen rumzuklichen, denn: da gibt es noch einen ganzen Haufen mehr von dem Zeug! Und jetzt ganz langsam, ganz ruhig… here we go!
Gib mir den Rest, Baby…
Ja, es ist Papier. Von Richard Sweeney.
(Große Version zum Ausschnippeln und Basteln gibt’s hier, via, Rob Nance)
Ansonsten sag ich da nix dazu. Obwohl, doch: der Obermotz einer Religion, die diesen Spruch in Petto hat, der da lautet „Gottes Wege sind unergründlich“, spricht einer anderen Religion die „Vernunft“ ab? Und das nach Jahrhunderten religiös bedingter Kriege, Gewalt und Verfolgung? Und dabei verkennt, dass die scheinbar religiös motivierte Gewalt im Nahen Osten eigentlich eher eine politisch motivierte ist? Oder versteh ich jetzt irgendwas einfach ganz falsch?
Naja, ich hatte ja eh immer Ethik. Du Hampelmann.
(via Make Blog)
