Thursday, October 20, 2011

Unique Art Sculpture by Zenos Frudakis

From Dodinsky's Garden of Thoughts, wanted to share this beautiful and unique sculpture with you:


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Friday, October 7, 2011

A Greenhouse Made of 100,000 Legos

A Greenhouse Made Of 100,000 Legos
To the list of amazing things Legos are capable of, add this: They can feed you.

London industrial designer Sebastian Bergne has built what’s being billed as the world’s first greenhouse made entirely out of Legos--an 11.5-foot-tall translucent shed that nourishes edible plants, like tomatoes, peppers, and sunflowers.

Set down in London’s famous Covent Garden, it’s got walls and a pitched roof constructed using 50,000 clear Legos, with another 50,000 brown Legos on the ground to mimic the look of soil. (Cute.) Bergne tells Co.Design that the Lego Greenhouse was thrown together in just one night, from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. And while it’s a temporary structure--designed as part of the London Design Festival--it hints at the potential for Legos to be used as a construction material in the real world. Up next: a Lego computer?



For the complete article by Suzanne Labarre, a senior editor at Co.Design, please visit: http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665026/a-greenhouse-made-of-100000-legos

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Look at these Paintings Cross-Eyed...they pop into 3-D


Look At These Paintings Cross-Eyed, And They Pop Into 3-D

There’s no need for lenticular sheets, Avatar-themed polarized glasses, prisms, or red-blue anaglyph glasses to see the 3-D images in Theo Prins’s DIY stereoscopic paintings. Just go cross-eyed.
It’s a pretty simple trick: When you look at the center of the stereoscopic pair above, place your finger about halfway between you and the screen. If you converge your eyes to focus on your finger--i.e., go cross-eyed--you’ll notice the images on the screen begin to overlap. Adjust your finger's position until the images completely overlap. (Because you're still focusing on your finger, the images on the screen will be blurred.)

If you’re doing it correctly, you’ll see three images on the screen. The center image will have depth and the two outer images will not. The hardest part, actually, is to remove your finger and allow yourself to focus on the screen without uncrossing your eyes.

For more, please visit:  http://www.fastcodesign.com/1665007/look-at-these-paintings-cross-eyed-and-they-pop-into-3-d

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