Highschool toothpick bridges are so 00′s, now it is all about the recreation of world wonders using those wonderful little wooden sticks. Stan Munro has been working for over six years to create “Toothpick City” a comprehensive city consisting of toothpick versions of world landmarks. So far the construction has consumed over six million toothpicks and 170 liters of glue! Stan has [...]

I remember first seeing shadow sculptures made from miscellaneous junk at that crazy modernist art museum in Paris. Shadow art is among the oldest and coolest of the arts, even better than watermelon carving. Feel free to be amazed by these little shadow gems. mrapplegate

So you want to live out your gilligans island fantasy do you? The good news is you probably won’t have to sell all your worldly possessions to do it. However, you might have to start a second savings account. It turns out not all private islands cost ten million dollars, or even a million dollars, hell not even one hundred [...]

I think this photo says a lot about the future of the yellow pages…

I don’t know what it is about watermelon carving, but it has somehow captured my interest in the last few weeks. If you haven’t seen them, check out my other two posts on watermelon carving; “Watermelon Carving – the Art of Gods” and “Watermelon Carving pt. 2 – flowers.” Anyhow, I’ve looked at a lot of pictures of carved watermelon [...]

Who invented chalk? Hell if I know, but they certainly didn’t imagine it creating street chalk art master pieces like these. It is a terrifying sight when chalk artists take to the streets to turn our concrete walks into three dimensional chalk drawings.  Street chalk art is almost as epic as watermelon flower carving (oh look at that shameless plugging). Something about street chalk [...]

If you are lucky, when you retire from your illustrious career someone you barely know, from some department you have never heard about, will give a speach and if you are lucky will hand you one a Tread 1, designed by Devon Works, in lieu of the traditional gold retirement Rolex (or Rollexx depending on where you work). This beauty defines the term “analog digital [...]

The plain Jane Honda Innova gets 100 mpg and tops out at 55 mph, which puts it somewhere between a honda metropolitan and a kawasaki in terms of badassness. However, longtime recumbent bicyclist, scooter aficionado, and Dutchman (of course) Allert Jacobs took a look at his little Honda scooter and decided to ratchet up the badassness factor by improving the scooters design with [...]

I think that this diagram answers a lot of questions. What is a spoon and fork? Fork and knife? Spoon and knife? Fork and spoon? Fork, spoon and knife? My favorite is definitely the splayed, why put out all that cutlery every dinner when you can just put one uber utensil.

Some wonderful person decided to stick a watermelon in an MRI machine and this is what it looks like. I figured this would be a good way to start out a watermelon carving post. If you haven’t read the first post I did on watermelon carving I highly recommend it. I’ve decided to dedicate this post to pictures of flowers carved out [...]