My friends know that I have a thing for dice – it all kicked off when I read the spectacular book, “The Dice Man”, by Luke Rhinehart. Read it…trust me. But as much as I love those little cubes, artist Anthony Cragg is OBSESSED. Check out these ridiculously amazing dice sculptures.
-via Bit Rebels
One of the best stop-motion videos I’ve seen in a looooong time:
-via Ideas Are Awesome
If you’ve never seen what 1100 matchbox cars zooming around an infinitely looping endless track looks like, now’s your chance. Check out Chris Burden’s kinetic sculpture, “Metropolis II”:
-via Dooby Brain
Does anyone else just want to stare at this thing all day long, or is it just me?
Why didn’t anyone tell me about Australia’s ‘World’s Biggest Most Awesome Waste of Time Competition‘? I guess the organizers felt I was just too important and that my time is incredibly valuable – (maybe next year!)
Check out one of the best stop-motion entries:
-via Dooby Brain
It only took Lauren Porter 10 months and 12 miles of yarn to make this life-size Yarn Ferrari. Congrats!?
-via Bit Rebels
Click here to meet some more crazies with WAY too much time on their hands.
This Jimi Hendrix portrait (made up of 5000 Fender guitar picks) sold at a charity auction a few weeks ago for $33,000.
-via Like Cool
Artist Brian Dettmer painstakingly carves out individual pages from old encyclopedias, medical manuals, and illustration books to create stunning literary-sculptures. Nothing you see below was added to the book…every image and word was part of the original and revealed through the cutting process. Wow.
-via My Modern Met (thanks for the tip @dje4)
Photographer Edward Horsford times his camera shutter to the exact millisecond that a water balloon pops – these stunning images are some of the fruits of his painstaking labor.
Not afraid of getting a little wet? Learn the ins-and-outs of how Edward creates these pics at DIY Photographs.
Being a PA on a music video shoot might seem like fun, but imagine the poor kid who found out his job was creating each individual frame of this Lite-Brite stop-motion masterpiece.
‘Um, I’m cool with just doing coffee runs. Seriously.’
-via Dooby Brain
***Click here for some stunning Lite-Brite World Record designs featured on TITAKC***
Meet Dot, probably the tiniest heroine you’ve ever seen. This stop-motion video was shot using Cellscope, a high-quality microscope that attaches to a cellphone camera. The amount of patience and meticulousness that was needed to create this is truly mindblowing.
And just to drive home how impressive this is, here’s a behind-the-scenes look at the production:
-via Metafilter
