BAMF of the Day: Roongrojna Sangwongprisarn, creator of the Alien-Predator Motorcyle (this is the same artist who built the Megatron Tank, in case you forgot)

weakmeatstrongeat:

bingegardening:

maxistentialist:

Tweenbots by Kacie Kinzer:

Given their extreme vulnerability, the vastness of city space, the dangers posed by traffic, suspicion of terrorism, and the possibility that no one would be interested in helping a lost little robot, I initially conceived the Tweenbots as disposable creatures which were more likely to struggle and die in the city than to reach their destination. Because I built them with minimal technology, I had no way of tracking the Tweenbot’s progress, and so I set out on the first test with a video camera hidden in my purse. I placed the Tweenbot down on the sidewalk, and walked far enough away that I would not be observed as the Tweenbot––a smiling 10-inch tall cardboard missionary––bumped along towards his inevitable fate.

The results were unexpected. Over the course of the following months, throughout numerous missions, the Tweenbots were successful in rolling from their start point to their far-away destination assisted only by strangers. Every time the robot got caught under a park bench, ground futilely against a curb, or became trapped in a pothole, some passerby would always rescue it and send it toward its goal. Never once was a Tweenbot lost or damaged. Often, people would ignore the instructions to aim the Tweenbot in the “right” direction, if that direction meant sending the robot into a perilous situation. One man turned the robot back in the direction from which it had just come, saying out loud to the Tweenbot, “You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

The Tweenbot’s unexpected presence in the city created an unfolding narrative that spoke not simply to the vastness of city space and to the journey of a human-assisted robot, but also to the power of a simple technological object to create a complex network powered by human intelligence and asynchronous interactions. But of more interest to me, was the fact that this ad-hoc crowdsourcing was driven primarily by human empathy for an anthropomorphized object. The journey the Tweenbots take each time they are released in the city becomes a story of people’s willingness to engage with a creature that mirrors human characteristics of vulnerability, of being lost, and of having intention without the means of achieving its goal alone. As each encounter with a helpful pedestrian takes the robot one step closer to attaining it’s destination, the significance of our random discoveries and individual actions accumulates into a story about a vast space made small by an even smaller robot.

“You can’t go that way, it’s toward the road.”

This is beyond adorable.

(via notanemergency)

original hipster.

secrettoeverybody:

posterparty:

Show opening in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Event info

I’ll have some hand drawn movie posters on display at Tim Bierbaum’s Poster Party show opening on Friday at The Habitat. Also featuring work by Bob Officer, and Nicole Barth. If you’re in NY, come check it out!

via james keegan

Girl With The Silver Hands.
White earthenware, tin glaze, enamel and silver luster
H 61 cm x W 40 cm x D 20 cm
2010.

“This is based on a story published by the Brothers Grimm in which a father must cut his daughters hands off to avoid her betrothal to the devil, she eventually finds a King who makes her silver hands. Other variants have the girl cutting her own hands off to avoid incest.”

UK-based contemporary ceramic sculpture artist Claire Partington creates unique porcelain pieces that take an antique process and adds a contemporary visual. 

via TISC

Isabella Stuart Gardner has long been a role model of mine, although i prefer tea to beer. I have yet to sport the gold and diamond antennae, but there is time… 

mrs. jack

the above image by john singer sargent is a portrait of boston’s grande dame isabella stewart gardner, here is another:

Mrs. Gardner didn’t drink tea; she drank beer… She didn’t go sleigh-riding; instead, she went walking down Tremont Street with a lion named Rex on a leash.

She gave at-homes at her Beacon Street house and received her guests from a perch in the lower branches of a mimosa tree. Told that “everybody in Boston” was either a Unitarian or an Episcopalian, she became a Buddhist; then when the pleasure of that shock had worn off she became such a High-Church Episcoplaian that her religion differed from Catholicism only in respect to allegiance to the Pope.

Advised that the best people Boston belonged to clubs, she formed one of her own named the “It” Club…Warned that a woman’s social position in Boston might be judged in inverse ratio to her appearance…she picked out her two largest diamonds, had them set on gold wire springs and wore them waving some six inches above her hair like the antennae of a butterfly.

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from: the proper bostonians by cleveland amory (1947).

via ragbag

moss graffiti: green anarchy realized.

Union of Superlative Heroes card set.

Written and illustrated by Chet Phillips.

Imagining an alternate world in which Steampunk superheroes inhabit a Victorian society, the Union of Superlative Heroes are characters from a variety of countries, each with their own unique abilities. This card set profiles such epic figures as Marquis Le Bat, Stupendous Gent, Empress Amazonia, Arachno Kid, Prince Aqueous, Lord Wolverton and fourteen more. Each card showcases their portrait along with a brief biography and country of origin on the reverse.

For sale in Chet’s Etsy shop.

thedailywhat:

TfD.

(Source: thedailywhat)

szymon:

Sweet Meats Plush toys from Lauren Venell

WHAT DOES IT MEAN?

jessmbrinn:

The Blind Girl by John Everett Millais

(Source: landesauvage, via my-ear-trumpet)