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more about #sculpture Bigdamnhero: Dear Santa, No sooner than I had postmarked my annual missive to your arctic facility, than I stumble upon this, by George! I hearby command you to ... more » Cash907Censored: This junk was just as lame when it was posted on Gizmodo a month ago. If you go to the Make Faire, you'll see hundreds of other piles of junk just lik... more » golddiggersof2033: insert dead baby jokes here. more » LittleDragon: If these had been around when my brother's kids were infants, he would have owned them. Then again he still has time to breed some more. Possible chri... more » SpammerOvTheGods: "ooo - guess who's diaper's full?" "bullshit - I ain't got time to poop." #@! more » MonkeyT: "One of the things I noticed about these babies was that they were apparently being used as some kind of traffic testers. Their mothers would be pushi... more » tipsymongoose: Launch ze missiles! more » Im_your_Huckleberry: Baby Herman wonders where he can get one. more » Mike White: Looks like Ogami Itto needs to upgrade... more » ManchuCandidate: But are these weapons child safe (for the user)? more » korybing: I like the idea that the superheroes would continue to wear their costumes around a rest home. This is great, I love seeing art like this. more » Bill-Lee: I always imagined rest home Superman being more Jewish and living in Cleveland. more » Bootknife-Jackson: ...did mr' fantastic have a stroke? more » AmishJohn: Superheroes never age, they just get retconned. more » worldgreatestgirl: Isn't Super Woman Immortal since her mother is a god? more » Jrsy Devil's Advocate®: Forget the magic lasso. Wonder Woman needs a Wonder bra... more » HalOfBorg: I have a few pictures on this topic. more » 0kami: Lauren I need to thank you! I saw this piece when I was in Miami for YoungARTS week 2008. We plucky writing kids were invited to the art kid's exhabit... more » Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: So he gets to look inside them, but then he goops 'em all up and we don't get to open them? Bah humbug. Go back to canvas, dude. more » Pessimippöpötåmus: Finally, a way to have fun with books! more » -
#apocalypticbabygear
Prepare Your Infant for the Apocalypse with Weaponized Strollers
Babies can be a liability in a post-apocalyptic world, but Shi Jinsong's designs are here to help. His weaponized cradle, stroller, and baby walker ensure that your infant can pull their weight, even if they aren't old enough to walk. More » -
#conceptart
Superheroes Confront Their Most Terrifying Foe: Old Age
What happens when time and decades of battling evil catches up with the world's greatest heroes? Gilles Barbier's mixed media installation L'Hospice envisions the superheroes who don't die in a blaze of glory, but instead live to see old age. More » -
#conceptart
The Medium Is the Message In Sculptures Made of Books
What happens when one art form becomes the infrastructure on which you create another art form? No, the answer is not Web 2.0. Instead, you get something like Mike Stilkey's incredible sculptures that are both paintings and books. More » -
#conceptart
Alien Balloon Creatures Invade Miami Beach
While the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade fills the skies with familiar cartoon characters, the Skywalkers parade took a very different tack, creating a procession of bizarre, alien ballon creatures. More » -
#madtaxidermy
Taxidermist Brings Flying Monkeys and Frankensquirrels to Unlife
Need an unusual gift for the cryptozoologist in your life? Sculptor Sabrina Brewer's medium is dead animals, which she mixes and matches to create fantastical creatures, from the more traditional griffins and unicorns to El Chupacabra and undead three-headed squirrels. More » -
#sculpture
A Pirate's Life For Robots
When robots take over pirate ships, all the high seas thievery gets far more efficient. They can swashbuckle recursively and hoist their Jolly Rogers in parallel. More » -
#monsterart
The Morbid Anatomy of Infant Werewolves, Vampire Pharohs, and Eldritch Horrors
If your anatomical collection is shy a demon child or cursed monkey's paw, then you're in luck. Artist Alex CF crafts macabre sculptures styled after dead scientific specimens. Only the deceased creatures in his cases are demons and monsters More » -
#monsterart
Festive Balloon Monsters for Your Next Alien Invasion
Jason Hackenwerth weaves elaborate and colorful alien creatures out of ordinary party balloons. They may not do well in a fight, but they'll add a festive tone to your next invasion. More » -
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#lego
Pixar Animator Gives Characters a Lego Makeover
Pixar animator and BURN-E director Angus MacLane's most famous works may be computer-generated, but in his spare time he works in the more physical medium of plastic bricks, rendering his favorite characters in Lego. More » -
#avatar
Avatar Concept Designer Reveals the Secrets of the Na'Vi
Sculptor and concept artist Jordu Schell breathed life into the Na'Vi, Avatar's blue aliens. He talks about working with James Cameron, the actresses who inspired the lovely Neytiri's look, and why design isn't the most interesting part of Avatar.
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#pixar
What's Behind Pixar's Dinosaur Concept Art?
An eagle-eyed fan noticed a strange image lurking in the background of a Pixar featurette: concept sculptures depicting a boy and a dinosaur. Does this mean Pixar is going prehistoric? More » -
#medicalart
Biomechanical Sculptures are Part Mammal, Part Machine
Ron Bell's osteomechanical sculptures resemble relics from some long-abandoned science experiment, combining bones with handmade mechanical parts as if to reanimate the skeletons or draw power from their marrow. More » -
#conceptart
Monster Models Look Ready for Face-Eating Mayhem
Naturalist and modelmaker Andrew Scott creates sculptures of Lovecraftian horrors, alien embryos, and brain-sucking critters so eerily plausible that you half expect to find them on your next space mission — or simply rooting through your garbage. More » -
#conceptart
Driftwood Nation Offers Ideal Housing for the Post-Apocalypse
When the apocalypse reduces the world's structures to rubble, we may have to take our architectural cues from the micronation of Ladonia, a politically independent art installation depicting a city made of driftwood and nails. More » -
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The Trionic Morphatractable Engineer Strikes Again
In the world of engineered animals, none seems as graceful as the messenger cheetah. She races on her mechanical limbs, seeking the tiny racing gadgets that make up her diet. And she's joined by a herd of mechanical allies. More » -
#conceptart
Every Modern-Day Boogeyman Needs a "Portable Gloom Environment"
It's hard to socialize when you're a Boogeyman because all you want to do is hide under beds and growl. That's why artist Nemo Gould has created this Portable Gloom Environment. More » -
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A Field of Light Sabers, Powered By Ambient Electricity
You are looking at 1301 fluorescent bulbs planted in an English farm, powered entirely by electrical fields generated by the power lines that float in curves over the top of this field. More » -
#conceptart
When the Alien Furries Dance In Spring
If you're passionate about furry creatures, then this alien fashion should please and excite you. Though it's hard to say whether what we're observing is fashion, or just a group of naturally hirsute extraterrestrials. More » -
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Indoor Forests Are Eco-Chic Home Accessories for a Deforested World
If all the forests around your home have been cut down, why not just turn your living room into a forest if you want to enjoy the green? That's what they're doing in Los Angeles. More » -
#conceptart
The Device Ripped His Molecules Apart and Swallowed The Haze That Remained
This glowing, massive tunnel is the gateway to a device that knows only one thing: Deconstructing life at the atomic level. Unfortunately it's so ancient that it has forgotten how to do the reconstruction. More »
