Awesome Art & Design

We recently saw how a table saw could be pushed outside of its comfort zone by using one to create wood spindles. Now, woodworker French River Springs shows us how he was able to make a turned wood bowl using a table saw, a drill, and a custom jig. The fun starts at 8:21.

Great Big Story shares the work of Conceptos Plásticos. It’s a Colombian company that takes discarded plastics and turns them into foundations for houses and temporary shelters. To date, they have recycled 500 tons of plastic and built over 30 homes.

Artist Roman Booteen carves on coins and lighters. Some of his hobo nickels are not only incredibly detailed, they have a mechanical aspect as well. Some even work like a mini puzzle that you have to solve before you can activate the moving part.

“Anything that’s made of paper I’ve made at one time or another.” Ross MacDonald has been making paper props for movies and TV shows for the past 25 years. He’s made tens of thousands of props, from letters with just three lines on them to entire books.

Maker of shitty robots Simone Giertz is here with a not shitty at all product – a modern wall calendar designed to help her remember to meditate every day, but that can be used as a reminder and tracker for any sort of daily task or habit you want to maintain.

A look inside the McPherson Guitars‘ factory, where talented artisans use a mix of high tech materials and traditional finishing techniques to create lightweight, durable, and visually striking musical instruments. The Carbon Series guitars range in price from $2999 to $3299.

Director Catherine Prowse’s music video for Tom Rosenthal’s simply wonderful tune Asleep on the Train tells a beautiful tale of self-discovery. Though the entire clip was animated using marionettes and miniatures, it’s as human a story as can be.

This elegant desk lamp wonderfully marries form with function. It uses cast-iron weights in a counter-balance mechanism to make it easy to adjust the lamp’s height and length. It also uses conductive materials on the joints instead of cables to transmit power.

Filmmaker Páraic McGloughlin’s latest eye candy comes in the form of a music video for the sounds of Max Cooper. The clip features a simple scene of a highway, transformed into a vibrant work of art by manipulating portions of the image with colors and geometric shapes.

Custom apparel printer Upstate Merch shared this video of the process of printing some awesome “Chewy” t-shirts using a six-color process on an automatic press, which helps create smooth and precisely-registered images. Buy the shirt from Wunderground Supply.

This new community lets LEGO builders submit their own unique designs, then have them packaged up for others to buy based on a provided parts list and build instructions. Some of the first kits include awesome designs by JK Brickworks, Felix Jaensch, and Nicolas Lespour.

Engineer Mark Rober tipped us off to this impressive build by high school senior Stefano Rivellini. His flying machine uses four 90mm ducted fans concealed inside of a bent carbon fiber tubes. The result is a drone without the risk of injury from spinning fan blades.

See See Motor Coffee Co. built what they call “a real cafe racer.” They modified a 2014 Ural cT to become a mobile coffee shop. Not only does it have a functioning espresso machine, it also has a sink, a cooler, a coffee grinder and a water tank.

“Yeah so the artist put the frame on as well.” The enigmatic urban artist Banksy made world news yet again when an artwork of his shred itself after being sold at an auction. In this video, Banksy shows how it was triggered, and that it was supposed to shred itself all the way.

Inspired by a design submitted by Grant Davis and Jason Allemann, this 859-piece LEGO kit lets builders create two different scenes inside the “pages” of a pop-up book, each based on a classic fairy tale – Little Red Riding Hood or Jack and the Beanstalk. Drops 11/1/18.

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke teamed up with Greenpeace to release an instrumental piece to help support nature conservation in one of the world’s most precious locations. The track is accompanied by dramatic black and white footage captured by the ship Arctic Sunrise.

Maker of woo-den things Bobby Duke Arts shows us how to make a real work of art using something as mundane as the pine 2x4s that are used as wall studs in construction. The result of his creative efforts is a pair of wings that make a sweet wall hanging.

Nexi Tech shows us how to make some truly unique speakers using value-priced parts. The electronics are set into organic looking enclosures designed by Ondra Chotovinsky. The 3D printer he used is the $500 Creality3D CR 10S, which makes great big prints cheap.

Premiere Rush is Adobe’s easy-to-use editor for creating online videos. It has simple tools for color, audio, motion graphics and more. It also has preset export settings for social media sites. You can even shuffle your editing between its Mac, PC, and iOS versions.

In 2019, Adobe will bring a full version of Photoshop CC to the iPad. Aside from the convenience of mobile image editing and creation, the app will launch with a cloud version of PSD files, letting you continue your work from a desktop PC to your iPad and back.

Freakersneaks made limited-edition Air Jordan IVs themed after the Game Boy and one of its classic games, Super Mario Land. The sneakers feature a pressable d-pad and buttons on the heel, and a Game Boy cartridge as the tag. They cost a crazy $1,350, but still sold out.

Table saws were designed for ripping straight through pieces of wood or other building materials. But maker Izzy Swan decided to see if he could do something unconventional with his saw. With the help of a custom jig, he managed to create turned wood spindles on his.

If you sometimes imagine yourself starring in a sci-fi flick, being a villain of a high-tech fortress, or just love looking at buttons, knobs, dials and displays, Control Panel is for you. It’s a crowdsourced blog that highlights its namesake through photos, animated gifs and videos.