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Bentley Belonging Bentayga Art Car

Bentley Belonging Bentayga Art Car

Bentley’s latest masterpiece is a unique Bentayga Hybrid hand-painted by Stephen Wiltshire, MBE, an autistic savant architectural artist who can sketch detailed cityscapes after a single viewing. Titled “Belonging Bentayga,” the $200K+ Alpine Green car features 29 people and landmarks to embody the unity and diversity of our world while celebrating neurodivergence and craftsmanship.

Geometric Wall Sculptures by Herschel Shapiro

Geometric Wall Sculptures by Herschel Shapiro
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Artist Herschel Shapiro makes amazing geometric wall art. He starts by 3D printing petal-like shapes from sustainably sourced bioplastic, then sands and paints each piece to produce color gradients before attaching them. The sculptures are available for purchase on the artist’s Etsy shop in various patterns and colors. His limited-edition Maelstrom is our fave.

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AMK Pro Optimus Prime and Megatron Action Figures

AMK Pro Optimus Prime and Megatron Action Figures
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Yolopark’s upcoming Transformers G1 action figures are way too good for their price. The AMK Pro Series Optimus Prime and Megatron action figures have sweet battle-damaged paint jobs on their metal and plastic parts. They’re both about 8″ tall and come with lighting effects, weapon accessories, and a display stand.

ColorWare Apple Number 2 Pencil

ColorWare Apple Number 2 Pencil
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Are skins or DIY paint jobs not good enough for your already pricey Apple Pencil? Well, the madmen at ColorWare would be all too happy to take your money. Their take on the obvious color scheme for the second-generation iPad stylus is, as expected, completely overkill in terms of both quality and price.

Photon Pro Glow-in-the-Dark E-Bike

Photon Pro Glow-in-the-Dark E-Bike

E-bike maker Superhuman created this unique bicycle with a glow-in-the-dark frame and sidewalls. The phosphorescent paint helps with nighttime visibility and looks amazing. The bike has a 350-watt hub-drive motor that can hit speeds up to 28 mph, and its stealthy removable battery provides up to 50 miles of range. Enter by 4.4.2024 for a chance to win one.

Making a Viking Shield

Making a Viking Shield

The Vikings made many interesting weapons, armor, and other battle gear. In this video from metalsmith Freerk Wieringa, he handcrafts a replica of an ancient Viking shield. He starts by hammering its iron center and forging nails. He then cuts wooden planks into a circle and adds canvas, paint, and a rawhide edge before attaching the metal dome.

Every Marketing Trick Explained

Every Marketing Trick Explained

The Paint Explainer made a concise explanation of the various tricks that businesses, ads, and marketing agencies use to convince us to purchase or remember their wares. Many of these terms describe understandable practices, but many are infuriatingly deceptive and manipulative.

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Electroplating a 3D-Printed Iron Man Helmet

Electroplating a 3D-Printed Iron Man Helmet

3D-printed plastic objects don’t get very shiny. HEN3DRIK shows us how he electroplated a 3D model of Iron Man’s helmet to make it look like the ones in the movies. The process involves preparing the plastic and applying conductive copper paint before electroplating it with copper, gold, and palladium. The red was added using transparent red acrylic paint.

More Mid-Air Cannon Collisions

More Mid-Air Cannon Collisions

The guys from How Ridiculous braved winter conditions in Montana to play with a pair of air cannons with their friends from BealsScience. This time, they loaded up their barrels with soda cans, bowling balls, spray paint, and a pair of glass spheres for an explosive grand finale.

Building Leonardo DaVinci’s Crossbow Machine Gun

Building Leonardo DaVinci’s Crossbow Machine Gun

While best known for his paintings, Leonardo DaVinci also invented many imaginative machines. Among his ideas was a crazy weapon that could fire 16 crossbows in a row. How to Make Everything took DaVinci’s drawings and built a real-world replica of the weapon. It works surprisingly well, but loading the thing seems like a precarious process.

Xiem Artist’s Tool Bag

Xiem Artist’s Tool Bag
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Keep all of your art supplies organized and ready to use in Xiem’s versatile tool bag. It features a metal frame wrapped in durable canvas and a wooden handle. Inside, you’ll find two large compartments, 16 holsters, and 17 pockets in a variety of sizes. It’s ideal for carrying ceramic tools, paintbrushes, pens/pencils, and more.

3D Printing a Giant LEGO Minifig

3D Printing a Giant LEGO Minifig

If there’s one thing we know about LEGO minifigures, it’s that they’re mini. It’s right there in the name. Maker Fabien Pohl wanted a bigger minifig, so he supersized the little dude using his Creality K1 Max 3D printer. After printing and sanding all the parts, he spray-painted them to a shiny gloss finish. He also made a dapper banana outfit for his minifig.

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Bird and Bee Illusion Art

Bird and Bee Illusion Art

At first glance, you might think this was a painting of a hummingbird. But it is neither a painting nor a hummingbird. Hit play on the video, and you’ll see what we mean. Artist Thomas Deininger creates these incredible mixed media sculptures of birds, bees, and other animals that defy expectations when viewed from any angle other than straight on.

Making a Mood Ring Car

Making a Mood Ring Car

Ali Spagnola thought making her car change colors like a gigantic mood ring would be fun. So she sprayed it with thermochromic liquid crystal paint. This stuff doesn’t show if she’s happy or sad but instead reacts to changes in temperature. If you’re wondering what those discs are on her car, they’re the 9,000 PopSockets she attached in a previous video.

Indiana Jones Temple Trap Wall Decor

Indiana Jones Temple Trap Wall Decor
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These replica Temple Traps from Regal Robot make your room look like the temple at the beginning of Raiders of the Lost Ark. The 15″ square wall art is based on the traps that fire darts as Indy and Satipo attempt to escape with the idol. Each is made in the U.S. from polyurethane resin and handpainted for accuracy. They also make mini fridge magnet versions.

Milspin Rhino Bar EDC Pry Tool

Milspin Rhino Bar EDC Pry Tool
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This tiny and minimal keychain tool is more versatile than it looks. The 3″ long Rhino Bar is machined from a solid stainless steel bar, has grip indentations, and won’t bend or break under pressure. Use it to pry apart things, remove staples, open packages, and scrape paint or glue. It can also turn flat-blade screws.

Pro Performer 29 Mandalorian Edition Bike

Pro Performer 29 Mandalorian Edition Bike
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GT Bicycles’ special Pro Performer 29 bike features a design inspired by The Mandalorian. It rolls on 5-spoke mag wheels, and its frame is painted in Beskar silver and with anodized blue accents. Its angular Cheat Code handlebars have leather and canvas pads with ‘Clan of Two’ graphics, and its leather saddle is debossed with “This is the way” in Mando’a.

2024 Polaris Slingshot

2024 Polaris Slingshot

The 2024 Slingshot offers paint and graphics in slick new colors like Radar Blue Fade, Gold Rush, and Purple Lightning, new SL wheels, and audio upgrades. The ROUSH Edition is back with Brembo brakes, an excursion cover, Sparco pedal covers, and a race-style steering wheel. S and SL models still make 178 hp, while the SLR, R, and ROUSH produce 203 hp.

Paper Planes Piano Cover

Paper Planes Piano Cover

Musician Alban Claudin shows off his performance and production skills with a great live cover version of the M.I.A. track Paper Planes. Though without the vocals, it could almost be called a cover of The Clash song Straight to Hell, which M.I.A. sampled heavily. His version of Doja Cat’s Paint the Town Black is wonderful too.

AT-AT Bookends

AT-AT Bookends
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Keep your Star Wars book collection organized with these AT-AT bookends from MokuShop. Each walker is hand-assembled from layers of laser-cut wood and painted in a shiny metallic silver. As a bonus, they include a Darth Vader figure with a leash for his Imperial pet. Just keep its legs away from Rebel snowspeeders.

Mixtape Dice

Mixtape Dice

These unique dice from Aether Objects are made from cassette tapes. Each die has strips of vintage cassette tape preserved forever inside see-through resin. Their embossed numbers are painted with a vibrant yellow inspired by ’80s cassette graphics. Sold in a set of seven dice and packed in a cassette-style storage box.

Literal Coffee Table

Literal Coffee Table
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Artist Kamber Carroll of Kamberland Creations likes his coffee served in a big cup. He also likes it served ON a big cup, so he created this coffee table that looks like a giant version of his mug. He fabricated its main form from styrofoam with a hard outer coating and painted it to look like the real deal. Each cup is hand-sculpted to order.

How Camera Lenses Are Made

How Camera Lenses Are Made

Japan’s Sigma Corporation makes all kinds of camera lenses. Process X takes us on a factory tour for a look at how their interchangeable lenses come together, from polishing glass to assembling tiny components and even hand-painting the dial markings. Production requires precision and cleanliness from start to finish. No wonder lenses are so expensive.

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