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Paintable Android Figurines

Paintable Android Figurines

Show your loyalty to Google’s mobile OS as well as your creativity with one of these blank Android mini-collectibles. Each one is the perfect canvas for your ideas. Design ideas courtesy of Gizmodo.

Painting with Water

Painting with Water

This incredible fountain from KOEI Aquatec is located in Japan’s Canal City mall, and can “paint” images and words on a curtain of water using computer-controlled H2O jets.

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Chatroulette Speed Painting

Chatroulette Speed Painting

With the exception of a certain male body part, you never know what you’ll find on Chatroulette. Instead of chatting, artist Paz Bernstein creates live drawings of what he sees through the webcam.

Paintball Wall Art

Paintball Wall Art

It’s definitely not as speedy as Adam and Jamie’s paintball masterpiece, but that doesn’t mean the Facadeprinter, a computer-controlled cannon that prints murals using paintballs isn’t cool.

Video: Every MoMA Painting

Video: Every MoMA Painting

Would you like to see all of the paintings in the Museum of Modern Art? Got two minutes and five seconds? Watch this video for a warp-speed tour of MoMA’s wondrous collection.

Photoshop CS5: Painting Tools

Photoshop CS5: Painting Tools

Photoshop expert John Derry shows more cool CS5 tools – natural brushes and paint that act like the real deal. It can’t compete with ArtRage, but it’s about time Adobe added these features.

Painting with Fireworks

Painting with Fireworks

Artist Rosemarie Fiore doesn’t use brushes to create her bold modern works of art. She blows things up. To put a finer point on it, she “paints” by placing lit firecrackers under small cans of paint.

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Art: My MS Paint World

Art: My MS Paint World

Taking him four years to complete, Jens Gustafsson’s My MS Paint World is the Sistine Chapel of bitmaps; it’s 8883 x 7636 pixels large (8 feet x 8 feet) and takes up a 203 BMP file.

Jackoon Painting Robot

Jackoon Painting Robot

Named after masters of splatter Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Oscar G. Torres’ Jackoon robot actually uses a camera that lets it paint a predetermined image.

Paintball Turret

Paintball Turret

Jared Bouck takes paintball seriously, and with his dual-barreled turret who are we to argue? It can be controlled wirelessly from half a mile while blasting out 34 balls per second.

Video: Circular Painting

Video: Circular Painting

Made for the Discovery Channel, this video is a funky time-lapse animation of eight artists expressing the fate of the world on a circular wall in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2008.

Free: SUMO Paint

Free: SUMO Paint

SUMO Paint is the most impressive Photoshop clone we’ve seen, made even more amazing by the fact it’s for free online. Some layer properties are missing, but overall it’s quite full-featured.

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Paint My House

Paint My House

Temporary graffiti isn’t so bad: Jaybo aka Monk recently “painted” the Berliner Dom in Germany with a sea of cartoon hands; it was powered with Skudi Optics projectors.

Saucerbot Lightpainting

Saucerbot Lightpainting
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We’re totally digging these fantastic lightpainting photos by artist Andy Hill, who makes and sells retro sci-fi Saucerbots from LED lights, leftover CDs, DVDs and hard drive platters.

Video: Paintball Mona Lisa

Video: Paintball Mona Lisa

There’s nothing like creating a work of art with brute-force: the gang at Mythbusters painted the Mona Lisa in less than a second with an 1100 barrel paintball gun.

Restoring a 1960s Spaceship Toy

Restoring a 1960s Spaceship Toy

Old Things Never Die picked up a rare and rusty U.S.A.F. GEMINI X-5 toy spaceship on eBay. After disassembling all of its parts, he got to work sandblasting away the rust, polishing the plastics, and then painstakingly reapplying paint to make it look as good as new. He also had to replace its motor and rebuild its driving mechanism.

Dark Horse Fallout Figures

Dark Horse Fallout Figures
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Amazon Prime’s Fallout is one of the best video game TV adaptations yet. Fans of the show will love these Dark Horse figures based on the show’s three main characters: The Ghoul, Maximus, and Lucy. The hand-painted PVC figures stand from 7.5″ to 10″ tall, and each wields a weapon to take on the dangers of the wasteland. Pre-order all three and get $15 off.

Sharpie Creative Markers

Sharpie Creative Markers

These recently released Sharpie markers have a brush tip and an opaque, water-based ink that goes on like paint. They can mark all kinds of surfaces, from paper to metal to glass to wood, and won’t bleed through paper. Unlike some paint markers, they don’t require priming to get the ink flowing. The price shown is for the 12-color variety packs.

Citizen Tsuyosa Galaxy Watch

Citizen Tsuyosa Galaxy Watch
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This beautifully customized wristwatch from IFL Watches started as a stock Citizen Tsuyosa Automatic with a stainless steel case and link band. What makes it special is the enamel dotting its face, evoking tiny stars and planets. The watch has a 40mm, 21-jewel movement, and a 40-hour power reserve. Just 100 of these hand-painted pieces will be made.

Eco-bricks Wooden Construction Toys

Eco-bricks Wooden Construction Toys
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Once Kids makes biodegradable construction toy bricks that are compatible with LEGO pieces. The natural variant of Eco-bricks are made from sustainable wood and are easy to decorate and clean. The colored pieces, on the other hand, are dyed using non-toxic water-based paint. There are also bricks made from bamboo that come with felt stickers.

Artemus Split-Ring Plier Multitool

Artemus Split-Ring Plier Multitool
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This key-sized titanium tool from TEC Accessories can open boxes, turn flathead screws, pull apart difficult key rings, open paint cans, and more. It’s also got a filing surface on its side and short imperial/metric rulers on its edge. It hangs easily from a keychain or clips onto a pocket.

23 Famous Magic Trick Secrets Revealed

23 Famous Magic Trick Secrets Revealed

Magic tricks are basically an agreement between the audience and the magician to accept a lie. The Paint Explainer compiled the secrets behind 23 well-known magic tricks and put them all in a single video. While we already knew some of these, like the Statue of Liberty disappearing and the needle-through-the-arm trick, others were new to us.

Oakywood Headphone Stand + Wireless Charger

Oakywood Headphone Stand + Wireless Charger
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Don’t just leave your good headphones lying on your desk. Put them in a place of honor with this handcrafted headphone stand from Oakywood. It features a faceted geometric wood base and a sturdy painted steel holder. Plus, its base has a built-in wireless phone charger with 15-watt fast charging. Choose from oak, walnut, or black-stained oak.

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