Craft, Entertainment

The Clockwork Orange Bedcover / Bart Gold

Being the attempt to recreate a one of a kind movie prop using fabric, gumption and couch foam. Can Bart recreate Alex DeLarge’s puffy, dimensional bedding, as seen in A Clockwork Orange?

This amazing prop was only on screen for a minute and 40 seconds, in two scenes. The actual screen-used Clockwork Orange bedspread is said to have degraded in storage, ultimately to be disposed of. Will we be able to recreate it?

And how crazy will the level of effort needed be? — via Youtube

Craft, Wildlife

Giant Squid Plush / Squid Pro Quo Shop

This enormous cutie is made just for you to adore, he is so soft and huggable you could even use him as a body pillow. He is the perfect addition to any nautical-themed playroom or nursery. You don’t even have to be a kid to want to cuddle up to one of these, even adults find him irresistible to touch and play with! And, at 7 feet long, from the top of his fins to the tip of his two long arms, boy what a conversation piece he is — via Etsy

Craft

Spare Parts #12: Heat Bluing A Set Of Steel Clock Hands / Clickspring

In this video Clickspring goes through the process of bluing a set of steel clock hands. Heat bluing of small steel parts is a key element of traditional clock and watchmaking. It can transform the appearance of even the most mundane parts, and is also believed to afford the parts a small measure of corrosion resistance — via Youtube

Design

Stephan’s Folly / Robert Lewis

This Robert Lewis designed Palm Springs house has one of the best (and briefest) back stories we’ve ever heard: It was constructed in 1965 and later purchased by Jack Stephan, known as the plumber to the stars, who redecorated the place himself. It is now known as Stephan’s Folly, for reasons that are probably obvious. For reasons that are less obvious (but still marvellous), it has not been updated since. It is now on the market for $899,000 — via Curbed

Art

Mosaic Murals / Javier de Riba

A puzzle of layers rather than pieces, each of this spray-painted works takes aesthetic cues from historic Barcelona, deploying them in novel contexts using unexpected materials. Catalan artist Javier de Riba creates these vibrant works with stencils, one of the original tools of the street artist, bringing them to life so well they could be confused for glass or ceramic tiles — via Urbanist

Art

Eggstatic / aa4cc

Various patterns are generated in Matlab using mathematical equations similar to ones describing Spirograph (or harmonograph) and Phyllotaxis. The patterns are calculated in such a way that when rotated under a stroboscopic light of suitable frequency or when recorded by a camera, they start to animate. It is kind of zoetrope — early device for animation. Eggs were painted using EggBot (designed by Bruce Shapiro as open hardware and available as a kit from Evil Mad Scientist). To draw on eggs, we used standard permanent markers and an electro kistka with bee wax followed by dying. Eggs are rotated at a constant speed, special for each pattern, by a brushless motor. No computer graphics tricks are used in the video — via Youtube

Science, Weird

RRS Boaty McBoatface could be the name of the newest British research ship

The public has been asked to name Britain’s newest polar research ship and the internet has really outdone itself.

The current frontrunner?

RRS Boaty McBoatface.

The Natural Environment Research Centre is probably regretting trusting the public and the internet with the responsibility of naming the £200 million Royal Research Ship.

So far nearly 6,000 voters have chosen RRS Boaty McBoatface, but the top ten also includes RRS Pingu and RRS Usain Bolt.

RRS Boaty McBoatface is also beating RRS David Attenborough and RRS Henry Worsley, named after a famous British explorer and following in the tradition of naming the ships after iconic adventurers — via redwolf.newsvine.com