Paper Bits

Jan 26

Cat Ear build instruction photos: in progress. (Taken with instagram)

Jan 23

Self-Portrait, between rabbit ears.

Twitter just notified me that someone posted a Fetus with Text Tag to Thingiverse.

Adds the ability to add text to your fetus. Personalize it with a name, or scale it to make it the real life size with the date underneath!

Just what I’ve always wanted.

When you cut into the present… (Taken with instagram)

Jan 16

lavacheestdanslepre:

The Mundaneum, an institution created in 1910 by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine, aimed to gather together all the world’s knowledge. An Archive with more than 12 million index cards, some consider it a forerunner of the internet. Otlet dreamt that one day all the information he collected could be accessed by people from the comfort of their own homes.’

The Mundaneum is utterly fascinating to me, for reasons that should be obvious…

Jan 15

Apparently, catgirls like Sandman. Prototype 1.5 test successful. (Taken with Instagram at New England Comics)

Jan 12

Trapped in a fortune cookie company, I am. (Taken with instagram)

Jan 8

It’s going to take forever for the bunny spam to trail off. And I’m ok with that. (Taken with Instagram at Narnia)

Jan 7

She’s a girl bunny. Turns out. So, no naming her “Sherlock” then. (Taken with instagram)

[edit]

Except for the part where we totally named her Sherlock anyway.

Dec 31

Mrs Tsk *: Just south of Osaka Zoo is Tobita Shinchi, Japan’s largest...

When Google Streetview passed along the streets of [Osaka’s red-light district] Tobita Shinchi, it just happened — conveniently enough for the Japanese authorities — to be the early hours of New Year’s day 2010. Very few of the prostitutes were on show.

You can see the standard Tobita Shinchi presentation format: an older lady sitting in the door, beckoning customers, and the prostitute herself, sitting on a raised platform, lit from below in pink and white, surrounded often by lucky charms (maneki neko, flowers, toys, slippers, gifts).

—Mrs Tsk*: Just south of Osaka Zoo

Dec 30

Indexed: The ultimate book promotion

Dec 29

‘water calligraphy device’ by canada-born, beijing-based media artist nicholas hanna reinterprets the chinese tradition of using a water brush to write poetry in public spaces by transforming a flat-bead tricycle into a poetry-writing device.

Dec 28

Warranty voiding for fun and profit. Minus the profit. (Taken with instagram)

Dec 22

skandolous:

Ink Calendar designed by Oscar Diaz. The ink will slowly color each day of the month as time passes by.

I like how the bottle of ink is labeled with the month.

Dec 7

Arduino-compatible Skymega board for powering and controlling servo-based printbots.

Far more compact than an arduino if you’re controlling 4 servos, because of the need for multiple power supplies and a breakout board for the servos. I could use this, but sadly you have to have the PCB custom-printed and source the parts, which is a bit of a pain…