Marbelous is a novel table embedded with a network tracks for steel marbles to traverse, moving from the table’s surface down through the legs. The table was designed and built by Dutch designers Nathan Wierink and Tineke Beunders who go by the name Ontwerpduo. (via laughing squid)
A new video for the Beastie Boys directed by Spike Jonze who turned the boys into action figures. So awesome. (via your music today)
Update: changed the post to include the full 11-minute version.
A realistic looking black cassette tape constructed entirely from LEGO by Nathan Proudlove. Amazing. (via lego diem)
Love this set of 8 hand-poured crayons made to look like LEGO men. Looks like there’s a few sets left over at folsky.com (via svpply)
Traveling today, posting will be regrettably light!
In his spare time San Francisco resident Jeff Waldman started hanging swings in various locations around the city. These guerilla swings caught the attention of the Awesome Foundation which awarded him a $1,000 grant to hang 50 more, a project he captured in this great new video (music by Penguin Cafe Orchestra). The project has since grown a bit encompassing swing installations in Los Angeles and in the Marshall Islands, and with our help he’s heading south to Bolivia to hang a couple hundred more. (via streetsy)
As part of Clerkenwell Design Week clutch and tote designer Lulu Guinness (first photo) created this enormous pin-screen similar to the popular 80s toy. As an interactive art piece participants are invited to step up to the device and press their bodies into it, creating all manner of hilarious, touching, and inevitably obscene body portraits. See dozens more images on their Facebook page. (via notcot)
Toss the G.I. Joes and the Transformers in the trash. Japanese company General Research has created this limited edition set of polyurethane Mountain Men as part of their February Mountain Research series. And by mountain men they’re of course referring to German philosopher Karl Marx, Chairman Mao “a Chinese revolutionary and Guerrilla warfare strategist,” Vladimir Lenin a “Russian revolutionary and political philosopher,” and Henry David Thoreau the American writer and poet. So what do two communists, a German philosopher, and an American poet have in common? I have no idea whatsoever. And other than Thoreau I think it’s questionable whether any of these men had ever climbed a mountain. But these toys are totally geek-tastic, well designed, and are still in stock here. (via flavorwire)
Update: Spoon and Tamago was able to dig up some additional details about the set.
Check out these totally gorgeous torpedo scooters designed by Jerry Koza over at Prague Art & Design. While the form-factor and paint jobs are completely stunning, the paranoid dad in me puts the overall safety rating of these things on par with Jarts, at least in a hilly or mountainous area. Anyway, the hefty price tag will probably keep the majority of kids from ever hurling 90mph down a steep hill strapped to a $1,100 projectile with wheels. (via lustik and kickcan & conkers)
Do they make them for adults?
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