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Inexpensive Toys Fashioned into Unique Action Figures by Artist Tomohiro Yasui
Tomohiro Yasui is best known as the creator of the paper robot wrestlers called kami-robo, but that's not the only medium his imagination has conquered. Using wire and cheap rubber duckies, squirting frogs, and plastic hammers, the Japanese artist builds posable action figures that deserve their own Saturday morning cartoons and comic books. Having spent the past 35 years designing paper robots and plastic toys, Yasui is an expert when it comes to humanoid anatomy in dynamic poses. Multiples of the same donor toys were used to create the chiseled physiques,…
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This Giant Abandoned Soviet Spaceship Made of Wood Looks Like the Ultimate Children’s Playground Feature
While exploring an abandoned corner of the Zhukovsky airfield (Ramenskoye Airport) in Moscow two years ago, aviation photographer Aleksander Markin stumbled onto a forgotten relic of Russia's Buran Space Program. This decaying wooden spacecraft was used as a wind tunnel model in the 1980s for the VKK Space Orbiter, the largest and most expensive Soviet space exploration program conceived as a response to the United States' Space Shuttle. Despite its scientific purposes the wooden ship has the appearance of a fantastic children's playground feature. According to Urban Ghosts, this 1:3 scale replica was just one of 85 wind tunnel models…
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Photographer Klaus Leidorf’s Aerial Archaeology
Perched at the window of his Cessna 172,…
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