Separation of Church and State, Was Never So Literal

This is about as surreal as it gets. An incredible video about the moving of a huge church on a huge truck, set to over the top choral music specifically written for the event. I'm honestly flabbergasted.

It's really strange, the truck is so small comparatively it looks like the church is moving on its own.

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It's a Delicate Mechanism

This is pretty incredible already, before you find out that the whole thing is made of paper. My mind boggles at the level or precision this would require.

Via BoingBoing

We All Need The Occasional Free Ride.

The Machine from mudlevel on Vimeo.

My Shadow Is Very Fertile

Inner Forests from Michael Kontopoulos on Vimeo.

Who was blogged before: here

He's just put up more new work which is equally as awesome. Artists who can combine the technical with the visual like this always impress me, but he never fails to marry inherent concept seamlessly, so it becomes more than just a neat effect. This is sort of like his last work in reverse, whereas in the past he anthropomorphized simple machines, here he is removing the individual, turning one's person into landscapes.

There's also this one which is a bit more conceptual, but i like the simplified idea behind it: What You Missed

If Trousers Like Those Are Wrong, Then I Don't Want to be Right.

Cracking Contraptions - The Turbo Diner

I loved my copies of Wallace and Gromit, before we lacked the requisite VHS player to watch them. I even thoroughly enjoyed the feature length movie.

Well they haven't been idle since. they have a whole series of videos entitled: Cracking Contraptions
which you can also watch on Youtube

Animatronic Chicken Nuggets. Enough Said.

Wooster Collective has a fantastic Write up on Banksy's latest work, which is also his first ever New York Show entitled: The Village Pet Store And Charcoal Grill

Besides The Chicken Nuggets, the show includes such Animatronic wonders as, a bunny applying make-up, Hot dogs in Heat lamp equipped glass terrariums, A Leopard Print jacket hanging out in a tree like the real thing, Breaded Fish Sticks that swim about their fishbowl, and a CCTV camera nuturing it's young. Not only is this a complete departure from his regular work, which consisted mostly of stencil street Tags, and paintings, but it's just an amazing usage of Animatronic sculptures in general.

I'm not normally one to gush but I wish I could visit NYC before this gets taken down after Holloween, I love everything about this.

Tap, Tappity, Tap Tap

Could anyone teach me how to make a solenoid?

Get to Dancing Umbrella

Mechanical Umbrella Prototype from Michael Kontopoulos on Vimeo.

He plans on building 100 of these to hang from a ceiling in an installation, but I just want one.

Here's finished piece: A Machine That Tries to Draw Circles

Digital Toasters are Putting Hardworking Pneumatic Toasters Out of Work

Using the Electrolux thats in development(production?) you can now toast designs into your bread via USB cable.

Cue the mass production of Jesus Toast images.

The True Story of The Pneumatic Burrito

Here is a great history of the The Alameda-Weehawken Pneumatic Burrito Tunnel.

"As the 30th anniversary of the Alameda-Weehawken burrito tunnel approaches, it’s worth taking a look at the remarkable sequence of events that takes place between the time we click “deliver” on the burrito.nyc.us.gov website and the moment that our hot El Farolito burrito arrives in the lunchroom with its satisfying pneumatic hiss."

(you really have to go to the link to make sense of this)

Cross section of a part of the tunnel

I'm Envious I Don't Have Ice Cream

Envy by Alex Prager

This photo is simply amazing to me, it just does everything right, its simple, and attractive, and the title works so well. I don't know if this is a terrible thing to say, and I don't mean it as such, but i really like the look of below the knee prosthetics, especially the ones used by runners in the Para-Olympics. I think i like such an overt blending of body and technology.

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