It’s a sign of the times when people can’t brighten up their towns with replica super Mario power up cubes without raising terrorist fears. When a bunch of kids did this recently the bomb squad were called in to investigate the seemingly suspicious packages. Sure a cardboard box emblazoned with question marks may look dubious, but as anyone who has ever played Super Mario will attest, power up cubes are the source of good things like invincibility stars, 1 up mushrooms and fire flowers. The following link shows you how to make your own power cubes, but install them at your own risk. Link [via]
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Power up cubes
Monday, April 10th, 2006Zen lamp
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Brighten up any room with this contemporary paper art. Dig how the mathematical elegance of the tessellating pattern diffuses to give off a nice interplay of light and dark. Whip that ordinary lampshade into vogue with this truly inspired paper project. Link
The Rasterbator
Saturday, April 8th, 2006
Size does matter. When you need to go big – use Rasterbator. This online app will blow up your images to produce individual prints which you tile together to create posters up to 20 meters in size. Load the paper tray, fire up the printer and get set to create grand frescos, loud billboards and that larger than life poster of _ahem_ Jessica Alba. Link