Creative Recycling of your old PC

"Given the Moore's law that the power of computers doubles every 24 months, we end up with a lot of useless devices and obsolete hardware, that you sure can recycle in a normal way, but it's much more fun to recycle it in a wild and unusual ways! Let's see how to give a new life to the computing zombies of yesteryear."

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/10/new-ways-to-play-with-old-hardware.html

bike out of the hard drives:


Old electronic parts can be re-used in earrings:


Running Shoes out of the old keyboard (must be really uncomfortable)


great use of an old mouse in a bathroom:


Old monitor husk as a cage for a hamster:


The "Crucifix" wall is more rugged, but perhaps more meaningful. The monitors constantly run the most often searched words on Google News - bringing to mind some pseudo-spiritual ideas about "living" words & virtual martyrdom.




and last but not least

Sandy Smith arranges a bunch of functioning and dead monitors into walls and sculptures, achieving some sublime effects. Take for example this "Mauritian Sunset" with its rather complex glow:

Fully Loaded chair made of shotgun shells

The fully loaded chair, made from 450 12-gauge shotgun shells has a "massaging texture" due to the protruding brass tips

Wire Lamborghini

"The work questions the combustion engine, celebrates bicycle efficiency and the striking design of the Lamborghini arguably one of the most iconic super cars of all time, as well as Wilson and Radcliffes commitment to clever and thoughtful craftsmanship. Wilson + Radcliffe are deeply passionate about cars and bikes and have seen each other¹s work at various exhibitions over the last few years. Artcars gave them the opportunity to collaborate on this project. Walk the plank commissioned the piece of work for the uk¹s first ART CAR parade that was held in Manchester last recently."

Book Autopsies

Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures.

http://centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26 (more images)

Lego Bible

http://www.thebricktestament.com/index.html

I hope no one finds this offensive but I thought it was pretty darn cool that someone took the time to do it. There are a few sacrilegious things on there that people might not like but generally its interesting. It's the old testament told through lego images.

LED Street Art

Just beautiful!



"LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together"

Gun Shaped Items

I know this does not relate to my usual blog topic but I sure found this interesting and the amout of stuff that is as silly is just overwhelming.


A gun shaped blow dryer? Something seems really wrong about this especially since well... you point a blowdryer or should I say gundryer at your head.



This is another absurd item I found. Kids get suspended for pointing "gun" shaped chicken fingers (or was it a nugget) and going bang. Can you imagine the uproar with this ruler? Plus what does a gun have to do with measuring?



And of course the last item... Nothing matches up to this one:



This unfortunate toy gun has a whistle on the end of the barrel.

It's a toy where the basketball spins and opens up when you pull the trigger. As it spins it plays music. Oh yeah, it's got a whistle that you play by sticking the barrel of this gun-shaped toy in your mouth!

Colour Coded books

Chris Cobb, a local San Francisco artist did something amazing to a bookshop called Adobe Books- he arranged every single one of the 20,000 books by color. The project is called "There is Nothing Wrong in This Whole Wide World" and is based on a simple idea:

"Even though there is so much to be unhappy about in this world, we should try to create something amazing and beautiful and interesting despite all of the problems." Chris Cobb

Chris and a team of 16 volunteers stayed up all night (ten hours, several pizzas and 30 bottles of water later) and arranged all of the books by hand. Inside every book there is a tag saying where it belongs.

Reverse Graffiti

Take the time to watch this to the end so you will actually understand what is going on. It's quite an interesting medium and what the city workers did with it is as well. It really was not causing any harm aside from being beautiful

The process of creation

Just something interesting I found a while ago. I cut the ending out of it because it is not as powerfull as this segment (sorry about the bad edit I just used a screenshot).