Wire Bonsai Trees
On this last day of 2021, here's a bonsai tree to bring you dudes good luck and harmony in 2022. Look, it's even made of wire, so there's no chance you will kill it and work up a Sensate's worth of anxiety over a sign of yet another shitty year to come.
Regardless of bonsai lore and symbolism, and my own cynicism, these Wire Bonsai Tree sculptures are a sight to behold. Each piece is handmade by Wire Bonsai Art, using a wooden base, and at least a football field's length of wire woven into various miniature tree styles. Bonsais come in standard silver, copper, and brass colors, each reflective of the type of wire used to bring them to life.
Air Bonsai Floating Tree
If you take a look at this floating bonsai tree, it should be pretty clear what it is: a floating bonsai tree. We've even seen enough floating things around here to know that the Air Bonsai is able to levitate (and spin...
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Bunny Ear Succulents
All the cuteness, half the care, and bunny ear succulents won't drop poop pellets all over your house when you bring them out to play. With the current popularity of houseplants, succulents in particular, and the impending...
Bilbo Baggins Bonsai Home
Whatever, I could make a Bilbo Baggins Bag End Bonsai. Or I could if I had the meticulous, exacting hands of a surgeon. But then I'd probably just be a surgeon because I bet it pays more than selling miniature Japanese...
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Brass Plant Mister
The Haws brass plant mister is a functional and attractive tool for quenching the thirst of Bonsai trees, air plants, flowers, cacti, or any other indoor plant. It's also a functional and attractive tool for training...
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Iron Mando Porcelain Helmet
The Iron Mando Porcelain Helmet is what happens when creative visionaries and skilled artists don't want to get sued by Disney or Marvel. Discommon, the design firm behind the Iron Mando, calls their full-size porcelain...
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Steampunk Optimus Prime
My theory is that this might actually be Optimus Prime and this guy has captured him, found some way of disarming him, and is now trying to sell him. I don't know if I'd be comfortable sleeping with this guy roaming around...
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The Seahorse Lounger
Don't get me wrong, The Seahorse Lounger is certainly a design worthy of attention, and possibly placement in your living room. It thrives in both its standout appearance, and creator Andrew Roberts' sustainable approach...
Slow Dance - A Frame that Slows Down Time
Imagine a club in Vegas. A go-go dancer. Strobe lights. It's a spectacle of stop motion animation, the fluidity of movement altered by the way the flashes of light play with your eyes. Now scale that scene way down and...
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OLOID Mathematically Perfect Desk Sculpture
Paul Schatz discovered the oloid in 1929. Yes, discovered. It's not just some rando geometric shape or ergonomically designed fidget toy. The oloid is a real piece of the mathematics puzzle, and Patrick Schneider's OLOID...
Internal Fire Glass Vortex Spheres
Loooook into my orb. No really, check out a GIF of one of these Internal Fire Glass vortex spheres. The optical illusion is super trippy. And super... supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. Glass artist Scott Pernicka handcrafts...
Colibri Mechanized Kinetic Hummingbird Sculpture
Colibri the wooden hummingbird is a stunning addition to the world of kinetic sculptures. And DIY. And CNC machining. And gears. I don't really have anything more clever or insightful to say about it, because watching...
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The World's Longest Tunnel Slide
Virtual reality may be a rising star, but the ArcelorMittal Orbit is going all-out, balls-to-the-wall IRL this summer with its curving, spiraling, plummeting tunnel slide. Dubbed simply "The Slide," this 584-foot-long...