“Videos like this make me regret being an asshole to my youngest brother.” — MoyraGuitar

“Why go to the hardware store to buy dowels with all those shiny pencils just sitting there in the office supply cabinet waiting for someone to make things with them? Here’s a lovely new design by Cory Poole. It is a five-pointed star assembled from eighty pencils.” w/ photos

“This is excellent. Totally a walk down memory lane… I love Ghostbusters. And TMNT. And I feel so old now. Kids these day have no idea what they’re missing out on.” — seoul113am

“The construction process is pretty simple. Wood boxes were custom built with evenly spaced rope sized holes drilled through the top and bottom. Precut sections of rope were strung through the top and tied off at the bottom, allowing for the interior knot to hold the rope in place and taut. Just screw close the open side of the box and all those ugly knots are hidden away. With this design the overall costs are kept pretty low for such a big impact. Rope is cheap, especially when bought in bulk, and wood boxes are very low cost to build. The true cost is going to be labor and time – it’s just a tedious and super repetitive process… I’m completely thrilled with how these rope walls came together and so happy I didn’t have to lift a finger and do any of the actual labor. There is another wall in the works that I’m pretty excited to see completed as well as other awesome ideas that came from designing Shelly’s new workspace to be affordable, functional and downright ‘effing stylish.” w/ photos

“Check out the cool new Sharpie Attachment originally designed by fellow Phlat Club Member scraighamilton for the Phlatprinter 3. Here we color the queen of spades. It’s going to be awesome coloring the graphics on our planes before the Phlatprinter cuts them out. We can’t wait to see what the other guyz come up with.” — kram242

“Londoners are not known for their joie de vivre, so when they’re swinging from the lampposts and smiling from windows, there must be… an enormous French elephant in town! Not even a lugubrious Londoner emerging from a long winter and resigned to a short summer could fail to marvel at the amiable 40-foot beast that sauntered through the city’s winding streets, its outsized leather ears brushing the top of Admiralty Arch. Any elephant in London would stop traffic. But this one caused street lights to be removed and roads to be closed. Weighing as much as seven African elephants and more than Nelson’s Column, the majestic animal caused no small brouhaha. Even its wooden performance couldn’t deter the British from taking their hats off to the French. Formed not of skin and bone, but of 45 tons of reclaimed wood and steel, this giant, mechanical Nellie was created by France’s Royal de Luxe theater company as part of a four-day show.” w/ photos

“Studies have shown that if you desensitize your captive wasps to your fingers and hands from an early stage, they will become used to you and not react in an aggressive manor. And, when workers come, the queen’s body language around you will influence the workers’ behavior too.” — maculifrons

“This is the future. Everything is going to look and feel like this within five years,” says creator Roel Vertegaal, the director of Queen’s University Human Media Lab. “This computer looks, feels and operates like a small sheet of interactive paper. You interact with it by bending it into a cell phone, flipping the corner to turn pages, or writing on it with a pen.” The smartphone prototype, called PaperPhone is best described as a flexible iPhone — it does everything a smartphone does, like store books, play music or make phone calls. But its display consists of a 9.5 cm diagonal thin film flexible E Ink display. The flexible form of the display makes it much more portable that any current mobile computer: it will shape with your pocket… Being able to store and interact with documents on larger versions of these light, flexible computers means offices will no longer require paper or printers.” w/ photos

“This is a tribute to the original Star Wars film from 1977. It was hand made entirely from paper and card. It has been created for Star Wars fans to enjoy.” — MrLJB72

“Watch this one in HD! The slow mo guys are well aware that water balloons are always good in slow motion. In this video, Gav and crew try (and fail many times) to pop a 6ft giant red balloon. Slow motion is between 2500fps and 1000fps.” — theslowmoguys