Tag: HANDMADE

Besides the days when we receive a Netflix DVD, checking the mail is a chore on par with taking out the trash, which is exactly where most of the paper we pull from our mailbox ends up. But a series of handmade, mechanical cards by artist Bradley N. Litwin aim to make snail mail fun again. The first card, dubbed The Radial Engine, is a moving cross-section of a crankshaft, and is now available ...

A few weeks back, we were intrigued by The Toy Zone's roundup of 25 video games that had been recreated as paper dioramas. Needless to say, we wanted more. Using our rigorous investigative journalism techniques, we trudged through the Internet and soon stumbled upon Nintendo Papercrafts, a site devoted to DIY paper projects featuring classic NES characters. This is a thing that people do? ...

With Michael Bay's ode to robots hitting the big screen this week, the world and the Web are abuzz about giant hunks of shape-shifting metal that blow stuff up. According to the old TV theme song, Transformers are 'more than meets the eye,' and, while it only slightly resembles Optimus Prime or Megatron, you could say the same for this toy posted by Lubbock, Texas Etsy user 'reaver.' Dubbed ...