When I was on a 8 week sabbatical a number of years ago, I took an artistic welding class. It was a ton of fun. Sugar Metal Customs does custom ironwork, but also teaches some classes from making metal roses to giant metal flails for your medieval fantasies.
Maybe pick up a skill that AI can’t replace?
Jake Welch has been capturing 3D scans of unique bathrooms (largely around the New York area).
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What an interesting rendering style
In 2017, there was a contest to design the worst possible volume control. It goes to show you that just because you make something look cool – it could be the worst design ever.
Even more can be found here.
Dezeen did a good report on 10 different architectural installations at Burning man 2024
They also did one for Burning Man 2025
The 90’s were an amazing time to learn to code. Especially in Europe, hundreds and even thousands of people would gather for weekend-long, round-the-clock caffeine fueled coding sessions to flex their latest graphics programming tricks on Amigas, Commodores, PC’s, and other hardware.
Imphobia was the leading PC demoscene diskmag of the first half of the 1990s. Founded in 1992, it issued until 1996. In that period, 12 issues were released.
Early issues of Imphobia run in DOSBox except issues 6 and beyond where the graphics are not displayed correctly, probably because of the use of an obscure video mode. Nevertheless it’s possible to read the articles. All Imphobia issues are available at scene.org and can be seen at Demozoo.
Demozoo.org is a website that is a library of not only old school ’90’s era demo competition submission – but even all the recent ones as well. They have lists of current competitions and news too. An extra feature is many demos have youtube videos of the runs so you don’t have to download the binaries and run them locally.
Created for Exploring the Unknown exhibition at the CERN Science Gateway by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, Round About Four Dimensions sculpture is a 4D tesseract rotating in 3D.
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Artists used to mark off walls into squares to transfer drawings to walls. It still required a lot of manual eyeballing and skill. Things got a lot easier when people realized they could use digital projectors to simply project the image to the wall and trace it. It still had problems in very bright locations or in narrow areas (like hallways) where you can’t get a single projection. You have to move the projector around and do lots of calibrating of scale to avoid introducing distortions.
Now, people are using VR headsets in AR mode so they can apply images to walls without the projectors. @katdieuxart demonstrates the technique.
The Video Game History Foundation (VHGF)’s digital archive of video game research has launched its first round of online early access to it’s library. It’s free to access anywhere in the world and intended for “anyone who wants to study video game history.”
What do they have?
There are some caveats: There are no playable games in the archive due to copyright restrictions and VGHF said it “cannot give express permission” for users to reproduce materials in the library unless explicitly stated otherwise though researchers may be exempt under fair use cases.