News: Awesome Arts'n'Crafts

I should be asleep, but I'm not, so I'm posting instead. Here are some artsy and crafty creations!

• An amazing Huichol beaded VW Bug.
• Airagami -- the art of balloon-sculpting
• And what would happen if someone tried to draw famous tweets. No, seriously.
• Best Sleeping Bag Ever:
  
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And it's not News without a (topically unrelated but mind-blowingly cute) lolcat:


see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz!

Minecraft: Perler Bead Sheep

I've posted the charts for my perler bead sheep pattern.

Minecraft: The Spoon Biome

After a few prototypes, I finally have a 3-D perler bead sheep that is pretty accurate to the proportions and is structurally stable.



I'm not sure why Spoon is so worried. Maybe he's afraid he's going to morph from chunky into blocky.

Minecraft: Perler Bead Madness!

I have a new craft addiction: perler beads.

I missed perler bead fun when I was a kid, but when I saw these instructions for making a 3-D perler bead creeper, I had to try. I finished one today!



And because I have a bunch of other colors since I bought one of those buckets, I'm figuring out how to make a Minecraft sheep:

Other: Perler Bead Madness!

Remember perler beads? Those little plastic things you use to make pixellated pictures on a special pegboard and then iron to melt into permanent (and since it's plastic, I mean archaeologists will be digging these things up 10,000 years from now) effigies? Well, some people have taken them beyond the realm of smiley faces and, well, whatever 6-year-olds generally make with these things. In fact, if you go to the Geek Craft group on Flickr, some people seem to have made the things their favorite medium for producing homages of their favorite 8-bit video game characters, and even some characters with 16- or 32- bits. Some of these things are seriously hard-core.

Donkey Kong Jr/Burger Time mash-up in perler beads by Flickr user Danny_8bit