Amazing Hand Shadow by Bob Stromberg featuring Ken Davis

Bob Stromberg's amazing hand shadows are just one entertaining portion of his clean comedy routines. His play in three acts, The Rabbit and the Hound, recalls his loves of hand shadows from childhood. The characters are brought to life with the practiced hand shadows that will wow the crowd.
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Lego Robotic Arm

Uploaded by sumthinelse5790 on Feb 5, 2012 This is a model prosthetic arm made entirely of Legos. -hand movements and wrist abduction/adduction are Lego pneumatics -wrist pronation/supination, wrist flexion/extension, and elbow flexion/extension are Lego motors (Power Functions) The main purpose of this project was to accurately mimic the full range of motion of a normal human arm and hand. The secondary goal was to maximize speed and power, yet maintain a consistent ratio between the two for demonstration purposes. It is important to note that it was designed as an above elbow prosthesis, and the yellow shoulder is only meant to act as a static model. The amount of weight it can lift is limited to the shape of the object and orientation of the wrist and elbow, but it can't do much with more than a couple pounds. The controller is a rudimentary cluster of switches and joysticks. A 4-motor air compressor with pressure-regulation was made of Legos. LINK: Youtube

Shadow Hands!!!!! Amazing!!!!!!

...I don't know how they do it but it is awesome!!!!!!!! LINK: Youtube

Amazing choir (Perpetuum Jazzile) uses their hands to simulate storm

Amazing chore uses there hands to stimulate storm. LINK: Youtube

Painted Handgun

The Tampa-based artist known as P$ynner painted this handgun. It’s a Bersa Thunder .380 caliber semi-automatic.

Via: The Breda Fallacy | Artist’s Website | Via: Neatorama

If You Have Five Minutes, You Have to Watch This Awesome Animated Short

Salesman Pete and The Amazing Stone From Outer Space. If you have to watch a video during lunch at the office, this is it. It's pure animation bliss, with the most exquisite use of 3D.

The atmosphere, the pace, the action... and also the perfect rendering to make it look like pure airbrushed, hand-drawn 2D animation. Marc Bouyer, Max Loubaresse, and Anthony Vivien—as well as musician Cyrille Marchesseau and sound designer Mael Vignaux—should all get an Oscar and jobs at Pixar. [Salesmanbuck) Via: Gizmodo

Hand shadows

This image from Dictionnaire encyclopédique Trousset, Paris, 1886 - 1891, Via: Old Book Illustrations Scrapbook Blog. Via: TYWKIWDBI

HOW TO MAKE A GIANT STEEL SKELETON HAND

“Bulid your own giant steel anatomic skeleton hand out of junky nuts and bolts! It makes a nice coat & towel rack too. This is a perfect first welding project because you can make lots of mistakes and it will still come out fine.” LINK

The Buddha's Hand

The Buddha’s Hand is an unusual fruit rarely found in American grocery stores, but common to parts of China and India. It’s so named because its fingers are said to represent the hands of the Buddha praying:

In China the fruit is often carried in the hand or simply placed on a table in the home to bring those who live their good luck, happiness and long life. Its Chinese name, fo-shou, means exactly that when it is written alongside other characters. As well as culinary and household use the fruit, before maturity, is often prescribed as a tonic.

Link, Via: The Presurfer | Photo by Flickr user gumdropgas used under Creative Commons license, Via: Neatorama

THE HAND SKATEBOARDING AT THE X-GAMES

"QUOTE" Windowseat Pictures hired us to make this unusual costume for X-Games Fingerboards. Kudos to Tom Ryen for being able to skateboard in it! LINK, Via: Youtube

Awesome Biomechanical Mic Stand

Adam Gontier, lead singer of the band Three Days Grace, commissioned artist Chris Conte to make him a microphone stand. What he got is something straight out of The Terminator! Link -Via: The Daily What, Via: Neatorama

(image credit: Dennis Blachut)

Art in Hand - Portland Project Playing Cards Art

From top left, going clockwise: Art by Alexandra Petersen, Debbie L. Foster, Nicole Linde, and Shanon Playford

Art in Hand – The Portland Project invited 54 local artists from Portland, Oregon, to transform an ordinary deck of playing cards into pieces of art. They’re auctioning these cards to raise money for charity: Link, Via: Neatorama

How To Eat A Chicken Wing With One Hand

“This is how to eat a chicken wing with one hand with little to no mess. This will allow you to keep your beer hand clean and if you need to wipe your face after eating atomic wings, your don’t blind yourself.” LINK, Via: Youtube

Cardini's Sleight of Hand

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After an introduction by Ernie Kovacs, Richard Valentine Pitchford (“Cardini”) performs the “intoxicated English gentleman” routine that made him famous. This recording from the “Festival of Magic” television program in 1957 is the only known footage of Cardini in action. He reportedly developed his ability to manipulate cards with gloved hands by practicing while in the trenches during WWI.

Via: Professor Hex, Via: Neatorama

RAINBOW IN YOUR HAND

This book started as a personal project in summer 2007, and was soon published from a Japanese bookstore "Utrecht". It's a flipbook, but rather than seeing animation, it creates a 3D rainbow in your hand. Since being published it has been featured on Japanese TV, Newspapers, major news & blogsites like yahoo news, coolhunting and fffffound. This book won this years NY ADC silver cube. LINK

Potato Chips Hand

Japanese hand device meant to protect your fingers from getting greasy every time you eat chips. LINK, Via: Youtube

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A Clock Redrawn by Hand Every Minute

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When you watch this video, you might think that this is a man standing behind a sheet of plastic, re-drawing the hands on a clock face every minute. Actually, this clock by designer Maarten Baas is a LED screen showing the artist doing precisely that on a continuous loop. The video is from the recent Design Miami fair, which ended on December 5th.

Link, Via: Gizmodo | Artist’s Website | Design Miami, Via: Neatorama

The Human Printer: CMYK by hand

The Human Printer is a group that prints CMYK dot pattern photos by hand. Using markers they replicate the halftone effect of traditional CMYK printing.

Link, Via: Today and Tomorrow

Animani

Animani is a series of hand painting art (or maybe the right words are painted hand art) by the late Italian artist Mario Marotti. The themes used are animals, soccer players, and athletes. LINK