Melting Wooden Sculptures

French design duo rémy clémente and morgan maccari of Bonsoir Paris have designed 'duramen series', consisting of three sculptures. For each piece, the shape of a picture frame has been manipulated to a point where it can no longer function as such, but still remains recognizable. the forms have been carved, sanded and finished by hand, out of various types of woods such as oak and fir. The contrast between the natural colors of and textures of the material help define the detailed contours of the carvings. LINK

War Horse Puppet

The Handspring Puppet Company are a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Their latest creation is the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse. LINK: The Presurfer, Via: Youtube

"Furrow" and Other Sculptures by Ben Butler

Ben Butler sculpts and assembles deliciously shaped wooden sculptures, such as the above cedar piece entitled “Furrow”. He has an exhibit that opens tomorrow at the Zg Gallery in Chicago.

Link, Via: Dude Craft | Gallery Website | Via: Neatorama

Unique Wooden Instrument

"QUOTE" “[It's] an automatic violin… We in Spain used this until the end of the 18th century. This is a good instrument but really very limited.” — tinotrivino. LINK, Via: Youtube

Interactive art with wooden mirrors

Daniel Rozin's wooden mirror and how it works. LINK: Youtube

World’s first ever pedal-powered cycle?

Historian Xu Quan Long claims this wooden cycle is is a recreation of the world’s first ever cycle. He says it was in use over 2000 years before the first wooden bicycle.

Xu said he stumbled across the discovery while studying the works of legendary ancient Chinese inventor Lu Ban, who was born more than 2,500 years ago.

Lu is credited with inventing devastating military weapons like a counterweighted ‘cloud ladder’ for storming castle defences, and a ‘wooden bird’ that could supposedly glide for three days without landing.

Link – Via: greendiary, Via: Neatorama

Wooden Car Powered By Wood-Burning Boiler

Dutch artist and inventor Joost Conijn refitted his Citroën with wooden panels and installed a wood-burning boiler for propulsion. He then traveled around Eastern Europe, documenting people’s reactions to his odd car.
Link, Via: Make | YouTube Video | Artist’s Website (Google Translator Version), Via: Neatorama

Japan’s Wooden Supercar

“The frame and mechanical bits are metal like other vehicles. Everything else is wood. It’s to promote the city’s wood/furniture crafting industry and that of the company that built it.” LINK, Via: Youtube

Wooden Carved Cars

“Gary recently showed his carved cars at the Dayton, Ohio, Concours d’Elegance at Carillon Park, and the feedback that he received from the attending public, fellow exhibiting artists and the Concours staff was ‘through the roof.’ Examine his work closely, and you’ll see why.” LINK: Unique Daily

Wooden Stair Tower

“When David Spearman bought his new house, he thought the bottom of his garden would be perfect for a vegetable patch. The only snag was that it happened to be up a sheer 50ft cliff. Undeterred, he took inspiration from the home improvement shows he loves to watch on TV and built a wooden tower with six flights of stairs to scale the chalk cliff. The $15,000, 90-step tower, which took six months to build, not only allows the IT worker and his wife Moira to reach the end of their garden, but the top also doubles as a patio with decking, a table, four benches and a superb view of the River Medway.” LINK, Via: Unique Daily

Wooden Organ

Think about this little handyman project next time you're bored up at that cabin in the woods. LINK: Youtube

Amazing Wooden Structures Carved With Care

These photos are really very good creations carved from wood with great care and time. LINK

Radiance - Wooden Clock

This hand-made clock was designed by Clayton Boyer and hand-made by Adrian Iredale. LINK: Youtube

Wooden Vespa by Carlos Alberto

That is a fully functional wooden Vespa, named "Vespa Daniela," made by Portuguese carpenter Carlos Alberto. Gawk here: Link - Via: Blog on a Toothpick, Via: Neatorama

Wooden Gear Window Blinds

Spirals By Steven's wooden window blinds feature a hypnotically fawsome set of wooden helical gears, exposed for extra mesmerizing stupendosity: "The raise/lower mechanism uses a system of pulleys and gears to wind up or let out two lines that are attached to the bottom bar of the blinds. LINK, Via: Youtube

Abandoned Wooden Miracles

Some other masterpieces of Russian medieval wooden architecture were found abandoned.

Some of them look like they are just left - even some furniture stays on its places. The reason they are so undisturbed - it stays deep inside the Russian forests. LINK

Top 12 Wooden Creations

“Top 12 wooden creations you would love to spend your money on!” LINK

Amazing Wooden Structures

These objects are carved from wood with great care and sophistication. LINK

Carved wooden killer mechas

Sculptor Mike Rea creates wooden versions of high-tech artifacts from space capsules and killer mecha exoskeletons to hand-tools. LINK

Functional Wooden Car is Half Convertible, Half Coupe

Not your average wooden car, this one is two-faced, boasting both convertible and coupe (saloon-inspired) styled halves. It took a Ukranian designer -- who gave up his job and two others cars -- approximately 1.5-years to build. Underneath the hood, you'll find a 100hp engine. Click here for picture Gallery. LINK



A Ukrainian man gave up his job, sold his two other vehicles and spent one and a half years in his garage to create his dream vehicle. His literally half-modern, half-retro car has a wooden body made of thousands of oak parts. LINK: Youtube