Sculpture: Win Screen

Creative duo Lars Marcus Vedeler and Theo Tveterås of Oslo, Norway have come together to form the experimental design team Skrekkøgle.

"We don’t think of ourselves as artists, as we come from a product/interaction design background. What we see ourselves as is a studio that does what it very well pleases, experimenting with products and electronics and the like, not necessarily being tied to a client."

A number of their projects have bounced around the blogs lately, my favorite being this hilarious three-dimensional sculpture of the win screen for Windows Solitaire. Also check out their exceedingly clever big money project that makes nearby objects look tiny by placing them next to an enormous replica of the 50 Euro cent piece and photographing them using using tilt-shift photography. I can’t wait to see what they come up with next.

Fresh Take: Klingon Monopoly

Play Monopoly the Klingon way - bloodletting, rituals, and guttural noises. The Klingon limited edition will have just 1,701 editions is limited to just 1,701 pieces, and they are only available for pre-order up to September 30th from USAopoly.

The individual pieces are yet to be unveiled but a lot of work has gone into crafting the game pieces. The limited edition will include a 1/6th scale Chancellor’s Cane as seen in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, a carefully carved Birds of Prey, and a Klingon Empire proclamation.

Fresh Take: Fallout Monopoly

Fallout Monopoly by Elisabeth Redel

This is a gift for my boyfriend. I spend a lot of time making the board and all cards in the Fallout style... The board was printed on a 50 x 50 cm PVC plate. Every street is a location from the Fallout game. "GO" is now "G.O.A.T." and "free parking" is the "please stand by" screen. You can find the complete board here.

Every card has one of the Fallout3 or Fallout New Vegas perks on it and has a really cool old playing card image on the back. You can find examples for the red cardset here and the blue cardset here.

Event: Lightsaber Battle NYC 2011

Photos by Patrick Shyu

Lori Kufner and Kevin Bracken, co-founders of urban art events collective, Newmindspace, will once again be hosting the geektastic Lightsaber Battle NYC, September 24, 2011 in downtown New York City.

The event started out using dayglo painted cardboard tubes but has now graduated to color-changing LED lightsabers. These Lightsabers can be reserved prior to the event for $5.00 each. The event is free but the organizers warn that the lightsabers sold out before the event last year. If you’ll be in the area, be sure to RSVP at their Facebook page.

Photography: BeetleCam

BeetleCam is a homemade gadget that allowed two British brothers (Matthew and William Burrard-Lucas) to bring you stunning images of Africa's most dangerous wildlife. The spectacular closeups of lion prides, elephant herds and huge cape buffalo's were all made possible by the remote-controlled gizmo who trundled around the roughly-terrained bush of Katavi National Park in Tanzania.

Posters: Twenty-Five Years Of Mario Dying

25 Years Of Dying by TheBourgyman

So as you know, Mario celebrated his 25th year among us sometime in late 2010 (even though he was actually created 4 years earlier for the arcade game Donkey Kong... 25 years of independence would be more appropriate, haha, but I digress). I wanted to do something big for the occasion, but I technically missed the boat by a few months. Technically, but not practically, because well, Mario didn't turn 26 just yet.

So this poster-like illustration is my official tribute to him for the occasion. 25 years of video gaming, 25 years of dying in all sorts of crazy ways. I didn't cover everything of course, but the most important is there. If I get enough ideas for a 2nd part, I might just as well do a second one (hint hint, guys).

Yup, there's a BIT of blood here and there (hard to spot though, I actually painted it black, haha). So to those who might be offended by the picture, I ask you: how the hell have you been able to play Mario games this far??? There's some seriously violent deaths in these games when you think of it...

40+ hours in Paint Tool SAI, Adobe Photoshop CS4 + Wacom Cintiq 21UX.

Video: Magnetic Ferro Fluids

Compressed 01 from Kim Pimmel on Vimeo.

Kim Pimmel has posted several magnetic short films that he calls “analog generative experiments.” In the first one (above), “ferrous printer toner particles floating on the surface of water are attracted by a magnet and align to the invisible magnetic field around them.” The resulting patterns and textures are incredible.

In the second clip, Pimmel combined dish soap bubbles with exotic ferrofluid liquid and filmed it with a macro lens to create some astonishing effects. It's hard to believe, but neither of these videos was digitally manipulated.