This is a post for all the guys out there. I’ve just discovered a new blog called Make Magazine which tell you how to make all those things you’ve always dreamt of such as covert listening devices and Vortex Cannons as seen recently on the BBC’s Bang Goes the Theory. The slow motion footage of the cannon firing has a certain beauty to it and doesn’t seem real. Video after the More link…

Yesterday Make Magazine featured local artist Peter Root’s Low Rise. I’d hate to think what the cannon would make of make of his paper clip city.

Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.

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