B.Light Design

Thomas Forsyth created these great Drawing Tops.

Thomas Forsyth - Drawing Tops from Thomas Forsyth on Vimeo.

In his own words:

A spinning-top, that uses a pen as the spindle. Simply through indulging in the enjoyable process of spinning the top a bi-product is created. Where the pen marks the surface, a beautiful map of the experience and events that have occurred is produced. I am able to draw, but I am not particularly talented at it and yet found that, through the interaction with these objects, I have created drawings that I am more proud of than any I have done before.

Via notcot.org

I attached a nut to the papercraft skull, threaded it onto a bolt and dipped it into some white Plasti Dip. It looks a little thick, I might have to thin it out and try again.

I cut open a ping pong ball, glued a magnet into it, dipped it in white Plasti Dip, and drew an eyeball on it (I was out of black Plasti Dip). The idea was to create eyeballs that can be attached to metal objects that sort of look like faces. Weird, I know.

B.Y.O. Toys

This morning I started two projects I’ve had in mind for quite sometime. I have this idea for Build Your Own Toys (B.Y.O. Toys). Hopefully this will make more sense tomorrow.

The one is a prototype for a build your own action figure. I took the papercraft skull from Skull-A-Day and shrank it 50% in Photoshop. I plan on dipping it in Plasti Dip like my birds, I hope to get similar results.

The other one is a bit stranger, and I don’t think I could explain it without sounding like a crazy person. Tomorrow’s picture should clear things up.