Mike Libby’s Steampunk Insects

Stop! Don’t even think about screaming “Photoshopped!” because Mike Libby’s Insect Lab is 100% real. And so are his incredible Steampunk insects.

Mike began his unusual project on a day like any other, when he found an intact dead beetle. Thinking about how the little bug functioned as a mechanical device, he remembered he had also found an old wristwatch and decided to combine the two. After dissecting the beetle and mounting the mechanical parts, he realized he quite liked his new craft and decided to stick to it.

Now Mike Libby creates all kinds of Steampunk insects, from scorpions to ordinary beetles and dragonflies. He only works with non-endangered species from all around the world, fitting them with mechanisms from antique watches as well as old typewriter and sewing-machine parts.

Check out Mike Libby’s Insect Lab and feel free to email him if you want to purchase any of his Steampunk wonders or place a special order.

A guy rides a modified wooden pallet down the tram track in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Performance made with standartized europallet, modified to ride in the tram tracks. Realized in Bratislava, Slovakia, 2008.

The space between the tram tracks in Bratislava is 435 mm narrower than  the gauge of tracks in Prague or Pilsen (1435 mm). The wooden europallet,  a basic feature of any warehouse or storage hall, with its standartized  1200×800 mm dimensions, when modified can only run on the tracks  in Bratislava.

A new transport vehicle brings change into the spatial perspective of a passenger  in motion and generally changes the life of the city, through which the pallet can run, guided by a map of the city lines.

Technological Mandalas Made from Soldered electronic Components

Leonardo Ulian is an Italian designer who specializes in making sculptures made from electronic and radio components soldered in large networks called mandalas (Sanskrit word meaning circle, community, environment). With the help of many electronic components welded together, he creates stunning works that fascinate by their symmetry and their level of detail. It also manufactures books hampered by microchips. His works are regularly exhibited in galleries around the world.

Microchip synapses 02 - The last days of Pompei

Microchip synapses 03 - The dead place

Microchip synapsis 04 - Comunity factor in modern technology

Technological mandala 01

Technological mandala 38

technological mandala 38 close up

Technological mandala 15

technological mandala 17

    
Technological mandala 42 - random relay from Leonardo Ulian on Vimeo.