P.S. We started convoke in February 2009 with a post about left 4 dead Valentine’s Cards, if you’re feeling nostalgic.

That offering, my friends, is a freakin’ geodesic dome made out of fluorescent lights.  B. Fuller is probably looking down on this and saying, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

Michal Maciej Bartosik made this and some other pretty awesome light installations, but there’s more.  After this, Bartosik went right to work outfitting another dome with tesla coils. That’s right: TESLA COILS.

And that is what we call critical success.

See what I mean after the break.

Take, for example, his ongoing project simply called Buildings where he stencils an array of windows onto grey, rectangular objects to create miniature, makeshift apartment complexes.

The idea itself is simple, but brilliantly executed.  He’s even conscripted other graffiti and street artists to tag his buildings to scale. The results are pretty awesome, and surprisingly real looking.

I’ve got a soft spot for hand-drawn type, and Jon Contino really nails it in his work. The roughness and imperfection of the letters really sells these turn of the century styled designs.

A while back, someone at NASA came up with a crazy experiment to test the toxicity of drugs; give them to spiders and see what kind of webs they spin. I guess the idea was that the more toxic the drug, the more deformed the web would be. The results are a bit surprising, with caffeine, one of the most commonly ingested drugs, yielding one of the most disturbed web structures.  But this is all old news.

Fast forward 15 years, and this dude (Guillaume Le Houx), made bowls out of them. No, not that kind of bowl.

Now I’m just going out on a limb here, but a vessel that is 90% empty space is going to have a hard time holding things, which just happens to be a bowl’s primary function. The results are pretty cool looking, but unfortunately they’re just concepts for now.

If you’re looking for some more scientific reading here’s the NASA article.

More of Rousse’s work at butdoesitfloat and today and tomorrow.

A sleek, staggered shelving unit like this would be a welcome addition to my pad even if you couldn’t climb on it; being able to scale your cabinets like King Kong is just icing on the cake.

A truly epic homage to 80s cartoon intros by animator Will Goodan aka the Prime.  I guess that explains the “Primetime, all the time” slogan at the end of the video.  Now if only I could explain everything else.

Believe it or not, this is a time-piece.  What you’re looking at is 4 clocks telling the exact same time, joined at the hands.  As the time changes, so does the pattern of interconnected parallelograms.  Dubbed The Parallel of Time Clock, this piece by Clarke Hopkins Clarke Architects is a pretty abstract take on telling time.  Sure, it looks great, but I really hate to think about having to adjust this bad-boy during daylight savings.

One more image after the break.

Just twenty four hours ago, I would have been hard-pressed to imagine the love child of the Michelin-Man and a Chia Pet.  Now, thanks to Lucyandbart, I don’t have to.  If it’s not already obvious, the pieces above are actually two photos of the same piece, titled Germination.

Call the collaborative work of Lucy McRae and Bart Hess strange or grotesque, but it is undeniably fascinating.  With works more sculpture than fashion, the duo have been transforming the human body with surprisingly low-tech media like bath bubbles, balloons, and construction paper.