Saturday, August 18, 2012

More Cardboard Supremeness

Two readers shared Izhar Gafni's cardboard bicycle with me this week and I thought it was too good to keep all to myself. You have to see this video and this video. It is astounding and yet comfortingly believable- not only because we all know that cardboard is the most underrated building material ever, but also because there are millions of incredibly talented and ingenious cardboard engineers out there, some of whose names we are just only discovering here in blogland. Thank you, kwm and Leslie for sharing this!

We fall prostrate to the wonder that is cardboard. Are you on your faces, too?

6 comments:

  1. That's very cool. And it reminds me of an amazing exhibit I got to see in Walnut Creek, CA last month. "Cardburg 2012" had a huge race track made of cardboard, as well as many groovy sculptures and a town. I didn't get to see the race track in action... but I bet it was awesome. Here are pictures (from somebody else's flickr set):
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/jesseroadkill/sets/72157630288514014/with/7443657332/

    ReplyDelete
  2. This is so cool! A couple of years ago I led some students through an exercise making a simple footstool out of cardboard. Despite our miscuts and miscalculations, it was still surprisingly sturdy. If only we had access to his fancy tools!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Amazing! Check out this boy and his love for cardboard:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faIFNkdq96U&feature=youtube_gdata_player

    ReplyDelete
  4. Amazing. And the best part: he didn't let others tell him it couldn't be done.

    ReplyDelete
  5. That is amazing! I love that cardboard seems so weak but can be so strong.

    ReplyDelete

Thank you for talking to me! If you have a question, I might reply to it here in the comments or in an email.