Road Bike Party 2

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For all their technical design elements, road bikes are always meant to have two wheels on the ground traveling forward. In his second edit of the same name, world renowned mountain biker Martyn Ashton graces us with a jaw-dropping cut featuring his own two-wheeled skills as well as bicycling brethren Chris Akrigg and Danny MacAskill (known for his astonishing Red Bull clips). All of the …

Gear System Sculpture

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Seeking inventive art forms from 3D printing, New York-based Proxy Design Studio is exploring what it means to be kinetic. The team’s mini, spherical sculptures are born out of an elaborate network of interlocking gears that create something operational. Using custom algorithms and high-tech modeling tools, they’ve generated an object on which users can spin any one of the 64 gears on the surface and …

Candied Architecture

Reuters' 2013 in photos, Time's person of the year, Miami's new museum and more in our weekly look at the web

Amidst all the reputable masterpieces at Art Basel hid something more charmingly lighthearted. Food artist Caitlin Levin and photographer Henry Hargreaves teamed up with Dylan’s Candy Bar for a whimsical collection of architectural artworks rendered in candy. Taffy, licorice and gum-balls form a series of the world’s best-loved museums, including a pastry rendition of Wright’s Guggenheim and the sugar-glazed pyramids from I.M. Pei’s work at …