#lasers

Highlight:At the entrance to the park was a sign that caught my eye. I’m fairly certain I have seen it in previous years, but this year it caught my attention enough to park itself in my brain. Lower Your Expectations I thought about that sign all weekend, joked on Slack about how to “win” it after the festival shuts down, and sketched some iterations of a desktop version while waiting for speakers to start. I wanted to be able to slide out the display board, so the toughest part was coming up with a retention mechanism. I did things like this in the past by sandwiching layers, but found tabbed guides to be a better way to achieve that in this form factor.

Alas, there’s never been a simple way to shave complex geometric patterns into your beard without using a chalk-line tool, a protractor, and a wind sock. But modern science has changed that, because now we have the Philips Norelco Beardtrimmer Series 9000.

Alas, there’s never been a simple way to shave complex geometric patterns into your beard without using a chalk-line tool, a protractor, and a wind sock. But modern science has changed that, because now we have the Philips Norelco Beardtrimmer Series 9000.

"You begged your mom to pay the extra $4. A tribute to the greatest school photo backdrop there ever was."

"Our furry raiders seem to enjoy the finer things of cat life."

"As long as you don't think about the fact that the small wisp of smoke trailing the light, is actually vaporized skin, everything will be fine."

"Sketch Furniture, aka Furniture Made With Frickin' Lasers. Swedish designers use motion capture technology to draw chairs and tables with light in mid-air. Their sketches are then built out of plastic by a laser into real pieces of furniture."

Mmm... Behold the power of cheese and lasers