As the price of gold is like a bazillion dollars these days, I want to surround myself with as much of it as I can. So that means even fake gold, like this weird-arse edible gold paint you spray on food to get flossy, is good with me. More »
Crushing glowsticks for their oozy neon contents and spraying it all over the place in a room filled with paint and loud music sounds like a wonderful way to conclude a drug bender. It’s also a super yogurt commercial! More »
Watch the creation of a can of spray paint in this video from Montana Cans. More »
Filmmaker Ross Ching made a short film in which he “conducts” colourful paint splashes to music. He really just put some paint on stereo speakers, recorded its reaction to sound and then slowed the whole thing down to exaggerate the effects. We’ve heard of pops of colour, but we’ve never seen any as cool as this. More »
You’re going to spend the next two minutes watching paint float through the air in extraordinarily slow motion. You’re going to watch it speckle and collide and drape and dance. And you’re going to be oh-so-happy that you did. More »
Every home has at least one window, so why not turn that window into an energy-attracting solar panel? So goes the thinking of Norwegian company EnSol, which has patented a spray-on film that turns windows into solar panels. More »
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How does Virgin Atlantic make an aging Boeing 747 look like it just rolled off the lot? Four days, dozens of workers, litres and litres of paint, and one pretty sweet time-lapse video. That’s how. More »
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This is the most advanced painting facility in the world. It was created by Lockheed Martin for one single purpose: to make the F-35 Lighting II almost invisible to radar. As you can imagine, they don’t use spray cans. More »
There’s several things wrong with this. One: painting over the sleek aluminium with plastic? Hideous. Two: $US400? Really? That could (almost) buy another iPad. Three: Three weeks? Without your iPad? Ugh. [Colorware]
