Artist Franco Recchia makes city skylines made from discarded pieces of technology (like the skyline of RAM chips below) and the results are quite amazing. If you want to see more, he has an exhibit at the Agora Gallery opening up this Thursday (Dec. 16).

Details from the Agora Art Blog:

Franco Recchia’s work can be seen in the exhibition The Odyssey Within: An Exhibition of Fine Art by Greek and Italian Artists which opens at Agora Gallery this Thursday, December 16, 2010. It will remain at Agora Gallery until January 7, 2011. The reception is this Thursday, from 6 to 8 p.m. Franco’s work, and other fine art for sale from the other artists in the exhibition, can be purchased from ARTmine.com.

Gallery Location: 530 West 25th St, New York City
Gallery Hours: Tues – Sat, 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Want a vintage camera, but don’t want to brave eBay? Well, we don’t have them, but you can make your own papercraft version. As long as you like Canon SLRs, that is.

In preparation for his upcoming exhibition, the Agora Gallery has published an interview with Lego sculptor Nathan Sawaya.

Check it out here.

Engadget makes note of one man’s modification of an old electric typewriter, turning it into an interactive terminal for, of course, text-based adventure games.

More here.

We’ve covered Nathan Sawaya’s epic lego sculpture before. If you missed his exhibition last spring, he has a new collection at the Agora Gallery: “RED:  The LEGO ® Brick Sculpture of Nathan Sawaya”

The exhibition is running from November 23 to December14, with a reception December 2, from 6-8PM. Be sure to check it out.

Agora Gallery
530 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
212.226.4151

What do you do when you’re a large printer company and your employees have some time on their hands? Make a 1:1 scale replica of a NSX race car, that’s what. Jalopnik has the pictures.

If you’re up to it, Epson has a 1:24 scale version of the same thing for you to assemble (in Japanese).

The typical data center’s pretty plain, and usually located in a place with easy access to power and/or staff.

These are not among those.

Cargo ships, chapels, caves… The list goes on, and will probably continue to go on.

Randall Munroe updated his famous map of Online Communities. See for yourself:

For fun, compare with 2007′s edition:

No.

At least not in real life.

Ever wonder how a comic artist’s style changes over time? Here’s some video evidence:

http://ogiuemaniax.wordpress.com/2010/09/17/manga-artists-and-their-stylistic-progression-a-video-demonstration/