Tuesday April 26, 2005

Head to Head

I have to confess that these instructions for building a somewhat functional android head for $600—posted recently on Boing Boing—left me cold. I was much more impressed by this failed attempt to make a Lionel Richie head like that seen in the singer’s world-historically bad video for “Hello.” And this is from two years ago! The tale begins:

Here is a chronicle of how my friend and I built our first Lionel Richie head. We hadn’t had any prior experience and neither of us was particularly artistic. Luckily, you’ll find that anyone with a little time and a lot of clay will eventually be able to make an enormous noggin that captures the main feature of the “Hello” star.