World’s Strangest

Kay Petal is an artist with a needle. Shes make needle-felted sculptures of famous folks from music, movies, TV, and the news. Surely you recognize Bruce Springsteen and Bono in the picture here. See a lot more at Petal’s website Felt Alive. She also sells supplies, patterns, and custom-felted dolls. Link -via Dangerous Minds

British inventor Oliver Blackwell may have come up with a needle that can give painless injections. The 29-year-old industrial design graduate has bas…

Dan Beckemeyer added needle felted muscles and blood vessels to anatomical diagrams. It’s like the drawings are coming to life. Link -via Colossal

The only limit to what a skilled craftster can create with needle felting is the imagination. There are artists who will surprise you with their subjects, like this heart-ripping declaration of love from artist Hine Mizushima. Check out a variety of weird sculptures at Oddee. Link

(Video Link) Designer Kelli Anderson made this wedding invitation for her friends, Mike Tarantino and Karen Sandler. Although it’s made of paper, it folds into a semi-functional record player which plays a song composed by the couple. Anderson writes: The resulting booklet is comprised of a cover, two inner pages, a letterpressed band (with instructions and a [...]

Designer R.D. Silver made this record player that has been stripped down to its most essential components, but still functions: It’s called “Turnstyle” and it’s made up of the motor, the needle, the speakers, and the controls. What more do you need? It’s a skeleton of its former self, and not former as in it was [...]

“Lethal injection” isn’t a marketing term or a cute nickname. The intent of the injection is to execute someone. So why bother with the alcohol swab and sterile needle? Are they really worried about the condemned getting an infection? Well, yes. We’ve all seen movies where someone is about to be executed, and then, at the last [...]

DARPA is the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a US government organization that performs research in military technology. One of their current projects, the Fine Detail Optical Surveillance (FDOS), hopes to develop optical equipment sensitive enough to literally “a needle moving along the surface of a haystack.” That phrase is actually in the specs: The program [...]

Well, they wanted it. That’s the reason Jo-Jo Marsh gave for tattooing her own children (one as young as ten years old) with a home-made tattoo gun (with a guitar string as a needle, no less): “We were making it look like it was a cross,” said Jo-Jo Marsh, “so the kids could have something they [...]

Amy Rawson makes a needle felted Christmas Cthulhu every year, a couple of which you’ve seen previously at Neatorama. This year’s version of Santa Cthulhu includes a Mrs. Cthulhu! Link