Instructables member TigrisLi make a tank for her kitten out of cardboard, and posted the instructions so you can make one, too! Even if you don’t want a kitty-sized cardboard tank, don’t miss the short film she made of her kitten using it to blow the enemy away. Link -via Laughing Squid

We all played with cardboards when we were kids, but surely not like Ana Serrano! The Los Angeles artist has re-created the City of Angels in (almost) life-sized cardboards in her exhibition "Salon of Beauty," as commissioned by Rice University Art Gallery.

Take a quick look:

Photo: Nash Baker

Still from film by Walley Films

Alissa Walker of FastCo wrote about Serrano's work:

While her pieces are not exact replicas of specific buildings, Serrano's work both celebrates and memorializes these seemingly inconsequential decisions by homeowners and businessowners to say, paint the bars outside their windows hot pink, or build a wall using stacked concrete blocks. Just as Serrano gathered her inspiration by driving through South Los Angeles and photographing her favorite details, she hopes that highlighting these quirky details will allow anyone to see the simple, handcrafted beauty in their own urban environment. "I do hope that people notice these details in a different light than what they are usually perceived as," she says. "But ultimately it's up to the viewer to decide what the impact of the work is going to be for them."

Link | Ana Serrano's website

Previously on Neatorama: Cartonlandia, also by Ana Serrano

A lot of people use cardboard in their arts and crafts, but Kiel Johnson took that into a whole ‘nuther level with his cardboard cameras. This one above, the iconic twin lens, even works as a pinhole camera.

See more of Kiel’s cardboard camera over at OddityCentral: Link | Kiel’s Website | The Twin Lens Reflex, a video clip of the making of the camera above.

Modern loudspeakers are usually very sleek and futuristic-looking – so it’s quite refreshing to see these pair of speakers by Israeli designer Sruli Recht, as commissioned by Joey Roth.

Costas Voyatzis of Yatzer has more: Link

“Cardboard Mechanics” is an art installation created by four students at the Utrecht School of Art and Technology in the Netherlands. It is a clockwork machine built out of cardboard and controlled by an arduino. You can view more videos of the machine at the link.

Link via The Presurfer

This amazing animation is a wonderful combination of real public space & cardboard animation filmed stop-motion, by Dutch animator Sjors Vervoort with audio by Steven Aerts.

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by JKirchartz.

If you think those professionally created dog costumes are mean to force pets to wear, then you really ought to see the options people turn to when they don’t just buy the pre-made costumes. I guess this is why Star Trek fans shouldn’t get drunk.

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As a kid, I couldn’t hack at my friends with a real sword, so we used cardboard tubes to fence. Who knew that it was an actual sport? The Cardboard Tube Fighting League has competitions all over the world where people come together to play and show off their homemade cardboard armor.

Official Website of the San Francisco Branch

Link via The Presurfer

The Nothing team took the idea behind the company name (taking nothing and turning it into something) as the starting point for the physical design of the office; which included creating walls, signage, beams, tables, shelving and even a set of stairs out of cardboard.

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(image credit: Joachim Baan)

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Frau.

Everyone knows cats love cardboard boxes, so here’s a classy prop airplane made of cardboard by SUCK UK for your cat to play in.  He or she can pretend to be fighting the Red Baron …

Link – via bblinks

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by Marilyn Terrell.

These cuckoo clocks by artist Nathan Skiles are created with cardboard and rubber. They may be a good option for people with walls too weak to hold up heavy wooden & metal cuckoo clocks.

Link Via Craftzine

Recompute is an unusual case for your computer. It’s green and sustainable … and made out of corrugated cardboards!

Recompute and other neat "green" technologies are competing in the Greener Gadgets Design Competition, hosted by Core77 (you can vote for your favorite green gadgets):

Rather than making a large tower constructed from numerous materials (ABS plastic, aluminum, steel, etc.), hundreds of manufacturing processes, and dozens of individual components, the Recompute case is made of corrugated cardboard (recyclable and renewable). There are four low-impact manufacturing processes to assemble Recompute: Die cutting, gluing (with non-toxic white glue), printing and electronic assembly. Recompute uses only three major electronic components: A motherboard with processor & memory, power supply, and a hard drive.

Link – via designzen

From the Upcoming ueue, submitted by zeo.

Recycled paper tubes aren’t just useful for holding architectural blueprints. They can be molded into load-bearing columns, bent into trusses and rapidly assembled, and can be made waterproof and fire resistant. Because paper tubes are available in various thickness and diameters, they can be added to a structure to support more weight as necessary. Ban has said he hopes to build structures a few stories high.

The work is being done by Japanese and Chinese students working together. See pictures of the process, and a completed school at Treehugger. Link -Thanks, Chris Tackett!