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Cory Doctorow at 9:17 pm Mon, Dec 5, 2011

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Mark Rees, an artist in Suffolk, Virginia, makes cool snakes out of rebar (he's also got a line of reworked horseshoe sculptures): "After the head is formed, it is just a process of bending and twisting until it looks like a snake that was going somewhere and was startled into a defensive position."

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I write books. My latest is a YA science fiction novel called Homeland (it's the sequel to Little Brother). More books: Rapture of the Nerds (a novel, with Charlie Stross); With a Little Help (short stories); and The Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow (novella and nonfic). I speak all over the place and I tweet and tumble, too.

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  • http://www.kmoser.com kmoser

    “I’m tired of these motherf**king snakes on this motherf**king website.”

  • Alex Feinman

    If you like those, you might like the stuff made by the guys at Prospect Hill Forge: http://www.prospecthillforge.com/StaffGallery.php
    Forged dragons (baby and full-grown), flowers, toilet paper holders, form-folding…just really neat stuff.

  • rabidpotatochip

    Learning to charm one of these snakes using magnets would be way faster than learning to play the flute!  Less trips to the hospital too!

  • Robert Cruickshank

    I’d have trouble getting them to sit flat like that.  I’d be all like, “I want these M@#%$ing snakes in a plane!”

  • http://www.louboutintoyou.com/ Red Bottom Shoes

    Mark Rees, an artist in Suffolk, rally?