The Beady Eyed Craftster is our occa­sional weekly round-up of shiny (mostly) art and craft related links from across the inter­nets.

• Adam Wallacavage makes excel­lent octopus-based chan­deliers (and lots of oth­er cool/weird stuff). Check them out!

• Over on Colossal there’s a post on Scottish sculptor Rob Mulholland’s  strange, slightly spooky mirrored sculp­tures – you should def­in­itely go and look at the pic­tures.

• Time for one of Curbly’s link round-ups: 12 Vertical Garden Tutorials (both the tutori­als and the gar­dens are ver­tic­al!)

• Here’s a great, simple pro­ject over on Make:a children’s draw­bot. What’s a draw­bot? A robot that draws. In this case a robot made from a milk froth­er (!) that draws geo­met­ric­al pat­terns. Make sure you watch the video.

• Also found via Make, Jun Mitani’s Flickr stream has a won­der­ful col­lec­tion of his com­puter aided ori­gami.

• Not quite on top­ic, but this Boing Boing post about a new book by David Rees, “How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths, & Civil Servants” is worth a look. From the linked PDF; “Putting a point on a pen­cil — mak­ing it func­tion­al — is to lead it out of Plato’s cave and into the noonday sun of util­ity.”