Hasta La Ideas

Here’s an impressive demonstration of investigating a material, the kind of thing ID students ought be doing in the studio. The unknown craftsperson behind this Bamboo Art YouTube channel has perfectly exploited the properties of bamboo to create this projectile weapon:

You can see a lot more of their creations here, though the other designs are not monomaterial, featuring rubber bands, springs and the like. (And yes, for some reason they are all weapons.)