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Over the weekend I checked out Ron Mueck’s sculptures at The Brooklyn Museum, it’s a pretty surreal experience. His work usually consists of huge scupltures of people that seem certain to move and chatter if you can just stare at them long enough, but they don’t. Some are small, some are just body parts. They’re […]
New Zealand based Chris Booth’s sculptures made from rocks, wood and natural objects… [via] – Link. Pictured here, Pumice from the Mountains – “Thousands of floating boulders of pumice were gathered, drilled and threaded with stainless steel cable into tall hollow helical forms. The pumice originally exploded from Lake Taupo approx 2000 years ago and […]
Here’s the The worlds first digitized Indian String Instrument! – “The purpose of this project is to use microcontroller technology to create a real-time instrument that models the Sitar. This Electronic Sitar (known as the ESitar) has digitizing sensors, custom positioned to traditional Sitar technique, which converts human musical gestures to binary code which machines […]
Check out Photojojo for this super-duper DIY aquarium wallpaper. Christy Stipelcovich says, “Quick and easy project that gives your fishies great wallpaper for their aquatic home.” Link.
I’ve been a fan of SPOT (Small personal object technology) – well, not the implementation and some specifics, but the vision and that it’s a sorta-shipping product (on MAKE we’ve shown you how to get email and RSS feeds on a watch)… There hasn’t been a lot of mention of SPOT watches lately or the […]
Ape Land on flickr has a paper case template for your iPod Nano which you can use on cool patterned or printed paper. [ via ] Link.
Gould Nemo creates a wide range of robot-like sculptures out of recycled materials that move and gyrate in interesting ways.
