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Solvent transfers

Solvent transfers

DIY:Happy has a good round up of ways to do solvent transfers (pictured here one from a moleskine gallery)… – “Doing a solvent transfer is probably the quickest, easiest way to get an image onto a T-Shirt, Moleskine, or other surface. Like screen printing, the image is applied directly the surface. Unlike screen printing, this […]

Giant Atari 2600 joystick

Giant Atari 2600 joystick

Multiplayer Atari, using a giant joystick from artist Mary Flanagan… “Inviting users to play classic arcade games by collaboratively moving on and controlling a 9-foothigh joystick (modelled after the 1980 Atari 2600 one), Mary Flanagan highlights the spatial and social role of the interface. The joystick itself becomes a social sculpture and territory for inter-personal […]

DIY mobile art projection

DIY mobile art projection

The Graffiti Research Lab, the Eyebeam OpenLab and Paul Notzold have a fun Instructable on mobile outdoor projection – “Outdoor digital projection in urban environments is a great method for getting your content up big before the eyes and in the minds of your fellow city inhabitants. This tutorial comes out of trial and error […]

Web based sun dial

A digital sun dial – “The sun.dial is an internet-based installation project that fosters a sense of shared global space and time. The principle system consists of twelve LCD displays suspended from an overhead apparatus in an outward-facing ring. This circular display is the hub of a world-wide input system. Each screen displays the information […]

Handmade wooden USB drives

Handmade wooden USB drives

Hand carved USB drives from Africa – “…designer Pedro Alegria, introduced USB flash card design to local craftsmen, all of whom had never seen or heard of such things before. The end result merges traditional “forgotten” craft with hot technology on the rise, sustaining the working families’ needs and offering unique craft-designs to the masses. […]