Drinking straw art
It’s Saturday, so that means… Drinking straw art from Netorama – Link.
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Material Seduction – Plastic cup topology
We had some plastic straw art today, here’s some amazing plastic cup art – “…Donovan has also hot-glued plastic cups into a massive hive hanging from the ceiling, glued buttons into a steep mountain topology reminiscent of peaks seen in Chinese art, glued white paper plates into Tribble-like forms, arranged tarpaper into rippling black landscapes […]
Geek graffiti takes on New York
Wired on geek graffiti – “The group of 12 graffiti artists surrounds its target, a sculpture in Manhattan known as The Cube, and waits for the signal to begin tagging it up. It’s a daunting task — the 15-foot sculpture in Astor Place was recently coated with anti-graffiti paint. But within seconds, The Cube is […]
Tomato soup battery and more – art by Ben Woodeson
New Maker-art crush, Ben Woodeson – “Variations on scientific methodology, energy and electricity, my practice examines basic technology through crude experimentation. Systematically reinventing and cross fertilising, primitive attempts to re-use and re-examine that which is commonplace and everyday; A pan technical investigation with maximum effort for minimal achievement.” Thanks SicklyGirl!- Link. Pictured here, Mega Drive, […]
The great LadyBug animation
We profiled Natalie Jeremijenko in MAKE 02 (toxic sensing robot dogs) – and here’s some of her latest work, amazing animations showing the variety of the lady bug “200 individual labybugs selected from a population of approximately four thousand, become the frames in an animation. The ladybug images are scaled, color corrected and ordered by […]
PixelRoller – Digital paint roller
rAndom writes – “PixelRoller is a paint roller that paints pixels, designed as a rapid response printing tool specifically to print digital information such as imagery or text onto a great range of surfaces. The content is applied in continuous strokes by the user. PixelRoller can be seen as a handheld “printer”, based around the […]
Paper Pixels
Aram Bartholl’s Paper Pixels – “Paper Pixels is a 30 inch, 8 x 8 pixel, manually controlled screen. Each of the 64 pixels is illuminated steadily by a light bulb. Apart from the light bulbs, no further electronic parts are used. The display is controlled by a long paper strip – the data medium – […]