TED is a large, wall-based installation consisting of an array of 80 Teddy Ruxpin dolls that speak emotional content gathered from the web via synthetic speech with animated mouths. The speaking of the emotional content is accompanied by one of twenty-four musical vignettes that have been paired to the emotional content being spoken. Each vignette, […]
Check out this mind blowing dynamic domino sculpture by renegade artist FlippyCat. This time-lapse video shows his painstakingly hand-constructed Starry Night rendition. It’s an amazing sculpture in static form, but wait till he knocks over the first domino — that’s when the magic truly happens. Starry Night made from falling dominoes
You’ve probably seen some variation of the upcycled “Art-o-mat” antique cigarette machine. I’m usually skeptical of the “great art can come in small packages” message, but this (beautiful) machine stood out. While visiting one of my favorite bookstores (Myopic Books in Providence RI), this little box with “One Robot” printed on the side caught my […]
With a desire to find out how a deep display would look, video artist Blair Neal created the Crayolascope, a fantastic 3D depth display out of a dozen hacked Crayola Glow Books.
This fantastic automaton created by Keith Newstead shows a gardener watering a large killer tomato, and just barely getting snapped up the plant’s jaws. Keith built this colorful and charming machine as a donations box for Occombe Farm in Devon, UK.
My Little Pony enthusiasts are serious about their ponies. Apparently there’s a whole community of folks who lament the fact that the dolls have actual doll hair that you can brush and style, which looks nothing like the pony cartoon characters. Purists were up in arms. Leave it to a maker to answer their distress […]
Slipcasting is a molding process for ceramics that can be used to produce hollow forms having a relatively thin shell. It is an ancient, elegant, ingenious technique, consisting of six basic steps…
