Falcon Sculpted From CD Fragments
It’s just one of many striking and beautiful works in this medium—shards of what appear to be CD-Rs secured to wire mesh frames with hot glue—from Chicago artist Sean E. Avery. [via adafruit]
art
A Camera Large Enough to Live In
Dennis Manarchy seeks to capture these “Vanishing Cultures” before they disappear, using his handmade 35′ long, 12′ tall, and 8′ wide camera, whose bellows and body resemble an old view camera.
Piccolo, a Mini CNC Artbot
Piccolo is a pocket-sized stand-alone CNC platform. For less than $70, you can assemble your personal Arduino-compatible kit for tinkering, developing and deploying basic 3D output. Be it plotting quick graffiti, printing a one-off business card on the fly, or multiple Piccolos working together to create a large mural, this kit provides a platform for […]
This Saturday, Feb 18: Young Makers/Open MAKE at the Exploratorium
Come to the Exploratorium this weekend as the Tinkering Studio hosts the second of four Open MAKE Saturdays. Explore your own creativity with makers from around the Bay Area, who will share their art, ingenuity, and techniques for making.
Martin Klimas Captures Paint Pushed by Sound
Martin Klimas places paint upon a translucent material, underneath which is a speaker. When music is played, the carefully selected mixtures of paint explode from the surface, reaching upward and intertwining. Klimas captures these events photographically and mates each photo to the piece of music that created it (the one below is Kraftwerk’s “Transistor”).
The Convenient Typer Does One Thing Very Well
The Convenient Typer is a hacked typewriter that uses 3d printed mechanisms to type a single phrase: “It is as it is.” Created by artist Max Lupo, this self-referential machine uses modern means to re-imagine an antiquated form of technology.
VW Bus Customized with a Mural and Stained Glass
HaD writer Caleb Kraft of Springfield, MO, sexed up his VW bus with a lovely (and Cthulhu-esque!) elephant mural as well as stained glass sun visors that complement the painting. Caleb says he “never really painted before” — ORLY!? Looks pretty amazing to me.