Our own Matt Richardson is up to some fantastic things at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU- check out his project, digidrench:
digidrench is an interactive video installation in which the user controls video playback by filling and draining three tanks. As the water level rises, the video plays forward; as it lowers, the video reverses.
The revolution will be automated! Gone are the days when you’d have to practice drawing big letters legibly with a rattle can in order to get your message across. Thanks to the folks at Graffiti Research Lab France, you need only walk along the perimeter wall with your finger on the button of their spray paint graffiti printer.
Check out this amazing mural portrait of MLK rendered in thousands of Rubik’s Cubes
MAKE has covered Berlin-based artist Benoît Maubrey prior work on Audio Ballerinas. Now he has created a similar, but stationary sculpture using over 1000 repurposed speakers. It’s called “Speakers Wall” and in the center is a genuine piece of the Berlin Wall. It has become something of a speaker’s corner for remote museum attendees who can call in and talk through a set of the speakers for 3 minutes. As an added bonus, the speakers are used as a PA system for DJs during concerts – I can only imagine what that would sound like.
Rex from Houston’s TX/RX Labs wrote in with a fun project: Leftist art doesn’t sit well in a corporate law firm. So when one of our members decided to spruce up his office with something handmade, subversive and beautiful, he faced a dilemma: Sell out or get fired. Luckily, compromise carried the day: Using the […]
Kim Keever’s elaborate method produces remarkable results. This, from a statement at Denver’s David B. Smith Gallery: “Kim Keever’s large-scale photographs are created by meticulously constructing miniature topographies in a 200-gallon tank, which is then filled with water.”
We’ve covered the astonishing pumpkin carving of Ray Villafane here before, and interviewed him. His work just keeps on getting more outrageous. Here he is going to town on the world’s largest pumpkin last week at the New York Botanical Garden.
