The Now-A-Saurus was created by Chris Merrick and is a time machine with dragonfly wings that transports its riders to the present while spitting fire from its top. At Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 this art car whose wheels and curves are pulled from sacred geometry. It roamed the ground of Maker Faire Bay Area and elicited positive reactions from onlookers.
Alex Weber of Hamburg created this cool drawbot (Der Kritzler means “the Scribbler”) that lays down ink directly on a window, allowing passers-by to groove on the robot’s work from outside.
Aaron Panone of Cambridge, MA, created a CNC art machine equipped with a cool Sharpie-holding jig that keeps the pen in contact with the paper. The process of creating a “drawing” using a numerically controlled Sharpie is documented in a short video. Vector graphics are converted into a tool path and then a machine language […]
Chocolate couch by Leandro Erlich for an art-exhibit appropriately named “Let Them Eat Art”.
Jeremy Mayer’s typewriter assemblages are sculptural pieces made purely from typewriter parts. In a process he calls “reassemblage”, Mayer fits the pieces together into likenesses of living creatures using no welds, glue, solder, or external parts. He taks about and shoe his work at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011.
Northern California’s Tom Banwell makes fanciful masks out of laser-cut leather, among other materials. From the pages of MAKE Volume 27: His fantastic blog is a must-read for any costume designer or lover of steampunk. It’s filled with well-written, step-by-step explanations and interesting tips and tricks. (Be sure to search for “A Steamier Raygun Holster,” […]
A German art student hand-illuminates Tolkien’s bible of Middle Earth.
