Orion Fredericks made an amazing kinetic sculpture out of steel, glass, a 1,000-watt full-spectrum light bulb, and a 24-volt wheelchair motor, called Fata Morgana. You can read more about it in the latest issue of MAKE – Volume 26! This slideshow includes photos of Fata Morgana and Fredericks’ other sculptures, Springwater and the male and […]
Michael Zoellner of Erlangen, Germany, created this display out of solar-powered lights with ping-pong-ball diffusers. The pixels of the 5×3 dot matrix type are arranged in two layers on a grid. Thus they are only readable from a position in front of them. Viewed from other position looks like random arranged light dots of a […]
Sculptor Colin Selig was inspired by the curves of a junk propane tank on his property, and turned it into art. His fabrication photos show the whole process from scraps of rusty metal to sandblasted and powder-coated furniture. I like how he puts the propane sign back on, sweet! [Thanks, Greg!]
Artist Cory Arcangel is inspired by art on the internet, video games, and projects with excellent online documentation. In this video portrait by Motherboard, check out some of his works, ideas, and inspirations from his classic NES rom hacks to performative music and video works. He credits the O’Reilly Perl book for getting him started […]
Each face of “DodecaHedron of Dragons II” by California artist Scott Van Note is identically patterned, hand-carved on a pentagonal tiling designed by Scott himself. I had the pleasure of meeting Scott at BAMF 2011, where he was helping out at the Explorable Microscopy booth. We started talking, and he handed me this amazing object. I caught up with him, after the Faire, and got him to answer a few questions about it.
Frederick McSwain created DIE, a portrait made of dice in memory of his friend, Tobias Wong, an artist and designer who died last year. Frederick used 13,138 dice, one for each day Tobias lived: The idea of a die itself was appropriate—the randomness of life. It felt like [a medium] he would use. Because [Tobias] […]
Physalia‘s “Inductance” project was displayed at this year’s F5 “creativity festival”. It consists of an electromagnet levitating a bunch of plastic spheres, each of which has an electromagnet inside! So awesome.
