How-To: Mountain Painting
In the latest CRAFT Video, Meg Allan Cole shows us how to use ripped cardboard as a template for this color block mountain painting.
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London’s Most Unusual Taxidermic Antiques
In this video we learn about the Zoomorphic Collection exhibition in London, co-curated by Emma Hawkins and her antique-biz father J. B. Hawkins, featuring over 200 “animal objects for human use” as seen throughout history.
Embroidered Penguin Classic Book Covers
Jillian Tamaki has created some amazing embroidered works of art featuring Penguin classic book covers. See the all the covers as well as some great works in progress of Jillian stitching. [via Twitter @BrettBara]
Old Trumpet Finds New Life as iPhone Amplifier
What’s not to love about Christopher Locke’s Analog Tele-Phonographer? Constructed from a salvaged trumpet and various machine parts, the device amplifies and directs music played by a docked phone without the need for additional power. And it looks pretty cool to boot! [via Gizmodo]
Deconstructed Electronics Art with Ben Innes
Ben Innes is a Knoxville, TN-based artist/photographer who does (among other things) installations of deconstructed electronics. Our friends at element14 have teamed up with Ben to create an art piece to be shown at Maker Faire Bay Area (May 21, 22). And they’re looking to crowdsource the subject matter of the piece. On the Ben […]
Arty Photos of TVs Being Turned Off
I recall turning my folks’ little black and white kitchen TV on and off over and over again, as a child, just so I could watch the screen flash as the tube lost power. This modern project, from photographer Stephan Tillmans, is called Luminant Point Arrays. [via adafruit]
Interactive Laser Harp Sculpture
Moritz Waldemeyer wrote in to share his interactive laser harp sculpture. You will be happy to hear that this is my very first installation actually using an Arduino to link the lasers via light sensors to a netbook which is running an Open Frameworks app. We created some weird and wonderful sounds from various sirens […]