Apartment covered in 25,000 ping pong balls… A pied-Ã -terre as permanent residence, Box/Box is an apartment for Snarkitecture partner Daniel Arsham. A 90 square foot private hideaway contained within a larger 2,500 square foot collaborative workspace, the project was conceived as an accelerated design/build experiment and was completed within a two-month period at a cost […]
We have actually covered the work of British hubcap sculptor Ptolemy Elrington a couple times before (see below), but I couldn’t resist posting again when I saw this viperfish sculpture, which appears among others in a gallery at The Telegraph.
My thought for the day? Viperfish are awesome. That is all.
Gamelatron and other projects by MAKE friends such as Ranjit Bhatnagar and Gaylen Hamilton are filling the old St. Cecilia convent in Greenpoint Brooklyn with sound, visual, and multi-media art this weekend: Rabid Hands is pleased to present Sequence of Waves, the collective’s inaugural sound, visual and multi-media art exhibition. The exhibition is open to […]
Laboriously captured by photographer Chris Kotsiopoulos on December 30-31, 2010, from the ruins of the ancient Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, Greece. Technical details at Earth Science Picture of the Day, and a more personal perspective at Chris’s Greek Sky Forum. [via Gizmodo]
Neat video of California College for the Arts New Materials Resource Center! [via Core77]
This video from sculptor Seth Goldstein shows one cycle of the operation of his piece Why Knot?, which is described as “[a] kinetic sculpture that continually ties and unties a necktie.” While the video leaves me just a bit dubious about how long it could really run without human intervention, I’m impressed by the dedication, effort, and patience required to get it to work even once. [via Dug North]
Even though the theme of the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 25, is Microcontrollers and Arduino, rest assured that it features a wide variety of projects, something for everyone. Case in point is the Giant Spin Art project by brothers Bob and Pete Goldstein. This simple wooden rig holds a canvas powered by a corded […]
