Cory writes on Boing Boing: Xavier Antin’s installation piece “Just in Time” uses four devices spanning 100 years of desktop printing to generate a rather lovely book; each printer’s output is the input for the next one down the line. Just in Time, or A Short History of Production
Especially this one. Unless, that is, it seems to you like an original sculpture prepared by Chicago sculptor Jessica Joslin for the Twin Peaks 20th Anniversary Art Exhibition coming up on February 12-13 in LA. In which case, well, at least this one owl is exactly what it seems. [via Bong Boing]
Catarina Mota and Raphael Abrams came up with this super cute soft circuit voodoo doll for a class at NYC Resistor.
It would appear that Isaac Salazar’s remarkable “origami” book sculptures are made simply by folding each page to the right dimensions. Dog-ears of various sizes will achieve the outer profile of the shape, but I assume internal details require that the pages be cut. See more in Veronica Salazar’s Flickr stream. [via Recyclart]
Prototype II, 2009 (after US patent no. 6545444 by John Bedini) by Nick Laessing. A quick search reveals that John Bedini’s 2003 patent, recreated here by the artist, was for a “Device and Method for Utilizing a Monopole Motor to Create Back-EMF to Charge Batteries.” [via VVORK]
Clever trompe-l’Å“il street art, and photographs thereof, from US artist Cayetano Ferrer. [via Gizmodo]
When I was a kid, I had a copy of dog-eared copy of Shep Paine’s How to Build Dioramas that I carried almost everywhere and spent countless blissful hours poring over and dreaming about.
