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Crank-powered kinetic sculptures

Seattle artist Casey Curran sent in videos of his kinetic sculptures. Really love those flowers… In this most recent series I’ve combined pheasant pelts and simple mechanical movements with hand crafted wire insects and silk flowers to give each piece a feeling of existing between dissolving and reconstructing itself.

Pixel pour 2.0

Pixel pour 2.0

Now in 3D! NYC’s secretly a video game, clearly evidenced by this leak in the matrix. We covered the first (to us) Pixel Pour back in 2008, and a reader has written in with these pictures of a new, more blocky version, photographed by Benjamin Norman. More photos after the jump. More: Pixellated water helps […]

Digital message in a bottle

Digital message in a bottle

In this interactive narrative piece by a group of ITP students, Message in a Bottle uses a creative method of engaging the viewer: The viewer is presented with a simple glass bottle and a plank of wood. Five distinct quotes surround five separate areas of the wooden platform. Upon being picked up and moved across […]

Self-Portrait Ski Mask

Self-Portrait Ski Mask

Andrew Salomone used my electronic knitting machine to make this identity-preserving balaclava: The balaclava is knit from cotton yarn and the design is from a bitmap file, in which pictures of my head from every angle were photoshopped together into a single rectangular image. I used the same images to make the bitmap file as […]

Sculptures made from phone books

Artist Long-Bin Chen carved these intricate sculptures out of phone books. [via Dude Craft] Have you checked out our Green Projects Contest yet? Some clever, fun projects and ideas have been submitted. Vote for the ones you like. Put up your own projects, grab your “tag,” and spread it across the interwebs. Get your social […]