Here’s one for the “limiting your options is the best way to stimulate creative thinking” file. Lego does not make many elements in its metallic silver color, so Flickr user Alex Schranz had very few pieces to work with when designing the fuselage and skin of his minifig-scale B-17 bomber model. I’d say he succeeded admirably.
German maker Christian Aschoff built this excellent looking clone of the QLOCKTWO word clock.
Janet Zweig and Franklyn Berry built this Lipstick Enigma sculpture, which uses 1200 (!) stepper motors to display computer-generated messages on a giant grid of resin lipstick tubes.
Longtime CRAFT and MAKE contributor Annie Buckley has curated an online art exhibit on the venerable HuffPo. On Seeing is a great collection of emerging and established artists from around the globe, all using ordinary, every day items — Popsicle sticks, paper strips, soccer balls, patrol uniforms, grocery bags, vintage clothing, traffic lights — to […]
Giovanni Piranesi was an 18th century Italian artist known primarily for his Carceri prints, 16 utterly baroque and fantastic prison scenes. However, he had an eye for gorgeous detail, and a group of modern artists has recreated several objects found in Piranesi’s illustrations. Factum Arte, voxelstudios and a team of specialist craftsmen working in Madrid […]
Jason Eppink and I Am built this Shadow Machine as part of The Underbelly Project. Instead of projecting the animation in a traditional manner by using a single light source and a series of images, their creation uses a separate LED light for each of the six frames, which are each adjusted so that they […]
This month, the iotaCenter, an organization devoted to experimental screen arts, is hosting the Live Visual Performance 2010 (LVP2010) festival, in collaboration with Los Angeles Video Artists (LAVA) and Barcelona-based mad-actions. The festival is described as “a celebration of animators, VJs, and other artists who create and manipulate visuals in front of a live audience,” […]
