The work “One Perfect Cube” consists of three synchronized clocks that form a sign every 12 hours for exactly one second. When working with complex systems – which in a way a clock can be thought of as, looking at all it’s possible 43200 constellations within 12 hours – the main focus has to be […]
Alita Edgar, Porter Fox, Orien McNeill, Michael O’Toole are just four of the 30+ names of makers and artists involved with the current incarnation of the collaborative project We Are Swimming Cities, whose overall installation at last month’s inaugural World Maker Faire in NYC won an Editor’s Choice award, and whose “caddywhampuss,” the motorcycle-powered fish-boat […]
This automatic cake decorator appears as part of the Design Criminals show in the design space at MAKVIenna, Austria, by mischer’traxler. [via Core77]
The Blood Fountains were not for Halloween, but for a good cause! This Bloody Red Water Fountain was located in Unirii Boulevard, Bucharest, Romania, This was a รขโฌลpromotionรขโฌย somehow for Hemophilia awareness.
Entertaining video from YouTuber David Alvarez. I have a hard time imagining that he’s not working from a plan of some kind, but just from watching the video, it rather looks like he’s “free-handing” his Heath-Ledger-Joker mosaic. He just stands there, solves each cube to present the right pattern, and sets it in place, apparently without any kind of reference.
In an attempt to create more privacy inside, I’ve decided to install a small but smart curtain in that window. The curtain is smaller than the window, but an additional surveillance camera and an old laptop provide it with intelligence: The computer sees the pedestrians and locates them. With a motor attached, it positions the curtain exactly where the pedestrians are.
Artists Jon Cohrs and Morgan Levy evaporated San Jose city water to make their environmental awareness “medicinal all-salt” and write: Are you feeling depressed? Sick of paying exorbitant rates for birth control? Try Alvisoรขโฌโขs Medicinal All-Salt, harvested locally in San Jose. Traditionally, medical conditions are treated through expensive appointments and prescription drugs. Alvisoรขโฌโขs Medicinal All-Salt […]
