MakerBot Wristwatch Enclosure
Open-source fabrication advocate and 2010 TED Fellow Dominic Muren just sent word of his latest project: an enclosure for a MakerBot Wristwatch called Makerwatch SSG.
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Exactly perfect little glowing mushroom lamps
I don’t know how else to put it. These lamps, by a Japanese craftsman known as The Great Mushrooming, feature handblown glass mushrooms, with internal LEDs, mounted in found driftwood bases with conspicuous on/off switches. I don’t think they could get any better. [via Inhabitat]
Zipper boat!
Yup. Somebody–specifically Japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki–went to the trouble of building a motorboat shaped like a zipper pull just for the sake of the aerial sight gag of its wake suggesting a parting zipper. And just for the record, this is clearly a jacket-zipper-pull motorboat, not a pants-zipper-pull motorboat, so let’s not have any off-color jokes about what strange creatures might be surfacing in its wake. [via Dude Craft]
Painting on water (aka paper marbling)
MAKE subscriber RabLabit sent us a link to this video of an artist who “paints on water.” What he’s doing is actually paper marbling, a form of “aqueous surface design.” You’ve certainly seen marbled book or journal end-papers, for instance. Those pattens are created using this process. The video is a little… meditative, but the […]
Latest work from Nemo Gould
You’re probably already familiar with Nemo Gould’s work, covered here on Make: Online, in MAKE magazine, at Maker Faire Bay Area, or through other purveyors of fine maker-inspiring artistry. Nemo sent us links to his two most recent pieces, Party of One and The Race. Party of One (seen above) was constructed using the following […]
EMSL’s interactive Conway’s Game of Life exhibit
Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories built this gigantic Game of Life interactive display. Recently we put together this interactive Game of Life display as an educational adjunct for a new exhibit by the San Jose Museum of Art on the works of Leo Villareal. Leo primarily works with light sculptures, and we’re very excited to see […]
Epic-scale anthropomorphic electrical pylon concept
Who hasn’t driven past a high-voltage power line and thought that the pylons looked like Wagnerian giants? This concept design from Boston architects Choi + Shine would take that romantic notion and turn it into what might be, if actually completed, the world’s largest sculptural art installation. Unfortunately, it looks like the concept, called “The Land of Giants,” only took honorable mention in the pylon design competition for which it was conceived, and will probably remain a dream. It’s getting so much attention online I can’t seem to find any info about the design that actually won. Anybody know who/what it was?