LED Wall looks cool, is large
MAKE subscriber Hans writes in to tell us about the gigantic LED Wall project by Kenny, Cat, Sevan, Jeff, Ginger, and Norm of elnormo.net.
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Robots!: Draw Your Own Androids, Cyborgs & Fighting Bots
I have a couple dozen of art instruction books, but few are as fun as Robots!: Draw Your Own Androids, Cyborgs & Fighting Bots, by Jay Stephens. Unlike a lot of other art books geared towards kids, Robots! has less emphasis on step-by-step tutorials (though there are a few of these, which is a good […]
Tattooed Lego minifigs
This is a viral marketing campaign for some kind of extra-fine point Pilot pen. I love the minifigs themselves, but the campaign bugs me for a couple of reasons: 1) I’ve been Googling around pretty hard and can’t seem to figure out exactly which of Pilot’s many pens these photos are promoting, and 2) nowhere does it explicitly state that the art on the minifigs was actually done with whatever pen they are advertising. So even if I could figure out which one that was, it’s not at all clear that I could actually use it to tattoo my own minifigs. In any case, any kind of super-fine-point permanent maker would probably work. [via Boing Boing]
Musical finger bowls
Well, like they say – If you wanna make some noise, you’ll have to get you’re hands wet (k, they never say that). Ion Furjanic’s Electric Tea 1.0 (Peace Games) incorporates “porcelain bowls, metal orbs, speaker wire, water, and the conductive power of the human body” into an unusual interface for music. Certainly seems a […]
Zoho Artform #4
If I were forced to pick only one personal favorite of all the cool stuff I’ve blogged about while working for Make: Online, it would probably be Mark Ho’s original Zoho Artform figure. This is his latest version, made mostly from aluminum and available in ten anodized colors. I have no idea what they cost, and I’m sure I don’t really want to know, but I’d love to see more machinists following in Mark’s footsteps and making pure “machined art.”
Indoor snowstorm
An installation by Tokujin Yoshioka, whom some may remember for growing a crystal chair back in 2008, for the Mori Art Museum’s ongoing Sensing Nature exhibit. Snow is 15 meters wide and contains hundreds of kilograms of white down which is randomly blown around at intervals by hidden fans. [via Dude Craft]
Curly bed
This bed is by Cuban artists Los Carpinteros. [via inspire me now]