http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12748440&server=vimeo.com&show_title=0&show_byline=0&show_portrait=0&color=ff0179&fullscreen=1 Crossroads (what not to do) is a video installation with GPS devices by artist Garvin Nolte: The video installation “crossroads (what to do)” deals with the influence of others onto one’s own path of life in an abstract way. [via Core77]
Just ran across this fascinating little paper published in Nature back in 2002 by Gert J. Van Tonder, Michael J. Lyons, and Yoshimichi Ejima. In it, the authors apply a simple shape analysis to the layout of the 15 boulders in Japan’s most famous karesansui (or “Zen garden,” as they are often called in the West) at the RyÅan-ji temple in Kyoto. The technique they use is called “medial axis transformation,” which, by my understanding, basically means that they took the Voronoi diagram of the boulders in the garden as viewed from above. The paper’s authors explain their method with an elegant analogy:
Designer Siren Elise Wilhelmsen built this 365 clock that tells time by knitting a scarf very slowly.
“Pneu” by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye is a series of carved car tires. I love the detail and the contrast between the artistry and the original function of the object. [via Cool Hunting] More: Wim Delvoye’s steel art Mini Cloaca – Desktop digester Cold Cut Marble Floor
Rachel @ CRAFT spotted this laser cut steel table cover by Imogen Luddy, inspired by a piece of 16th century Italian lace.
Anish Kapoor and Factum Arte developed a cement printing process to create the art piece Greyman cries, Shaman Dies, Billowing Smoke, Beauty Evoked.
Cory “I can spell squidgey however I want” Doctorow points us at Nick Turvey’s Venus, currently on display outside the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. It’s carved urethane foam, coated in rubber, over a stainless steel skeleton, and yields nauseatingly and/or delightfully to the touch. [via Boing Boing]
