Katie Wilson @ CRAFT writes: I randomly stumbled upon New York artist Jennifer Cecere‘s giant Doilies while looking for images of drawn lace (oh internet, how I love you). Needless to say they are arresting and demand investigation. Made from ripstop nylon and acrylic, these delicate behemoths range in size from 4′ to 20’ and […]
A helpful commenter on my recent VHS generational loss experiment post alerted me [Thanks, W P Tunes!] to composer Alvin Lucier’s 1969 recording I Am Sitting in a Room (Wikipedia), which is one of the earliest and most significant artistic works based on generational data loss on repeated copying of electronic media. Lucier spoke a short text in a room, recorded it in that room, then played the recording back in the same room and recorded that. And did that over and over again. The quality of the piece would change depending on the acoustic properties of the room in which it was performed/recorded. You can hear a copy of the original recording here.
Now, YouTuber canzona has repeated Lucier’s experiment/work by uploading a video of himself speaking Lucier’s original text, ripping that video from YouTube, reuploading it, and repeating that process 1,000 times. His original recording is embedded uppermost, and the 1,000th generation below that. All the intervening generations are available in canzona’s channel. [via Boing Boing]
The monsterbike by Youtube user watur is technically a tricycle, but we sure wouldn’t want to argue with anyone piloting such a menacing machine.
Hackers at Minnesota’s Carleton College reportedly decorated their astronomy building to look like a giant R2-D2.
I love whimsical little urban “reality hacks” like this. I wish there were more of these in our daily lives. See if you can spot all of the other street artists featured in the video (listed in the credits in the end). [Via DudeCraft] Artist Aakash Nihalani’s website
UK design collective UnitedVisualArtists created this careful arrangement of lasers, mirrors, beam splitters, and other optical elements to produce a Tron-y room full of intangible furniture as part of an exhibit called Speed of Light. I hope they set up their next display in a church so I can blog it under the headline “Pew-pew-pews.” [via Geekologie]
Here’s a nice mini-documentary on kinetic sculptor/automata-maker Steve Armstrong. The video goes into a fair amount of detail on his design and building process. Motion: The Automata of Steve Armstrong
