Creating music with light bulbs
Michael Vorfeld creates sound installations using the sound that light bulbs make when they are turned on and off in a controlled manner.
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Wooden car burns wooden fuel, travels Europe
Artist, traveller, & inventor Joost Conijn spent the better part of a year building his own very custom automobile – almost entirely from wood. And what more fitting way to power such a vehicle, than with an onboard wood-burning stove! You might assume such a novel machine wasn’t intended for any lengthy excursions, but in […]
Vintage typewriter turned to kinetic art
From the MAKE Flickr pool Rob Cruickshank repurposed the spherical printhead from an old IBM Selectric typewriter for use in a new gallery installation. Under strobed illumination, the Selectric’s ‘typeball‘ certainly is hypnotic – beautiful, in a sort of William S. Burroughs way. Rob’s kinetic sculpture will be on viewable at Toronto’s Fly Gallery until […]
DIY guitar pick machine
This guitar pick machine showed up on the site There, I Fixed It. We weren’t able to figure out where it is located or who made it, however we do know that it accepts all credit cards.
Graffiti Markup Language week at Fatlab
Evan Roth at Free Art and Technology writes: Welcome to GML week @fffffat! Graffiti Markup Language (GML) is a new XML file type specifically designed for archiving graffiti tags. Gestural graffiti motion data of a tag created in GML-supported software is saved as a text file with a “.GML†extension…. a new digital standard for […]
Dirt Poster
Lovely dirt poster! by ROLAND REINER TIANGCO… A poster the recipient completes by revealing spot-varnished type with hands made dirty by handling the poster, the back of which is coated with powdered pigment. This is the first of a series of posters. 19″x25″ open, 10″x13″ closed & packagedhand silkscreened poster with envelope.limited edition.available for purchase.
Most useless machine
Inspired by Claude Shannon’s Ultimate Machine, Instructables user SaskView designed this excellent most useless machine.