3,604 cups of coffee
Large scale coffee art… video here. Leonardo Da Venti latte: A total of 3,604 cups of coffee, each shaded by various amounts of cream or left black, were arranged to form a Mona Lisa for this digital print-out in Sydney.
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City of staples
Artist Peter Root’s Low-Rise via jwz. Low-Rise is a precarious assemblage of thousands of free-standing stacks of staples densely tessellated to create a city-like mosaic. Like a city, the staples are subject to the elements, on a micro scale. The slightest breath or vibration and the domino effect kicks in.
Meet Cybraphon – the autonomous emotional robot band
Simon Kirby sends word of a hot new group destined for stardom and driven by solenoids. Ladies & gents, put your hands together for – Cybraphon! […] a robotic orchestra in a large display cabinet, inspired by 19th century automata. The unusual feature of Cybraphon is that it is emotional. It’s mood is shaped by […]
Crabfu paints on his iPhone
We’ve missed our buddy I-Wei Huang, aka Crabfu, who’s been busy getting the hang of raising ShrimpFu (aka his adorable baby son). While he hasn’t been building any bots (at least that he’s showing us), he’s been keeping busy between diaper changes with painting on his iPhone. I love that you can see the painting […]
Student-made equipment in the Pratt metal shop
My pal Ross Connard is a Junior at the Pratt Institute and has a student job as a technician in the school’s Fine Arts Metal Shop. The shop has a cool tradition of students building their own equipment and leaving it behind for subsequent generations of students to use. Shown above is a custom stencil […]
Gum mosaics
Christina La Sala has made these wall hanging mosaics from chewing gum. Anybody have an idea what kind? They’ll be on display at the Red Cake Gallery in San Francisco on September 12 at their open house.
How-To: Take Schlieren photographs at home
My post last week about shadowgraphy and Schlieren photography generated a lot of enthusiastic responses and not a few requests for a more detailed tutorial. Among the comments was one by Ian Smith, who has a great page here describing his own Schlieren photography set-up. (While you’re there, take a moment to appreciate the fact […]