Well, to laser-etch, anyway. Brooklyn tattoo artist Scott Campbell makes these laser-cut stacks of $1 bills. Recently shown at a gallery in Miami, the stacks are part of a collection called “Make it Rain.” Thanks to Billy Baque for the heads-up.
Artist Oscar Diez created this amazing calendar, made of different types of paper and special inks, which is carefully designed to slowly color in the days of the month by capillary action, in real time, over the course of each month. Via Boing Boing.
From the MAKE Flickr pool My exceptionally awesome local hardware store is at it again – the annual Crest Hardware Art Show takes work from a clever collection of local talent and presents it all along side their usual retail stock. Read on for the slideshow – plus more pics from last year’s offering. More: […]
Patrick Sébastien Coulombe’s Guitare à crayon project allows the user to create visual art and music with one instrument. The custom USB device makes use of Pure Data to generate sound and Gimp software handles the visual element. The feature list includes – Accelerometer X-Axis (for example controlling the octave) Accelerometer Y-Axis (for example controlling […]
Amazing! Thomas Thwaites created this handmade toaster from 100% raw materials, most of which he mined from the earth himself – even smelting the iron ore via microwave. The project’s description from the Royal College of Art’s Design Interactions Show – For nine months I’ve been trying to make an electric toaster, myself, starting from […]
AS220 is holding their annual Foo Fest in Providence, Rhode Island. It looks like a really interesting event, especially for kids. Check out the link for the complete schedule of artists, musicians, and other activities. I’ll see you there! This August 15th from 1pm to 1am, AS220 brings back our famous urban street party, blocking […]
As part of his attempt at manufacturing a toaster from scratch(!), Thomas Thwaites had to figure a way to smelt his own iron (for the grill piece) – Finding ways to process the raw materials on a domestic scale is also an issue. For example, my first attempt to extract metal involved a chimney pot, […]
