I love all of the fun, inspiring work being done in robotic found-art sculpture. Bot sculpture, built out of junk, is one of the folk art forms of the early 21st century. One of the mad practitioners of the form is Mario Caicedo Langer, of Bogotá, Colombia. Check out his Flickr photostream for other awesome […]
Jim Seller’s made this amazing box full of gorgeously-machined art-widgets as a gift for a friend. It doesn’t actually do anything, except make people feel really good looking at the craftsmanship and love involved. Jim wanted to make something in the style of a 19th century scientific instrument. He calls it the ETD (Earth Tremor […]
Excellent entry by Meredith Newcom in the Threadcakes competition.
Silke Hilsing created an imaginative interface to talk between the digital and analog world. Virtual gravity is an interface between digital and analog world. With the aid of analog carriers, virtual terms can be taken up and transported from a loading screen to an analog scale. The importance and popularity of these terms (data base: […]
The artist (Sander Mulder) made 20 limited edition of these clocks and 1 artist proof… On this Continue Time clock, two out of the three pointers rotate around another pointer, instead of the central point on the clock face, as with traditional clocks. The resulting kinetic artwork, and functional clock, is continuously changing its shape […]
io9 features some cool shots of sculptures by designer and photographer Andrew Chase, who makes articulated metal animal sculptures. Here’s a stop-motion video he made by posing his “cheetah:” Via Neatorama.
Yesterday was the first day of The Crucible’s annual Fire Arts Festival in Oakland, Calif. We were there representing with the MAKE vintage fire truck. Even though an evening chill descended as the sun set and the fog rolled in, there was no shortage of fire to keep us all warm. Pictured above is one […]
