I really like this light switch floor lamp by ED Vining. It’s beautifully carved and finished. I wonder how much it weighs? If anyone has more information about his sculptures, please leave it in the comments below. Thanks! There isn’t much more info on YouTube about this work, but you can see another wood carving […]
Here is another great find from our friend Dug North. This time, it’s a rubber band firing robot. I really like the idea of a wooden robot, especially one that fires rubber bands. Did I mention this is a ride-on robot? More about the The utimate rubber-band firing wooden robot In the Maker Shed: More […]
Media player, mobile phone, Internet device, gaming console… sketch pad? It would seem that not only is the iPhone up-ending the mobile and gaming industries, but it seems to be making inroads into fine art as well.
Check out “Soundie” by Kanjun Qiu. It’s an interactive hoodie that plays music based on touch. It also has some LEDs for visual feedback. The entire piece is based on the LilyPad Arduino. I’ve looked at a ton of light up garments, El Wire, etc. This is one of the most tastefully- and artfully-done articles […]
Via WMMNA, Regine writes: Encastrable is a series of guerrilla art residencies held inside gardening and DIY megastores in the Paris area. At no cost at all, the young artists have at their disposal a huge array of material that they can grab, move, superimpose, and organize onto temporary installations and sculptures. Authorization of the […]
Ah, the gay (19)90s: before Y2K, 9/11, Gitmo, CDOs, and all kinds of other depressing modern acronyms. Venture capital fell from the sky like manna, and everyone was getting rich on the Internet, even though nobody knew exactly how. Enter, into that milieu, the following brilliant idea, courtesy of the wunderkinder at MIT’s then-ascendant Media […]
Fun vid by Bang-yao Liu, bringing the coordinated tyranny of stickies to life – This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it […]
