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Invader’s TOP 10 preview video

The artist known as Invader is having a solo show called TOP 10, and this video will give you a good idea of what to expect. Via Wooster Collective. TOP 10 new works by Invader Jonathan LeVine Gallery Jun 27 thru Jul 25, 2009 NYC More: RUBIKCUBISM – Space Invader Art! Space Invader’s Rubik Bad […]

Rock Art

  “By the end of the 20th century and the millennium (1997), a new ecological and interactive art expression came into being which, combining elements and materials whose colors are 100% natural, exalts nature… Rock Art.” This is how Mario Balderas (Mexico) presents the beautiful and original art work he creates. I am talking mainly […]

Bashful ball-and-claw-foot chair

Bashful ball-and-claw-foot chair

Jake Cress is a gifted cabinetmaker in Fincastle, Virginia. Besides traditional pieces in the Chippendale vein, he makes whimsical “animated furniture,” several pieces of which can be viewed on his site. But my personal favorite by far has to be “Oops,” the embarrassed claw-foot chair that has dropped its ball, and wants to sneak it […]

LED bottle wall

Via Create Digital Motion, this awesome LED bottle wall by Alex Beim: An illuminated bottle wall. There is a LED controllable light behind each bottle that is controlled from an on board computer. Something missing in the video is that the cavities for the bottles are empty at the beginning and people start filling them […]

Preschoolers love artbots

Preschoolers love artbots

I built a bunch of vibrating marker-legged artbots with the kids at my son’s preschool the other day, and it was great fun. We taped motors with an offset weight on their shafts to the top of some plastic cups, chose different colors of markers for the legs, and set them in motion creating beautiful […]