Making your own brass clay-sculpting tools is easy with a few tools and some brass tubing, guitar strings, acupuncure needles, and other unexpected (and inexpensive) materials. These are great for the studio and for art teachers to make for/with their students.
Check out the attention to detail on this custom bike by Blue Flame Alley. Via Street Anatomy.
Shamus wrote some impressive procedural city software in OpenGL and posted this simple summary of how the process works – The project is bound to Windows right now. Several people made great suggestions yesterday for wxWidgets, Qt or SDL. I don’t have time to examine those now (the interface is already done and I’m anxious […]
Evan points out this vid where the experimental music group INVISIBLE demo their unique sequencer, Rhythm 1001. Using a large rotating disc interface, the device triggers an array of found-object percussion via an arrangement of small pegs. Sure looks like an interesting method for visualizing beats/loops.
[Editor’s Note: There used to be a post here about some Escher-esque molds for creating tessellating gecko-patterned paving stones out of concrete. The creator of the molds got all 20th century (19th century?) on us and demanded that we take down the post (something about needing to negotiate a contract and cut a deal before […]
Daniel Carter, our Art Director, writes: James Provost, an illustrator from Vancouver, attended Maker Faire, and it inspired him to create a sweet set of “DIY spot illustrations” which he’s posted on his site and on Flickr. I love the illustrations — very MAKE! Thanks, Daniel (and James)! Sweet, indeed. James Provost, Technical Illustrator James […]
Here’s an oldie-but-goodie from 2004: Kar-Han Tan, James Kobler, Rogerio S. Feris, Paul Dietz, and Ramesh Raskar, then of the Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratory (MERL), produced a custom digital camera and software that derives line drawings of a scene, or an object, by analyzing the shadows in four otherwise-identical pictures that are illuminated from different […]
