Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin’s Listening Post generates sound and an array of scrolling text from net-based conversation – Listening Post is an art installation that culls text fragments in real time from thousands of unrestricted Internet chat rooms, bulletin boards and other public forums. The texts are read (or sung) by a voice synthesizer, […]
Jorge Colombo created the artwork for the June 1st issue of The New Yorker using the Brushes app on his iPhone.
Garth Johnson recently got to attend the Kinetic Grand Championship, a human-powered art vehicle race across road, land, and water between Arcata and Ferndale, California. He took a lot of nice video and included some anecdotes of the more eccentric aspects of the competition over at Extreme Craft.
By way of the Evil Mad Scientist Labs’ monthly Linkdump come these wonderful examples of beehive art, built by the bees themselves, with a little help from a scaffolding of wire and hive frames, constructed by the artist/beekeeper, which the bees then build out with honeycomb. Nifty. Beeswax art and design
It’s amazing what you can do with a plastic drop cloth and an iron, as Parsons student Ryan Riegner demonstrates with his sculpture, Eleflate. He writes: By far one of my more favorite projects at Parsons, my inflatable elephant was originally intended to be placed over New York City MTA subway grate vents on the […]
From the Humans since 1982 design studio comes the Clock Clock – using 24 analog timepieces to form one big digital. Hrrm … the incredibly smooth hand movement, makes this one look a bit like a CG concept – even still, quite cool. A free font inspired by the piece is available on their site. […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Strolling about my neighborhood last weekend, I happened upon an unusually shaped case at the site of a local memorial. Further investigation revealed the cases contents – a large wooden lightning bolt nestled in foam padding. I’m guessing either a former student of Sister Nicodema thinks she ‘totally rocked’ or […]
