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RIP Tom Kennedy

RIP Tom Kennedy

photo by Barbara Fried photo by M2 We have learned sad news through our friends at Laughing Squid. Tom Kennedy, an art car and Burning Man artist (whose work we’ve featured in MAKE and online), drowned in Ocean Beach, CA this weekend. His friend John Law writes: We lost one of our very best. Tom […]

A nice little local dragon

A nice little local dragon

Photo from The Boston Globe A few years ago a dragon turned up down the street. Chuck Nudd had spent some winter months concocting a behemoth animatronic dragon from some cast off steel junk. It started out as a dinosaur, but morphed into a dragon as the design came out. Draco is both wildly popular […]

Circuit face bending

Here’s a new twist on art, electricity, biology and music from Tokyo based dj Daito Manabe. His site is in Japanese and English, which helps a bunch. Redefining the existent media and technologies from unique angles, I have been active in the various fields, such as art, design, and even research and development. I produce […]

Big room camera obscura

Big room camera obscura

Photo from Mauricio Acial on Flickr The camera obscura was the forerunner of the camera. Essentially, it is a darkened room with a hole in its wall. The image that comes through the hole or lens is projected onto the opposite wall, upside down and backwards. Photo from Sgrah On Flickr, you can find some […]

Radioactivity plays the strings

Radioactivity plays the strings

From the MAKE Flickr pool Barrie Sutcliffe’s installation titled The Small Within the Great consists of wall mounted strings played via data derived from the quantum decay of radioactive metals – Experimental stage running brushed DC motors controlled via PWM amplifiers connected to an Arduino. Data is fed to the computer from an Aware radiation […]