David Silberberg’s documentary, Oh My God, It’s Harrod Blank!, about art car artist Harrod Blank (whose amazing work we’ve shown at Maker Faire) is premiering at the Slamdance Film Festival on January 16th. Sayeth the press copy: An obsessively made documentary filmed over 16 years, exploring the creative life and adventures of director Silberberg’s friend, […]
From the MAKE: Flickr pool Æther uses electricity to draw patterns in wood, with beautiful results – did some experiments last night: wood + saline + high voltage supply + variac = fractal burn patterns. tried different kinds of wood with various effects. unfortunately my recollection of which types of wood are displayed are spotty. […]
This art installation called “Beacon” creates a kinetic light space that has integrated AI so that it interacts with visitors and its surroundings. Consisting of hundreds of modified emergency beacon lights, the project aims to create an immersive space that is navigable to visitors by sensing their position from the motion of the lights. Check […]
“Walleye” is an interactive light installation that can generate large-scale light patterns based on the movements of visitors in a space. The project is built with an array of phototransistors and incandescent bulbs spaced on a 10 foot grid where the bulbs face the transistors on a 1 to 1 mapping. The project is currently […]
Here’s an interesting alternative design for a skateboard by Loren Kulesus. With this much space between wheels, it should make for some interesting shock absorption when doing tricks. via Neatorama
Check out this wonderfully disturbing piece by Jon Beinart! Via the AntiCraft
The History of Visual Communication… This website attempts to walk you through the long and diverse history of a particular aspect of human endeavour: The translation of ideas, stories and concepts that are largely textual and/or word based into a visual format, i.e. visual communication. Wikipedia defines visual communication as: Visual communication is the communication […]
