This stop-motion video advertisement was made with over 300,000 illuminated candles. Pretty amazing work, especially the falling flames that trigger the lighting of the candles on the floor. Happy New Year by Electrabel
This installation called “BB_Write” employs a Blackberry and custom hardware to create four micro environments that correspond to the keywords: liberation, innovation, interaction, communication. The project attempts to build a spatial version of the “always on” experience as the Blackberry collects email constantly and generates ambient sounds based on incoming emails from visitors to the […]
This iPhone app, called “Brushes”, lets you add a painterly effect to your pictures or create your own finger paintings from scratch. The sketches above were created by Disney artist Stef Kardos using the app and shows the potential of this cool piece of software. There’s even a link to a Flickr group of “Brushes” […]
This giant snow sculpture was spotted in Switzerland and resembles the country’s most hilarious TV psychic, Mika Shiva. The head is over 2 meters high and would probably scare off most onlookers with its crazy smile. via PieceOPlastic
My friend Thomas Edwards, Dorkbot DC founder and former Overlord (now living in LA), wrote to tell us about the next Dorkbot SoCal meeting on January 10, featuring three bio-inspired artists. Deborah Aschheim (above) creates works that blur biology and technology, exploring concepts of memory, architecture, and neural networks through drawings, sculpture, writing, installation and […]
USGenWeb, a genealogy site, has a really cool collection of penny postcards, organized by state. I love looking at the old structures – can you imagine driving on this bridge?
Asteronimo writes about SliceModeler for Sketchup: Based on TIG‘s Slicer script I wrote a plugin that slices a solid 3d model along 2 axes, f.i. an X- and a Z-axis. You can enter separate parameters for each axis. After the slices have been created it calculates the slots for each intersection which allow the cross […]
