The mechanical art of Michael Pflüger
Michael Pflüger makes interesting mechanical works or art. The website has a lot more pieces in the “machinery” gallery, including a few videos. More about Michael Pfluger
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Immersion
Photographer Robbie Cooper shows just how focused young video-game players can be… NYTimes video.
Sound Art
Beeps-a-Lot Box, Arcane Device, and Stylophonic Device each answer a question I hadn’t considered: What would have happened if H.R. Giger had decided to teach band? These graceful sculptures are working musical instruments produced by Gulf Coast artisan Mike Ford Designed to evoke curiosity as well as admiration, each is heavy with mysterious controls, indicators, […]
Brooke Stanton at DAA Winter Showcase
Brooke Stanton is the event coordinator of the Duxbury Art Association’s 36th annual Craft Showcase. On the evening before the weekend show, she explains a bit about the juried showcase that includes craftspeople from across New England. The DAA Craft Showcase is open Saturday November 22, 2008 from 10 am to 5pm and Sunday November […]
Perspectives – interviews without words
Perspectives, interviews with all the dialog removed via Waxy.
PMC jewelry workshop
Julie is a teacher down the hall from me. From time to time she and other teachers offer workshops to other teachers after school. Over the past couple of days, she has showed ten colleagues from the science, special education, history, administration and art how to work with PMC, Precious Metal Clay. Julie talked a […]
The Secret Life of Death Clouds
Matt Jones contemplates life by building moving sculptures that fail to replicate it. A graduate student in art at Stanford University, his investigations have led him, among other things, to use an air compressor to animate a respiratory system fashioned from old bicycle inner tubes, and to motorize a carpet of zip ties laced with […]