“Paper engineering”
Check out this astounding papercraft from Haruki Nakamura [via EMS Labs]
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Phonographantasmascope
Jim animates tiny scenes/objects using turntable + camera – In March 2007 at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London we hosted an evening of animation related events which I took as an opportunity to make some more examples of my Phonographantasmascope, an extension of the Zoetrope principle. It is all live action and works […]
Bjoern Schuelke: Interactive art
Bjoern Schuelke makes these amazing pieces of interactive art. The one pictured above is “Drone #2“. [video] Check out the website for a lot more sculptures and even a few pictures inside the Artists studio. The futuristic appearance of “Drone #2” seems like a requisite from a science fiction film.The autonomous hi-tech construct, consisting of […]
Bicycles revolt and succumb to art
This sculpture was made from several dozen bicycles that were connected to each other at the wheel hinge by a simple seperation of the quick release lever that typically allows one to exchange or remove tires. Pretty interesting structure that somehow manages to balance using the seats as feet. Aiweiwei.com via FFFFOUND!
Temple of bottles
This amazing buddhist temple was built by Thai monks using discarded glass bottles – Fifty years ago the Heineken Beer company looked at reshaping its beer bottle to be useful as a building block. It never happened, so Buddhist monks from Thailand’s Sisaket province took matters into their own hands and collected a million bottles […]
Cave crabs create cute cacophony
Jimmie P. Rodgers explains his Creepy Cave Crab light/noise synths – I made these for the Willoughby and Baltic Halloween show at the Charles River Museum of Industry. They use a single Hex Schmitt trigger inverter IC to generate the sound, and two RGB color change LED to generate the lights. I then encased them […]
Mod your Famicom for better video output quality
This simple mod shows how to add RCA audio and video outputs to an older Famicom (HVC-001) model in order to improve the video quality and to ensure that the channels that the system outputs on will match those of your TV. Famicom AV Mod