The “Robot Partner” by artist John Nussey is an autonomous robot that attempts to connect humans and machines in a creative approach to automated systems through a “living” table that can move small objects around on its surface. Check out the video and look closely to see the moving object. Robot Partner on Vimeo
Check out this sculpture by Nemo Gould, entitled Little Big Man. It has a little robot inside the radio cabinet body of the bigger one, and it appears as though the little one is driving the big one. The very simple movements bring a lot of life to this guy. Look at his site for […]
30 September 20087 – 9 PM (ET) Smith Hall of Art, Room 114 George Washington University 801 22nd St NW Washington, DC 20037 Schedule for next meeting Bruce Howard : The Lightglove Virtual Controller : Lightglove is a “virtual controller” technology worn underneath the wrist that optically senses hand shape and tracks position with motion […]
This plaster installation piece by PROMETHEUS is at Infart in Bassano, Italy. Anybody know any more about it? Via Who Killed Bambi.
Now for the real thing – Poul Beckmann takes incredible photos of beetles – there’s lots of info about them if you poke around the site. I especially like the element of surprise here with no thumbnails. He sells posters here.
Glass wants to be round, glass wants to be warm all through or it breaks; it’s very hard to work with – which makes all these delicate pointy bits even more impressive. Wesley Fleming glass sculpture, via peacay
This modded old telephone from France integrates a Stompbox distortion microphone into its design for signal processing and some nice knobs at the top to tweak the audio output. Check out the parts list at the link below. SUPER LASER BLASTER CIRCUIT BEND
