Awesome progress shots of Justin Gray’s (Graywrx Sculptural Welding, Oakland, CA) latest project: a jet turbine-powered tracked robot. You can see pictures and videos of some of his other flame-throwing robots on his blog. Unnamed but almost finished 7/5/08 [Flickr set]
Artist Ruth Whiting had a show up in Asheville, NC of her oil paintings of cables and plugs. Many of the paintings celebrate the details of the cable much in the same way plants are often rendered: luscious. Via BoingBoing. More: Internet meme paintings by Jeremiah Palecek Password painting #BADA55 In A Can CAPTCHA Paintings
This post is for out readers in Salt Lake City. William Hessian is going to have an “Art Hunt” today (July 26th, 2008). Think of it as a scavenger hunt where the prize is a piece of artwork that you keep. This time it’s for the “Desert Tortoise” art that can be found in the […]
“Fold Loud” by JooYoun Paek merges the ancient art of origami with digital music control to create a calming interface for sound – Playing Fold Loud involves folding origami shapes to create soothing harmonic vocal sounds. Each fold is assigned to a different human vocal sound so that combinations of folds create harmonies. Users can […]
Nice review of The Maker’s Notebook on Duffbert’s Random Musings: Ok… this might be the most unusual book review I’ve ever done. I’m about to review a book consisting of… blank pages. Ah, but what blank pages they are! :) It’s the Maker’s Notebook by O’Reilly Publishing and the staff at MAKE magazine. I was […]
Levelhead by Julian Oliver is an “augmented-reality spatial-memory game” using semacode ARToolkit marker imprinted cubes as player interface – levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors. In one of these rooms is […]
This curtain was made from hundreds of old aluminum soda cans strung together with metal wires. We just wonder if the maker of this project actually drank all of this soda.
