More awesome inflatable subway bag animals
New York magazine interviewed artist Joshua Allen Harris regarding his continued adventures with subway grate bag art – Street Art: Joshua Allen Harris More: Plastic bag animals Subway vent sea monster
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Octopulse instrument
Core77 has an interview video with Brit Leissler, who made (and is still making) the Octopulse. From the site: Brit Leissler, of Shoot the Stylist Studios in London, demonstrates the Octopulse, an experimental instrument designed for Yamaha’s Product Design Laboratory. This little creature has as a goal to turn listeners of music into players of […]
The automata of Tom Haney
Mister Jalopy of Dinosaurs and Robots points us to the amazing automata and kinetic sculptures of Tom Haney (Atlanta, GA).
Singing with the fishes
The Sashimi Tabernacle Choir is an art car project by Richard Carter, John Schroeter (Houston, TX), and some thirty volunteers. The car incorporates 250 singing Billy Bass animatronic fish and 250 mechanical lobsters, including a conductor that’s perched on a boom over the hood of the 1984 Volvo sedan the choir calls home. After the […]
Neural network sculpture made from sticks and fishing weights
The “Rechnender Raum / Calculating Space” is a light-weight kinetic sculpture by Ralf Baecker that is constructed from sticks, strings, and fishing weights. The sculpture also functions a fully functional neural network. Really impressive piece and the video at the link below is pretty amazing to see it in action. Also, the piece will be […]
Robot face Flickr Pool
Someone has created this fun Flickr Pool of photos of common (and not so common) objects that resemble the faces of robots. Looks Like A Robot
Steel sand-casting flask
Sean Ragan welded together his own flask for green sand casting of aluminum. A flask is the two-part frame that holds the sand for this method of casting. His is better than a wooden flask (which can’t handle the high temperature if you accidentally spill some molten aluminum), and his method of construction is quite […]