Waldemeyer is one of my favorite makers on the planet, he’s latest work is an interactive illuminated chandelier for Microsoft’s Zune space in LA. Waldemeyer’s latest project, Twilight, will be exhibited in the entrance of the new Zune space in Los Angeles, from May 2008. Commissioned by Microsoft’s entertainment brand Zune, the interactive chandelier illuminates […]
MAKE Flickr photo pool member Hil writes – [Here’s] A little kinetic sculpture of the lovely Twitter Failwhale, based on the image by Yiying Lu that is used when Twitter.com is over-capacity. The image is called’ Lifting up a Dreamer’ I’ve wanted to make this since I first saw the image some weeks ago. More: […]
Saturday I went to Artopia in Seattle’s Georgetown area. Lots of cool art everywhere! Divide from Hazard Factory explained his (very loud) jelly bean gun, yet another way to dramatically fling things into the air. Only use this outside! More: Make a Spud Gun Instructions and 3D PDF The SGTC Mega-Launcher Spudgun
This is an interesting excerpt from a 1987 documentary called Doodlin’. It reminds me of the sounds created from circuit bending. The difference is, all these noises are made by banging, hitting, and just plain abusing sheet metal and not kids toys. My favorite part is when he describes a 25 million volt arc (3:33) […]
The Time Harp is a stringed musical instrument by Larnie Fox. It uses motion sensors to trigger what appears to be rotating plastic lids to vibrate the strings. I’m not too sure how close I would get with all that exposed wire! View a Flickr photo set of the build.
Here’s a follow up to our first post about “The Image Fulgurator” from Wired, more details, history and discussion of this project… Julius von Bismarck’s ‘Image Fulgurator’ projects stealth images into the photographs of strangers, while keeping those images invisible to human eyes. Depending on whom you ask, it’s either a clever hack or an […]
Sanela Jahic POV (persistence of vision) sculptures, she writes… I named my fourth larger kinetic object Pendulum, 2007-2008. This machine again uses the POV’s ability of producing an almost holographic illusion. It shows a photo of drags writing in the subject’s body. Kafka wrote of an old institutions’ apparatus in his The Penal Colony (In […]
