I checked out the last day of Cai Guo-Qiang’s exhibit at the Guggenheim in NYC, the exhibit is best known for the suspended cars with LED pole lights coming out of them, but I think gun powder-exploded canvases were my favorite, I’d like to try to make some of those outside the city limits of […]
Todd Lappin, MAKE contributor and current guest blogger on Dinosaurs and Robots, has a strange collection compulsion that I don’t share, but I can totally understand. He has a control panel fetish. Hey, now. Don’t judge. Everybody is wired differently. Todd just happens to be wired to toggle switches, panel lights, and needle gauges. And […]
Dr. Evermore (Tom Every) was a salvage expert prior to becoming an artist. He created Forevertron from tons of industrial scrap and machines. The website has a lot of great photos including a popcorn stand and a full orchestra of birds that were all created by Dr. Evermore. All components of Forevertron are salvaged from […]
Flickr set of gorgeous laser-etched skateboard decks. [via]
One of the participants from the “Hybrid World Scrapyard Challenge” workshop we held in Brussels, Belgium this past week created this Audio Sampler/Mixer from an old tape reel machine using an Arduino to collect the inputs and web-based control of samples. Check out all of the photos from the workshop at the link below. Flickr […]
Awesome 35lb LEGO Heart @ Street Anatomy by Nathan Sawaya’s called “Heartfelt” via Book of Joe. Nathan writes- I created an anatomically correct human heart for the Rady Children’s Hospital of San Diego. A piece like this is a great tool to help doctors talk to young patients about their own hearts. Hopefully kids will […]
On D+R, Mister Jalopy points us to the winners of the 2008 IPMS scale modeling contest in Stockholm, Sweden. I’ve been to some of these miniature and models contests and the models and dioramas are incomprehensibly detailed and expertly painted. Having spent years studying this artform (I used to run a sci-fi tabletop wargame modeling […]
