Andrew Salomone writes: This is a portrait I made of Abraham Lincoln’s face using a Scrabble board game and following the official rules used in Scrabble tournaments in order to do it. It’s also a reference to a painting by surrealist artist, Salvador Dali. He says he’s working on this piece for an upcoming show, […]
“Sleep/Wake Up” by Julie Morel is a project that decontextualizes the “Sleep” and “Wake Up” keys found on typical PC keyboards into a networked control for the artist’s bedside lamp. Visitors to the gallery in Toulouse, France can press the buttons which then control the lamp in Paris. A very simple binary connection, but nice […]
Nice gallery of a microwaved CD – so you don’t have to… You can see the current vaporizing the aluminum in the CD as well as the arcs of microwaves, from what I understand the patches of aluminum become antenna-like. Update: Bill writes: The fractures first grow via a fascinating effect called “electromigration.” Once the […]
The naked pixel is a pretty LCD panel, but it’s actually doing quite a bit more… The maker writes – The Naked Pixel challenges our notion of decency in public arenas by using the entire visual display to represent individual pixels of a nude photograph sequentially over time. By viewing the piece, the audience is […]
This project by artist Mike Rea is called “Suit for Stephen Hawking” and shows off this artist / maker’s exceptional wood making skills. Check out the links below for everything from a space suit to a four piece band constructed entirely from wood. Michael T. Rea: Suit for Stephen Hawking, [via]
A funny thing happened to Tim’s LEDs while attempting to cast them in resin – For a project at work I had to mold some things in this hard clear polyurethane, so my Mechie ordered a giant kit of the stuff – more than the project ever will need (and it has a very limited […]
Brushbots are little bot-like paint brushes that make art on their own… Brush Bots are tiny machines that work in tandem with the user in creating generative art. Released on top of a piece of paper, the BrushBots zoom, careen, and spin around the interior of a simple wooden frame in wild and unpredictable patterns. […]
