On today’s BBtv, Xeni talks with Marc Owens about his Avatar Machine, a camera rig that turns you into a gaming avatar in the real world. Howstuffworks details how the Avatar Machine is built, which as Owen says in the interview, is basically a camera tripod mounted on your back. Avatar Machine – Marc Owens’ […]
Graffiti Taxonomy project & prints are now available for the ‘E’: Lower East Side, NYC by Evan Roth. In 2004 I released a project called Graffiti Taxonomy and since then I have been receiving regular email requests to make prints and posters. I have recently revisited the project and am now releasing my first ever […]
Lovely designer Gasmasks by Diddo Velema via Core77. Artist’s statement… We are in a state of perpetual war – with ourselves and with the eco-system that sustains us. Perpetual war breeds perpetual fear. In the present context, this fear stems from our extreme desire for authenticity and manifests itself in our collectively insatiable culture of […]
Continuing on our tour of things to do, MAKE and see for Makers in the NYC is the MoMA (Museum of Modern art). Specifically MoMA’s – Design and the Elastic Mind. The exhibit is an almost “physical” version of the MAKE blog, another indicator the DIY world is gaining more appeal, even in the art […]
The “Untitled Sound Objects” by Pe Lang and Zimoun creates acoustic architecture from organic objects and forms connected up to motors and gears. The duo began as laptop performers but were offput by the lack of physicality so they investigated how to create physical instruments that react to their immediate environment and each other. The […]
Michelle @ CRAFT writes: This photo of Optimus Prime made out of cans was taken at Canstruction Vancouver by Matt Boulton. Canstruction is a competition where sculptures are made out of cans that are later donated to food banks. If you look closely, you’ll notice that the boxes framing his face are of a product […]
From Extreme Craft: One of the great exhibitions that we saw over the weekend in San Francisco was Cardburg at Cell Space. Cardburg, which was devised by the shadowy “Cardboard Institute of Technology”, is an expansive installation that exposes the inner working of an entire city-state made of….you guessed it, CARDBOARD! Interpretive signage tells you […]
