Ari Krupnik makes physical versions of digital images, representing each pixel with common objects such as matchsticks and dice – I’m a software engineer by trade. My work mainly involves transforming bits that represent one abstraction into bits that represent another. In the immortal words of Fred Brooks, “the programmer, like the poet, works only […]
Maria Michails-Posidis made this exhibition, called “Emergy,” as her MFA thesis. It’s a modified rowing machine inside a hand-crafted boat that powers LED-backlit photographs in the gallery highlighting urban growth related to water use in the Phoenix area valley. She has kept a very detailed blog of the production process. Photos on Flickr tagged with […]
Wonderful collection of homemade trucks & tractors @ Streetuse.
Last night I was fortunate enough to attend David Young’s MFA thesis exhibition at the Icehouse in Phoenix. He uses many interesting materials including pneumatics and surveillance cameras in his sphere-filled show titled “Unknown Object-ive.” From an interview with a local paper, he says: “They’re not meant to be looked at simply as beautiful objects,” […]
“Boy on a Skateboard” by artist Ray Rapp is a site-specific drawing and video installation of a still created from the skateboarding documentary film “Dogtown and Z-Boys” that plays on 1.8, 2.5 and 4 inch hanging LCD screens and DVD players along with yellow, green, and blue extension cables. Pretty intense visual design of the […]
This Instructables author will be posting a 4-part series on making stop-motion puppets. This is their first such puppet, so who knows if they know what they’re talking about, but the initial how-to is thorough and well-documented. Looks promising. Stop Motion Puppet Pt. 1
Continuing on our list of things to do, build and see in New York city for Makers, “Lots of Things Like This” just opened at apexart (a block or so away from the surplus, art, electronics & plastic stores we wrote about). It was curated by Dave Eggers (McSweeney’s, Once Upon a school & 826 […]
