“Lazy Sunday Afternoon” – A portrait of making
Brandon Bird’s “Lazy Sunday Afternoon” via Laughing Squid. I think this a new trend, great art of people making things, some of them might be Christopher Walken making a robot.
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Touch The Light
“Touch The Light” is an interactive lighting controller that allows the user to manipulate the main light system via a small-scale model. The mini liv-lit set up in the riverside park at the Nakanoshima Library is a 1/100th scale model of the liv-lit on the Kepco Building. When someone touched the mini liv-lit, that hand […]
Rapid prototyped brain lamp
Designer Alexander Lervik made a lamp by 3D printing a model of his own brain.
BRAINWAVE exhibit @ Exit Art
Two interesting pieces from Exit Art gallery’s BRAINWAVE: Common Senses show – Alvin is a cellular automaton. Eight different cells produce sound. The sound one cell produces is determined by what sound the other cells are making. This kind of interrelated input and output scheme is an artificial neural network; a simulation of a brain. […]
Drawbot corral
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Looks like pool member Nortis had a lot of fun building drawbots and setting them loose inside a makeshift art-corral. Check out more of the organized chaos on Flickr – Drawbot photo set Related: HOW TO – Make a Kid’s “Draw Bot” Make Podcast: Weekend Projects – Making A […]
Musical Japanese road
Here’s a road in Japan with grooves cut to different widths to create a melody as a car drives over them. Only in Japan… (Thanks Dan and Carlo!) Melodic highway.
Slow made – take it easy…
From MAKE 13 Welcome – Slow made – take it easy… by Dale Dougherty. This magazine explores not just how to make things but also why. Why make things when you can buy them? Why spend hours on a project when you could be doing something else? Why? I have often referenced cooking when explaining […]