Jared Tarbell is an artist and programmer who does gorgeous computational art, coded in the Processing language. And not only are the finished pieces amazing (and available for purchase), but you can also “run” the art, see it grown in a pop-up applet. Generative Artifacts – Computation Gallery [Thanks, Patti!] – Link
Last year around this time of the morning I was getting calls and emails from people asking “why did MAKE put LED sculptures all over Boston??? CNN says you did!!” it turned out that we (MAKE) had written about LED art projects on MAKE and when CNN Googled (or Ask Jeeves’d) they assumed it was […]
Robert Wechsler made these circular bikes from nine salvaged bikes. They were reassembled into a carousel formation, the bikes are modular and can be dismantled and reassembled. It is normally left in public places where it can attract a variety of riders – [via] Link.
Phil Stearns created “AANN” during only a 2 week residency at Amsterdam’s STEIM. “AANN” stands for “Analog Artificial Neural Network” and is a neural network installation consisting of 50 identical handmade sculptures that react to their immediate surroundings. Two microphones pick up sounds in the space while photocells detect light changes eventually triggering a chain […]
Here’s an elegant table made from bike parts by MAKE Flickr pool member Delcruiser. It features a chain ring shelf handy for stowing magazines/books or maybe a kryptonite chain or two. Bike part coffee table on Flickr – Link Also – Check out these graceful seatings by Frida Ottemo Kallstrom – constructed from recycled bicycle […]
MAKE Flickr Pool member Sephirot82 submitted this shot of this anthropomorphic circuit board sculpture. The title translates roughly to “United by Something More than Tin” – perfect valentine for that solder-lover in your life. Electronics sculpture on Flickr – Link
Intriguing art/inventions by Emery Blagdon – using various wood, metals, salts, and his own brand of medical science: Blagdon, who died in 1986 at 78, made “healing machines”: ornate thickets of wire, aluminum-foil stips and wood scraps that he also called “my pretties.” He was 48 when he began making these peculiar constructions, which grew […]
